With the steady play of Vancouver Canucks Chris Tanev yesterday against the San Jose Sharks, the picture of the defense just became a whole lot clearer. Now if that had been his first game as a pro, it would have been a different picture, but after watching him for 33 games I concur with [...]
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There are three Vancouver Canucks that are currently being paid a combined total of $10.9 million, for arguments sake, let’s call it $11 million. From lowest to highest they are: Manny Malhotra ($2.5M per – 1 yr. remaining), David Booth ($4.2M per – 3 yrs. remaining) and Keith Ballard ($4.2M per – 3 yrs. remaining). [...]
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With the Canucks sitting currently in 11th spot in the Western Conference, not playing again till Sunday and having played anywhere from one to four games more than all the other teams, how long will this current inconsistency go on before some type of a change is made? It will not be the NHL’s [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson With the release of Owen Nolan yesterday, that pretty wells shoots down my theory of a Bill Guerin veteran type player joining the Canucks, to help them win the cup. At 39, times catches up to you and with the Canucks looking to utilize some of [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson There’s not much to this case that you have not heard or seen already. I’m speaking of course about the Stanley Cup finals in which the Canucks were whittled down to a skeleton crew of walking, or should I say – skating wounded on defense and offense. [...]
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If you go to the Chicago Wolves site and click on Team/Roster, you will notice that there is only six names listed and none of those are any that I recognize. My understanding is that a number of NHL teams share minor league teams by placing some of their prospects with that shared team. If my memory serves me [...]
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