Like an old, sick dog who tries valiantly to hang on as its life is coming to a close, so too did the Canucks extend their life last night, all the way into overtime before succumbing to the San Jose Sharks in a sweep of their opening round series. There will be time later to ...
A lot has been made this season about the so called Vancouver Canucks goalie controversy. After not being able to unload Roberto Luongo during the off season, the Canucks entered the season with two number one guys in net. They have been alternating starts so far this year and Thursday night during their game with ...
After shutting out the Colorado Avalanche 3-0 two nights ago the Vancouver Canucks and head coach Alain Vigneault have decided to give goalie Roberto Luongo another start against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday. It will be the third consecutive start for Luongo and seems to have people worked up. At first glance, starting a veteran ...
Canucks GM Mike Gillis has said that there is a deal in place for a Roberto Luongo trade with an unexpected team that “has to do something with another player that they have”. If this announcement is, in fact, true then what team will Luongo be, potentially, shipped off to? Gillis has made it clear ...
It’s a controversy not experienced for a number of years. This time though, you’ll be unlikely to find too many angry tweets or hear many complaints out of Leaf Nation. There’s a goalie situation happening in Toronto. I can’t deny, I’ve been critical of one Jonas Gustavsson, as lately as a month ago. And I really ...
Saturday night I was away from my twitter account and with a friend to watch the game between the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning and apparently I missed some interesting chatter. Seems as though Jaroslav Halak’s agent, Mr Walsh tweeted some stats on twitter which in and of itself is not out of the ordinary but ...
Flyers head coach John Stevens remained cool, calm, and collected the other day as he announced no actual goalie controversy in Philadelphia. He said Niittymaki had the hot glove, and he was in fact going to ride that glove until it cooled down. Of course he didn’t have to wait very long as the Flyers brand new starting goaltender for little under a week let in 5 goals against the struggling Ottawa Senators tonight only managing to fend off 18 of the 23 fired shots in his direction.
