The model that GM Mike Gillis built is not the one for the playoffs. You only need to look at the two teams, Detroit and Vancouver, who were knocked out in the first round to understand that. Speed and skill may have worked back in 2008 but it doesn’t work today. Today the playoff teams [...]
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It would seem with 10 games remaining after tonight’s game in Minnesota, that the lineup will have to be in place before the playoffs start. With Mason Raymond and Sami Salo sitting out tonight’s game, Manny Malhotra slotting back in (on the third line) against the Wild and Cory Schneider getting his second straight start, [...]
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This was another of the games that happens during the course of an 82 game schedule that you mark as a must watch one. With the two top teams in the Western Conference squaring off, it was bound to be a good game and it did live up to its hype. None of this hack [...]
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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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The Canuck players can verbalize all they want about the non-importance of the game against the Bruins in Boston this Saturday, but the reality is that it’s another litmus test for this team. At the time of this writing the Canucks are on top of the NHL standings with Boston two points behind them. [...]
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It took 36 games to reach the top of the NorthWest Division, but with the 5-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers last night, the Vancouver Canucks have arrived. The surprising play of the Minnesota Wild out of the gate had the Canucks looking up at them, but with the Wild’s 3-5-2 record of late, the [...]
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