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It wasn't a classic but Henrik Sedin's empty-net goal, the milestone 200th goal of his NHL career, did help nail down his team's 4-1 win over the visiting Detroit Red Wings Saturday. Sedin soon after scored number 201, again into an empty net.
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Ryan Miller started a Vancouver Canucks road trip with his second straight shutout Friday night as he and his teammates thumped the hapless Columbus Blue Jackets, 5-0. Miller made 31 saves and has now allowed just a single goal in his last three games.
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Pat Quinn, the Big Irishman, one of the great players, great coaches, managers and storytellers of the NHL, has died at 71. Mr. Quinn passed away at Vancouver General Hospital on Sunday night after a lengthy illness.
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Canucks rookie Bo Horvat got three assists Sunday, the first assists of his NHL career, as Vancouver beat the visiting Chicago Blackhawks, 4-1. The team's Great Dane, Danish forward Jannik Hansen, got a hat-trick, the trigger man for each Horvat assist.
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The Vancouver Canucks had quite the sellout streak going but it ended Saturday night. The game against the Tampa Bay Lightning marked the first time the Canucks did not sell out a regular season game in 474 games, a streak dating back to Nov. 14, 2002.
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As the beginning of the NHL season looms, it’s time to review the teams' off-season moves as well as take a glimpse of what the 2014-15 NHL season may hold for them. Here’s a quick breakdown of how the Pacific division teams spent their summer.
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For Vancouver's Tristan Jones, a beer-league hockey goalie and a professional goalie instructor, last Monday started out a typical day. It didn't end that way though, not by a long shot, as the 27-year-old wound up playing goal for the Vancouver Canucks.
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With today's announcement from Pittsburgh that the Pens have hired Jim Rutherford to replace Ray Shero, and that the G.M.'s first act was to fire coach Dan Bylsma, the question becomes - what about Bylsma? Could he end up with the Vancouver Canucks?
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This rumor has been around for a month, but it's now a rumor closer to fruition. Jim Benning, currently an assistant GM with the Boston Bruins, may be named this week as the new GM for the Vancouver Canucks.
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The situation with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks are roughly analogous. Each had a disastrous 2013-14 NHL season and missed the postseason, for the Leafs it was more of the same, for the Canucks their first miss in six years.
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Today's news out of Vancouver Canuck-land comes as no surprise so it's best treated briefly: new president Trever Linden fired coach John Tortorella and his assistant, Mike Sullivan, and will start interviewing candidates for the G.M. job soon.
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It is one of the most coveted gigs in hockey, the job of an NHL general manager, and the Vancouver Canucks have not had one since Mike Gillis beat a forced but hasty retreat. Newly-appointed president Trevor Linden has a GM uppermost on his to-do list.
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Here's the thing about hits from behind, hits near the boards and on the numbers: it's a crap shoot. The player being hit might skate away unharmed or, like so many have, be severely concussed.
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The prospects of a second season behind the bench of the Vancouver Canucks don't look good for John Tortorella. But this pundit is of the opinion that he'll be back. There are a variety of reasons, number one of which is he's a good coach.
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Mike Gillis has been fired, Trevor Linden has been hired, and the Vancouver Canucks are playing out the string. The talk shows, media, fans, even the players, the entire Canuck Nation, is speculating on the future and there's been lots of doom and gloom.
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Two days after his 35th birthday Roberto Luongo gave his former Vancouver Canuck teammates a gift by beating the Dallas Stars, 3-2, on Sunday. The Canucks have a slim chance of making the Stanley Cup playoffs and a Dallas win would have eliminated them.
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It's over! Done! Yes, at last the unthinkable but constantly thought of has occurred, now nearly a month ago, and Roberto Luongo was dealt back to the Florida Panthers. It's taken time to process but I am ready to speak. First word out of the gap?
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The injury parade that has plagued the NHLs Vancouver Canucks this season looks to be continuing. On a day forwards Daniel Sedin and Ryan Kesler returned to practice, winger Alex Burrows was absent. GM Mike Gillis suggested he might be out a while.
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So take that coach John Tortorella! Roberto Luongo, dissed by his former coach, who gave a key start to his back-up, got lots of respect in his first game after being traded back to the Florida Panthers. Lou got the club's first shutout in two years.
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When it comes to hockey opinions and the NHL, any pundit with a forum likely to reach others - hey, I got one! - is sure to have a take on a trade the magnitude of the Roberto Luongo deal. It was a newsworthy exchange of NHL goods, no question.
