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Canucks Game Day: No Lack of incentive, Ducks’ duo dynamic, Penner is no pancake
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Leave it to Eddie Lack to lend some levity when there was little to laugh about Saturday. He may have to perform a comedic encore today because he gets the call when a four-game road...
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Canucks Game Day: Grit, not goaltending, the big challenge against red-hot Ducks
ANAHEIM, Calif. — When John Tortorella was asked about factors that would determine his starting goaltender today — how fatigued Roberto Luongo would be in a back-to-back situation or if birthday boy...
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Team Canada 2014 announced (shockers, snubs and sure things)
The board is set, the pieces are moving, and we are now one massive step closer to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Ladies and gentleman, Team Canada! FORWARDS - Sidney Crosby - Ryan Getzlaf -...
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Canucks Game Day: Another audition for Booth, another chance to end Ducks’...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — David Booth was working out when the gang war erupted. No knives or guns, but plenty of punches, cheap shots, butt-ends and vulgarity were exchanged Monday at the Staples Center. As a...
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Canucks/Ducks Post Game Quotes (I Wish Were Real)
The main issue I have with post game coverage is the general lack of personality conveyed by the majority of the league. The NHL has some of the classiest athletes and coaches in all of professional...
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Canada/Norway Post Game Quotes (I Wish Were Real)
The main issue I have with post game coverage is the general lack of personality conveyed by the majority of players. Hockey has some of the classiest athletes and coaches in all of sports, but...
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The 10 O’Clock: The 2010 gold-medal game, says Kesler, was ‘the best game I...
Canada’s on the ice right now, pounding Austria in their second game of the Olympic tournament in Sochi. There’s Sidney Crosby. There’s Ryan Getzlaf. There’s Duncan Keith, and there’s Roberto Luongo,...
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How Vegas saw the Canucks’ 2013-14 season
If you follow the Vancouver Canucks even passively, you probably know that the past season was one of the Canucks’ great stinkers of the past couple of decades. What’s interesting is to see how Vegas...
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Gallagher: Minor-league Canucks get fleeced by major-league Ducks in Kesler deal
You knew when Canucks general manager Jim Benning was saying Thursday that he might wait until the trading deadline to move Ryan Kesler that he was throwing up a big smoke screen to take the heat from...
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Bonino brings versatility, smarts, clutch goals to Canucks in Kesler trade...
In a perfect world, Nick Bonino is probably a third-line NHL centre. But it’s not a perfect world in Vancouver and the Canucks franchise is spinning into another orbit by clearing salary cap space...
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Canucks Hat Trick: Bonino, Horvat and the Wounded
Three things to ponder following a shockingly good Canucks performance on their recent trip through California: 1. It’s going to be a while before the Ryan Kesler deal can be fully assessed. We’ve got...
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The Morning Skate, Nov. 18: Mr. Hockey, Uncle Murray, playing hockey for fun...
The Penticton airport waiting room is very, very small. No complaints here, but I did learn this on Sunday. I was flying back to Vancouver from a trip I didn’t want to have to make: my uncle had passed...
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Canucks Post Game: Christmas coma, Captain Optimism, offence from defence,...
ANAHEIM — Some points to ponder as the sluggish “Christmas Coma Canucks” needed a superb effort by Ryan Miller to manage a point in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Ducks on Sunday: OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:...
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The Morning Skate, Dec. 29: Canucks slumped by Ducks, goaltending highs and...
Pump it up! Joe Flacco made a passionate halftime speech: "Let's go win a game!" — Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) December 28, 2014 We can safely declare that the Ravens’ infamous twitter account has taken...
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For Bo, it’s Go Canada Go, but improving game kept Canucks centre from world...
Bo Horvat did the quick post-practice change Monday so he could take care of business before Canada met Russia in the world junior hockey championship final. To him, that was serious business. A member...
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The Morning Skate, Jan. 25: Richard Sherman dismisses silly questions, NHL...
