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Plays of the Week: October 11th
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Jeff Veillette
Oct 11, 2015, 13:38 EDTUpdated:
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HOCKEY IS BACK! And with that, we’ve got the plays of the week; a quick little summary of what you may have missed on Canucks Army if you fell into a well, went on vacation, or got stuck listening to an annoying Oilers fan ramble about how excited they are for their golden lottery ticket to save them (if the latter, kudos for only being stuck in the conversation for a month). 

The Games


October 7th: Starting off Strong (5-1 Win @ Calgary) 
“Overall, it was a very strong game for the Canucks. They had absolute control over the first two periods, and while I’m not a huge advocate of fighting for the sake of fighting, the team clearly wasn’t getting pushed around. Continuing to counter-attack rather than standing back was a good idea as well; letting the play come to you when you’re up by two with twenty minutes to go is a silly, old-school way of approaching late game leads, and the team clearly got rewarded for ignoring it.” -Jeff Veillette

October 10th: Home Opener Heartbreak (3-2 OT Loss vs. Calgary)
“We’ve all been saying that Miller needs to have a bounce-back season, and once Jacob Markstrom went down, there was no margin for error; results had to come immediately. So far, they have – he stopped 35 of 38 tonight and looked tremendously confident in yet. Who knows if it lasts, but one thing is for sure, and that’s that this is the goalie that Jim Benning thought he was signing.” -Jeff Veillette

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How bad was Sutter with the Sedins? An excessively in-depth look
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Projecting the 2015/16 Canucks Season
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