Hockey News: Penguins and Canucks Make a Trade
Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon have a fallback career if this hockey thing doesn’t work out. [CBC] Big trade alert: The Penguins have traded Brandon Sutter to the Canucks. [Pensburgh].…
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Pittsburgh Penguins Trade Brandon Sutter
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks have pulled off the rare late-July trade as the Penguins have sent center Brandon Sutter and a third-round pick to the Canucks. Going back…
Canucks Need To Revamp Second Line
The Vancouver Canucks had a pleasant turnaround year in terms of offense this regular season, with 242 goals compared to 196 a year earlier (mind you, they set an NHL…
Bonino Won’t Be the Canucks Second Line Centre Next Season
When the Canucks traded for Nick Bonino, he was immediately slated as the Canucks second line centre for the 2014-15 campaign. Through the first two months the trade seemed like a…
Canucks Need to Find Consistency
After losing three games and scoring only two goals combined, it was a relief seeing the Canucks’ 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Not only was it a high scoring…
Who Can Desjardins Trust to Score for the Canucks?
Goal scoring for the Canucks and oil prices have something in common.They are both trending downward. Only one of those is a problem on the West Coast right now. During…
Canucks’ Great Start Looks for Real
The Canucks are 11-5-0, and sitting in third place — a place where not many expected them to be. Before the season (or perhaps before the draft), a majority of…
Hockey News: Sluggish Monday Edition
It was a pretty busy weekend in the NHL as it usually is. Sidney Crosby didn’t light the lamp but had five assists against the Sabres on Saturday. Several teams…
Who’s Been Better so far, Ryan Kesler or Nick Bonino?
Analyzing offseason trades just a month into a new season isn’t always the most productive, but there’s always a lot to discuss with the more divisive deals from this past…
Duck Soup: The Kesler Trade
Kesler joins the other ‘Flying V’ Vancouver fans have finally gotten what they thought they wanted. After several long, arduous months of speculation on where Ryan Kesler might get traded…
Ducks Advance to Round Two: Stats, Thoughts and More
The Ducks did what they’ve done better than any other team in the NHL all season. Once again, they were down early but managed to squeak out another come-from-behind victory,…
Ducks-Stars Game One Thoughts
The Anaheim Ducks held off a pesky Dallas Stars comeback to open their Stanley Cup march with a 4-3 win. Some thoughts from last night’s game: ———- By the end…