Thatcher Demko News & Stories

In Part 4 of our Olympic Stock Watch series, Cam Robinson and Ryan Lambert discuss how the first six weeks of the NHL season has shifted expectations for the United States and Canada.

This time we're tackling Team USA.

It's not always fair to pick winners and losers on July 3, but there are some trends that just jump out at you.

It's clear the Flyers always wanted to hire Rick Tocchet as their coach, but does his track record match how much they value him?

Some people don't want to let go of this era of Canucks hockey. Why?

Things could go really right or really wrong for the Canucks for the rest of the season. Can't wait to find out which.

The Predators, Rangers, and Wild have are looking at big inflection points in the near future.

Sean Shapiro ranks the 15 best goalies going into the 2024-25 NHL season.

The Oilers, Canucks, and Golden Knights should be favoured, but all of them have big question marks now.

Game 7 was fun, but it was far from a classic battle between two great teams.

The tale of tape for the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Round 1 is finally done and youngish American goalies stole the show.

The Florida Panthers took a 2-0 series lead in the battle of Florida. Sean Shapiro has the full scope of the action from last night across the league.

The tale of the tape for the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators first-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sean Shapiro takes his weekly look around the NHL, with a heavy focus from the All-Star Festivities in Toronto.

These may look like a standard power rankings, but you would be wrong, friend. These are the power feelings, and feelings can't be wrong.

Tis the season for giving. Michael Clifford outlines a handful of gifts that the Fantasy Hockey Gods could provide for us this year.

The Rinkside 3 Stars are led by the NHL keeping its finger on the pulse, a series of comical San Jose Sharks-related firsts, the Edmonton Oilers getting hot, and gaudy stats on the Vancouver Canucks

JFresh dives into the numbers to answer the most pressing question in the NHL right now: Just how good are the Vancouver Canucks.

Sean Shapiro brings you his collection of notes and observations from the week, starting with the importance of the Florida Panthers captain

It wasn’t long ago that you could confidently look at the Pacific Division and think it was the weakest in the NHL. Hell, you could have probably said it 12...

Greg Balloch ranks the 15 best goaltenders in the NHL going into the 2023-24 season.

It's playoff time, so it's time to see how good my feelings were.

It's the mail that never fails and Cam Robinson is here to answer your pressing questions.

Dimitri Filipovic puts together pitches for five trades he'd like to see between now and Friday's deadline.

Other than teams being bad, it's been a slow news week.

Another season, another dreadful start for the Vancouver Canucks, who are already staring into the abyss only six games into year. That, and more, in this week's What We Learned.

The Vancouver Canucks signed star forward JT Miller to a massive contract extension, and now Ryan Lambert is left to ask to what exact end? That and more in this week's What We Learned.

There are lots of playoff teams with question marks between the pipes, but probably not many solutions.

EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert is back in the saddle with the NHL 3 Stars on EP Rinkside, looking at the Vancouver Canucks run under Bruce Boudreau, the Florida Panthers defiance in the face fo poor goaltending, and how the NHL is handling the rapidly developing COVID situation.

JFresh assesses how the first six weeks of the season have affected the Team USA roster.

Dimitri Filipovic answers your questions about the uneven start for the Rangers, where the Ducks go from here, and how analytics are changing the way we watch games.

It's early, but the losses are mounting in Vancouver, and the pressure is ratcheting up accordingly.

Ryan Lambert looks at the five goaltenders most likely to contend for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender in the 2021-22 season.

The Vancouver Canucks tried to sell optimism with an aggressive off-season, but the early returns through training camp and the pre-season might be placing a damper on that.

It appears that Jim Benning will be back as the GM of the Vancouver Canucks. Dimitri Filipovic writes about that decision, how deep the team's issues run, and the big offseason that looms ahead for them.

The Vancouver Canucks placed a substantial bet on Thatcher Demko today, as multiple reports have suggested that they've signed him to a five-year, $25-million extension.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

Having two goalies you can rely on is extremely useful in today's NHL, but not every team does. Dimitri Filipovic looks at which ones have had a good tandem, which ones have relied the most on their starter, and which ones have some work to do.

Danielle and Brenton Demko aren't able to see their play in person but they don't miss a game.

Another week in the books and the COVID protocol list is somehow down to just four players. Here's hoping I'm not jinxing anything, but hopefully this can be looked at...

JFresh takes an early look at what Team USA might look like if the NHL returns to the Olympics next year.

As Ryan Lambert writes in this week's What we Learned, the Vancouver Canucks sowed the seeds for this descent not last off-season, but cumulatively over the entirety of Jim Benning's tenure as the club's general manager.

The Vancouver Canucks season is quickly slipping away, and J.D. Burke offers some answers as to how that happened, and what might follow.

For four of college hockey’s most visible programs, when the calendar flips to February, it means one thing in particular: the Beanpot is up for grabs. College hockey’s in-season tournaments...

After a 2018-19 season that went adrift and never recovered, the Utica Comets have lit up the AHL this fall. And at long last, there are very real signs of...

Our seventh and final Canadian club lands at No. 4 league-wide. The Vancouver Canucks have been one of the very worst teams in hockey the last four seasons, so you...

The Toronto Marlies’ grip on the Calder Cup remains tight. In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final at home against the regular-season champion Charlotte Checkers, the Marlies twice broke...