Ok, nevermind the Sharks are red-hot and Patrick Marleau thinks he’s Wayne Gretzky this season, so far. What happened in San Jose was just plain U-G-L-Y! Where the heck did my Vancouver Canucks go and how are they so sickly different from the crew that shutout Anaheim just a couple of nights ago? Obviously, they [...]
The Vancouver Canucks did many things right in their past two games, at home against the Calgary Flames, and in their first road test of the season last Friday against the Anaheim Ducks. Winning key faceoffs, better puck support, and most important, clutch goaltending from new #1 Cory Schneider, all combined to make a 0-1-1 [...]
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 there were millions of NHL hockey fans that woke up from a sleep that felt like Christmas Eve…the NHL season was officially open for business, and the excitement and anticipation was as high in Vancouver as any other city, as fans began to see how this year’s version of the [...]
Schroeder impresses, Ebbett stays, Edler cashes in. Jordan Schroeder did impress at Canucks training camp, but Andrew Ebbett bested him. That and the threat that the Canucks would be forced to waive, and perhaps lose Ebbett, were they to return him to the Chicago Wolves, secured Ebbett the starting number two center job for the [...]
The final cuts have been made, and we all now know what the 23 man roster is for the Vancouver Canucks, on the eve of the long overdue beginning to the 2013 NHL season. To me, there was only one surprise to me on final cutdown day, and that was in seeing Jordan Schroeder being [...]
