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**Abbotsford, B.C. –** The Abbotsford Canucks announced today their complete 2022-23 regular season schedule beginning with a road game on Friday, October 14th against the Ontario Reign, farm team of the LA Kings.
 

Home ice was a huge advantage for the Canucks in their inaugural season, as they posted an impressive record of 20-9-4-1 at the Abbotsford Centre. This year, the team will play its first game in the City of Abbotsford on Friday, October 28th against the San Diego Gulls (Anaheim Ducks).
 

[CLICK HERE](https://abbotsford.canucks.com/schedule) to view a complete list of dates and opponents for the 2022-23 regular season.

[CLICK HERE](https://www.stanza.co/@ahl-abbotsfordcanucks/subscription?source=a2c) to download the complete 2022-23 Abbotsford Canucks schedule to your device.

Ticket packages are on sale now, including season tickets, flex packs and weekend pass.                                     
Go to tickets.abbotsfordcanucks.ca or call 604-743-5000 ext. 2
 

**Early Season Highlight Games Include**:

Diwali Night on Saturday, October 29th vs the San Diego Gulls (Anaheim Ducks).

- Celebration of the diverse culture and vibrant South Asian community. Highlighting a variety of artists, activations, and cultural elements.

Country Night on Saturday, November 12th vs the Henderson Silver Knights (Vegas Golden Knights)

- Live music, line dancing, and special give aways. Country themed décor throughout the Abbotsford Centre.

Teddy Bear Toss on Saturday, December 3rd vs Laval Rocket (Montreal Canadiens)

- Fans are encouraged to bring new stuffed toys to the Abbotsford Centre to throw on the ice in support of Archway Community Services Toys for Tots.


**Fast Facts** :

- 36 home games in the 2022/23 season.

- Two more home games than last year.

- 61 percent of home games on Friday and Saturday night.

- Nine Friday games and 13 Saturday games.

- 39 percent of home schedule vs Canadian teams.

- 14 games total including six home games vs Calgary (Calgary Flames)

- Two home games against the new Coachella Valley Firebirds (Seattle Kraken). 
 

Single game ticket information will be released at a later date. Fans are encouraged to sign up for single game pre-sale access and regular season games by [clicking here](https://abbotsford.canucks.com/email-insiders).

The Abbotsford Canucks announced today their complete 2022-23 regular season schedule, beginning with a road game on Friday, October 14th against Ontario.

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Abbotsford Canucks Announce 2022.23 Regular Season Schedule

**ABBOTSFORD, BC -** Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced today that the club has signed forward Yushiroh Hirano to a one-year, two-way contract ahead of the 2022-23 season.


Hirano, 26, spent the majority of the 2021-22 season with Abbotsford, skating in 30 games for the Canucks after signing a professional try out agreement with the club on January 5. He recorded 12 points (five goals, seven assists) and 18 penalty minutes with Abbotsford before being released on April 12 to represent Japan at the 2022 IIHF Division 1 Group B World Hockey Championships in Tychy, Poland. Hirano led the tournament in goals (six) and points (10) while helping his team place second in the group standings. He originally started the season with the ECHL’s Cincinnati Cyclones, recording 29 points (16 goals, 13 assists) through 25 games before leaving the team to join Abbotsford.


“Yushiroh joined our group last year in a really adverse time and he helped the team in a big way”, stated Ryan Johnson. “We are happy to have him back in Abbotsford for the upcoming season.”


The 6-0, 216-pound winger played his first AHL game in 999 days when he made his Canucks debut on January 7 in Abbotsford’s 4-3 home overtime loss to Bakersfield. He scored his first career AHL goal on January 22 against Franics Marotte in the Canucks’ 5-3 home victory over San Diego, making him the first Japanese-born player to score a goal in AHL history. The goal was scored 10 seconds into the game, which made it the fastest goal to start a game in Abbotsford Canucks franchise history.


A native of Tomakomai, Japan, Hirano became the third Japanese-born player in AHL history when he made his debut for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on 4/14/19, recording an assist in the Penguins’ 5-2 home victory over Binghamton. He currently remains the only forward to play in the American Hockey League who was born in Japan.


Abbotsford Canucks GM, Ryan Johnson, announced today that the club has signed forward Yushiroh Hirano to a one-year contract ahead of the 2022-23 season,

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CANUCKS SIGN HIRANO TO ONE-YEAR, TWO-WAY AHL/ECHL CONTRACT

On June 24th,  Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced that the club has signed major junior free agent defenceman Quinn Schmiemann to a two-year AHL contract through the 2023-24 season. Schmiemann joins Abbotsford from the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League.

