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Here are the 2015-16 stats of two NHL forwards... can you guess who? (one is a Canuck)

Game #1

GP 47 G 8 A 12 P 20 PIM 10 ATOI 16:59 FO% 50.1 SPCT 10.5 -21
GP 44 G 8 A 10 P 18 PIM 56 ATOI 19:25 FO% 58.2 SPCT 8.7 -14

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With 2 goals last night against Florida, Daniel Sedin has tied Markus Naslund for All-Time Goals as a Canuck - Congrats to Daniel! Canucks All-Time Goals 1. Daniel Sedin GP 1,104 G 346 1. Markus Naslund GP 884 G 346 3. Trevor Linden GP 1,140 G 318 4. Stan Smyl GP 896 G 262 5. Pavel Bure GP 428 G 254...

The strange thing about Calgary is they have essentially the same team that made the playoffs last season... Out: Byron Glencross (traded at deadline) Diaz In: Frolik Bennett Hamilton Plus they have Giordano back from injury... You'd think that swapping Byron, Glencross, and Diaz for Frolik, Bennett...

Maybe it's a small sample size - but when you are leading after two in 5 games, and you end up losing three of them... you are not a good team.

Coaching? Goaltending? Chokers?

Who knows... I guess we'll see.

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Coaching? Or just a non-clutch team? 1. (Road against Calgary) 3-1... win 5-1 2. (Home against Calgary) 2-1... lose 2-3 in OT 3. (Road against Anaheim) 1-1... win 2-1 in SO 4. (Road against LA) 2-0... win 3-0 5. (Home against St. Louis) 1-3... lose 3-4 6. (Home against Edmonton) 1-1... lose 1-2 in O...

Wed Oct 21

Rochester 2 Utica 4
Cannata 12 saves on 14 shots

Shinkaruk, (1) (Vey, Fedun) (PP)
Shinkaruk, (2) (Gaunce, Subban) (PP)
Shinkaruk, (3) (Jensen, Pedan)
Grenier, (1) (Ehrhardt, Hamilton) (EN)

Wow - Utica outshot Rochester 47-14, but still only held a one goal lead late in the game.

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I think I read somewhere that these three picks can be anytime over the next 3 years, but yeah, this year would be great, would be low 1st rounder basically. Correct. 2016, 2017, or 2018 Draft - Columbus choice. "According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, teams would receive a second-round draft p...

And if you're wondering about Ryan Miller...

All-Time Games Played
43. Ryan Miller 605

All-Time NHL Wins
24. Ryan Miller 324

All-Time NHL Shutouts
46. Ryan Miller 35

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So Henrik is 84 points away from 1,000... Wow! He probably won't make it this season, but I never thought I would see a Canuck in the record books for 1,000 NHL points! Henrik is also likely to pass Linden's 1140 games for the Canucks; he is currently at 1093. Speaking of Canuck games played - Danie...

If you are starting to think that Virtanen might become a slightly more talented version of Raffi Torres, here is some food for thought... Craig Button ranked Virtanen 43rd for the 2014 draft - drastically different than Bob McKenzie (7th), ISS (10th), and Central Scoutting (6th North American skate...

So who's left? 18 Forwards: Daniel – Henrik – Burrows Baertschi – Sutter – Vrbata Higgins – Horvat – Hansen Prust – Vey – Dorsett Kenins – McCann – Virtanen Cracknell - Gaunce - Grenier 10 Defensemen: Edler – Tanev Hamhuis – Sbisa Bartkowski – Weber Hutton - Corrado Fedun - Biega 3 Goalies: Miller M...

So what does the roster expect to look like so far? Forward: Hunter Shinkaruk - Blair Jones - Alexandre Grenier Dane Fox - Alex Friesen - Nicklas Jensen Brendan Gaunce - Cole Cassels - Adam Cracknell Mackenze Stewart - Wacey Hamilton - Carter Bancks (Mike Zalewski, Joseph Labate, Ludwig Blomstrand) ...

Hockey Widow wrote:Gio is that aging core vet that you need on a team of young talented guys.

I think an equivalent on the Canucks is Hamhuis - this contract may set the price.

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This is a VERY risky contract. Far too much and far to long for a player whose career year is likely behind him and whose dropoff is likely to be above average. I consider this contract to be a boat anchor. I wonder if he got a NMC too? I can see Flames fans looking at this as a TDL dump next year ...

Hmmm....



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