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I haven't gotten a bead on exactly who did all the griping about Vancouver Canucks' coach John Tortorella's words to the effect that he'd prefer Sweden to beat Canada for the gold at Sochi. But whomsoever it was needs a course in sucking it up.
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Phoenix Coyotes forward Martin Hanzal has some 'splaining to do and it appears the Vancouver Canucks have players who may do more than just listen. Canuck Dale Weise told media Saturday today's game may see Hanzal forced to "answer the bell."
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Let's start here: the Calgary Flames are a pathetic excuse for an NHL hockey team and coach Bob Hartley should concentrate on making them a viable on-ice product. Not on fighting. Not on creating a circus-like atmosphere.
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It had to happen eventually and it looks like now is the time. The Vancouver Canucks are playing in Edmonton against the Oilers Tuesday night and the team says that for the first time since Feb. 23, 2003, captain Henrik Sedin won't be in the lineup.
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There's an unspoken rule in the NHL that if you try running a top player, not just bodycheck, but hurt, you have to face the music. Jordan Nolan, all 6'3" and 230 pounds of him, did the first part Monday night but turtled when it came to the second.
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Depending on which report you believe, Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo is out with a groin injury either 7 to 10 days or he's day-to-day. Either way, until he returns his back-up, Eddie Lack, is ready to enjoy a stint as the go-to guy.
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While Vancouver Canuck GM Mike Gillis has not revealed the full extent of the injury suffered by goalie Roberto Luongo, he has called up goalie Joacim Eriksson from the Utica Comets of the AHL. Gillis called up Eriksson Friday morning.
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Dallas came into Sunday's NHL game knowing it had to play good defense against Vancouver, one of the best offensive units in the NHL and despite allowing over 40 shots on goal, the Stars escaped the game with a 2-1 victory over the Canucks.
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The Vancouver Canucks preseason schedule is over but that doesn't mean their roster is set. On Saturday, the club traded with the Carolina Hurricanes for young forwards Zac Dalpe, 23, and Jeremy Welsh, 25.
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On Monday Zach Kassian has a hearing with the NHL disciplinary committee for his hit on Sam Gagner on Saturday night. The hit's result is not good for Gagner or the Edmonton Oilers but that doesn't mean the Vancouver Canucks forward should be suspended.
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Vancouver Canucks fans riot broke out following Stanley Cup Game, which led to cars being set ablaze, beer bottles being thrown out and riot police making arrests. © Photo by armen / Special permission
Vancouver Canuck Keith Ballard is out the rest of the 2012 NHL regular season. Photo by Matt Boulton
Roberto Luongo, the goaltender of the Vancouver Canucks, during Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals cerebusfangirl
Second car set on fire, Stanley Cup Final, Vancouver.
Strombone1 had been mostly silent for awhile but it appears Roberto Luongo's alter-ego is back. Vancouver Canuck fans hope it means he's all set for the 2013-2014 season. Photo courtesy Strombone1
Dedicated fans of Vancouver Canucks on West Georgia Street, Vancouver
Rioters flipped cars, started fires and broke store windows in Vancouver after the city's hockey team lost in the Stanley Cup final in June of 2011
The boarded up windows of the Hudson's Bay in downtown Vancouver became a message board of hope for Canucks fans.
The unforgettable shot by the fire, Stanley Cup Final, Vancouver.
A group photo before very important event, Stanley Cup Final, Vancouver.
Mark Messier had an unsuccessful 3-year tenure as the captain of the Vancouver Canuck. Photo by Hakan Dahlstrom
Brett Connolly is just the kind of young player that Cory Schneider might fetch in a deal. Photo by Hellotherefolks
Kevin Bieksa doesn't mind radio interviews, in fact he'll even do them as if he were teammate Ryan Kesler. Photo by Mister Leung
Ryan Kessler of the Vancouver Canucks Mafue
Goalie Tristan Jones and Canucks forward Alex Burrows. Photo courtesy Tristan Jones
Phoenix Coyotes left wing Tim Kennedy (34) passes to center Martin Hanzal (11) as Vancouver Canucks center Zac Dalpe (21) defends and goalie Eddie Lack (31) dives across the net during the second period at Jobing.com Arena. Jan 16, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Matt Kartozian-USA Today
Fans of Vancouver Canucks in jerseys from different times of the team's history, West Georgia Street, Stanley Cup Final, Vancouver.
A yellow jacket brutal from the police bike squad, having fun with beating up innocent bystanders, Vancouver final game of Stanley Cup.
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