It’s the first full season of the Vanni Sartini era for the Vancouver Whitecaps. An otherwise uneventful offseason was marred by the surprise departure of Maxime Crepeau, but outside of that event, this is a team doubling down on their late-season heroics from 2021 as a marker of things to come in 2022.
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2021 Record: 12W - 13D - 9L, 6th in the West, 45GF - 45GA, 49 Points.