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Don Cherry is a colorful guy, it is there in his suits and surname, and he don't mince no words. On Coach's Corner Wednesday, along the way to trashing Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis, Cherry noted that when he got traded to Boston, Brad Park was "fat."

Besides getting a two-minute boarding penalty in overtime in San Jose Tuesday night, a call made not by the nearby official but the one well down the ice, Daniel Sedin got another penalty. It's one he's not likely to ever get again.

Daniel Sedin followed his linemate and brother Henrik past Markus Naslund in the all-time Canucks scoring list Monday night in Vancouver in a Canucks 3-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. The Sedins now stand one-two in points for the team.

The Vancouver Canucks and the Toronto Maple Leafs each punched a ticket to the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs on Saturday night. For the Canucks it was expected while for the Leafs it was a cause for celebration.

It has been much talked and written about, the difficult day that Vancouver Canucks back-up goalie Roberto Luongo had this week. He wasn't traded and he'll stick to sitting on the bench with a ball cap on. His contracts, he said, "sucks."

There'll be no forgiving Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis if he fails to get more goals while jettisoning Roberto Luongo by the looming NHL trade deadline Wednesday. While Canuck fans enjoyed parts of a recent 6 game win streak, they didn't enjoy it all.

Maybe it's the opposite of pulling a rabbit out of a hat, what Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis did. Gillis had an asset, Roberto Luongo, that he no longer needed and instead of turning him into something, he turned him into nothing.

The Detroit Red Wings scored early and often as they steamrolled over Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks, 8-3. It was Luongo's first regulation loss of the season and ended the team's four game road trip at 2-1-1.

The Vancouver Canucks have a new all-time scorer in the person of their captain, Henrik Sedin. Sedin passed another Swede, their former captain, Markus Naslund with two assists in a 4-3 home loss Friday.

While any NHL talk of a goalie being available is almost entirely centered on Roberto Luongo, there is now another veteran puckstopper on the market and this one could be had for nothing. The Detroit Red Wings have put veteran Joey MacDonald on waivers.