Morning Buzz: #Canucks Bitz and bites; Gillis not trading Schneider; plus Suter and Nashville
by Jordan Clarke on Feb 8, 2012 8:01 AM PST
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PrintBoy, watching Byron Bitz lumber up and down Henrik's wing last night reminded me of the Wade Brookbank era.
How about Luongo? He battled back from a terrible goal and was solid in another shootout. He's won 3 of his last 4, and has a message for the haters:
(via PITB)
Luongo's incredible save and more after the jump.
Vancouver Canucks News & Notes
For some reason the Canucks decided to hold their annual company fire drill in their own zone during the 2nd period last night, which forced Roberto Luongo to make possibly his best stop of the season:
When news broke of Alain Vigneault's mixed and matched line combos in practice yesterday morning, Twitter was whipped into a frenzy. Check out some of the reaction. [The Province]
After the line changes, Thomas Drance lists a few reasons why a switch up might be for the best. [Canucks Army]
CHB sits down for a chat with Replace the KB winner j.Bowman. [CHB]
PITB takes a look at 10 former Canucks who could still help the team now. My vote: Mike Weaver, simply because my "Leave it to Weaver" tagline never really got a chance to take off. [PITB]
Also from PITB, the latest and greatest "Pass it to Comics."
Mike Gillis has "zero interest" in dealing Cory Schneider before the trade deadline, and admits that the team has been receiving phone calls about him for two seasons. [PHT]
In light of Owen Nolan's retirement, here's what Ben Kuzma wrote during his tryout with the Canucks last fall. [The Province]
Today in Canucks History
[Feb 8, 2001] The Canucks and the San Jose Sharks play to the first scoreless draw in Vancouver. The game marks the third time in Canucks history they have played to a zero, zero tie.
NHL News & Notes
Evgeni Malkin pulled off a spin-o-rama in the shootout against the Habs last night. With his size and reach, that's nearly unstoppable.
The Capitals regained the lead in the Southeast with a win over the Panthers last night. How pathetic is this division? The Panthers fell from 3rd to 9th with one loss. [NHL.com]
Owen Nolan has retired from the NHL. [ESPN]
It sounds as if the Predators are willing to become a cap team if it means keeping Ryan Suter and Shea Weber. [Sportsnet]
Elliotte Friedman with some thoughts on the Nashville situation, plus 30 more. [CBC]
Greg Wyshynski helps break down the challenges faced by Seattle and Quebec City in bringing in an NHL franchise. [Puck Daddy]
The Nuge will be sidelined 7 – 10 business days after injuring his shoulder again. [CBC]
It appears that Rick Nash is ready to pick up and get the hell out of Columbus, but he's just too darn nice to admit it. [Scoop Du Jour]
The Buffalo Sabres are hoping to have Lindy Ruff back behind the bench tomorrow when they face the Boston Bruins. [Sabres Edge]
Scott Gomez cares about winning, not scoring. Unfortunately, he's not doing much of either these days. [National Post]
Six interesting things about Alex Ovechkin's new house. For some reason OV having a swingset in his backyard creeps me out. [Curbed]
Let's end off with Tyler Seguin Photoshop'd as Drake:
via Twitter
Today in NHL History
[Feb 8, 1960] The pride of Sarnia, Ontario, Dino Ciccarelli is born!
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Good teams...
…figure out ways to win games even when they aren’t playing well.
I am certain someone will tell me this is entirely luck, etc, but the Canucks always have bad stretches of the season (like every team does). The difference the last few years to me is that this year they still manage to win games when they are playing poorly.
And I will definitely take a run of poor play from now through April, assuming that they figure it out for WQF Game 1.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
Hell, as far as I care...
…so long as the Nucks keep winning, they can play crappy hockey all the way to taking the Cup!
It's strange
to see over at SCH, how some of the Hawks fans are calling for coach Q’s head, and others are already writing their season off. Others want to blow up the team and start a re-build for the future.
Los Angeles, CA
I almost
feel bad for Hawk fans. Almost.
Warm winds blowing, heating blue sky, and a road that goes forever...
by Smoboy41 on Feb 8, 2012 10:09 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
hawks fans sound
like canucks fans. Evidence: the province twitter report on line changes.
"Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
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You have
more compassion than me.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 8, 2012 7:03 PM PST up reply actions
Eff that. They have a recent Cup and we don’t. No sympathy from me.
Poutine & Meatballs
by cyxj on Feb 9, 2012 5:08 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
6 in a row would be pretty tough to watch. Especially for a team that’s as good as the Hawks. It’s amazing how they can be the best team in the league one night then the next night they are one of the worst.
Keith and Seabrook
are being ridden into the ground. Plus, goaltending has been an issue most of the year.
Warm winds blowing, heating blue sky, and a road that goes forever...
by Smoboy41 on Feb 8, 2012 11:19 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Which leads to more blame.
Plus, can you believe Kane has only 2 goals in 30+ games? Toews cooled off, and Sharp’s still hurt. They can only pull so many rabbits out of the hat (ie that rookie Andrew Shaw), and without supplementary scoring, and Crawford not stellar….. in a hyper-competitive division….
It’s tough. I hope they don’t slide TOO far down. I don’t want a first round match up with them.
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by Vancouverguy on Feb 8, 2012 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
No no no keep sliding
right out of playoff contention.
"I'll play on one leg, I don't care." - Ryan Kesler
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 8, 2012 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
It's not Crawford
It’s goaltending depth. Losing Campbell was a bigger loss than anyone realized and I was over at SCH saying they were in a mini rebuild this summer. They need to understand that bouwman looks at this year as gravy as he builds young talent and continues to blow up what talon did.