“We are excited to have Quinn join our organization,” said Abbotsford GM Ryan Johnson. “After a great junior career, we feel we are a great fit to help him succeed at the next level."

This week at Development Camp, we sat down with Schmiemann to talk to the newly signed blue liner.

**Can you talk to us about your time with the Kamloops Blazers and your success there?**

"I played there for four years and had a really good season this year, a great team. Had lots of help up front with guys like Logan Stankoven and Caedan Bankir. It's a great place to play, one of the nicest places to play in the Western Hockey League. Overall I really enjoyed my four seasons there and I wouldn't look back. It was a great experience and I'm thankful for it."

**What excites you about playing in the AHL with Abbotsford?**

"I think just making that next step. It's professional hockey, and I think I'm ready for professional hockey. It's every kid's dream to make that best step, and Abbotsford seemed like a great choice. It's right in the backyard, still here in BC. I love British Columbia, I'm a prairie boy so it's a bit different out here than Saskatchewan. But I'm really excited to get things going here."

**How was Development Camp for you?**

"Personally I think it's going great. I'm having a really good time here, meeting a lot of good guys and staying right in downtown (Vancouver). Everyone is enjoying themselves and having a good time and trying to be a sponge by soaking everything in."

**Did you know any of the guys in the camp from before this week?**

"So I played against (Alex) Kannok Leipert in U18 for a couple of years. And then I played against him and (Tristen) Nielsen when they were with the Vancouver Giants for a couple of years too. There is a couple of WHL guys that I played against, like Chase Wouters, Arshdeep Bains and Jackson Van De Leest."

**Tell us about yourself, what do you get up to in your spare time?**

"Training usually takes up a good chunk of my day, but when I'm not training I usually like to play golf. Me and my buddies would go and work on our golf game a little bit, not that it's any good or anything. There are a couple of nice courses around Kamloops. Any day that I get to hit the golf course is a good day to me."

**Who do you model your style of play after?**

"That's a tough question. I think generally I just play a 200 foot game, play physically and chip in offensively when I can. Really just whatever needs to be done. If there is a role to be filled then I'm going to assume that role and bring everything that I have to the table to try and help my team win."

**Finally, how do we say your last name?**

"Sh-mee-mann. It's definitely a long one. Goes shoulder to shoulder on the jersey for sure. Definitely get that question quite a lot. 

This week at Development Camp, we sat down with Schmiemann to ask some questions to the newly signed blue liner.

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Q & A WITH QUINN SCHMIEMANN

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**Abbotsford, B.C. -** Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced today the hiring of John Murray as Strength & Conditioning Coach, in addition to confirming the rest of the club’s hockey operations staff ahead of the 2022-23 American Hockey League season.

Jeremy Colliton will lead the hockey operations staff in his first season as Head Coach of the team, with the support of newly hired Development & Goaltending Coach Marko Torenius, as well as a returning coaching department comprised of Associate Coach Gary Agnew, Assistant Coach Jeff Ulmer, Video Coach Ian Beckenstein, Skills Coach Yogi Svejkovsky and Skating Coach Mackenzie Braid.


John Murray enters the Canucks organization from St. Andrew’s College, an independent preparatory school in Aurora, Ontario where he served as Head Strength Coach of all the school’s sport programs for eight years, focusing primarily on the hockey, football and baseball teams. Murray also worked as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for Gary Roberts High Performance Training in Toronto, Ontario for seven years, working with some of the world’s top hockey players during the offseason.


“John is someone that comes with great experience in a team environment,” said Johnson. “He has been working with some of the best hockey players in the world. His knowledge and passion are qualities that I am extremely excited about adding to our organization.”


Murray will join the returning human performance staff that includes Head Equipment Manager Ramandeep “Chico” Dhanjal, Assistant Equipment Manager Shingo Sasaki, Head Athletic Therapist Roman Kaszczij and Assistant Athletic Therapist Chris Trivieri.


Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, today confirmed the club’s hockey operations staff ahead of the 2022-23 American Hockey League season.

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ABBOTSFORD CANUCKS ANNOUNCE 2022-23 HOCKEY OPERATIONS STAFF

On July 22nd, Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced that the club had signed major junior free agent defenceman Chad Nychuk to a one-year AHL contract ahead of the 2022-23 season. Nychuk joins Abbotsford from the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League.

