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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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Didn’t the NHL shut down for a season so that they could solve the problem with salaries that had rocketed out of control? Leave it up to the NHL General Managers to find a way around the CBA and player contracts. Although the NHL as approved most of [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Now that the 2011 NHL Entry Draft has concluded, the Canucks now get down to business with Free Agency, which is only three days away. A few of the UFA (Kevin Bieksa) and RFA (Maxim Lapierre) players have been re-signed or have received qualifying offers (Jannik [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson With Free Agency a week away and some pressing matters still not resolved with the Canucks own Free Agents, who will walk and who will stay? This of course will trigger the need to replace these players, so let’s have a look at the possibilities. UFA’s on Defense: [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nuck IceMan” Johnson Since my profession is accounting, I decided to put my capologists hat on and make the signings and deletions for the pending RF and UFA’s. I spoke previously about some changes that were needed and I led off with toughness to survive the play-offs and return back to [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson With the announcement that rookie D-man Chris Tanev would play in place of Keith Ballard, it sure throws all of the pairings out the window. I would expect the duos to be: Tanev/Andrew Albert, Kevin Bieksa/Alex Edler and Sami Salo with Christian Ehrhoff. I can’t see Ehrhoff, who [...]
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