Vancouver Canucks

Cody Hodgson for Zack Kassian.

2012-03-04T16:52:00.003-08:00

The Vancouver Canucks traded Cody Hodgson and Alex Sulzer at the last second of the trade deadline on monday. This move sent a wave of suprise and anger throughout Vancouver Canucks fans. In return Vancouver got 21 year old 6'4" 230 LBS Zack Kassian and 24 year old defenceman Marc-Andre Gragnani.

Cody Hodgson didnt have much room to get more icetime and reach his full potential here because of captian Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler both locked up for years to come. So Mike Gillis took a chance on Zack Kassian who has yet to prove himself in the NHL. Some hockey analysis guys seem to think that Kassian has the possibility of being the Milan Lucic of the West and if the Canucks can manage to help Zassian develop into a player like that then this trade could be huge for Vancouver. Zassian could also add that much needed toughness and strength that is needed in a long playoff run. Marc-Andre Gragnani had 7 points in 7 playoff games with Buffalo last year so he can chip in offensivly when needed and he might be able to replace some of the points we lost from last season when Christian Ehrhoff decided to chase the money and leave Vancouver. Only time will tell however who won this trade. Buffalo might have picked up their future captian in Cody Hodgson.Cody will get and oppertunity to play on the first or second line in Buffalo and will get more ice time like he and his entourage wanted. The Canucks also picked up Samuel Pahlsson who will take Cody spot in the 3rd line center position and has won a Cup with Anahiem. He will add some grit and is a great shutdown player.

The Canucks and Buffalo met 6 days after the trade and all the players involved in the trade were on the ice for the game. With a shakey 5 minute start to the game Vancouver found themselves down 3-0 and had backup Cory Schneider replace Roberto Luongo. It seemed like the whole team forgot that the game had started. Vancouver was able to pull within 1 goal b4 a mental error by Booth lead to and EN goal by Buffalo. Buffalo may have won the game but so far it looks like the Vancouver Canucks have won the trade. Hodgson had 17 minutes of ice time with 0 goals 0 assists and 0 hits and was essentially a non-factor. Where as Kassian had 10 minuted if ice time 1 goal and 1 assist and 7 hits and was the games First star. The Vancouver Canucks are currently still 1st in the West and second in the NHL and with 16 games remaining are basically only playing for the presidents trophy and home ice advantage in the playoffs. The main teams they are battling with for the Presidents trophy are the NY Rangers, St Louis Blues, Detriot Red Wings, and with an outside shot the Nashville Predators and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Canucks next game is tuesday VS. The Dallas Stars in Rogers Arena.

The center of the Universe.

2012-02-19T11:26:00.003-08:00

Yesterday afternoon the Toronto Maple Leafs came into Vancouver looking for their first win here since 2003. It was an early start time so people in Toronto could see what real hockey is. B4 the game you could here some go leafs go chants which were then drowned out by "Leafs Suck" chants in Rogers arena. And ultimately that's almost exactly what it looked like out there. Men against boys. The leafs came out hard for the first 10 mins or so and then they were expertly picked apart by Vancouver. Canucks were up 2-0 after the first thanks to hard work, skill, and some bad goaltending by James Reimer. The Canucks continued their schoolage in the second getting a 3rd goal quick but then letting in a questionable one as Lupul pushed Bieksa into Luongo. But the Canucks then ended the 2nd with a couple of sweet goals that had great assists from Toronto players making mistakes. The Canucks chased toronto goalie james riemer. Then in the 3rd each team traded goals and Vancouver won the game with a convincing 6-2 score. It seems all the Sedins needed to get back on track was Toronto as they each put up 4 points and the first line combined for 10 points in total.

The Canucks now sit behind Detroit in the Western conference and NHL by 2 points, but they have 2 games in hand. The Canucks play tomo vs the 29th team in the NHL the Edmonton oilers as the Canucks go on a road trip and play 5 games in the next 7 days. The Canucks currently have 80 points. The Canucks looked all business on Saturday night which means they will not be satisfied until they win the cup. GO CANUCKS GO!

An extra long All Star break?

2012-02-04T22:49:00.005-08:00

The Canucks look like they have taken a extra long All Star Break. Even thought the Canucks have earned 5 out of a possible 6 points the Canucks have looked pretty terrible. The Sedins look like they can be contained easily. If it weren't for great goaltending and line juggling the Canucks could easily be 0-6 in points. The only good news about the Canucks bad play is their goaltending and the fact that we have still managed to gather up points. Canucks fans can only hope that the players can quickly turn around this funk of bad play b4 it starts effecting our points. Canucks continue there road trip in Nashville on Tuesday, and they will be running into one of the hottest goalies in the NHL right now in Pekka Rennie. Let's hope the Canucks can start playing better and come up with a big win. GO CANUCKS GO!

