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Two months ago we wanted to get us a top five, then a month ago it was a top three. Then the first became imaginable. But hey, a top 3-5 is still ours for the taking. Would love to get Matthews but I'll settle for a top three. If I have to I'll settle for a top five. It was fun beating the Sharks t...

Canucks are worse than the leaves with worse prospects. Is that surprising to you? The leaves haven't won a playoff series since 2004. The leaves authored easily THE biggest collapse in a game 7 in recent memory. Maybe ever (any of the older guys know of a worse collapse than the leaves game-7 vs B...

Topper wrote:"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

classic. lol. but why stop there?
"...The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

So Sbisa is 88th among defencemen in cap hit per season. So that means he should be a top 3 defenceman on an NHL team or at the very worst a top 4 guy right ? I can't name any team he would be a top 4 guy on except maybe the leaves or Oilers. There isn't a playoff team where he would be any higher ...

Now that AV isn't our coach anymore maybe we should bring back Keith Ballard? So is Stanton at 600 k better value than Luca at 3.6 million ? Or will I get a Booth or Ballard or Eye Bags reference ?? I guess when you paint yourself into a corner with dumb dumb statements you just try and skirt the i...

The Shinkaruk thing is just idiotic. Can you imagine if they swapped a recent skilled 1st rounder for soon-to-be-waiver-eligible Linden effing Vey in 2014? For murky soon-to-be-waiver-eligible Adam Clendening? (As an aside, the fact that the Blackhawks, who do understand hockey , specifically asked...

Yesterday when I first heard the news, my initial reaction was WTF?! During the course of the day and the more I've thought about it, the more I find myself leaning towards the WAIT & SEE side of things. I just read something that put words to how I see things after a sober second thought: http://bl...

I heard after tonight's game both Linden and Benning were pretty steamed. I sure hope they were. There's been plenty already this year, but maybe this was the wake up call that finally convinces them that we should in no way be buyers this year unless the purchase makes sense for the future. You'd ...

The leaves being the worst team is the entire point. They're going to add a heck of a great prospect and then have the best prospect pool in the entire NHL. Why do you continually grasp at straws? Year after year. It's pathetic and funny how far the mighty leaves have fallen with you the last few y...

I wondered if the "we're going to alternate games played with days off" wss just the polite way to say we're not going to play you in that forty-whateverith game. If he plays in half the remaining games, i think he'll burn that year. Somone here can clarify i'm sure. Most interesting to me will be t...

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/vanc ... t-january/

A few interesting tidbits and (not sure its been posted elsewhere) a pretty nifty shootout goal by Boeser.

Jake Virtanen – The sixth pick in the 2014 Draft, Virtanen has a modest five points (2 G, 3 A) in 26 games for the Canucks and struggled for Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship. However, he’s put up solid possession stats and can generate shots. While the Canucks remain the playoff ...

You mean the James Reimer who currently leads the NHL in save %? You're really going to pull that stat when he's played half of what the real star goalies in this league have played? I could end up wrong - I mean he is playing in a Babcock system that could make the likes of Chris Osgood look good....

The leaves "Advanced Stats" are far better, and if not for Bernier , would be close to, if not in a playoff spot. and if "ifs" and "buts" were candies and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas. The fact is they have Bernier and Reimer on the roster - a couple of steaming turds who (unless I'm mistak...