Preach, Richard. Richard Sherman asked abt #SuperBowl pressure "I don't answer preschool questions. Improve that line of ?s" #Seahawks pic.twitter.com/2URRKbqinQ — Gregg Bell (@gbellseattle) January...
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Canucks Hat Trick: Tanev’s return; the Markstrom mystery; Kings up next
Three things we learned after Monday’s 2-1 win over the Ducks: The win over the Ducks was such a fragile accomplishment that any little failure along the way might have capsized the outcome. Certainly,...
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Canucks Hat Trick: Shinkaruk a scratch, Shore helps where Vey couldn’t, Kings...
The Vancouver Canucks would seem to have a lot of prospects playing in Utica. But looking at their lineup recently, and their stats from the season to date, it would be hard to identify them. Because...
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Willie’s World: Canucks coach rewarded with playoff berth for faith in...
Willie Desjardins doesn’t say a lot, but he does a lot. His podium presentations aren’t appointment viewing — nothing like the long-winded and jolting John Tortorella — but listen long and intently...
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Who are the best (and the worst)? We polled NHL players, here’s what they had...
In the couple of weeks leading up to the playoffs, The Province and our Postmedia colleagues in five other Canadian NHL markets asked 22 players to answer a few quesitons — anonymously, of course. And...
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The Morning Skate: May 6 Love the Flames? Hate them? Blackhawks roll, Jon...
So the Calgary Flames keep Cinderella around for another few days. Pulling off the second most dramatic win in Alberta last night, the Flames overcame the Death Star of NHL Head Office to get a late...
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Canucks Post Game: Miller finds spark, Prust loses rust, Burrows tosses...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Notes and quotes after the Canucks scored an impressive 2-1 shootout victory over the Ducks in which Ryan Miller was the difference and there were more signs of life from the fourth...
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The Morning Skate, Nov. 10: Torts! faces the Canucks, the upside-down NHL and...
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. I had the pleasure of chatting with vet Lloyd Williams yesterday. He’s a veteran of D-Day, who was a star athlete in Vancouver both before and after the Second World War....
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Canucks Post Game: Easing in an easy way to lose, Desjardins disturbed,...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Points to ponder after the Vancouver Canucks put in their worst performance of the season in a telling 4-0 loss to the Ducks on Monday which exposed their lack of preparation, more...
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The Morning Skate, Dec. 1: Horrors of Christmas season, dead-in-the-duck-pond...
Around Nov. 10, my wife and I had the most brilliant idea: We’d get all the Christmas shopping done by the 1st of December. We would then spend December gleefully celebrating the days leading up to...
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Canucks Game Day: Higgins hurting, Pedan flirting, Virtanen mending,...
LOS ANGELES — Points to ponder as the Canucks take battered bodies and bruised egos into a date Tuesday night with the division-leading Kings, who will likely to go the body after what they saw the...
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Jake Virtanen heads to the Comets
Canucks rookie Jake Virtanen, out since taking a hit from the Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf Nov. 30 is off to Utica for a conditioning stint. It’s expected he’ll practice with the Comets and then play at least...
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Canucks Watch: Timely Tanev return, Hansen fine with diving fine, Vrbata...
Happy New Year? Yes. No. Maybe. For Chris Tanev, returning to the practice ice Thursday and hoping to play Friday against the Anaheim Ducks — after missing two games with a foot injury while blocking...
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Canucks Game Day: Chris Tanev and Kevin Bieksa both return tonight, although...
Vancouver Canucks (14-15-9) vs. Anaheim Ducks (15-15-6) 7 p.m., Rogers Arena Sportsnet Pacific, TSN 1040 Here are five things we’re contemplating through the New Year’s Day haze. 1. Kevin Bieksa, who’s...
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Canucks Game Day: Emerson Etem returns to lineup to face old Anaheim teammates
ANAHEIM DUCKS (29-19-8) AT VANCOUVER CANUCKS (22-22-12) Thursday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m., Rogers Arena TV: Sportsnet Pacific, Radio: TSN 1040 Here are five things we’re thinking about prior to this latest...
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