In the past few weeks, Jeff Angus has done an admirable job of revisiting the Canucks prospect rankings which we published all the way back in the summer. The importance of sample size cannot be overstated – especially with young players, who are notoriously inconsistent – which means that we’d need to see more than…
Prezbo There’s a great scene from HBO’s The Wire in which Roland "Prezbo" Pryzbylewski is sitting in his living room watching a football game on television. His wife asks him who’s winning, to which he replies: "No one wins. One side just loses more slowly." If there’s a more apt description of the shameful…
The lockout keeps rolling on, but that doesn’t mean we lacked for quality content this week. We had another entry in our "Worst to First" jerseys series, talked about the frightening salary cap situation for a bunch of teams, looked at how forward usage by NHL coaches has evolved over the last few seasons, talked…
Throwing those teddy bears was fun. But now someone has to pick them up. I think it would be fair to say that the most recent Chicago Wolves game recap I did prior to this one – which was back on December 7th, in case you missed it – marked rock bottom for the Canucks’ AHL…
After two goals and a fight against Hamilton, did Darren Archibald go get himself a beer? (Photo: Chris Jerina/AHL in Photos) In a middling season, are the Chicago Wolves’ fortunes about to swing back up? The Canucks’ minor leaguers opened the year with four straight wins, but until last night’s win over Hamilton, they hadn’t…
Contraction is a favourite concept of hockey writers around North America. For those who simply want to see higher-calibre hockey, it’s a beautiful dream – fewer teams means higher quality players at the highest level, something that can’t help but result in better hockey. Most recently, though, contraction has emerged as a preferred cudgel with…
The first cut at Team Canada’s camp is: Frank Corrado#WJC2013 — Sunaya Sapurji (@sunayas) December 13, 2012 This tweet from Sunaya Suparji of Yahoo! Canada was sent out just as Bob McKenzie was on a live-taping of Sportscentre discussing how Canucks prospect Frank Corrado was practically a sure bet to make the Canadian IIHF U-20…
The World Junior Hockey Championship is alway fantastic hockey, but this year’s tournament will be even more special. NHL caliber talent will litter the rosters, and since hockey fans have been shut out of enjoying the NHL thanks to the most ridiculous lockout in modern professional sports, they’ll presumably be extra excited. There are many reasons…
Frank Corrado pushes Hunter Shinkaruk into goaltender Tyler Binnington during the Red v. White scrimmage on Tuesday. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Todd Korol Vancouver hockey fans haven’t had any Canucks-related hockey to cheer about for seven and a half months, so it’s understandable why the die-hards (myself included) are beginning to feel somewhat stir-crazy. To compound that…
It took a long time, but it looks like we’re now at the final table in this high stakes game of poker that is the NHL CBA negotations. And yes, this this is and always has been a heads up game. Neither you, nor I, nor any of the tens of thousands tens of hundreds…
Remember last week, when negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA collapsed? Don Fehr gave a press conference, saying the two sides were close, then came back and said that talks had broken off, and then Gary Bettman gave what was likely the angriest media availability of his NHL tenure, insisting that the owner’s offer of…
Because how much b-roll of Gary Bettman walking in and out of a building can you possibly watch?
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