VANCOUVER – Cody Hodgson felt the love of Vancouver Canucks fans on Saturday as he made a triumphant return to Rogers Arena.

Zack Kassian lived up to the pre-game hype surrounding him, but it was old teammates Ville Leino and Ryan Miller who stole the spotlight on Saturday.

VANCOUVER – Zack Kassian lived up to the pre-game hype surrounding him, but it was old teammates Ville Leino and Ryan Miller who stole the spotlight on Saturday.

Camilo scored early as the Vancouver Whitecaps beat Toronto FC 1-0 to win the all-Canadian championship final of the Disney Pro Soccer Classic on Saturday.

Roberto Luongo and Ryan Miller will likely be in net Saturday night in Vancouver as the Western Conference-leading Canucks go for a fifth straight home win in a matchup with a Buffalo Sabres team coming off back-to-back shutout victories, on Hockey Night in Canada (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. PT).

Watch the live stream and chat online with fellow fans as the Vancouver Canucks try to knock off the visiting Buffalo Sabres at Rogers Arena on CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada.

VANCOUVER – Cody Hodgson has resolved one issue regarding his trade from the Buffalo Sabres.

Alex Burrows’ early third-period goal gave the Vancouver Canucks a lead they’d never relinquish in a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in a showdown for first place in the NHL on Thursday night.

VANCOUVER – Alex Burrows’ early third-period goal gave Vancouver the lead, and the Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 2-0 in a showdown for first place in the NHL.

VANCOUVER – Alex Burrows’ early third-period goal gave the Vancouver Canucks a lead they’d never relinquish in a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in a showdown for first place in the NHL on Thursday night.

VANCOUVER – Zack Kassian is still trying to get settled in with the Vancouver Canucks after a surprise trade from the Buffalo Sabres.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Mike Smith stopped 39 shots, Ray Whitney scored in the third period and during the shootout, and the Phoenix Coyotes extended their point streak to 12 games with a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

Canucks GM Mike Gillis and his Boston Bruins counterpart Peter Chiarelli tinkered rather than overhauled their rosters at the NHL trade deadline a year ago, and their clubs wound up in the Stanley Cup final. The guy who has a championship ring, Chiarelli, traveled a similar path this time around. Gillis did not – shipping out Cody Hodgson in a risky move for Zack Kassian.

The Vancouver Canucks are loading up for another possible run at the Boston Bruins.

VANCOUVER – Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis made a splash prior to the trade deadline Monday.

VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Canucks have traded rookie forward Cody Hodgson to the Buffalo Sabres.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. – The mother of an eight-year-old boy spent an anxious night worrying about her son after he was hospitalized following a chlorine “incident” that sent 70 people to hospital in British Columbia, most of them children gathered for a swim meet.

Both the Vancouver Whitecaps and the expansion Montreal Impact came away happy from their second matches at the Disney Pro Soccer Classic in Orlando. The Whitecaps earned their second win in as many games as Sebastien Le Toux’s goal on a penalty lifted the second-year club to a 1-0 victory over the Housto Dynamo.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Both the Vancouver Whitecaps and the expansion Montreal Impact came away happy from their second matches at the Disney Pro Soccer Classic.

DALLAS – Loui Eriksson’s goal at 3:52 of overtime sent the Dallas Stars to their fourth consecutive victory, 3-2 over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday.