Ever since February 15 the signs were there that this Vancouver Canucks team was not as good a team as they thought they were. Now you can massage the numbers any way you like it but a loss is still a loss, whether it’s in regulation, over-time or in a shoot-out. In the last 15 [...]
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This team is having trouble protecting leads in the third period, so what’s happening? By my count I have four leads that the Canucks have been unable to secure. Not only that, but all of a sudden both goalies are giving up bad goals, one last night by Roberto Luongo and two the other night by [...]
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I got to thinking the other day about the similarities of this current Canucks team to the 2006/07 version. Granted they have more than one scoring line as the 2006/07 version really only had the Sedins, Markus Naslund along with Brendan Morrison. After that the next top two scorers were Kevin Bieksa and Sami Salo. [...]
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There is a number of the core Canucks that are looking pretty old these days, as they had trouble keeping up with the young Oilers last night. Okay it was the second game of a back-to-back but this season that will be the norm. Take for instance the Sedins, Alex Burrows - who disappeared for 17 minutes in the [...]
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If you ask any of the media, people in the hockey circle, writers, bloggers, Canuck fans, and the local cabbie, I would have to say 99% of them would say they never saw that one coming. You know I’m talking about the Cody Hodgson trade for Zack Kassian. Sure, the Canucks needed another gritty tough [...]
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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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