CBC, Sportsnet Ontario, Sportsnet Pacific Radio: Sportsnet 650 MATCH-UP INFO - Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Canucks and Maple Leafs this season: Jan. 11 (road) and Feb. 8 (home).

J.T. Miller came very close to being held out of the Vancouver Canucks’ game against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. That’s according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, who reported live on Hockey Day in Canada that the Canucks came very close to trading Miller.

You made it! So glad to have you with us tonight. Okay, so things haven’t been great for the Canucks lately. They got thumped by the Winnipeg Jets, then in their return to home ice, got thumped again by the LA Kings.

J.T. Miller finished with the lowest 5-on-5 ice time for the Vancouver Canucks in their 5-1 loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

It's been a rough season for the Vancouver Canucks. Here is a long list of everything that has gone wrong for the team.

The Vancouver Canucks begin a homestand on Thursday night when the Los Angeles Kings roll into Rogers Arena for a Pacific Division matchup between the two West Coast teams. Following a five-game road trip,

It’s the middle of January, and the Vancouver Canucks have seven wins on home ice. Nothing else the team does between now and the end of the schedule will matter unless the club gets its act together at Rogers Arena.

Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings is one that many fans of the Vancouver Canucks have had circled on their calendars for a while. Why? Because it’s the first matchup between the two teams since November 7.

The Canucks' form continues to swing wildly from game to game and the Jets took advantage with a Kyle Connor hat trick in the first period.

The Canucks started this game with a couple big giveaways early on. The first came from JT Miller, and the second (and far more egregious one) came from Kevin Lankinen.

Still, Miller’s underlying numbers at 5-on-5 are quite strong. He leads all Canucks forwards in expected goals percentage, just ahead of Garland, as well as in on-ice goals for per 60 minutes, even if he’s not the one scoring the goals most of the time.

After signing a series of cheap one-year deals with other clubs, Danton Heinen was finally rewarded with a two-year, $2.25 million AAV contract from the Canucks. Mediocre would be the best word to sum up Heinen’s tenure in Vancouver so far: He hasn’t hurt the team in any way, but he isn’t doing enough to move the needle either.