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canucklehead

canucklehead has written 34 posts for penaltykill.net

Vancouver Canucks: Dan’s The Man

For the Canucks fans the wait is over as they welcome home B.C. boy Dan Hamhuis, to a reported 6-year deal for $4.5million per year. Last season he scored 5 goals and 19 assists for the Predators. Many teams coveted the 6ft 1”, 203lb, 27 year old.
Earlier today they signed Manny Malhotra to [...]

NHL 2010 Draft Selections - How Many Picks Does Your Team Have?

Here are your team’s 2010 NHL Entry Draft Picks (as of last week). The Carolina Hurricanes, Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders lead with double-digit picks, and the San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars bring up the rear with only 4 picks each. Choose wisely!

Club
# of Picks
Rounds of Picks
Overall Pick #s

Anaheim
7
1,1,2,5,6,6,7
12,29,42,132,161,177,192

Atlanta [...]

There Is A New D-man In Van-Exclusive Interview With Lee Sweatt

It’s almost a month since the Vancouver Canucks were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoff’s, the dust has settled and everyone and their Auntie have analyzed and over analyzed what went wrong. The players may now even be more concerned with how they will get a birdie on the eighteenth hole then anything pertaining to [...]

It’s Not Over Yet!

After a 7-4 defeat at the hands of the Blackhawks, the Canucks headache is getting worse. Will the dark cloud looming over Canuck nation finally blow away?
Vancouver have certainly put themselves in a very difficult position, but a comeback is still possible, with a win tomorrow night the tables can be turned, the battle is [...]

Counting Pucks

Here is a short math’s test, with some simple questions, about three friends called Alex, Mason and Ryan.
Question One: Alex, Mason, and Ryan each have a bag of pucks. In Alex’s bag there are 35 pucks, Mason has 25 pucks and Ryan also has 25. If you add up all of the pucks what is [...]

Its Time To Believe

On Saturday April 10th the Canucks beat the Flames 3-7 in a game that completed the regular season for both teams. After the game GM Place was echoing with the sound of jubilant Canucks fans chanting MVP at the top of their voices, for newly crowned Art Ross Trophy winner Henrik Sedin.
Those same fans [...]

Searching For A Play-off Hero

The regular season is quickly drawing to a close for the Vancouver Canucks and its faithful fans. When the playoffs begin in just over a week’s time each player will take part in the ultimate battle for Stanley Cup supremacy. Certain members of the team will unfortunately be unnoticed and in years gone by their [...]

Is Kyle All Well And Good For Vancouver

Now that Ryan Kesler has been awarded a contract extension, the position of first and second line center will be filled for at least the next six years. So what about the role of third line centre, who could be the best candidate for that job?
Kyle Wellwood currently fills that spot. On July 1st [...]

Looking In The Face Of Adversity

The passing of time can often be a cruel occurrence, on March 15th Canucks.com proudly reported that Mikael Samuelsson had been named the NHL’s first star of the week, for the week of 8-14 March. During that time Samuelsson accrued some impressive stats, ten points six goals and four assists in four games. Then on [...]

The Longest Trip In History

On January 30th the Vancouver Canucks started what was to be the longest road trip in NHL history. During this time they traveled a total of 20,737 kilometers. The first game of the colossal fourteen game expedition began with a win against the Leafs, it ended on March 10th with an overtime loss to Phoenix. [...]

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