Yep
They have the cap room to make something happen on the blue line.
I do remember getting politely eviscerated when I was saying, look, all the guys Bow Jr hired are on 1 years, and it had no real effect for me on how “good” they were going to be.
Now, Carcillo is gone, Brunette only occasionally effective.to say nothing of how they are judging OD and Montador over at SCH.
I totally agree on Campbell though, the guy was a pain in the ass in the playoffs last year.
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi. I think he was a Canucks fan...
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How do these goals always seem to find their way towards Luongo?
How the hell did that third goal go in? Geez…it’s pretty ridiculous the tough luck that the man has…buttttttttttttt he hasn’t lost in regulation since Jan. 17th, and has been standing on his head for the past two weeks.
One regulation loss in the last ten…I think us fans can get a bit greedy at times, but this time is showing some moxie in hanging in there, and most games will be close in the playoffs…just find a way!
"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." - Boondock Saints
Lol at the Province tweet link
Apparently, all the twitterers (tweeters?) have amazing precognition: they responded to AV’s line changes 7 days in advance.
UH OH....Hank in a walking boot
I kinda had a sinking feeling that might happen, even when he toughed out the game last night.
That 552 game iron man streak may be in jeopardy
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Weise is also not skating today
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not necessarily a horrible thing
if it’s a few weeks… time for the team to come together and step up, everyone starting to give just a little bit extra to take up the slack, right at the perfect time of the season to do it. #alwaysasilverlining
"Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do."
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Yep.
Anybody remember when Daniel went down with a broken foot a couple of years ago?
That worked out okay.
where the hell is all this silver lining stuff coming from?
;-)
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If he misses some time
Its probably the best thing that could happen to this team. The team should tell the doctors to fake it if they have to. Keep the guy off his feet for a couple weeks.
To follow up that:
I did a story on the Henrik injury. ALSO, I make my triumphant return to NM tomorrow with a new weekly article. It will be humor based and will teach you nothing. It’s going to be awesome.
ALSO
Cody Godson t-shirts are in the works to be available through NM. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet
by The Stanchion on Feb 8, 2012 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
Hodgson is
so ten minutes ago. All the hipster doofusses want a Ballroom Bitz shirt.
Warm winds blowing, heating blue sky, and a road that goes forever...
by Smoboy41 on Feb 8, 2012 3:24 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
On the back
“and the man in the back said everyone attack…”
I saw that Godson design on Twitter I think it was. Hipsters will love that one too, its awesome.
Welcome back Stanch’ !
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Hey
I’m not a doofus, my mom says I’m not.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 8, 2012 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
The scoreless draw
I remember it…. Bob Essensa was in goal!
Man who has four balls cannot walk
by Beer Leaguer on Feb 8, 2012 2:44 PM PST via Android app reply actions
When Joe Haggerty looks like the good guy in all this
Haggs is dead on. Free to say whatever he wants. Time for Tim to stop ‘no-comment’-ing his way out of it. If he puts it out there, it’s fair game.
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Holy crap. Look at Rome!!- Sean Zandberg
NO
Timmy say its my right as long as I know run FOR office!!!!
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Exactly
He’s no dummy. This is nothing but political point scoring while he has a loud voice. Nothing else makes sense, unless he’s a complete lunatic. why specifically be a distraction then keep backing away? I’m sure he’s fully aware that his political career is about to be more important than his hockey career in a few years.
I’m more in the Puck Daddy’s camp. Who gives a shit about what he says? He’s a goalie. People watch him play hockey, not for what he has to say.
Sure
Except he’s using his standing as a professional athlete to voice his political opinion exactly because he KNOWS people care what he has to say.
and then from that lofty perch
crying ’it’s my private life! how dare you ask me that?!’ Cowardly…
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all your audio
of the captain and his owie.
Except for the actual, you know, results…
http://www.teamradio.ca/news/ankle-injury-for-henrik-sedin/
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NHL_Oilers Edmonton Oilers
#OILERS GOAL! Guess who!? Sam Gagner goes backhand top shelf on the breakaway and the #Wings lead is cut to 2-1
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BuffaloSabres Buffalo Sabres
GOAL! Kaleta scores to give the #Sabres a 4-0 lead! 1:49 left in the second
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Holy crap. Look at Rome!!- Sean Zandberg
yes crazy score so far for that game. Are the Bruins just playing poorly or has Miller got his game back a bit?
Go Canucks Go!
Ehrhoff with the GWG
good thing he still has the desire to beat Boston
@Jabs_13: Got the pleasure of meeting 8 Vancouver Canucks tonight #unreal
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Thomas. Zero credibility.
DJ_Bean DJ Bean
Thomas asked FB. “That’s my personal life. I won’t be talking about that. It has absolutely nothing to do with the game of hockey.”
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TT30 asked about attention it attracts. “That’s my personal life. I won’t be commenting on that. It has nothing to do with the game of hockey or my job as a Boston Bruin.”
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He cannot
continue with that bullshit excuse.
Its different for a nobody, but you cannot make violently provocative comments, comparing current government policy to Nazis…and then hide behind that.
Not when you are a public figure, be it D list actor, sex tape promotor / paid to go to parties , or a fucking goalie.
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LOL DRAKE
"I remember trying to open presents before Daniel because we always got the same presents. I wanted to have the surprise."
— Henrik Sedin
drizzy
drake
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 8, 2012 9:45 PM PST up reply actions
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