March 2012
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Canucks' Season Notable, but Unremarkable
In a regular season that finds the Canucks easily perched atop their division with an outside chance at another conference and/or regular season title, it should be hard to be disappointed. But after last season, which found the Canucks rarely taking their foot off the gas as they went essentially wire-to-wire to earn the franchise’s first ever President’s Trophy as the leading regular season...
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The Canucks and the Big Man
With last week’s stunning acquisition of young hulking winger Zack Kassian in exchange for prized rookie Cody Hodgson, the Canucks are about to add another chapter to a long running story in Vancouver: the quest for the perfect power forward.
This story has its beginning, of course, with Cam Neely, who would become the prototype for the very term. Except the Canucks didn’t know it. ...