Calm after the storm? A much needed break.

2012-01-18T19:55:00.005-08:00

After the Canucks took it to the Bruins just over a week ago in a hard fought dirty, tough game it seems like the players have had a difficult time trying to get ready and excited for their past 5 games. They have looked like a tired team in need of a break, which they have definitely earned as they have currently played the most games so far in this NHL season. They have a 3 day break now before their clash against last years playoff rival the San Jose Sharks on Saturday at 1 p.m. If the Canucks can find the mid season form they were in 2 weeks ago this will promise to be a good heated battle. The Canucks have a bit of a easy end to the month with only 3 games in 14 days. So this is a great time for the players to catch up on sleep have some much needed time with family and friends seeing as these 3 games are all in Vancouver. We just have to hope that this time off will help the Canucks refresh themselves so they can come out with a strong push for the remainder of the season and going in into the post season.

The Canucks are still without Sami Salo after that brutal cowardly hit by the rat himself Bard Marchand. And it looks like the Canucks are really missing him right now too. This might be something the Canucks will be looking for come the trade deadline. It will also be interesting to see what the Canucks will do with Cory Schneider seeing as his contract is up this season and he will more than likely want to go where he can get a starting job. Personally I think the Canucks will keep him for the playoff run and then decode what to do with him in the off-season and maybe trade his rights before the draft. With Eddie Lack coming up in the minors this seems what Mike Gillis will most likely do. But if I was running the show I would try to sign Cory again and keep him around for a while longer. Because as we all know he is a great help to Luongo an the Canicks giving Luongo a rest more often and challenging him to be better and also going the team confidence when he is in net knowing that he will give them a great chance of winning.

GO CANUCKS GO!

Well, The season has ended.

2010-05-16T09:51:00.003-07:00

On the same day that the season ended last year the Canucks were knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Chicago Blackhawks in the Second round in game 6 again. This brings to a end a very good season for the Canucks. It is dissappointing that we did not make a deeper run with the great regular season we had. 6 players had career seasons this year. Henrik Sedin was the Art Ross Trophy winner for most points in the NHL with 112. If there was ever a year I thought we had a great chance of getting back to the finals I would have thought it was this year. There is clearly room for improvment this summer. We need players like Cody Hodson, Michael Grabner, Jordan Schroder, and Sergei Serokov to makes a hard run to make the team. We need strong seasons from our top players again. But most inportantly in the playoffs we need every single player to have the games of their lives. GO CANUCKS GO!

Vancouver Canucks Intro Video 09-10

2010-01-23T12:16:00.001-08:00

The New Vancouver Canucks Intro. GO CANUCKS GO!

My letter to CBC regarding Ron Maclean and other issues with them.

2010-01-19T17:43:00.005-08:00

Here is my letter to CBC regarding Ron Macleans comments to Alex Burrows. Plus some other issues I have with CBC.

CBC used to be the ultimate channel for hockey, everyone across Canada could not wait to watch CBC hockey night in Canada. Now your station has gone from a pleasure to watch to and absolute disgrace. Beginning with you guys not wanting to pay for the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. To CBC revolving all their attention to Toronto. You are losing your audiance across Canada and especially on the West Coast of Canada. Almost every week for the late game with Western Canadian teams playing, fans of Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary are forced to sit and suffer listening to the monotones known as Mark Lee and Kevin Weekes. Now last Saturday the Vancouver Canucks game VS. Pittsburgh we thankfully got to listen to the voice of Jim Hughston again. This was probably just because toronto was not playing earliar in the day. But during this broadcast Ron Maclean and CBC thinks it is alright to sit there and call out a Vancouver Canuck player and a Canadian. I am sure you all know I am talking about Alex Burrows. During this segment Ron Maclean claims he knows what Alex Burrows is saying to everyone. Well Ron is an idiot, he has know clue what is being said, he knows that it is very possible that Auger told Burrows he was going to get him back. Ron Maclean bringing up all the videos he can find since Burrows has been in the NHL and using them against him to try to rip him and make him look bad in front of a national audiance is a discrace. So now the way I look at it both Ron Maclean and CBC are agreeing and suporting the idea that the NHL refs can make things personal when they feel like it. Now you dont see Ron Maclean getting fired for his comments towards the Vancouver players and the Canuck Organization, but you fired Al Strachan for writing a book named, "Why the leafs suck." This is just another good example of how CBC revolves around Toronto. I really hope that CBC starts smartening up their system and starts fixing there problems. Because this year has been an absolute joke so far and I have had to make quite a few complaints already. Lets hope that someone of acctual importance reads this and takes this into consideration. Becuase I am not the only one who has these feelings towards CBC. I hope Don Cherry tears Ron Maclean apart this upcoming saturday for opening his mouth and voicing his stupid opinions and I hope CBC does the same. Its fairly easy to pay someone to rip people and have them guess at what everyone is saying on the ice. Maybe you should consider replacing Maclean with someone who has a bit more knowledge about hockey. Then people would acctually listen and learn from what they have to say. Everytime Don Cherry talks we listen and learn stuff. But Ron never really has anything to say that we learn anything from.

