You can throw all the stats for the season out the window because in the play-offs anything can happen and the Canucks can attest to that. Since the 2006-07 season Coach Alain Vigneault has only coached the team past the second round once, and that was 2010-11, which seems like light years ago. In that same [...]
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Hey, where did those 20 games go as it just seems yesterday when the season started back up. The first ten games were 4W,2L, 3SOW, 1SOL as the Canucks started slow but had possible extra points in four games that went to a shoot-out. The last ten – 5W, 3L, 1SOW,1SOL, the Canucks defense and goal [...]
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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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