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The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play their home games at Rogers Arena, which has a capacity of 18,810.

The Canucks joined the league in 1970 as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres (the 13th and 14th teams to join). In its NHL history, the team has advanced twice to the Stanley Cup Finals but lost both times (to the New York Islanders in 1982 and the New York Rangers in 1994). The Canucks have also won seven division titles, including their most recent during the 2009–10 NHL season.

In the 2009-10 season, the Canucks were faced the longest road trip in NHL history, with 14 games over 6 weeks, from January 27 to March 13, 2010, as a result of Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. This allowed GM Place to be used for ice hockey during the games, which shut down the NHL for 2 weeks. This marked the first time that an NHL market hosted an Olympics since the league allowed its players to compete in the games, beginning with Nagano. GM Place was "Canada Hockey Place" during the games, as the IOC wouldn't allow corporate sponsorship for venues during the games. That season, Henrik Sedin became the first Canuck ever to win the Art Ross Trophy by scoring 112 points. The issue was not resolved until the last day of play, when Sidney Crosby scored five points out of the eight needed to take home the trophy to Pittsburgh. Henrik was later awarded with the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player, beating out nominees Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin. At the end of the regular season, Vancouver finished first in the northwestern division, and third in the Western Conference. They defeated the sixth place Los Angeles Kings in six games, but once again, were defeated by eventual winners Chicago Blackhawks in six games in the second round of the playoffs.

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