“Chad is a player we watched throughout his junior career,” said Abbotsford GM, Ryan Johnson. “After making a very good impression at development camp in Vancouver, we are excited to have him join our group in Abbotsford this season.”

We sat down with Nychuk to talk to the newly signed blue liner.

**Talk to us about your time in the WHL with Brandon.**

Obviously it was a really fun four years, I’m sort of a hometown kid when I went in as a young guy. I made a lot of really good friends really quickly and I have nothing but thank you’s for the coaches, management and staff. I’ll always be grateful for that.

**What excites you about playing in the AHL with Abbotsford?**

I think just taking that next step. Obviously, being a hockey player, that’s one of the things you look forward to the most. As for Abbotsford, obviously I’ve heard nothing but good things about it and I’m really excited.

**Last month was the first time we saw you in Canuck colours, tell us about your Development Camp experience back in July.**

It was really fun, I met a lot of really good guys. You kind of get to know the WHL guys that you’ve been playing against for the last few years, then as the week went on I started to get to know the college and European guys. That was the big thing that I took out of it. As for the hockey side, there were a lot of good players there and I feel like it was a good week.

**How would you describe your playing style?**

I think that I have just turned myself into a two-way defenceman. For the first few years, I thought of myself as an offensive defenseman. But I learned pretty quick that in order to make it to the next level, I had to be able to take care of both ends. The last few years I have mainly been focusing on that and hopefully I can keep that moving forward.

**What do you like to get up to in the off-season?**

Right now in the summer I have just been training in Brandon, Manitoba. My cabin is about an hour and a half north of Brandon, so I like to go there with my family on the weekends. But during the week, just skating, working out, the usual stuff. Lots of golf as well.

**Talk to us about your nickname “The Rossburn Rifle”.**

I was just sitting at the rink one day when our media guy came up to me and told me he was going to use that nickname. He thought it was just going to be a little joke or whatever , but it turned into a pretty good thing. A lot of my buddies started wearing t-shirts and started to send me pictures of them. Some of the proceeds went to the (Brandon) Wheat Kings, and the rest I was able to donate to some stuff around Rossburn. Things like buying local kids hockey equipment and some work on the local reserve. It was a really good fundraiser.

**Tell us more about your hometown Rossburn and growing up there.**

I owe a lot of it to Rossburn. As I get older, I can’t really skate at the rink there because it’s winter ice, it’s not in during the summer. So I had to make the move to Brandon. But I’ve had nothing but support from Rossburn, all of the support I get is so surreal and I’m very grateful for it. I owe a lot to Rossburn.

**Can you tell us a fun fact or a hidden talent about yourself?**

I play a few sports, I like to play every sport that I can. I used to be pretty good at ping pong, but I’ve gotten away from it a little bit recently. Hopefully I can maybe get back to that, so I would say ping pong.


Ping Pong, nicknames, and more! Hear from Rossburn Manitoba's Chad Nychuk, Abbotsford's most recently signed free agent.

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Q & A WITH CHAD NYCHUK

**Abbotsford, B.C. -** Abbotsford Canucks General Manager, Ryan Johnson, announced today that the club has signed major junior free agent defenceman Chad Nychuk to a one-year AHL contract ahead of the 2022-23 season. Nychuk joins Abbotsford from the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League.


Nychuk, 21, completed his overage major junior season with Brandon in 2021-22, leading the league’s defencemen with 21 goals and ranking third among WHL defencemen in points (71) while skating in 64 regular season games. He recorded five assists while skating in all six of his team’s playoff games and was named to the WHL’s East Division Second All-Star Team.


The Rossburn, Manitoba native participated in last week’s Vancouver Canucks Development Camp as an unsigned and undrafted invite. “Chad is a player we watched throughout his junior career,” said Abbotsford GM, Ryan Johnson. “After making a very good impression at development camp in Vancouver, we are excited to have him join our group in Abbotsford this season.” 


The 6-1, 194-pound defenceman skated in 206 regular season games during his major junior career, all of which he played for Brandon. Nychuk is currently tied for 11th among all-time Wheat Kings defencemen in assists (108) and 13th among defencemen in goals (33) in franchise history.


Abbotsford Canucks GM Ryan Johnson announced the club has signed free agent defenceman Chad Nychuk to a one-year AHL contract. 

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