No excuse for Canucks poor play, and Ryan Kesler won't save them
It’s easy to spin the poor play of the Vancouver Canucks into a simple tale of rust and acclimation. The excuses are many. But there's more to this than meets the eye.read more
View ArticleVancouver fans and media suddenly rediscover that Roberto Luongo is an elite...
Breaking news: Roberto Luongo is an elite goaltender – change everything. read more
View ArticleCanucks' winning ways masking bad habits
Ten games into the season and the following two statements are true simultaneously: Buffalo Sabres’ winger Thomas Vanek is on pace for 99 points in 48 games, and the Vancouver Canucks are on pace...
View ArticleLoss of Malhotra leaves Canucks in faceoff 'fancy stat' flux
The line between Manny Malhotra and the need to trade Roberto Luongo sooner rather than later might be finer than anyone realized. The Vancouver Canucks decision to shut Malhotra down for good...read...
View ArticleComplacent Canucks riding for a fall
You have to wonder how much Vancouver Canucks President and General Manager Mike Gillis identifies with Kevin Spacey’s character in House of Cards. The on-ice product of his hockey team is at...
View ArticleCanucks' stubborn disrespect of the shootout impossible to make sense of
For a team which has gone to so many great lengths in an effort to achieve every possible measure of competitive advantage, the Vancouver Canucks’ carefree and careless approach to the shootout...
View ArticleOnce ‘arrogant’ Canucks now look like they’re just going through the motions
When you get to the end of most long, multi-installment film franchises you’re usually treated to a clumsy pile of recycled, familiar elements that are trotted out to replicate previous...
View ArticleMike Gillis' very bad, very uncharacteristic year
If there’s a word which summarizes the Mike Gillis and Laurence Gilman philosophical approach to running a sports franchise it would be this: Control. Not in the sense of micromanagement or...
View ArticlePlayoff Canucks will surprise, for better or worse
We now return to your regularly scheduled programming. The Vancouver Canucks—carrying their usual, cocksure swirl of complete unpredictability—are back playing games into May. Questions of...
View ArticleBlame for Canucks' first round defeat to the Sharks starts at the top
In the end, it was a disaster which was surprisingly easy to predict. The inconvenient evidence has been accumulating since the trade deadline all the way back in 2012 — when Canucks management...read...
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