October 2010
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Game 9 - Luongo On, Ehrhoff Off
In an entertaining game that featured an early fight, some hits (and elbows), pretty goals, and fine goal-tending, it all came crashing down on what amounted to an overtime own goal by the visiting Avalanche. Colorado defender Jonos Holos made the lowest hockey IQ move, carrying the puck in front of his own net after a defensive zone face-off win, only to have it poke checked into his own net by...
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TSN's All-Time Canuck Team
Now is a great time to be a Canucks’ fan. Not only is our team favoured by many to win it all this season, but we’re celebrating the franchise’s 40th season. And along with that, there are all kinds of tributes, lists and retelling of team history.
Those outside Canuckdom will likely mock the franchise’s 40 years - what really is there to revel in they will say? But...
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Game 8 - A Nice Problem to Have
Two consecutive home games with back-up Cory Schneider in net have yielded near identical blow-out wins for the boys in blue. Fortunately, Schneider had the good sense to flub an easy glove save late waving good-bye to a perfect performance and, for now anyway, a full blown goalie controversy.
To the Canucks’ benefit, the Wild looked nothing like the team that had toyed with them on...
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Getting Off Easy?
Based on past history, it seems the punishment handed down to Rick Rypien today by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was about right. A few years back Matthew Barnaby got 4 games for a very similar incident so 6 games in today’s disciplinary currency seems about right. Others have argued that Rypien has gotten off easy. They will say that since this matter relates to fan safety, the penalty...
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Practice, man, talkin' 'bout practice?
In the Alain Vigneault era in Vancouver, the Canucks have been notoriously poor in the shoot-out segment. To start this season, the Canucks are 0-2 with shooters going 2 for 5 and their supposedly world class goalie going 0 for 5.
You can rant all you want about the ridiculousness of the shootout format to end games, but it is what it is. It’s part of the game and it’s not going...
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Game 7
It seems sometimes a team just has your number and there’s nothing you can do. And the hated Hawks clearly have ours.
The Canucks played, by far, their best road game of the season (against their strongest opposition, too) and scored on 2 of 3 shots in the shootout and that was with Mikael Samuelsson having the puck roll off his stick and wide with an empty net in his face. And Roberto...
We need Kyle Wellwood back..
He’s the type of guy that can single handedly earn your team a couple of extra points each season since he’s an automatic in the shootout. Who cares if you have to bury him on the fourth line for 5 mintues a game to do this? Hell, he’d look better on the PP unit with the Sedins than Kesler has so far. And after all, fat guys need some love too…
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Game 6
Well, sometimes you do get what you deserve. After 5 games, the Canucks record was at .500 though they likely deserved a better fate based on territorial play in those games. Tonight, they got beat down 6-2 by the lowly Minnesota Wild, who were full value for the drubbing.
Roberto Luongo, who has struggled mightily in Minneapolis through the years despite the perennial popgun offense offered up...
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Game 5
We’re a little late with this, but we passed up on the chance to attend this game and settled for a viewing of FUBAR II instead - after all, that’s what PVR’s are for. Anyone ever think that Terry is a ringer for Ryan Smyth? Anyway, it’s times like last night that we regret Premier Gordon Campbell’s drunk driving conviction all those years ago. Before that Maui...
Game 4
Yes, it’s early. But the weight of this season’s “Great Expectations” seems to be reducing the scoring hands of every Canuck player (save Daniel Sedin) to stone. And while it’s impossible to think that you will find another four game stretch in the season where the only dissimilar genetic Canuck forward to score a goal will be Raffi Torres, you have to be a little...
Game 3 [Poll question]
Well, we should have seen this coming. After all, the Ducks with that very potent top line yet scoreless after 3 games were not going to remain so for much longer. And the Canucks, who had mostly appeared calm and composed in front of their goalie for the first 2 plus games, got sloppy in a hurry.
While it’s simply the first regulation loss of the season, it was a game that should have...
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Game 2
We must confess that we were not in the building last night (we are ashamed to admit we missed “Stan Smyl night”). We did, however, watch most of the game despite being slightly distracted by “Battle of the Blades” - can you score a bigger freak factor than Georges Laraque on figure skates?
before the season started we repeatedly stated that the two biggest keys to...
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Game 1
1 down, 81 to go until it really matters, but anyway…
55 minutes of decent hockey by the Canucks were ruined by a reckless Ryan Kesler penalty - your new captain Henrik Sedin wouldn’t have pulled that crap
Roberto Luongo looked very sharp considering he hadn’t played in 2 weeks and considering it often takes him 2 months to find this kind of form
the new third line looked good...
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Opening Night Notes
With just over 24 hours until the much anticipated launch of the Canucks’ 40 anniversary season, the hype is unprecedented. And that’s saying something. Oddly, things have been rather quiet here at CC. You can blame that on some variation of the common cold. Call us soft, but it’s only pre-season. Anyway, here are some random comments on the activities in Canuckville over...
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No Mo'
It seems that the Canucks’ auditioning of Brendan Morrison has attracted some attention around the league. Morrison and his agent reportedly rejected a two way deal offered up by the Canucks with interest from at least three other teams pending.
The Canucks, despite waiving veterans Darcy Hordichuk and Shane O’Brien, were still in a cap crunch with little wriggle room to sign...
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Waive Good Bye to Hordichuk and O'Brien
Word is that the Canucks have placed both Darcy Hordichuk and Shane O’Brien on waivers, a very interesting development. While Hordichuk was never one of the league’s best scrappers, he was the only player on the team to do so consistently. It’s not clear who the replacement goon will be since Rick Rypien is typically injured and Alexandre Bolduc has proven to be a bit of a...
Anonymous asked: If you had to choose...an Edler jersey or an Ehrhoff?
