Vancouver Whitecaps FC: 2018 Season Preview

In an expanded and improved Western Conference, the Vancouver Whitecaps will look to build on last year’s playoff run with a heavily rebuilt forward line.

(Note: To help recap the Vancouver Whitecaps offseason, as well as preview 2018, we recruited former MLSM writer and Caps expert Gareth Wolff to lend his expertise.)

There’s been a changing of the guard in Vancouver since the end of last season. Seemingly, not a week has gone by without a departure or arrival being announced. David Ousted, Matías Laba, and Jordan Harvey, three long-term servants of the club and fan favourites, are gone. So are last season’s top scorer (Fredy Montero) and one of the assist leaders over the last two years…