Posts About "Anders Nilsson"
NHL News & Notes: Canucks Trade, Ovechkin & More
January 2nd, 2019 In today's News & Notes, the Vancouver Canucks and Ottawa Senators have made a trade, Alex Ovechkin has decided to forego attending the All-Star Game and Frederik Andersen is still out with an injury. Canucks and Senators Make a Trade The Canucks have traded goaltender Anders Nilsson and forward Darren Archibald to the Ottawa...
Canucks' Markstrom & Nilsson Showing Improvement
October 29th, 2018 No one in the league was raving about the Vancouver Canucks goaltending prior to the season, but one ranking was especially damning. TSN's Jamie McLennan released his starting goaltender rankings before the start of the season, the results for the Canucks two Swedish netminders weren't flattering. In fact, it couldn't...
Mikko Koskinen: A Puzzling Rumour for Oilers
April 25th, 2018 One of the needs for the Edmonton Oilers this summer is to find a suitable backup goalie that can help take some of the workload off Cam Talbot. It's been well documented how much Talbot plays, and that no goalie has played more games over the past two seasons than Edmonton's starter. Talbot currently leads the NHL with 140 games...
Did Canucks Miss Their Chance to Deal Nilsson?
February 21st, 2018 Goaltender Anders Nilsson’s has played eleven consecutive periods for the Vancouver Canucks. For the most part, Nilsson has dominated, making big save after big save. Even though he has only come out with one win since Nov. 30, he has played well enough of late to keep the dreadful Canucks competitive in games. Coming into Valentines...
Canucks Goaltending Deserves More Credit
November 25th, 2017 It's one of the most under-discussed stories of this young Canucks season. 'The Flow' aka 'Brockstar' is stealing all of the headlines in Vancouver with a rookie performance for the ages. He's on pace to shatter the rookie scoring record for both goals and points. It's given the city unheralded excitement, especially since the team...
Will November Decide Season for Canucks?
November 14th, 2017 In theory, November shouldn't really determine a team's season and yet, you can't help feeling the events of this month will have a major impact on how the campaign plays out for the Vancouver Canucks. There's no denying the Canucks have performed better than predicted. Heading into Monday night's action, while out of a playoff spot,...
