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Nearing the end of the third week in August, with training camp yet to begin, the Vancouver Canucks roster is already looking different. General Manager Mike Gillis wasted no time supplementing the blueline with the addition of Dan Hamhuis, in a very surprising turn of events at the beginning of Free Agency.  Though the Philadelphia Flyers had obtained exclusive rights to negotiate with the 27 year old Baudette, Minnesota native (at the cost of a 3rd round pick), it was a longer-term deal with Vancouver that enticed him away from the City of Brotherly Love.    With the uncertainty surrounding [...]

In a poll conducted Tuesday by Team 1040 Radio, 40 per cent of Vancouver Canucks fans polled said they would give up sex for a year if the team won the Stanley Cup. The poll was a crossover from a recent English poll that suggested that 12 per cent of soccer fans would give up sex for a year if the Three Lions won the World Cup.  Neither of the polls indicated the percentages as broken down by gender, but I assume it’s safe to say that the majority would be male.  Regardless, the number is quite impressive when you [...]

The Vancouver Canucks are very well represented in the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, British Columbia, with 6 players suiting up for their respective countries. In an Olympic tournament that has had surprisingly few degrees of seperation, “underdog” nations are making headlines.  Earlier today, the strong Slovakian team learned this the hard way, with one of the narrowest escapes for a favored country, slipping past Norway, 4-3.  The Czech Republic also survived a scare with Latvia to squeak out a 3-2 overtime win. Demitra’s Slovaks had some adversity to overcome to advance to the quarter-finals.  The Norwegians tied the [...]