Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson The Vancouver Canucks line juggling actually already started in the LA game with Coach Vigneault moving Mikael Samuelsson to the third with Manny Malhotra and Raffi Torres, Mason Raymond to the first with the Sedins, and Jannik Hansen up with Ryan Kesler. Not stopping there, Peter Schaefer moved [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks Iceman” Johnson Cory Schneider has been used to playing an average of 45 games per season during his time in the AHL with the Manitoba Moose. Heck, even in his last two years at Boston College he played around 39 games a season. Now having been promoted to the “Big [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Yes, it’s only game two but there are positive signs and also areas that need to be addressed, before they become problems. The first Canucks win over the Florida Panthers 2-1 last night was not a work of art. The work part belonged to the Panthers, who had [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson One of the questions (that I tweeted about last week) about the Canucks’ enforcer arose when Darcy Hordichuk was on the bubble of making the team and who would fill that role. It was honourable that Tanner Glass took up the cause and did his best during the pre-season, but [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Interesting how quickly a hockey player’s fortunes changes. From a Vancouver Canuck defense that had D-man, Kevin Bieksa as the hot topic of trade, with yes yours truly, looking at the roster and figuring that his $3.5 million tradable contract would be the one to go, to now [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson I thought it would be interesting to take a look at Raffi Torres, who has a bit in common with another player in the Canucks organization, Cody Hodgson. Both Hodgson and Torres played for the Brampton Battalion of the OHL, were chosen all stars of that league and [...]
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