All Entries in the "Vancouver Canucks" Category
Marchand’s Five-Game Suspension Reveals Inconsistencies In NHL Justice System
On Monday evening, Boston Bruins’ forward Brad Marchand was suspended for five games by NHL head disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan for his “hit” on Vancouver Canucks’ defenseman Sami Salo during Saturday’s matinee contest at TD Garden. In fairness to the league, Shanahan and the player safety department have done an excellent job in improving the league’s [...]
“Eliminating Concussions?”: Suspension For Marchand Would Reek Of Pure Hypocrisy From The NHL
On Saturday afternoon, in front of a 17, 565 sellout at TD Garden and a nationally televised audience courtesy of NHL Network, perhaps one of the most poorly and hastily made penalty calls of the season was made late in the second period of the highly anticipated Bruins and Canucks Stanley Cup Finals rematch. It [...]
Canucks Edge Bruins In Penalty-Riddled Finals Rematch
In a game that saw 30 penalties, 18 power-plays, a penalty shot, and a combined 107 minutes of penalties, the Vancouver Canucks exacted a small bit of revenge against the Boston Bruins, as they defeated the B’s by a 4-3 score. With a chance to showcase arguably the two best teams in the league, and [...]
CONCUSSIONS KILLING HOCKEY
Speed and offense are now the kings in the present day NHL. A focus on players with those very attributes took over drafts and team on-ice strategies. Slower skaters have slowly been fazed out, especially those pugilistic specialists who all too often didn’t quite have the same skill sets and strides of their respective teammates. [...]
Northwest Noise: Canucks Fully Flop, Completely Sweep Canadian Clubs on Road
Northwest Noise is a weekly feature covering the past week in Vancouver Canucks news, offering you a soundtrack to their season every Monday as the team marches to the beat of its own drum throughout the regular season. The Vancouver Canucks struggled early against the Montreal Canadiens to begin their five-game Eastern road trip, [...]
Northwest Noise: Luongo Bounces Back Like a Bat Out of Hell
Northwest Noise is a weekly feature covering the past week in Vancouver Canucks news, offering you a soundtrack to their season every Monday as the team marches to the beat of its own drum throughout the regular season. Cory Schneider made the most of his time as the starting goaltender in front of Roberto Luongo [...]
The Ten Most Expensive Defensive Units In The NHL
Some NHL general managers like to build their team with a lot of offensive punch (Washington Capitals), while others prefer to build their team with a strong goalie tandem (Minnesota Wild). Finally, some GMs prefer to build their team with a very deep defensive corps. Two months into the 2011-12 season, let’s have a look [...]
Northwest Noise: Luongo Left to Sit Behind Blue Eyes in Canucks Crease
Over twenty games into the regular season the competition in the Canucks’ crease continues as Cory Schneider keeps in rhythm during his time under the Vancouver spotlight.
GOON: The Hockey Movie Preview
GOON: In our support of the lack of hockey movies, comes this info from the movie company to us. “We have a great throwback hockey movie coming out and we would love to get your support. Its violent and insanely funny.” Starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill and Liev Schreiber Written by [...]
Line for Line, Note for Note: The 2012 Vancouver Canucks – Back In Black
It was a long off season for hockey fans, especially Canucks fans. The scars of a devastating Game Seven loss at home and an embarrassing downtown Vancouver riot only set the tone for a tragic summer for the entire hockey community. After relying heavily on music to pass the time without hockey, The Flying V [...]
Burning Questions and Determined Veterans Ignite Canucks Camp
It has been a long and tragic off season for hockey fans however tonight two editions of the Vancouver Canucks will take to the ice as a team once again opposite two similarly outfitted Calgary Flames teams in a pair of debut exhibition battles.
PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR CHARITY
We here at HI support this effort by Pat LaFontaine and Steve Webb, and personally implore you to give just anything you can in support of this…. HOCKEY LEGENDS PAT LAFONTAINE AND STEVE WEBB TO RIDE 550 MILES FOR W20 FOUNDATION AND COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION NEW YORK (September 19, 2011) –NHL alumnus Steve Webb [...]
Moore’s Lawsuit Against Bertuzzi, Canucks Could Start In Fall Of 2012
It’s been more than seven years since one of the darkest moments in recent hockey history took place—but former Colorado forward Steve Moore will have his day in an Ontario Superior Court next year. Moore filed a $38 million lawsuit against current Detroit Red Wing Todd Bertuzzi, the Vancouver Canucks and Orca Bay, which owned [...]
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL) plane crashes; 43 people dead, many former NHLers ***updated***
Forty-three people have died in a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger plane crash near the city of Yaroslavl in Central Russia. The majority of victims were members of the local ice hockey team Lokomotiv of the Kontinental Hockey League. The plane crashed on take-off after hitting an air traffic tower at the airport and witnesses are reporting [...]
Season Predictions Part 2: Canucks Poised For A Repeat?
Hello again, and welcome to Part II of my 4-Part NHL season preview. In part I, I gave you all my Eastern Conference Predictions. In part 2, I will give you my predictions for the Western Conference. I will approach these predictions a bit differently than I did those for the Eastern Conference. Today, [...]
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Hockey Independent mock draft part 1
With the NHL Entry Draft looming I decided to organize a mock draft with several of HI’s writers to give you an idea of what tonight’s entry draft could look. Participants: Fred Poulin, Cris Cohen, Lawrence Duchenski, John Scott Moore, Jeremy Scriven, Alexander Monaghan, Jamie Fraser, Andre Garabedian, WB Philp, Al Cimaglia, Adrian Fung, Gordon [...]
Nick Giglia’s 2011 Mock Draft: The Swami Speaks
This year, once again with the assistance of my good friend Andrew R (and some Bitches Brew…..both the beer and the music), I sat down to do my NHL Mock Draft. As per usual, trades were considered, and by a phenomenal stroke of luck we called Carter to Columbus for Voracek and the [...]
The simmering sickness inside the heart of many, unleashed
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” – Jeremiah 17:9 Five days have passed since the shocking riots in Vancouver cast an indelible pall over the night of Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final and yet the shock still remains. When looking back on June 15, 2011, [...]
Ryan Kesler: Ohio State’s Best Goes For The Stanley Cup
Sixteen months ago Ryan Kesler played in the biggest game of his life. The previous two weeks had been somewhat of a coming out party for the Livonia, Mich. native. The star of the hometown hockey team was now the new face of Canada’s toughest Olympic competition. Wednesday night Kesler will play the biggest [...]