After blowing a 2-0 lead against the Los Angeles Kings in Game 2, many Canucks fans are calling for the lines to be changed up, Michael Grabner be inserted into the top-six, or Pavol Demitra to be scratched. I beg to differ, I have full confidence in the first, second, and third Canucks lines.
The Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, and Alex Burrows line's track record since January 2009 speaks for itself.
The Pavol Demitra, Ryan Kesler, and Mikael Samuelsson line has potential to succeed. You hav
History Will Be Made
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40th Anniversary Jerseys?
Icethetics is reporting Reebok indicates that the Canucks will not switch to their current
After a strong nine game performance in November before injuring his ankle in a pre-game soccer warm up, there were high hopes that Michael Grabner would come back better than ever in his second call up and earn a full-time NHL roster spot.
The hope was that Grabner could form a formidable second line with fellow speedsters Mason Raymond and Ryan Kesler which would forcibly free up Mikael Samuelsson and Pavol Demitra to form a third scoring line with Kyle Wellwood in the middle.
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Vancouver Canucks fans marveled Michael Grabner's performance in the short nine game stint he had with the team.
Grabner picked up two goals and three assists and showed us that he had NHL speed, shot, and defensive conscience to play amongst the elite. But like for the most of his hockey career, consistency remains a problem.
He had a torrid start to the season playing on the top line with Sergei Shirokov which earned him the call up in mid-October when Daniel Sedin went down with a foot
The Deadline
March 3rd, 2010 at 12pm PST
The Coverage
TSN, starting at 5am PST on TV and live streaming on TSN.ca
Rogers Sportsnet, starting at 5am PST and live streaming on Sportsnet.ca
Some of the UFAs
D Scott Niedermayer, Anaheim ($6,750,000)
F Paul Kariya, St. Louis ($6,000,000)
G Marty Turco, Dallas ($5,700,000)
F Vyacheslav Kozlov, Atlanta ($3,666,666)
F Ray Whitney, Carolina ($3,550,000)
D Marek Zidlicky, Minnesota ($3,350,000)
F Fredrik Modin, Columbus ($3,250,000)
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2007/09/092907_oilers16_b.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed" width="320" height="240">I was disappointed when I found out that Darcy Hordichuk would be scratched in favour of Rick Rypien because in my eyes he's been invisible all year long. I made it my goal to watch Rypien carefully and critically Monday night.
My assessment is in and Rypien should not be in the lineup over Hordichuk and Hansen. As a whole our fourth line was owned by B
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2010/01/jan1710_skills17_rr.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">Jersey change?
It was brought to our attention by Icethetics.info in blog posts on both December 1, 2009 and December 3, 2009 that the Canucks may be switching to their modernized stick-in-rink jersey as their home jersey for the 2010-11 NHL campaign.
It's interesting to note that on Sunday at the team's annual SuperSkills event, Team Blue wore the team's third jersey feat
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Rick_Rypien.png/225px-Rick_Rypien.png" class="imageFloatRightFramed">Ryan Johnson's anticipated return to the Canucks lineup on Wednesday night against the Edmonton Oilers will mean a decision will need to be made on who comes out of the lineup. Winger Steve Bernier and defenceman Aaron Rome could also return.
After a 6-2 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Penguins, it's hard to pinpoint a particular player who had a bad game.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3365/3609026921_4f821f6de1_m.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">With no Toronto Maple Leafs game on the NHL schedule tomorrow, it is expected we will see Jim Hughson calling the play-by play for the Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins tilt at General Motors Place with Craig Simpson providing colour commentary from the booth and Glenn Healy between the benches, CBC's top team.
The only other Canadian matchup sees the Montreal Canadiens hosting the Otta
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/islanders/images/upload/2009/10/biron_102609_sm.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">Edmonton interested in Boucher and Biron
Allow me to be the first to report, the Edmonton Oilers are interested in the services of Brian Boucher of Philadelphia and Martin Biron of the New York Islanders after learning that Nikolai Khabibulin will be out indefinitely following back surgery. In both Philadelphia and New York, Boucher and Biron both have been outplayed and now ar
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2009/11/oct2309_demitra_rr.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">It is interesting that at the beginning of the NHL campaign, the Vancouver Canucks were over the salary cap and over the roster limit and we are halfway through the season and the Canucks have yet to have to really address any of the problems.
Coming out of training camp, Tanner Glass and Sergei Shirokov made it, Pavol Demitra was suppose to be back by mid- or late-October, Br
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2009/08/aug1809_Johnson02_rr.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">Rogers Sportsnet Canucks game host @sportsnetmurph is reporting center Ryan Johnson has been placed on injured reserve, which means his foot injury will keep him out of the lineup for at least one week. This brings the Canucks active roster down from the maximum of 23 to 22 players.
With Johnson on injured reserve, this will enable the Canucks to call-up a forward from the
<img src="http://nhluploads.invisionzone.com/canucks/1262568096/gallery_43389_43_54888.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">Notes:
-Players will be listed according to their primary position during this decade. For example, Naslund will be listed as a left winger because he spent most of this decade as a left winger.
-A player's success throughout the decade will be taken into consideration, not just individual season accomplishments.
Second Team
LW – Daniel Sedin
After being fear
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2008/01/011308_blues09_tt.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">The Vancouver Canucks received two bits of news on the injury front today with Swedish defenceman Alex Edler probable to go.
In the same tweet, Murphy reports that Alex Edler will be paired with Christian Ehrhoff, Shane O'Brien with Kevin Bieksa, and Willie Mitchell with Sami Salo. This means both Aaron Rome and Mathieu Schneider will be sitting out tonight's contest as healthy
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/images/upload/2009/04/alexBurrowsa4.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">The no-goal
For the second consecutive game, the Vancouver Canucks had referee Mike Leggo assigned to their game after refereeing the Washington Capitals game in which he called a questionable unsportsmanlike penalty to Tom Poti for making a diving hand gesture. Then he proceeded to call a penalty shot on the Canucks after Canucks defenceman hauled down Alexander Semin on a partial breakaw
<img src="http://scarlet.capitals.nhl.com/uploads/Poti_80277508_497e034c7cbc9.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed" width="250" height="163">In the Canucks-Capitals game, defenceman Tom Poti simply gestured that he believed Burrows dived, was given an unsportsmanlike penalty on top of his crosschecking penalty on his hit-from-behind; a weak call no matter which team you are cheering for.
In the ensuing power play, Mason Raymond cashed in with his second goal of the game and 14th goal of the
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2009/10/oct2509_grabmas_rr.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">After being cleared to begin skating by himself last week, Michael Grabner joined the team for their practice today at General Motors Place and looks poised to return to playing hockey by the end of December.
But the question is where?
The first choice appears to the Canucks farm team, the Manitoba Moose. The Moose do not have the sexiest top six in the AHL on paper and wit
<img src="http://www.nhl.com/photos/mugs/thumb/8471303.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">Wednesday Night Update: The White Towel is now reporting that early indication is that Edler will miss two weeks with a shoulder injury. This means Mathieu Schneider will get back into the lineup after being a healthy scratch. Defenceman Aaron Rome could have his two-week conditioning stint to the Manitoba Moose end early as well.
Wednesday Morning Update: The White Towel is reporting that Edler wil
