MONTREAL, QC - FEBRUARY 02: Goaltender Thatcher Demko #35 of the Vancouver Canucks makes a save near Brendan Gallagher #11 of the Montreal Canadiens during the second period at the Bell Centre on February 2, 2021 in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
It wouldn’t truly be NHL hockey on Canada’s west coast if there wasn’t some sort of goaltending controversy going on within the Vancouver Canucks organization, right? Not that that’s a terrible problem to have (far from it), but for a long time, the Canucks have always had two strong goalies battling it out for the starting role.