There once was a time in my life when nothing seemed more important than the Vancouver Canucks. To convey to my previous self that, in the year 2020, the Canucks might find themselves unexpectedly in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, heading into game three with a series tie, and that I wouldn’t…
If you were somehow able to only listen in to Sunday night’s broadcast of the opening game of the second-round matchup between the Vancouver Canucks and the Vegas Golden Knights, then, for one, we’re all a little bit jealous of you.
In a year where nothing has gone as expected, this author still didn’t expect to ever write an article about how Elias Pettersson’s MVP-quality play in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs was being overshadowed by the Motte’s, Markstrom’s, and Virtanen’s of the world.
How quickly the tables can turn, even here at WDYTT, the most consistent hockey column on the internet. At the tail-end of last week, this author suspected they’d be strolling into CanucksArmy today to ask one simple question of you all — how good did it feel to sweep the St. Louis Blues? Now, five…
Hockey is a subjective game. Shifts, games, and even series can all be viewed vastly differently depending on the eye of the beholder, and that’s not even getting into the whole eye-test versus analytics debate.
Folks, we are very pleased to welcome you to the first Playoff Edition of our weekly What Do You Think Thursday column in more than five years. (Actually, this author is pretty sure that the WDYTT, or the WWYDW that preceded it, weren’t around in 2015, which would make this the first ever Playoff Edition….
It’s August 12, 2020, and we are right on the cusp of witnessing the Vancouver Canucks take on the defending champion St. Louis Blues in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, live from Rogers Place in Edmonton. Just count the improbabilities in that single sentence alone. In a year defined by unpredictability, it’s…
Most years, the only blues that the Vancouver Canucks and their fans have to face in August are of the hockey withdrawal variety. But this is 2020, the year that never stops surprising, and the Canucks are — as we speak — preparing to take on the St. Louis Blues in a real-life, actual Stanley…
Let’s get the semantic debate out of the way right away. Some hockey fans got a little crotchety at the notion of labeling the nigh-completed 2020 Qualifying Round and its various matchups as “playoff series.” Thus, despite the fact that the stats incurred within the various play-ins will count toward players’ career playoff stats, we’ll…
With two games in the books and Game Three set to take place tonight, there are a shortage of important questions in need of some serious answering. Who’s been the Canucks’ MVP through two games? Who’s been the team’s biggest disappointment? Who should be coming into the lineup, and who should be sitting out? Unfortunately,…
Way back in 2002, after watching his Canucks get bullied in the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings of all people, Brian Burke dropped one of his most infamous pearls of wisdom — telling reporters that “Sedin is not Swedish for ‘punch me or headlock me in a scrum.’” On Sunday night’s broadcast of Game…
