Although the Vancouver Canucks out-shot the Phoenix 31-22 in their 4-2 loss, a key in whether they had the stamina is usually in the amount of hits delivered on the opposition. The Canucks had nine and Coyotes 15. Even if you didn’t see the game those numbers would indicate that this was not a physical game. Many [...]
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One of the reasons Vancouver Canucks 2011 first rounder Nicklas Jensen, is not playing professional hockey is because he is still 19 years old. He will turn 20 on March 6 of this year and by the looks and sounds of it, he seems destined to end up with the Chicago Wolves sometime in early March. That’s when [...]
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Interesting game last night in as much as there were not a lot of shots-on-goal (Van – 22, Dal – 25) but seven goals scored (Van – 4, Dal – 3). Usually the low shot totals indicates a lower scoring game but with the ability of an NHL player to score when given the right [...]
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If it’s one thing the Chicago Blackhawks exposed of the Vancouver Canucks, it was that it is was still a player or two short in order to get to the promised land. That centre position with Jordan Schroeder will have to be upgraded and another depth gritty forward added. In last nights game it was [...]
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This team is having trouble protecting leads in the third period, so what’s happening? By my count I have four leads that the Canucks have been unable to secure. Not only that, but all of a sudden both goalies are giving up bad goals, one last night by Roberto Luongo and two the other night by [...]
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I got to thinking the other day about the similarities of this current Canucks team to the 2006/07 version. Granted they have more than one scoring line as the 2006/07 version really only had the Sedins, Markus Naslund along with Brendan Morrison. After that the next top two scorers were Kevin Bieksa and Sami Salo. [...]
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