Posted on June 8th, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Another meltdown has occurred in these play-offs and it wasn’t the ninty degree heat in Boston either. Roberto Luongo has again run into problems stopping the puck allowing 12 goals in six periods of hockey. Granted, he has done this before in the Chicago series in games four [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Here it is Monday already, the game was played on Saturday, and the Canucks pulled off another squeaker and lead two games to zero. The coverage of the game has been filled ad nausea by the media; Alex Burrows goal played every five minutes on the local television [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson It’s safe to say that defense wins Championship. Out of the sports that I have played, coached and have a pretty significant knowledge of, baseball, football and hockey – fall into the defense wins championships saying. The day before the start of this season, I wrote an article [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
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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Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson It didn’t start off to well for the Canucks Captain Henrik Sedin, as he and Brother Daniel were on the ice for the Sharks first goal. This was not their fault, as Roberto Luongo served up a gift wrapped pass onto the stick of Sharks Joe Thornton (best [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Larry "The Nucks IceMan" Johnson
Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Maybe teammate Jannik Hansen said it best in reference to Ryan Kesler, “If only all of us could play like him.” “If we could, this would be an easy play-offs.” With that, the Canucks packed quickly, to make the long trip back to Nashville for game six on [...]
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