The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two.

They earned the # 3 seed in the Western Conference for the Stanley Cup playoffs ( extending their professional sports record of post-season appearances to 20 seasons ), finishing behind the Vancouver Canucks ( 117 ) and San Jose Sharks ( 105 ).

After losing the first three games of the series against the Sharks, the Red Wings won three consecutive games to force a Game 7, becoming just the eighth team in NHL history to accomplish the feat ( the Chicago Blackhawks became the seventh team to do so earlier in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, against the Vancouver Canucks ).

* Francesco Aquilini, owner of the Vancouver Canucks and Rogers Arena

After the 1996 – 97 season, Mark Messier signed a free agent contract with the Vancouver Canucks, ending the brief reunion of Messier and Gretzky after just one season.

* Markus Näslund, and twin brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin, are all from Örnsköldsvik Municipality ; Naslund played for the Vancouver Canucks from 1996-2008 and his number was retired by the team in honour of his many accomplishments in December 2010, while the Sedins are captain and deputy captain of the team in 2010-11.

However, the Smythe Division was so weak that year ( only the Black Hawks finished above. 500 ) that the Rockies were able to edge out the Vancouver Canucks for second place in the division by two points.

However, they finally hit their stride in the conference finals, sweeping the upstart Quebec Nordiques and won the Stanley Cup over the Cinderella story Vancouver Canucks in a four-game sweep.

Up against the Vancouver Canucks, the Rangers again lost the series opener at home in overtime.

Matched-up against the Vancouver Canucks in the preliminary round, the Flyers won the series in three games.

In 1970 – 71, the Vancouver Canucks joined the NHL, meaning that there were now three possible venues for an HNIC telecast.

Colorado progressed to the playoffs, defeating the Vancouver Canucks and the Chicago Blackhawks in the first two rounds, both in six games and the Presidents ' Trophy-winning Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals in six games as well.

In the playoffs, Colorado swept their Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Vancouver Canucks.

The team's playoff spot seemed in doubt at one point, but the Avalanche managed to finish with 105 points, ahead of the Vancouver Canucks by one.

The title was guaranteed in the final day of the regular season, when the Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 5 – 2 and the Vancouver Canucks lost against the Los Angeles Kings 2 – 0.

The 40 – 22 – 13 – 7 record was good enough for 100 points, one less than the Northwest Division champion Vancouver Canucks.

In the 2009-10 season, the Avalanche introduced a new third jersey that was worn for the first time during the November 14th, 2009 home game against the Vancouver Canucks.

St. Louis also won the Lester B. Pearson Award for league's most outstanding player as voted by the NHL Players ' Association, and tied the Vancouver Canucks ' Marek Malik for the NHL Plus / Minus Award.

Nonetheless, in 1971, life was made easier for Chicago, as in an attempt to better balance the divisions, the expansion Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks were both placed in the East Division, while the Hawks moved into the West Division.

Led by second-year Denis Savard's 32 goals and 119 points and Doug Wilson's 39 goals, the Hawks stunned the Minnesota North Stars and Blues in the playoffs before losing to another surprise team, the Vancouver Canucks, who made the Stanley Cup Finals.

Injuries to both Havlat and Handzus hurt the Blackhawks, and Smolinski was eventually traded at the trade deadline to the Vancouver Canucks.

The team proceeded to defeat the third-seeded Vancouver Canucks in six games.

In the first round of the 2011 playoffs, the Blackhawks faced the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks.

In the next round, the Oilers defeated the Vancouver Canucks in six games to return to the Campbell Conference Final for the third straight season, this time facing the Chicago Blackhawks.

However, in-season acquisitions, such as defenceman Jaroslav Spacek, defenceman Dick Tarnstrom, goaltender Dwayne Roloson, and left wing Sergei Samsonov, helped Edmonton finish the regular season with ninety-five points and clinch the final playoff spot in the Western Conference over the Vancouver Canucks.

Some endangered species in British Columbia are: Vancouver Island marmot, Spotted Owl, American White Pelican, and badgers.

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

Vancouver Island, Canada ; the cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver, Washington, US ; and Mount Vancouver on the Yukon / Alaska border ; are named after him.

* Statues of Vancouver are located in front of Vancouver City Hall, in King's Lynn and on top of the dome of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings.

There are two Regional Districts within the region, Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Health system services and governance in the Lower Mainland are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health, serving Vancouver, Richmond and the North Shore, and the mainland coast as far north as the Central Coast region, and Fraser Health, which serves the area of the Lower Mainland east of Vancouver and Richmond.

Cloverdale, Barnston Island, low-lying areas of Maple Ridge, areas west of Hope, White Rock, Richmond, parts of Vancouver, and parts of Surrey are potentially at risk.

Monorails are often but not exclusively elevated, sometimes leading to confusion with other elevated systems such as the Docklands Light Railway, Vancouver SkyTrain and the JFK AirTrain.

Throughout Canada, especially in Toronto and Vancouver, there are comprehensive plans in place to curb sprawl, such as Ontario's Places to Grow act.

Electric buses, which use twin trolley poles ( one for live current, one for return ) but have wheels with tyres rolling on a hard surface rather than tracks, are called trolleybuses, trackless trolleys ( particularly in the Northeastern U. S .), or sometimes ( in the UK, as well as in Seattle and Vancouver ) simply trolleys.

Multiple scheduled helicopter and seaplane flights are available daily from Victoria's Inner Harbour to Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver Harbour, and Seattle.

However, roads in Victoria are not based on a grid system as in Vancouver or Edmonton, and even most major streets do not follow a straight line from beginning to end as they wind around hills, parks, coastlines, and historic neighbourhoods, often changing names two or three times.

There is little distinction between " streets " and " avenues " in Victoria as there is in other cities such as Vancouver or Edmonton where " streets " run north-south and " avenues " run east-west, and Victorians are unlikely to use the terms " north ", " south ", " east ", or " west " when giving directions.

** The British Columbian municipalities of Point Grey and South Vancouver are amalgamated into Vancouver.

The San Juan Islands are an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the US mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

In the Lower Mainland around the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, there are levees to protect low-lying land in the Fraser River delta, particularly the city of Richmond on Lulu Island.

The Parque Eduardo VII in Lisbon, King Edward Avenue in Vancouver, Rue Edouard VII in Paris and King Edward Cigars are also named after him.