10 Surprises 10 Games into the Vancouver Canucks Season
By Allen Tung
Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports
Hamhuis is Minus-3
Describe Dan Hamhuis’s game? “Safe, steady, and calm”
Describe Dan Hamhui’s game this season? “Risky”
He has made a number of ill-advised pinches this season that has lead to odd-man rushes the other way into the Canucks zone. Sometimes leading to goals.
Hamhuis might be feeling the pressure to make things happen offensively to secure a spot on Team Canada for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Among the defencemen trying to make it, he is arguably the one with the least offensive pedigree along with the Washington Capitals’ Karl Alzner.