This has been a fun season of hockey. From 11 comeback wins, to 7 hat tricks, to some awesome antics on and off the ice, there has been a pretty damn awesome season. I decided to scavenger through the Nucks Misconduct archives and YouTube, to find the season's highlights that made big news on our site. From sicks goals, to amazing saves, to awesome fights and a near-brawl, and even a couple off-ice things, I found most of them and put them here. I'm probably forgetting a few, so if you find other gems I missed, throw them in the comments. Enjoy.
In chronological order:
- Oct 7 vs Canadiens. Rick Rypien fights Hal Gill. Where's a ladder when you need it?
- Oct 21 vs Blackhawks. Willie Mitchell levels Jonathan Toews. Ouch!
- Nov 3 vs Rangers. Probably the closest thing we had all year to a line brawl:
- Nov 12 vs Red Wings. Rick Rypien fights Brad May. Pretty good scrap.
- Nov 14 vs Avalanche. Henrik Sedin helps the Canucks win 8-2 by getting his 1st career hat trick.
- Nov 20 vs Avalanche. With 2 goals and a beautiful feed to Steve Bernier for another goal, this was the night that Christian Ehrhoff officially won our hearts.
- Dec 3 vs Flyers. While fighting Mike Richards, Kevin Bieksa uses the Superman punch.
- Dec 10 vs Thrashers. Rypien fights Boris Valabik. Why does Rypien always go for the giants?
- Dec 22 vs Predators. The beginning of our Green Men.
- Dec 27. When the roster for the Swedish Olympic team is announced, Mikael Samuelsson talks about the snub.
- Dec 27 vs Flames. I would normally post one or two things about this game. But from Mason Raymond getting a hat trick to Miikka Kiprusoff getting a bad bounce to Henrik Sedin trash-talking Dion Phaneuf, this entire game was just epic:
- Dec 31 vs Blues. Rypien beats up Cam Janssen. This was the fight where Rypien got the match penalty for having that tape on his wrist.
- Jan 5 vs Blue Jackets. Alex Burrows gets his 1st hat trick....
- Jan 7 vs Coyotes. ...and Burrows does it again. 2 games in a row. Seriously, no joke.
- Jan 21 vs Stars. Poor Alex Auld. This is why you don't give the puck to Burrows like that.
- Jan 25 vs Sabres. Brad Lukowich finally scores in a Canucks uniform and gets the game-winning goal.
- Jan 30 vs Maple Leafs. When down 3-0 already, Roberto Luongo got pulled and Andrew Raycroft took over. The Canucks came back to win 5-3, and Rayzor got to milk the win in his old building for all it was worth:
- Mar 9 vs Avalanche. Samuelsson sparks a huge 6-4 comeback win by getting a hat trick.
- Mar 10 vs Coyotes. You guys remember that night when the audio wasn't working properly, and the TSN panel had to do the commentating for the first part of the game? James Duthie did the play-by-play, the other guys did colour, and it was bloody hilarious. Only remaining trace of it is this awesome Raycroft save.
- March 25 vs Ducks. I kinda feel bad for Jonas Hiller. This fluke was hard to see coming.
- April 2 vs Ducks. The first goal, then the second goal, and then the third goal! Michael Grabner gets a hat trick.
- April 10 vs Flames. A 7-3 win against our bitter rivals was the perfect way to end the regular season. And here's Daniel Sedin's hat trick goal:
PLAYOFFS!!!!!1
- April 15 - Game 1 vs Kings. Samuelsson scores the OT winner.
- April 15 - Game 1 vs Kings. Luongo makes a huge goal line save, then has to deal with that stupid knob getting stuck in his pad at the end!
- April 21 - Game 4 vs Kings. Luongo makes a big save on Alexander Frolov.
- April 23 - Game 5 vs Kings. Rypien destroys Richard Clune. Sorry, but I can't get enough of Rypper's fights.
- April 25 - Game 6 vs Kings. Luongo robs Ryan Smyth.
- April 25 - Game 6 vs Kings. Daniel scores the series-winning goal.
- April 25 - Game 6 vs Kings. Post-game locker room celebration, complete with Ryan Kesler doing his happy dance. Original video was removed, so I went and found another copy after posting this story.
- Unfortunately, we didn't really have any real highlights in the Chicago series, so I'll just leave you with this:
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