CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
Christian Ehrhoff leads the nucks with a +9 in 21 games. He has 12 points, which helps to pull up his average.
Alexander Edler and Steve Bernier also lead the nucks with a -5. Each has 10 points (These nucks’ stats were skewered upwards after the lopsided win over Colorado.).
1. Who has the NHL’s [...]

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The Calgary Flames are sniffing behind the Avalanche.

The Canucks and Oilers are out of the picture.
And Minnesota, they can’t even find the ladder….

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by Ron Spence
Mathieu Perreault has played in four NHL games and has one goal and two assists.

Perreault was drafted in the 6th round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft – by the Capitals – and is the fifth Cap prospect from that year to wear a Washington uniform.
Nicklas Backstrom, Semyon Varlamov, Michal Neuvirth and Oskar [...]

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Jeff Cowan has moved east from Peoria, Illinois to Portland, Maine. And he’s in the Buffalo Sabres system, rather than the Canucks/Blues.
This season he’s both scoring and fighting. As of today, he’s had five fighting majors: against Kip Brennan, Wade Brookbank, Nicolas Blanchard, Kirk MacDonald and Vladimir Mihalik.

Also, he’s scored five goals, along with 2 [...]

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by Ron Spence
Manny Legace was a nuck for about five minutes.
He was claimed off of waivers by Vancouver on September 30, 1999. And then, Brian Burke – protecting his goalie of the future Kevin Weekes and Garth Snow – placed Legace on waivers and he was claimed back by Detroit on October 13, 1999.
Legace starred for the [...]

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The play-by-play went like this:

“The check, along the right-wing boards near the faceoff circle, saw [Manitoba Dman Mike] Funk readying to move the puck out of his zone. He made the play and took the hit, a rising blow that contained elbow, forearm and at the end, stick, and also included the new, popular move [...]

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“…the debate rages on about blows to the head and respect among players.
It is most-heard in the NHL, but is most probably a bigger problem in the AHL, where one referee cannot see everything and young, brash players are willing to do just about anything to make the big time.”

The preceding was written by Winnipeg [...]

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By Bill Heintz
The injured guys are trickling back in. Ryan Johnson is once again blocking shots. Captain Lou will be on the bench tonight with the expectation of playing Thursday. Daniel Sedin is rumored to be just a few days away from playing. And for some reason that is causing me a slight twinge.
The Dallas [...]

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by Bill Heintz
The attitude that was so painful to watch during the Dallas game was again evident tonight…we just didn’t have the brilliant performance from Corey Schneider that kept us in it the other night. After tonight’s woeful performance it’s now official, the Canucks have officially taken their foot off the gas. Hang on, folks.

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by Ron Spence
I enjoyed watching the Blues during the 1st round of last season’s playoffs.
They were a young team and showed a lot of promise (This didn’t continue into this season, however, and they are currently 26th of the NHL’s 30 teams.
T.J. OSHIE
courtesy of thehockeynews.com
During the summer, I read that Hockey’s Future had ranked the [...]

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