CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
Aaron Rome played in one regular and one post-season game the season that the Ducks won the Stanley Cup – game 4, round 1.
He didn’t play in the finals, so received a ring, but didn’t get his name on the Cup.
Rome has played well at the AHL level – scoring 21 points in [...]

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by Ron Spence
How much money do you want, Daniel?
How much money do you need, Henrik?
When you return to Sweden – six or seven years from now – how big a portfolio do you want?
The Leafs are supposedly going to offer you as high as $7 million per year.
“The Leafs are probably willing to hit the [...]

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by Ron Spence
Let me see.
There are five teams in the Northwest Division.
Let’s subtract Colorado – isn’t that nice after all of these years.
So, you have Edmonton, Calgary, Minnesota and the ‘nucks.
Now, the Alberta twins have new coaches – very good coaches at least for two season shelf lives – and Edmonton has the sniper Dany [...]

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by Ron Spence
Not that much has been written about the young Swede, but everyone agrees that he’s highly skilled.
He is a Dave Gagner prospect. Rodin  will have to work on his diet and weight training, etc. to make it to the Big Tent.
One of the things that this draft has shown to me, [...]

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by Ron Spence
I like this choice very much.
The kid is small, but strong and fiesty. He did his wingate test and vomited once it was over. He also completed 17 bench presses at 150 pounds, which has impressed everyone.
He didn’t do very well at the World Juniors, but he’s entitled to a bad series. [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Vancouver Canucks draft 22nd overall in the first round, and then 53rd, 83rd, 113rd, 143rd, and 173rd.

“The top 10 this year are very good and everyone will get a good player in the first round,” predicted Dan Marr, head scouting guy for the Atlanta Thrashers. “You put a rough list together prior [...]

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Detroit — “Many young players enter the NHL and think only about scoring goals. They feel that’s the way to get noticed.
Livonia native Ryan Kesler, of the Vancouver Canucks, has been a little different.
Maybe it’s because he’s the son of a coach — Mike Kesler is a longtime successful junior coach in Metro Detroit — [...]

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“It is among the toughest news a player — especially a top prospect — can hear and it came at the worst possible time.
But the decision Manitoba Moose head coach Scott Arniel made to sit Cody Hodgson down as a healthy scratch on Sunday has already paid off in the short-term and it will also [...]

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by Ron Spence

It’s monsooning here in Kumerung. When I go for walks, I have to watch out for the snakes.
I sit in front of my computer, and things are a little empty without the Canucks – gone are my hopes, my disappointment….
Life will go on, and so will another season – always a season [...]

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by Ron Spence
I’ve seen players implode before.
I was at GM Place the two nights when McSorley whacked Brash, and Bertuzzi attacked Moore.
Sometimes the pressure’s just too much – regardless of the talent level.
Roberto had a continuous brain cramp – two nights ago – up there with Steve Smith and Bill Bugner.
And it’s disappointing – after [...]

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