Canucks

For many people, hearing of the death of Rick Rypien was shocking. Shocking in a way because no one knew how serious his life had changed. It slipped right past everyone and shook the hockey world in a summer that saw us lose many of the NHL’s best enforcers. In honor of Rick, The Vancouver Canucks For Kids Fund has partnered up with Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services Authority, and BC Children’s Hospital to relaunch a website called Mindcheck. This website is to help or assist people who are struggling with mental illnesses and to help people gain a better understanding of what people [...]

A day after Henrik Sedin admitted that their effort against the Florida Panthers “wasn’t good enough”, the Tampa Bay Lightning were able to hold the Sedin line to a single point, and a combined minus-four rating.  Not to worry, the Vancouver Canucks are getting contributions from secondary sources. Three games through a four-game road trip, the Canucks have two wins, thanks in large part to scoring from sources other than the Sedins and Alex Burrows.  Players such as Manny Malhotra, Mason Raymond, Mike Duco, and Cody Hodgsonhave been finding the back of the net.  One could hardly call the road [...]

With revenge on their collective minds, the refreshed San Jose Sharks took advantage of their New Year’s break and handed the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 shootout loss. Five days previous, the Canucks used the overtime session at the HP Pavillion in San Jose to continue their run of success in San Jose.  Andrew Ebbett redirected a Kevin Bieksa point shot for his 4th goal of the season.  Fast forward to Monday night at Rogers Arena, where the Sharks reeled in a tired Canucks squad playing it’s fourth game in 6 nights.  Vancouver had won the first two games of the [...]

Somewhat fueled by the media (yes, I recognize that includes The Canuck Way in a watered down sense), much of the buzz around Vancouver this season has been the ‘goalie controversy’, and who the Canucks should keep, and conversely, who they should jettison.  I say Vancouver keeps ‘em both. All indications thus far from General Manager Mike Gillis point in this direction.  Several times during Cory Schneider’s hot run, Gillis was asked if they were going to move their back-up goaltender.  Several pundits vocalized that the Canucks needed to make a move, to bring in another piece, possibly on one [...]

Mark Messier, a member of the Hall Of Fame and former Canuck is going after Vancouver claiming that they still owe him salary from his contract in Vancouver. He signed this 3 year (6 million a season) contract with Vancouver in 1997 as a free agent. To keep it simple, he did nothing in Vancouver other than hurt his image. Trevor Linden willingly gave his captaincy to Mark Messier and he accepted, this did not go well with Canuck fans. Neither did Linden’s departure shortly afterwards. Mark Messier also demanded to wear number 11, a number that was unofficially retired [...]

Today I am going to be starting The Ex-Canuck Factor segment where weekly I will talk about one former Canuck and where they are now. This idea was formed by Frank Rekas on therattrick.com. With the current goaltending controversy in Vancouver I thought I should start the first edition of The Ex-Canuck Factor with a former Canuck goaltender. You guessed it – Dan Cloutier! Now put that beach ball away and try to remember the best and the worst of the fierce Dan Cloutier.

A few days ago, The Canuck Way writer Balraj wrote about how Roberto Luongo and Corey Schneider will both be staying in Vancouver this season. He described how it would be Vancouver’s best option. You can read his article here. But for now, I am going to refute his article and describe why I think trading Cory Schneider or Roberto Luongo before the trade deadline is the best option for the Vancouver Canucks. To start off, my biggest reasoning for either Roberto Luongo or Cory Schneider being traded by trade deadline is because I believe it will give the Canucks the [...]

Every NHL fan has thought about their dream player on their favourite NHL team. You may love your current team, but face it; there is always room for improvement. Most NHL fans may choose players such as Sidney Crosby (healthy preferably), Alexander Ovechkin, Nick Lidstrom, or even Steven Stamkos. Personally I like to choose a more realistic player. Sure having one of the above players on the Canucks would be absolutely fantastic, but the chance of that happening is more unlikely than Aaron Rome winning the Norris trophy. When it comes down to choosing an effective and realistic addition to [...]