Mid-Day Headshots July 19th
Thomas Drance
July 19 2011 01:37PM
The Sedins wear honorary garbage bags to protect them from the rain at the Victoria Day Celebrations in Sweden last Thursday.
Mid-Day Head-shots is a CanucksArmy feature where we round up today's freshest Canucks news including funny gifs, awesome videos, cool photos and interesting links. If you've written a Canucks blog-post and want it to be featured here, e-mail me at thom.drance@gmail.com.
Chris Osgood retired. Who cares?
Ryan Lambert
July 19 2011 01:24PM
You're going to hear a lot of talk in the coming week about Chris Osgood. A lot of that talk is going to include the word "great."
And all of it is going to be 100 percent incorrect.
What's the Hold Up?
Thomas Drance
July 19 2011 11:00AM
Over the weekend, it seemed like an announcement naming Craig MacTavish the head-coach of the Canucks new AHL affiliate the Chicago Wolves was imminent. Two well respected, and generally trust-worthy hockey reporters in Kypreos and Strickland tweeted that the deal was "likely" and "real close". I figured that the press-release, and the official announcement were mere formalities.
Second line candidates: Marco Sturm
Herbert Vasiljevs
July 18 2011 06:33PM
The reaction by many Canucks fans to the acquisition of free-agent forward Marco Sturm was a combination of bewilderment, frustration and resignation.
Anatomy of an undervalued hockey player
Cam Charron
July 18 2011 04:39PM
Niclas Bergfors. Tyler Kennedy. Torrey Mitchell. Scott Gomez. Martin Hanzal. Scottie Upshall. Nikolay Zherdev. Peter Regin. Michael Frolik.
What do all nine of these players have in common?
