Matt Cooke, who like most NHL players is actually a nice guy off the ice, seems to suffer from a disorder that makes his on-ice personality the target of the ire of not only his opponents, but even his team-mates. And now, like ripples through a still pond, a...
We kind of knew it was coming, but the retirement of Number 19 still comes as a bit of a shock. Joe Sakic averaged more than a point per game through his entire 20-year NHL career, even in the last season where he only managed 15 games due to constant back pain. ...
At the Canucks Fan Zone, blogger Derek Jory asks the question (of no one in particular — they don’t allow comments) whether the following photo, ostensibly from 1984, is real: It’s a pre-game faceoff between Stan Smyl and Mario Lemieux, with Michael...
It’s such common wisdom to say that your team gets you into the playoffs but your goalie gets you to the final that the phrase has become a hackneyed cliche. But there’s a new cliche in town:Â One lesson is starting to become clear in the new NHL is that...
Let’s face facts, sports fans… the Canucks were not, this year or any other year, a team slated to go deep in the playoffs by anyone. While fans railed against what they saw as biased coverage of the last remaining Canadian team’s play by a bunch...
