Great to see the Nucks bounce back from that Calgary debacle.

Now, if only I could grab a little time out for myself to listen to a game and help bad mouth the opposition once in a while during the live blogs. For some reason, they expect me to work, while I am at work during the week… sigh

Even for the weekend, I am down watching two games right now due to commitments of busy time…

Not to mention our former first round pick, Nathan Smith, played just under 8 minutes for the Wild.

And while you’re focusing on the positives, I’d really love to see the 4th line play as well as they were during the end of last year. I think that could be a huge difference if we could see them having big shifts like that, again.

Thank you Mikael Samuelsson for scoring the winning goal. Gotta admire how this guy loves to shoot the puck

I told ya that you’d like him. Glad to see him playing so well for you. :)

What’s up with him? He’s been invisible.

Love the effort from Raymond. Wellwood is getting on track and Samuelson’s showing up finally too.

Defensive hockey will win games. Boring yes but no meltdowns in front of Luongo PLEASE.

I get the feeling this season is going to be a lot of ups and downs, with no long success streak like they had last year.

A very good team game, with a strong sense of team defense. The Wild really didn’t generate much in scoring chances while the Canucks managed great games from Kesler, Wellwood, Raymond, and Bolduc. Kevin Bieksa also had a very nice bounce back game.

I have been very impressed by Christian Ehrhoff so far. 6 points in 7 games, +2, and man is he smooth at getting the puck out of the Canuck zone.

Kevin Bieksa mentioned on After Hours that the team had a meeting after the Calgary game and were determined to work harder. This was evident against Minnesota. Of course the real test will be whether they can continue this work ethic against tougher opponents in Edmonton and Chicago. Win one, lose one isn’t going to cut it if this team wants to claim that it is a contender.

On another note I might be the only one (judging from the dislike on CDC) but I’m loving Kevin Weekes doing colour for HNIC. He’s really funny and more in touch with the younger fans than some of the old guys that have sat there before. Plus his beauty tips are hilarious. All those haters just need to give him some time to develop, and also remember that Marc Crawford was doing it last year and that guy is like listening to someone run their nails on a chalkboard.

asks some truly moronic questions, that aren’t really even questions, but rather lame attempts for him to publicly air his idiotic observances on such things as the fact that Bowling Green’s school colours aren’t actually green… or that the music at the garage is pretty cool compared to other arenas, or other minutiae. Interviews shouldn’t leave those being interviewed with a puzzled look on their face as to how to even begin to respond, or give them the obvious look that the question was just plain stupid.

What has Weekes been doing, taking notes from Scott Oake?

I suspect that when Hansen returns he might do it by bumping Hordi, line juggling notwithstanding.

Sean…Bolduc than throw the knuckles pretty good too. The team does have enough team toughness to withstand benching Hordi if he keep getting holding penalties 200 ft from his own net like tonight!

He has played OK so far though. Would be nice to see a little more O’ on that line though. Rypien and RJ show flashes, and Hordi too….but is it enough?

Hordichuk has reached the end of the line. He is slow, unskilled and not particularily intimidating. If I was GM, he would be gone.

Hansen over Bolduc and Hordichuk for sure. Hope it happens. When is Jannik expected back again?