Several details for the Vancouver Canucks’ new AHL club in Abbotsford, B.C., are still to come, but their top affiliate certainly will have star power.

The Vancouver Canucks have announced that Daniel and Henrik Sedin will join the team’s hockey operations department as special advisors to general manager Jim Benning.

In a compacted and coronavirus inflicted season in which he played just four late-campaign games with Utica, Michael DiPietro could be labeled a survivor.

The AHL Board of Governors has approved the relocation of Vancouver’s AHL franchise to Abbotsford and of New Jersey’s AHL franchise to Utica, effective with the 2021-22 season.

The Vancouver Canucks confirmed today their intent to relocate the club’s American Hockey League affiliate to Abbotsford, B.C., for the start the 2021-22 season.