Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson It has been a busy 24 hours for the Vancouver Canucks management with all the players either placed on waivers or released and assigned to their farm club in Manitoba. Yesterday D-man Shane O’Brien and enforcer Darcy Hordichuk were placed on waivers and if not claimed by Monday, [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Last night in San Jose, the Vancouver Canucks offered up young rookie net-minder Eddie Lack to the San Jose Sharks, and they responded by biting off a 6-2 victory. Once again a Canuck goaltender was used for shooting practice (Cory Schneider against Edmonton) with Lack busy all [...]
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Written by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Today as reported by the Vancouver media and TSN.com, the Canucks made a qualifying offer of $1.6M to Shane O’Brien. Mason Raymond, Tanner Glass and Jannik Hansen have also received qualifying offers. No amounts were disclosed at the time of this writing. That is good news as the [...]
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Writtrn by: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Yeah sure, after finishing one article that I will store away for the time being and then having to scramble to write another. This one though has a much happier ending. What looked like a sure loss with the Penalty Kill giving up another two LA goals turned around in the [...]
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Written by: Larry ‘The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Carrying on from my previous article (link), I wrote that the Chicago game would be the first of the two stages of the litmus test, with the second being the Colorado Avalanche. Stage One was to see how the Nucks measured up to a highly talented team with [...]
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Written By: Larry “The Nucks IceMan” Johnson Roberto Luongo is now zero for five on breakaways/shootouts against Calgary, Nashville and now Minnesota. This disturbing trend of allowing first shots in puts the team in a hole, which in this league is not easy to climb out of. They didn’t deserve to win [...]
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