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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There’s never a dull day in the season, albeit a shorten one, following the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. Today, we find out that Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider will not start tomorrow night because of an undisclosed injury. Now the only incident that I remember in the Chicago game, was when he seemed to strike his head [...]
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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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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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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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