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The Team That Can't Score, Does

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<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2009/11/nov2209_kesler_fps.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">One of the things that you'll hear at the start of every season (both from the media and the fans) is that the Canucks don't have any scoring. Let's see about that.

Canucks 7, Oilers 3. Canucks 4, Kings 1. Canucks 5, Avs 2. Canucks 8, Avs 2. Canucks 4, Stars 3. Canucks 7, Canadiens 1. Yeah, they've got no scoring at all. If they score at least four goals in a game, the Canucks are 6 – 0 this year.

Look, the Canucks don't have a "pure" goal scorer, and haven't really since earlier in this decade when the West Coast Express was in its prime, when Markus Naslund came close to 50 goals. Incidentally, Todd Bertuzzi is not a "pure" goal scorer. so what he did in that year was great, but not expected.

<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2008/06/Bure_1993_thumb5.jpg" class="imageFloatRightFramed">In fact, you could say that the Canucks really only have ever had one pure goal scorer who was with them in their prime – Pavel Bure.

The Canucks aren't really near the top of the league in Goals For this season, but they're nowhere near the bottom, either. Seventy eight goals is certainly respectable. They certainly seem to be finding ways to score goals in bunches.

<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload/2009/11/nov0109_celebrate_t.jpg" class="imageFloatLeftFramed">It always seems that with the lack of a dominant scorer each year, the Canucks always seem to have somebody step up to score more goals than they have at any other time in their career. Last year it was Alex Burrows and Ryan Kesler. This year, Mason Raymond, Mikael Samuelsson, and Henrik Sedin are stepping up. They may not necessarily be career-years, but the contributions are definitely helping.

Sure, the Canucks could use someone who could chip in with 40 goals year after year, but that's not the way they've gotten things done for the last half of this decade. And I don't think it's fair to say that without that 40 goal scorer they won't do anything in the playoffs, either. While your top scorers in the regular season are a benefit in the post-season, it's usually the secondary scoring that helps contribute to a Stanley Cup win.

So unless their ability to score dries up completely, the Canucks should be just fine.

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CunkleTron

Its not the games where they score seven that we say they need scoring. they could have won those games with four, or three, or two. Its the games where they score none or one and we lose by one after luongo plays out of his mind. That is what is putting us fans on edge. Its not that we dont have scoring, its the timeliness of the scoring.

We believe.

Go Canucks Go!

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CanuckNation.ca

I agree that the timeliness of the scoring makes a big difference. However, someone you could count on for 40 goals year after year would go a long way to changing a lot of those one goal losses into one goal wins.

Unfortunately that's not what the Canucks have at this point, so yeah, we have to keep getting frustrated and hoping for bounces to go their way.

Thanks very much for the comment.

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