Even with all the talent and skill Henrik and Daniel Sedin possess, the one flaw has always been their lack of speed. Yes they have adapted from the days when they first came into the league and their game relied more on strength, with all the clutching and holding, and they carried more weight. But now [...]
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Usually the experience following the Vancouver Canucks is like being on a roller coaster. If any of you have ever been on the roller coaster at the PNE Playland, you’ll know exactly what I mean. The first part is the long climb up and then it’s curves, plunging straight down where you think you’ll come [...]
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If it’s one thing the Chicago Blackhawks exposed of the Vancouver Canucks, it was that it is was still a player or two short in order to get to the promised land. That centre position with Jordan Schroeder will have to be upgraded and another depth gritty forward added. In last nights game it was [...]
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Like a sprinter that has come out of the blocks running the 200 metre dash, we stop to have a look at how the Canucks are doing and how they have positioned themselves in this shorten season. As they have reached a little over 1/5 (20.8%) point in the 48 games, the Canucks are right with [...]
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It didn’t look like the end result would be promising after the Edmonton Oilers opened the scoring in the first period, and then added another eight minutes into the second. You have to give credit to the Canucks for bearing down in the second to out-shoot the Oilers 15-4 and when Jannik Hansen scored in [...]
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So the Canucks go into San Jose having beat the Anaheim Ducks a couple of nights earlier, facing a team that was 4-0. You would think that they would have come out with guns a blazing knowing how well the Sharks have been playing. Instead the Canucks came out flat, got scored on after only [...]
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