Potential Playoff Opponents
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »With a spot in the NHL playoffs all but sewn up, the Vancouver Canucks can start to turn their focus towards potential playoff matchups. During their recent stretch of stellar play, the Canuck bandwagon is approaching maximum capacity, and just ...
Deal With the Devils
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Well, I didn't see that one coming. Did you? For a few days I had heard whispers that the New Jersey Devils had expressed interested in Ilya Kovalchuk but didn't think they'd want to part ways with some of their prospects. ...
Kovalchuk Sweepstakes Start
Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I’m going to make this perfectly clear so every Canuck fan (both intelligent and ignorant) can get this right: Ilya Kovalchuk is not going to be traded to the Vancouver Canucks. Despite what armchair general managers may have read on the ...
Drunk as Puck
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I should quickly toot my own horn to mention that I correctly guessed 19 of the 23 players on Team Canada. The only errors I made were: Jay Bouwmeester (replaced by Drew Doughty), Martin St. Louis, Shane Doan and Steven ...
Here Come The Russians!
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »In my mind, this is going to be one hell of an Olympics. Despite having home-ice advantage, Team Canada is still reeling from their seventh-place finish in the 2006 games. And this year, don't expect things to get any easier, ...
My Team Canada
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »It's only a matter of hours before Steve Yzerman and his executives finalize Team Canada for the impending 2010 Olympics and now it's my turn to put in my final nominations for our national roster. Feel free to comment and ...
Two Captains at WJC?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It's starting to get colder in Vancouver, but as December rolls around there's only one thing on my mind (besides trying hopelessly to acquire Olympic tickets for cheap): The upcoming World Junior Championships to be held in Saskatchewan, starting on ...
Ode to Ehrhoff
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »This is the way you approach newcomers, Canuck fans: Set your expectations so low that by the time they come around to playing for Vancouver they'll surprise you. Coming into the season, my demands for Ehrhoff were miniscule compared to that ...
The Hodgson Demotion
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I find it incredibly intriguing how much of the debate going into the Vancouver Canucks' main camp this fall was the possibility that the team could ice four rookies in the season opener this Thursday, yet when the smoke had ...
A Spot for Shirokov?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »To quote an old James Bond movie, you could say that winger Sergei Shirokov arrived from Russia with love. He came to Vancouver and was as much of an unknown as anyone can be. There was little that people had ...
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