Thank You for your time.

Canucks Vs Penguins - Game Highlights - 01.16.10 - HD

2010-01-17T10:11:00.001-08:00

After a slow start the Vancouver Canucks really took it to the Penguins and won by a considerable margine. ^ goals for the Canucks with 6 different scorers. Henrik Sedin had a 3 point night and Daniel had a 2 point night. GO CANUCKS GO!

Vancouver Canucks VS. Penguins.

2010-01-16T11:09:00.003-08:00

Sidney Crosby has been in town for the last couple of days for what seems to be a good game. With the new NHL scheduel it only happens once a year or once every couple of years that players such as Crosby and Ovechkin find themselfs in Vancouver. I think this will be a very spirited game considering it is Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada and there is a big hype over crosby. The player that everyone loves to hate unless he plays for your team, Matt Cooke will be making a return to Vancouver but this time he wont be wearing our colours. Cooke had a great time here in Vancouver and the fans loved him over that period of time. But tonight you can bet he will be trying to get under everyone's skin and the Vancouver faithful will not enjoy that at all. Matt Cooke was traded for Matt Pettinger on the trade deadline a couple of years ago and so far Matt pettinger has not made much of a splash in the Canucks organization, finding himself playing for the Manitoba Moose most of the time. While Matt Cooke has moved on to win a Stanley Cup last season in Pittsburgh. Lets hope this game is as good as it is being predicted to be and lets hope Vancouver comes out with the 2 points in the end! GO CANUCKS GO!

AV

2010-01-12T20:47:00.003-08:00

Now dont get me wrong, I like AV alot and I have not had to much against him but I have a huge problem with him just standing there and chewing gum when the referees are calling a bunch of bizarre and rediculious penalties. In my opinion he should have been angry and yelling at the ref to let him know that he is handing the game to Nasville. But when he just stands there then the refs feel comfortible and confident with the calls he is making. This may not effect the refs desision regarding the first call he made, but it might make him think twice before he try's pulling a "payback call."

What a Situation.

2010-01-12T19:59:00.003-08:00

So after last nights frustrating loss to the Nashville Predetors which saw 2 horrible penalty calls against Burrows. Burrows then said in his post game interveiw that one of the Referees "Stephane Auger" told Burrows before the game that he was going to get Burrows back for making him look bad in a game earlyar this year. In that game on Dec.8 Burrows got charger and he went down and looked injured so the referee gave a 5 minute major to the player to charged Burrows. Then Burrows came out and played later in the power play. So in the 3rd period with under 5 minutes left the ref gave Burrows a diving call which was a little questionable but coul have been a holding the stick penelty to Burrows But then a few minutes later Burrows was handed a Phantom Goaltender interferance penalty which never appeared to happen. So if the ref was truley looking to get back at Burrows he definatly did so and in the mean time he managed to screw over the whole Canucks team, management and then the Vancouver Canucks fans. If this turns out to be true that the ref threatened and then carried out his threat, then he will most likely find himself out of work. The NHL has launched an investigation on this issue and in the mean time they fined 2,500 dollars for publically critizizing a referee. Lets hope the fine gets taken back when the referee is found guilty. Roberto Luongo also said in his post game interview that he has, "never seen anything like that in his career" regarding the referees. This really makes you wonder that if this is the first time this has come out publically how many other times this has happened when the refs havent threatened players and if referees acctually hold grudges against players. Anyways we will see how this ends up working out. Lets hope the NHL deals with this properly so that issues wont come up anymore. In my opinion if this happened in say Toronto then the NHL would have dealt with this alot quicker and would have probably suspended the referee until the investigation is over instead of just fineing the player.

