Canucks re-sign Eddie Lack
Cam Charron
August 27 2012 10:28AM
Some good news on a Monday morning...
Eddie Läck, everybody's favourite Swedish depth goaltender, was rumoured to be on the way out of North America next season despite an overwhelming deficit of evidence to support the claim.
Today, the Province Twitter account alerted us that the Vancouver Canucks organization has re-signed Läck:
— Province Sports (@provincesports) August 27, 2012
#Canucks have re-signed goaltender Eddie Lack. The AHL Wolves goalie was originally signed by Vancouver as a free agent on April 6, 2010.
Samuelsson on Canucks: "I didn't think highly of management"
Cam Charron
July 12 2012 07:25AM
Thought this might be of interest. Mikael Samuelsson recently had an interview with Ronnie Johansson of HockeySvierge.Se. The full interview can be found here, but it is unfortunately in Swedish. We reached out to a Swedish friend of Canucks Army who was happily willing to translate the interview for us.
Samuelsson discusses some of his past issues with the Canucks, including his role, his feelings when he was traded away from the club last season, and finds a way to blame Alex Burrows for the Canucks losing the Stanley Cup Finals to Boston.
Click past the jump for the full text.
How did NHLers that shot 8% in 2011 do in 2012?
Cam Charron
July 09 2012 02:36PM
Mason Raymond in his natural habitat.
So Mason Raymond re-signed today, and a fanbase went nuts. But you all know the story. Thom linked to it earlier.
Anyway, I don't think that fans in the Vancouver market truly appreciate shooter regression. Raymond shot at just 8% last season and 7.6% the season before that. Now, there's reason to believe that "Raymond is just a horrible shooter" but like I showed with my Jason Garrison analysis, even four years doesn't generally predict how good of a shooter a player is.
Jason Garrison's fifth year: Expecting goals
Cam Charron
July 04 2012 01:58PM
About a minute after my post on Province Sports about Jason Garrison went live, I got a barrage of texts from resident blog chief Thomas Drance:
"You kidding me?"
"5 Garrison goals"
"You expect JG to score 5 goals"
"Wrote it today"
"Least well thought out thing you've written in a while!"
Obviously I pride myself in thinking out at least half the things I write, but I calmly explained by reasoning. For one, I never stated that Garrison would score "5 goals". I wrote "upwards of five". The second thing to note is that I think five goals is a lot of goals for a defenceman.
Cory Schneider and the Canucks Have "Agreed in Principle" on a New Contract
Cam Charron
June 28 2012 08:24PM
To open the Canucks 2012 Summer Summit, Mike Gillis fielded a couple of awkward questions from host John Shorthouse. The first was about Justin Schultz - and he declined to comment on how the pitch meeting went. The second concerned the team's enviable depth in goal - some might even call it a log-jam - and any potential moves that might be on the horizon. While Mike Gillis declined to elaborate at length on any Luongo news - he told fans in attendance - and those watching over the canucks.nhl.com livestream, that the team had "agreed in principle" on a new deal with Canucks goaltender and pending restricted free-agent Cory Schneider.
