March 2011
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Canucks' First Round Combatants? [Poll Question]
In a season of unprecedented achievements, the Canucks added a couple more notches to their collective bedpost tonight. With their franchise record 9th consecutive road victory, they also clinched their first ever Western Conference regular season championship.
So with five games remaining in the season, we are left to contemplate just who the Canucks might face in round one of the playoffs. ...
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The Canucks Injury List - One Up, One Down
The revolving door that is the Canucks’ injury list took another spin last night with Dan Hamhuis suffering yet another concussion; this one on a seemingly harmless collision with teammate and recent injury list returnee Kevin Bieksa.
And as the never ending injury parade continues so does the dominance of the Canucks, who seem to register another franchise mark of excellence with every...
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The NHL Finally Gets Cooking
As if on cue, NHL public enemy number one Matt Cooke put the league’s “new” stance on head shots to the test with another typically cowardly play on Sunday afternoon.
And for once, the dim wits at the NHL head office had the brains to match to their supposed balls by announcing yesterday that Cooke is banished for the remainder of the regular season and the first round of the...
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Cody Hodgson - Finally the Centre of Attention?
Here at CC, we have been lamenting the lack of NHL ice time handed to prospect numero uno Cody Hodsgon this season despite ample opportunity. And with the eye injury suffered by third line centre Manny Malhotra last week (now revealed to be season ending), you would think that the door of opportunity should have finally swung wide open for him.
Until the trading deadline the Canucks played the...
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Cory Schneider - Playoff Insurance Policy?
With the continued consistent stellar play of Canucks’ rookie netminder Cory Schneider, the fanatical followers have one less thing to worry about come playoff time. Or do they?
As well as Roberto Luongo has played this year (his work of the last two thirds of the season on par with his sublime first season here), after a couple of disappointing playoff runs, the assessment of his season...
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NHL = National Hooligan's League
Hooligan - a bully; a cruel and brutal fellow; a tough and aggressive or violent youth
Hockey - a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try knock a flat round puck in the opponents’ goal with curved sticks; a fast paced physical sport
It seems that the NHL can’t go a single week without another shining example of its unpunished on-ice thuggery.
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The World According to Wellwood
In the mind of ex-Canuck Kyle Wellwood, his former teammates still have some hurdles to overcome before ascending to a championship calibre level. In a revealing column in today’s Globe and Mail, Matt Sekeres provided a peek into the mind of the spurned Wellwood and his take on the playoff fate of the NHL’s top team.
Yes, the diminutive Wellwood, always refreshingly candid, is not...
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CC's Figures and Facts
Another instalment of our irregular feature, Critically Canuck’s “Figures and Facts”:
FIGURE: .694
FACT: Representing their current winning percentage, and highest ever in team history, it surpasses the previous best (.640 in 2006-07) quite easily.
FIGURE: 37
FACT:With 15 games to play, the Canucks have recorded 37 outright (regulation time) wins this season. With the...
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The Canucks' Run for Number One
So with the trading deadline come and gone, the Canucks can now proceed with the rest of their record breaking season, a campaign that has them on pace for unprecedented regular season success. There is the opportunity to guarantee home ice advantage for not just the first round, but quite plausibly the entire playoffs.
Some would caution against blowing your brains out to grab the...