Hat-Tricks

2010-01-10T09:21:00.003-08:00

So before the season began this year I remember telling people that we have not had a Hat-Trick in a few years. Well Alex Burrows has just got 2 Hat Tricks in 2 games. This is our 5th Hat Trick of the season. Going into saturday nights game VS. the flames the Sedin Sedin Burrows line has been getting called the best line in the NHL. They have been getting compared to "The Westcoast Express" line of Vancouver Canucks past. Burrows could also have been the first player in NHL history to get 3 Hat Tricks in 3 games. Unfortunatly this did not happen and the Vancouver Canucks came up with a single point in an Overtime Shootout loss.

Canucks VS. Oilers

2009-11-28T13:27:00.003-08:00

The Vancouver Canucks are hosting the Edmonton Oilers at GM Place tonight. The oilers have lost the most man games to injury's this season. News got even worse for edmonton on Friday when they announced that Ales Hemsky will miss the remainded of the season getting shoulder surgery. With the Vancouver Canucks now having close to a full line up they should come out of this game with a win. Lets hope that Daniel, Elder and Salo can get their first goals of the season, and maybe even Bieksa can score his first goal since the first game of the season. GO CANUCKS GO!

Mikka Kipprusoff

2009-11-25T09:42:00.003-08:00

Calgary Flames netminded has said that if he is not starting goalie for Finland in the Olympics then he will not participate in Vancouver in February 2010. This is a little bit wierd because Mikka most likelt has the starting job for Finland when you compare him to the other goalies from Finland. Bit what does this show about Kipper? He is selfish and really does not care about the National team. Maybe he thinks he doesn't have the 1st spot so by saying this it will help him get the job. At least for Team Canada we have some healthy competition for spots players are acctually working to make the team, and players are not trying to squeeze there way on the team any way possible. On another note, on a recent Sportsnet.ca power poll the question was asked "Who do you think should be starting goalie for Team Canada? With options Roberto Luongo, Martin Brodeir, Mark Andre Fluery, and Ray Emery. 59% of the people voted for Roberto Luongo and Brodeir was in second with 29%. GO CANUCKS GO!

Disappointing Loss.

2009-11-23T18:20:00.003-08:00

All the difference was in the Canucks Vs. Hawks was one garbage goal by Chicago. Anyone watching the game would have noticed that the Canucks outplayed the Hawks all game. Chicago can also be greatful that their goalie played outstanding. THis game was also the return of Canucks forward Daniel Sedin rejoining his Brother Henrik Sedin and Alex Burrows. Daniel missed 18 games and didn't have a big imact in this game. The Canucks now have a 4 day break before playing the L.A. Kings on PPV. GO CANUCKS GO!

Canucks VS. AVS

2009-11-21T15:09:00.003-08:00

After our last game vs. the AVS when we handed them an 8-2 defeat and Henrik Sedin got his first career Hat-Trick. We played the AVS again last night and it was definatly Christian Erhoffs game. He almost had a Hat-Trick a couple time but he ended up with 2 goals and 1 assist. The Canucks were down 2-0 early in the game and managed to make it 2-1 in the Second period. But in the Third period we exploded with 4 goals and never looked back. The final score was 5-2. GO CANUCKS GO!

Where we stand

2009-11-16T10:10:00.003-08:00

After a 3 game losing streak the Vancouver Canucks had a heck if a gane VS. The Avs winning by a score of 8-2. From the starting faceoff the Canucks didn't look back as they outworked the Avs for pretty much the whole game. Henrik Sedin did what no Canucks has done in the past few years which was score a hat trick...This also happened to be the first career hat-trick for Henrik Sedin. We know that the Avs will be looking for some kind of revenge when we play them next Friday, but lets hope we can keep up the momentum we have gained and come out with another win over the Avs. GO CANUCKS GO!

Canucks VS. Caps Shoot Out Markus Naslund Goal

2009-10-31T00:58:00.001-07:00

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Two great starts, two bad finishes and one lucky win.

