Former Vancouver Canucks blogger wins the Stanley Cup
Started from the basement, now he’s here.
Longtime Vancouver Canucks blogger Rhys Jessop is a Stanley Cup champion. One of the “computer boys” to come out of Canucks Army, Jessop will lift the Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes, if he hasn’t already.
Jessop wrote for Canucks Army for two years, from 2013 to 2015, back when some in the mainstream media looked down their noses at writers like him. Needless to say, the UBC grad has since proved his intelligence.
Jessop was a statistical consultant with the Vancouver Giants for a year and a half before being scooped up by the Florida Panthers as an amateur scouting consultant in March 2016.
Two other Canucks Army bloggers, Cam Lawrence and Josh Weissbock, had been hired by the Panthers one year earlier. In 2019, the Canucks hired Ryan Biech as a video analyst in analytics, following writing stints with Canucks Army and Daily Hive.
Carolina came calling for Jessop in September 2021, as he joined the progressive Hurricanes front office as a western area amateur scout.
On Sunday, Jessop became a Stanley Cup champion when the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights.
Congratulations to Rhys Jessop (@Rhys_Jessop), who has become, I believe, the first @CanucksArmy alum and the first Canucks blogosphere product to win a Stanley Cup.
— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) June 15, 2026
Carolina is believed to be the most analytics-forward team to ever win the Stanley Cup, with general manager Eric Tulsky at the helm. Tulsky began his NHL front office career as an analytics and data science consultant with the Nashville Predators, before working his way up the ladder in Carolina’s front office beginning in 2014.
Long seen as a copy-cat league, it’ll be interesting to see how other teams react to Carolina’s Stanley Cup victory.