Great Series

Yes, I’m out of school, and the blog is back and running.
 So. Canucks and Stars, 3-1 Canucks, and a total of 17 combined goals in 22 total periods. Thank God for that first game where there was actually some scoring, right? Wrong.
For fans form both sides, we get to see two fantastic goalies absolutely standing on [...]

Mike Brophy

Sportsnet has given me one more reason to switch my primary sports braodcasting channel to TSN, all because of analyst Mike Brophy and his ignorance towards the Canucks, but disguising himself as someone who has actually watched a Canucks game.
Brophy is the typical East coast hockey fan who doesn’t realize that in hockey, stats aren’t [...]

Building through the draft is a thing of the past

The Pittsburgh Penguins have unveiled the secret to building a good team: play horrible hockey for five years, and build through the draft. But now, in the salary cap era, that plan is bound to be a lost art.
Over the last five years, the Pens have used their first round picks to draft Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Marc-Andre [...]

Two points is two points.

The Canucks played in their 40th one goal game of the season against Phoenix Thursday and come out on top for the 37th time this season, winning 4-3.
The ‘Nucks came out flying, knowing that they couldn’t give up another loss to a non-playoff contending team, like they have done so often over this season.
Early on [...]

The Trevor Linden Theory

You probably won’t believe me on this one, but at the begginning of the NHL season, I asked myself the question that most other Canuck fans had been asking for the last 3 or 4 years and that question was, “why can’t Trevor Linden score anymore?”
I thought long and hard to myself and figured it [...]

No Nickname for Brodeur

Great goalies have always had great nicknames. From the “Dominator” Dominik Hasek to Curtis “Cujo” Joseph. From Nikolas Khabibulin, a.k.a. the “Bulin’ Wall” to “Godzilla” Olaf Kolzig and Eddy “The Eagle” Belfour.
When I tried to think of a nickname for Martin Brodeur, a 32-year-old who is one of the greatest goalies of all time, has the [...]

Sid the Kid or Alexander the Great?

Not since Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux has there as much hype for two players coming into the NHL at the same time as there is for Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin.
 
The two players stormed on to the scene last year in the best rookie class in NHL history in a neck and neck race [...]

Justin Morneau

Who are the Minnesota Twins kidding?? and What is wrong with Justin Morneau’s agent??
I’ll consider myself a bit more then an average fan of baseball but I’m not a die-hard as I think the sport is for pansies, but hey, it’s the only sport on in the summer.
So in the NHL, which I am much [...]

Deadline Day.

Four hours past the deadline and I’ve been able to rekindle my thoughts about the zoo of trades that happened within the last week or so. Let’s break it down team by team.
Anaheim…Picked up Brad May, got rid of two young goalies. As for “Mayday,” did Burke really need another tough guy? Usually he is [...]