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One Last Kick

by Alanah McGinley on 04/05/08 at 01:54 PM
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The final chapter in the 82 part nightmare that has been the Vancouver Canucks 2007-08 season, unfolds tonight at GM Place. A downer of a game for Canucks fans, but still worth watching for a couple reasons.

For one, a win against the Flames increases the likelihood they become Shark-bait in the first round of the playoffs.  And for another, it’s likely to be the goodbye game for Trevor Linden and possibly Markus Naslund.  (Miss 604 suggests we consider it the Unofficial Trevor Linden Appreciation Day. Good plan.)

Anyway, about Calgary. 

Fortunately I was at the Vancouver Airport yesterday and managed to snap a photo of Dion Phaneuf, who clearly wasn’t expecting any cameras to be around. Apparently he borrowed some of his girlfriend’s clothing in his hurry to make the team plane?

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Canucks Freak Us Out with Mysterious “Scoring Talent”

by Alanah McGinley on 10/07/07 at 04:24 AM
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Game one against the Sharks wasn’t so hot. 

Friday night marked the 150th consecutive sellout in Vancouver.  Less than a minute into that first game of the season, Yo! Luongo made a big save, the crowd roared “Louuuuu!” and a new season began to great expectations. (So, that part was sort of fun.)

And then of course, much of the rest of that night sucked like a hoover. 

Jeremy Roenick scoring two goals felt like some kind of curse, for one thing.  So in order to banish the curse, I thought I’d republish the image below that I created as an homage to Roenick a few months ago:

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Northwest Division Previews

by Alanah McGinley on 10/04/07 at 02:24 PM
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Putting in my time at The Crazy Canucks over the last couple weeks, I had a chance to chat with some popular bloggers/writers covering the other NW Division this season. Here are the episodes:


To check out the individual columns and blogs of everyone who participated in the above episodes: Battle of Alberta, Jerseys and Hockey Love, Hockey Rants, Post-Pessimist Association, and John Shipley at the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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