Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Last night in San Jose, the Vancouver Canucks offered up young rookie net-minder Eddie Lack to the San Jose Sharks, and they responded by biting off a 6-2 victory. Once again a Canuck goaltender was used for shooting practice (Cory Schneider against Edmonton) with Lack busy all [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson With the re-assignment yesterday of Centres – Mario Bliznak, Jordan Schroeder; D-men – Kevin Connauton, Evan Oberg, Chris Tanev, Sean Zimmerman and Forwards Prab Rai and Aaron Volpatti, the Vancouver Canucks now get down to a working formula for this season’s line-up. What this also does is [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson The game between the Anaheim Ducks and Vancouver Canucks turned out to be another positive step in a couple of players on professional tryouts. That would be Peter Schaefer and Brendan Morrison. Benefitting from these two was young prospect Jordan Schroeder, who scored his first goal of these [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Don’t let the Canucks 0-3 record of the exhibition games fool you. Every team at this time of the year is evaluating their players so the line-ups will be helter-skelter until half way through the number of games scheduled. At that stage the teams will settle on [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Pre-season games seem to get longer every year but they do serve their purposes. They have evolved from the shortening of the NHL training camps, which for the Vancouver Canucks this year amounted to three days. With so many players to look at and line combinations to form [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks Iceman” Johnson So I’m not go to bore you with who is skating with who on what line or who is scoring goals in camp as it has no bearing on this Vancouver Canucks team at this time. What will have meaning is when the Canucks break camp on [...]
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