CrashingTheGoalie

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Graham was chosen 89th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in 1979 after starring with the hometown Pats of the WCJHL.
Forward Dirk Graham spent parts of a dozen NHL seasons with the Minnesota North Stars and Chicago Black Hawks in the 80s and 90s.
Graham played the finest hockey of his career in [...]

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by Bill Heintz
Looks like we can forget about Hamhuis. The Flyers dealt defenseman Ryan Parent to the Predators on Saturday in exchange for defenseman Dan Hamhuis and a conditional draft pick in the 2011 draft.Hamhuis, 27, had five goals and 19 assists for Nashville last season. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent [...]

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by Bill Heintz

After the boys most recent performances against the crème de la crème, the chat boards are buzzing with controversy.
The problem?
Why, simply its; do we need a third line centre upgrade?

Many fans have given up on Kyle Wellwood. He’s not producing the offence and he isn’t playing on the PK so [...]

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by Ron Spence
Vancouver’s 1st and 2nd Round Draft Picks last June played well at the recent World Juniors.
Minnesota sophomore Jordan Schroeder, playing in his third WJC, had three assists to surpass Jeremy Roenick as the all-time career points leader for Team USA at the WJC. Schroeder has 7 goals and 20 assists for 27 points, [...]

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by Ron Spence
The kid broke his foot in a freak accident on November 1st.
Michael Grabner, 22, had played in nine games with the Canucks – after his recall to Vancouver on Oct. 14th. In that span, he had two goals and three assists.
He had started his season in Manitoba where he had 4 goals and [...]

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by Ron Spence
I see that nucks centre/winger Ryan Kessler has been selected to play in the 2010 Olympics. It’s not a surpise. He’s a great two-way player.
What is a surprise, however, is that R.J. Umberger was excluded.

But, now that I remember it, U.S.A. GM Brian Burke said that Kesler was a better player and worth [...]

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By Bill Heintz
Well, the truth is: not yet.
But there’s been lots of positive signs as we hit the halfway point. Bob Luongo’s been steady. The Sedins have been magic. Mason Raymond has emerged. Kesler and Burrows have continued to produce points and antagonize enemies. And we’ve shown we can be one of the tougher teams [...]

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by Ron Spence
I was curious about the Team Canada selections – how many of them were 1st or 2nd round picks when they were drafted by NHL teams.

All of the goalies were drafted in the 1st round, and only one forward wasn’t. It was Patrice Bergeron, who was drafted in the 2nd round in 2003.
Dan [...]

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by Drew Baird
Wednesday December 30th, a day most Canadian hockey fans have been looking forward to for a few years. Thirteen forwards, seven defenseman and three goalies will be lucky enough to wear red and represent our nation at the 2010 Olympic games and we all find out who they are today. I took the [...]

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by Kris Gray
What in the world is veteran NHL goalie Dan Cloutier doing in Rockford, IL you ask?

The 33 yr old family man took a few minutes to answer few questions after practice on Tuesday. Cloutier recently signed a professional tryout with the AHL Rockford IceHogs. Cloutier has not played professionally in the past 18 [...]

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