CrashingTheGoalie

by Bill Heintz

It’s a little early for Daddy to start drinking yet, but I’m in the mood to celebrate.
First, to digress: the chat boards have been worried for a couple of months now. Sure we have lots of depth up front…lots of competition on the forward lines. Truth is, we have the potential to [...]

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by Bill Heintz
The odds and ends of the off season can sometimes be like reading the entrails of chickens or the leaves at the bottom of a cup of tea. If you are superstitious (and knock on wood, thank God, I am not) then you can convince yourself that they are portents…predictors of the coming [...]

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by Bill Heintz
The recent signing of Kyle Wellwood provides a decent benchmark for the Canucks’ summer. We have signed the guys, save Mats Sundin, from our own team that we wanted to sign. As for Mats. Well, the guessing here is that he’s done.
Of course, I famously predicted the Canucks were out of the [...]

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by Bill Heintz
A recent poll on the hfboards revealed that some 80% of the fans wanted to see Mats Sundin back with the Canucks this year. I confess to being somewhat surprised given the issues surrounding Mats. Mostly these are centered around his contract and the resulting cap space problems, somewhat exacerbated by the fact [...]

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by desert dawg
I have finally emerged from my post Stanley Cup (post-draft, post-free agent frenzy) slumber to offer some thoughts on hockey.
Now, be forewarned, much of this commentary is based on stuff you already know because you have been searching the internet daily for any nugget pertaining to this most glorious of sports.
And [...]

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by desertdawg
Okay, so it took us all a few days to recover from the shock.
Willie Mitchell wasn’t the only one who thought the Canucks had something special going this year. Lots of us did.
Of course our enthusiasm leaves us open to the ridicule from other fan bases…but hey, how well did their team do?
So [...]

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by desertdawg
Step back from the ledge folks. A couple of you are just a little to close to jump…I mean, falling over. Besides, we need the room at the edge of the abyss. The Washington Capital fans have reservations and are booked to come through at any moment.
So, Roberto has feet of clay.
See [...]

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by desertdawg
I started out the night writing the usual blow by blow description. We take a lead…they come back. They take the lead…we come back.
But I kept thinking each time well, if Roberto shuts the door we‘ve got a great chance…I thought that so many times this year.
And he shut the door.
Big Lou [...]

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by desertdawt
Everyone has there own take on what went wrong. Some people blame the undisciplined play of our defense, particularly Bieksa and SOB. Stupid penalties at the worst possible time. Some go back a game earlier and blame big Willie for making a half assed clearing attempt that lead to Havlat grabbing the puck and [...]

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by desertdawg

Well, I got home late, watched the DVR of the game and had more than a few brandies. The game made me sick.
So it’s now Sunday morning as I write this. I don’t want to say too much about the result, because everyone knows it already. It wasn’t the PP goal in the [...]

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