10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Vancouver Canucks

Issued during the NHL's centennial licensing push, this piece is one of dozens of team-specific hockey dollars the Royal Canadian Mint produced under its ongoing NHL partnership — a commercial program that has generated more collector SKUs than most sovereign mints produce in a decade. The Canucks franchise, founded in 1970 as part of the NHL's second major expansion wave, has never won a Stanley Cup, a fact that gives the team's commemorative coinage a particular irony given the celebratory framing.