Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson One week, seven days, 168 hours or 10,080 minutes, that’s how long it’s been since the Vancouver Canucks have played a meaningful game. Now that might be okay for a sport like football, but hockey is a game that seems to need a continuous performance every couple of [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Seventeen years to the day on May 24, 1994, the Canucks’ Greg Adams scored the goal at fourteen seconds of the second over-time, to advance the Canucks to the Stanley Cup finals. I flashed back about that goal last night as I remembered watching it in my house [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson It turned out that Roberto Luongo was the Canucks best penalty killer and had to be, as San Jose started with the first five power plays of the game. Something was truly strange again as that made four in the first period, 10 in the last game, for [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson It was truly a strange game in a lot of ways. As I tweeted last night, I have been watching all the play-off games in both Conferences (a period here and a period there) and I don’t recall any team in these play-offs being assessed ten penalties in [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Somewhere back about three articles ago, I picked San Jose to win this series in six games. My support for this was based on the Sharks size throughout their line-up and the record that they had posted against the Canucks over the previous three seasons. I felt the [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson I have to admit, I haven’t been this excited over a player since Sidney Crosby! After watching Boston Bruins centre Tyler Seguin enter into the history books, while performing magic on the ice with his two goals and two assists, I bet Toronto Maple Leafs Brian Burke and [...]
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