Calm after the storm? A much needed break.

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.

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

The New Vancouver Canucks Intro. GO CANUCKS GO!

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

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

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.

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

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."