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Why the Vancouver Canucks Young Guns Won’t Make it – This Year
There’s a reason that the best hockey league (NHL) in the world is hard to break in to as a young player, and why most of the Vancouver Canucks young prospects will not make it – this year. All you...
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Canucks’ Opening Day Player-by-Player Preview, Part One
By Scott Taylor With the Canuck preseason over, it is fair to say that this is a team in transition. As predicted, new coach John Tortorella gave plenty of leash to young players during his inaugural...
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Canucks’ Opening Day Player-by-Player Preview, Part Two
by Scott Taylor Picking up where we left off yesterday, we preview the defense and goaltending followed by our summary conclusion on the “organizational reset” promised by Mike Gillis. Defense and...
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Vancouver Canucks After 10 Games
I have decided not to blog as often this season as I’m trying to add different content, rather than just regurgitate all the news that you may have seen or read. With that now out-of-the-way, let’s get...
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Six Reasons the Canucks are Better Suited for the Playoffs this Season
Defense – As many in the sports media will attest to – defense does indeed win championships. Never mind all the stats that support the Canucks defensive prowess, this group is playing a collective...
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Why The Vancouver Canucks are Heading for Another First Round Exit
The way the Vancouver Canucks have currently played against the teams ahead of them in the standings, it’s not hard to in vision them existing quickly in the first round. As Canucks coach John...
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The Mike Gillis Era – Arrogance His Undoing
by Scott Taylor In the wake of a remarkably disappointing season, Canuck President and General Manager Mike Gillis was unceremoniously dumped today. While presiding over easily the most successful...
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Coach Willie shuffles third, fourth lines heading into Big D
Canuck coach Willie Desjardins doesn’t plan to change his 12 forwards for the game Tuesday in Dallas but he is planning to shuffle his third and fourth lines. Based on Monday’s practice at UBC, Shawn...
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After 41 Games, What Canucks Management Knows About This Team
At the half-way mark this is what the the Canucks management knows about this team – statistic wise. They have a record of 23W, 15L, 3OT, 49 points, a Goals Plus/Minus of -11, and a Corsi For...
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Do the Canucks have the Depth for the Playoffs?
Obviously the Canucks need to first make it into the playoffs, but what this rash of injuries to forwards and D-men has done, is exposed the depth at the various positions. What I see – is that this is...
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Canucks – Deja vu in the Playoffs
I would really like to write something positive after over forty five years of supporting this team, and writing about it for seven, but when you’re faced with mediocrity, from the Management,...
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