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 Nucks IceMan” Johnson I gotta tell you, this series is making me crazy! I’ve had to go for so many walks to chill out, that I’m wearing a path on the seawall. Who knows which Roberto Luongo will show up tonight? Is it the Boston one or the Vancouver one? You can [...]
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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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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Anyone that has watched the Nashville Predators and Vancouver Canucks play during the regular season, could have easily predicted this type of low scoring series. There are two Vezina Trophy nominees playing in goal and a Nashville team that plays a structured type of system (read trapping). Trapping [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson After watching the injury lists since the beginning of the season, the NHLPA needs to lobby for a roster increase. Not too many teams this season and previous, have escaped the injury bug to their defensive corp. As mention earlier, the D-men have become sitting targets with no protection from the [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson With 18 games left in the season and a 14 point gap between the Cabucks and the next nearest team in the NW Division, have the Vancouver Canucks become complacent? In their last ten games they are 5W, 5L, have scored 2.2 goals for and allowed 2.4 against. [...]
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