September 2011
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Winning When It Matters...
After arguably the greatest season in team history, the Canucks begin another season with only the highest goal in mind. What that means to the suffering masses, of course, is another regular season waiting to see if this team will have what it takes come playoff time to finally deliver us to the promised land.
And while it should be easy to revel in the recent regular season and playoff...
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Is Cody Hodgson Alain Vigneault's New Whipping...
Ashamedly, we are jumping on the band wagon of Tony Gallagher’s piece in today’s Vancouver Province, which suggests that Coach Vigneault is not exactly making life easy for the prized prospect of the Mike Gills regime.
Based on Hodgson’s line assignment between two fire hydrants in the back half of last night’s split squad double header and reading between the lines of...
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Go Owen Nolan!
It’s hard to believe that NHL hockey resumes (if you want to call it that) tonight at Rogers Arena. Yes, just three months removed from the final game of the Stanley Cup Final , the season ticket holder gets stuck paying full freight for what will amount to the tamest of exhibition matches - the second half of a split squad double header.
Perhaps the most interesting side story to...
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RIP, Pavol Demitra
Who knew that blogging about the Canucks would morph into obituary writing? In the wake of the passing of Rick Rypien, the Canuck family is now left to mourn Pavol Demitra, one of the many victims of a tragic Russian plane crash.
Demitra, who was mostly enigmatic during his days in Vancouver, will be best remembered in this town not for his play with the Canucks, but his outstanding performance...
