After writing a recent blog about not firing Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, it appears that he may have to be sacrificed for GM Mike Gillis’ ineptitude at bringing in the missing pieces needed to build a Stanley Cup team. Lets face it, the core of this team, which includes the Sedins, Ryan Kesler, Alex Burrows, [...]
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Before the firing of the Toronto Maple Leafs former GM Brian Burke, I would have said that receiving fair value for Roberto Luongo from Burke would be difficult at best. Now that Dave Nonis has taken over the Leafs GM duties the likely hood of a deal is more realistic, since Toronto who finished 29th in [...]
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First of all it starts at the ownership level which is the Aquilini’s. Being hockey fans as well as owners they will not be happy with the sudden exist in the first round. It’s estimated that for each home game in the playoffs the team makes about $1 million plus in profit. Besides that, after [...]
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What a delicious rumour. From what I have heard, and TSN has verified its accuracy, the Blue Jackets’ Rick Nash has provided to Columbus a list of teams that he would consider a trade to. Since Nash has a No Movement clause in his contract, no one really knows if Nash went to Blue Jackets [...]
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A top nine forward that can play and is tough. Mike Gillis on TEAM 1040 radio said that the Canucks are looking to add some toughness in the form of a forward that can play on either of lines one through three. My comment on that is – what took you so long? Now hold on [...]
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For those wondering why Roberto Luongo was playing in a back-to-back, here’s a little research I did last year. From 2006-07 to 2009-10 the Canucks have played in 36 pairs of back-to-back games. Depending on the schedule, they have ranged from a high of 12 in 2007-08 to a low of five in 2008-09. Luongo [...]
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