Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson So, here we are at Day One of training camp at the new Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre (which seats 7,200 and will be one of the ice hockey venues for the Olympics in 2010). It looked pretty empty with the sparse crowd of loyal Canucks fans that [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Well with school starting and a regular work day for most, the stands at Father Bauer Arena at UBC were only about 20 percent full. One section full of elementary kids must have got the day off, either that or it’s a new class assignment, as the teacher [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Sept.6.09 – The Father David Bauer arena at UBC was standing room only, as the more than 900 Canuck fans and media attended day one of the Canuck prospects training camp workout. For the majority of them, the one Canuck that they came to see was Cody Hodgson, [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Aug.31 – Now that was a strange move today by Gillis to improve the Nucks defense. Added were a couple of San Jose Sharks in Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich for depth. Yes, they did have to give up a couple of promising prospects in Daniel Rahimi, [...]
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