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1982–83 Vancouver Canucks season

13th season in franchise history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4580858 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1982–83 Vancouver Canucks season was the team's 13th in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Offseason

Harry Neale was named general manager on June 1. Previous general manager Jake Milford moved into an advisory role and signed a two-year contract as Senior Vice-President and alternate governor.

Regular season

Final standings

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals againstNote: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Draft picks

Vancouver's draft picks at the 1982 NHL entry draft held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1982–83 Vancouver Canucks season” as 13th season in franchise history. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vancouver, Canucks and season can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 13th season in franchise history. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4580858. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “1982–83 Vancouver Canucks season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.