2009-10-31T00:30:00.003-07:00

The Vancouver Canucks got off to two great starts VS. Detriot Red Wings and the Anahiem Ducks. But they ended up playing extremely poorly over the next 2 periods and earning themselves a couple of losses. Detriot won 5-4 in regulation and Anahiem won 7-2 in regulation. Tonight's game was dissapointing but right now when we have so many injuries the most we can hope for is to get as many points as possible until we get some players back. We played a very defensive minded game VS. L.A. Kings on Thursday. It worked out for the better as we kept the game 1-1 and won it in a shoot out with goals from Ryan Kesler and Mikael Samuelsson. On Sunday we are playing the suprisingly good Colorado Avalance. I will be attending the game so I hope we will have a great and exciting game which will turn in to 2 points for us. Letss hope we have next to no injuries anymore for the rest of the season and all our injured players will have a speady recovery. GO CANUCKS GO!

What A Game.

2009-10-21T21:55:00.003-07:00

The first game in Chicago against the chicago blackhawks since we were eliminated in the Second Round of the playoffs last season. The Vancouver Canucks played really good. We are the first team ot get more shots against the blackhawks in a game. We out worked, hit and played them. The only thing really holding them in the game was their goalie making some great saves. Roberto Luongo also made some great saves as well. After Willie Mitchell Got a penalty he steped out of the box and laid out Toews with a bone-crushing clean hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mTEzQ8vBps

Chicago ended up with a extra penalty for attacking Mitchell after the hit and this gave us alot of momentum. Shortly after Chicago goon Dustin Byfuglien high sticked Kevin Bieksa and earned himself a 4 minute penalty. Michael Grabner scored near the end of the final 2 minutes of the penatly to even the score. 3 minutes later Mikael Samuelsson stole the puck off a chicago player and snapped a soht into the back of the net. The Vancouver Canucks win 3-2. GO CANUCKS GO!

Hat Tricks.

2009-10-20T19:32:00.003-07:00

A Vancouver Canuck has not got a a hat trick in a few years. I am just curious as to who you think will get our next Hat Trick. I would have guessed that it was going to be Daniel Sedin but now that he is injured I am going to go with Henrik Sedin. GO CANUCKS GO!

Game VS. The Oilers.

2009-10-20T00:19:00.006-07:00

The Vancouver Canucks game out firing again tonight and it looked like it would be a long night for the Edmonton Oilers after Steve Bernier scored his second goal this season. But the Canucks let up a bit for the last couple minutes of the 1st period. Rick Rypien lay another beating on Zack Stortini. Late in the 3rd with the score tied 1-1 the oilers score on a weird luck bouncer of a goal. The Canucks then woke up angain and were pressuring for the last 7 minutes. There was a couple missed called by the refs. One when Alex Burrows dropped his stick and while attempting to pick it up Hemsky pushed it into the corner, a matter of seconds after that Henrik Sedin passed the puck right to where Burrows was standing. Had Burrows stick not been pushed away he might have had a great oppertunity to score. Henrik Sedin was slashed a minute or so later and he was in agony skating back to the bench. Lets hope that he doesn't have a broken finger or something. With the goaltender pulled Edmonton got a 2 on 1 which turned into a 1 on 0 but Alex Edler made an amazing poke check from behind to knock the puck away. Kyle Wellwood picked up the puck behind our goal with 9 seconds left and he began down the ice. With a set of great moves Kyle found himself in alone on the oilers goalie. Wellwood scored and the Canucks were celebrating as the ref waved the goal off. They went upstairs and it showed on the replay that the puck crossed the line just after the clock ran out of time. It is still good to see that we are getting close to 40 shots on goal most games. But our finishing needs to improve. Roberto Luongo looked alot better tonight, lets hope he can keep it up. Our powerplay was 0 for 5 and we are 0-4 on the road so far this season. We play on Wednesday in Chicago, this will be the first meeting of these 2 teams since the Canucks were eliminated in Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season. GO CANUCKS GO!

Roberto Luongo

2009-10-17T18:23:00.002-07:00

After signing a 12 Year 63 Million dollar deal Roberto Luongo looked like mid-season form in the pre-season. Only to let us all down and begin his usual slow start in October. Well the upside is that we can look forward to his usual record setting shut out streak in November. The Canucks play the Minassota Wild tonight at GM Place, before heading off for a game in Edmonton.

More defensive depth

2009-09-01T18:13:00.000-07:00

Vancouver Canucks have re-signed Nathan McIver.

Robeerto Luongo Rumours!

2009-09-01T18:05:00.004-07:00

It is now being said that they have reached a deal that has yet to be signed because the minor details haven't been worked out. the rumours are that it could be 5, 10, or even 12 years long. We will see how this ends up, it is suppost to be signed and announced sometime b4 sept.13th.