NHL Nugget: How the name Vancouver Canucks was born

Here is today’s NHL Nugget. Today’s Wild Wednesday Rewind goes back to 1945, when the Vancouver Canucks were born into the Pacific Coast Hockey League.

This is how the name came about:

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