Izzy Cheung

Izzy Cheung tracks the Vancouver hockey ecosystem through the lens of player development and everyday team life, tying together the Canucks, their affiliates, and the city’s new women’s pro team. She holds a dual role at The Hockey News, serving as a deputy editor on the Canucks vertical and reporting on the Vancouver Goldeneyes for the women’s section. Her work centres on prospects, depth players, and the structures around them, from junior tournaments and development camps to coaching changes and playoff runs.

Vancouver Canucks and prospect pipeline

Cheung’s primary focus is the Vancouver Canucks, with a steady run of news pieces, game reports, and features that follow the team’s roster, prospects, and recent alumni. She covers prospect-heavy events in detail, including the organization’s performance at a 2026 prospect showcase where she highlights scorers Vilmer Alriksson, Adam Novotný, and Sawyer Mynio in a 7–3 loss to Seattle.

Her Memorial Cup coverage follows Canucks prospects playing in junior, such as Gabriel Chiarot scoring in Kitchener’s 6–2 win over Everett, linking junior results back to the club’s long-term depth chart.

She reports from training camp sessions, noting how practice groups are structured and relaying comments from players and coaches after Day 2 of the 2026 camp. Her news pieces on former Canucks in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, including Jalen Chatfield’s role with the Carolina Hurricanes, keep tabs on how ex-players perform once they leave the organization. Across these articles, she balances straight results with context on where each player fits in the larger prospect pipeline and what specific performances suggest about roles and readiness.

Abbotsford Canucks and the wider development system

Cheung extends her coverage down the ladder to the Abbotsford Canucks and other affiliates, treating the development system as part of the same story rather than a separate beat. She reports on coaching and structural changes, such as Abbotsford’s decision to hire Ryan Papaioannou as its next head coach, outlining what the move means for the team’s approach and for the prospects moving through that environment.

Her tagging and headlines around Abbotsford and ECHL content show regular attention to call-ups, depth signings, and organizational candidates for key roles, not only the NHL roster. A recurring mailbag feature takes reader questions on topics like the Canucks’ fourth-line center options and the progress of Adam Novotný, reflecting how she engages with fan concerns while grounding each answer in concrete roster and system details.

This thread of work positions her as someone who follows not just the top-line stars but the entire pipeline that supports them.

Women’s hockey and the Vancouver Goldeneyes

Cheung is an early, consistent reporter on the Vancouver Goldeneyes and PWHL Vancouver, giving women’s pro hockey coverage equal weight alongside the Canucks beat. Her author page on The Hockey News’ women’s section identifies her as a Goldeneyes reporter, and her professional profile confirms her role reporting on PWHL Vancouver.

In that capacity, she writes features and roundtable pieces that situate the Goldeneyes within Vancouver’s broader hockey scene, focusing on roster building, early franchise identity, and how the team connects to existing fan bases.

She treats women’s hockey as part of the same local continuum rather than a niche, often referencing players and storylines that overlap with the city’s established hockey culture. This dual coverage allows her to link developments in the women’s game to trends in the men’s side, providing a fuller picture of how professional hockey in Vancouver is changing.

Multimedia, podcasting, and community coverage

Beyond written articles, Cheung works in video and audio formats and uses them to deepen her coverage rather than to repeat it. She produces and fronts training camp video content for The Hockey News, documenting on-ice sessions and sharing player and coach comments from events like the 2026 Canucks camp. Her co-host role on the “Hockey, Actually” podcast is highlighted by The Hockey News, where the show is described as covering Vancouver’s hockey scene from the Canucks to the Goldeneyes and the Abbotsford Canucks.

Across podcast episodes and related write-ups, she and her co-hosts break down recent games, milestone achievements from players like Evander Kane and Brock Boeser, and notable moments for Elias Pettersson, tying statistical or milestone news to ongoing storylines.

Her social and professional profiles reinforce that she uses podcasting as a regular part of her journalism, giving listeners a recurring touchpoint for analysis and conversation about Vancouver’s teams. Together, the video pieces, mailbags, and podcast work show a reporter who treats community engagement and multimedia as integral parts of the beat, not accessories.

Across all these strands, Cheung’s work is defined by close tracking of Vancouver’s hockey organizations and the players moving through them. She follows prospects from junior tournaments to development camps, keeps up with coaching and structural changes in Abbotsford, and reports on both men’s and women’s pro teams in the city’s orbit. Her output combines news, analysis, and conversation, with a clear emphasis on the details that matter to understanding how the Canucks and Goldeneyes evolve over time.