Posts tagged with "Derek Dorsett"
Galchenyuk Out Indefinitely, Enroth Waived & More News
December 5th, 2016 The Canadiens are about to face a major challenge. Monday, the club announced that center Alex Galchenyuk is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury. They've offered few details, but he went for tests Monday in St. Louis and the team will update his situation in the near future. He suffered the injury Sunday afternoon against...
Russian Brawl Follows Canucks & Panthers Scrum
January 13th, 2016 If you haven't heard yet, the Vancouver Canucks actually won on Monday night against the NHL's hottest club, the Florida Panthers. It was an overtime beauty by one of the best goal scorers in the game, Daniel Sedin. The win had a lot more meaning than it's being given. It also had a lot more excitement than the brawl that ensued after...
Prust and Dorsett More Than Enforcers for Canucks
September 25th, 2015 Fighting in hockey produced another casualty last week, with the death of former NHLer Todd Ewen. Every death attributed to fighting in hockey gives life to the opinion that the role of the enforcer is no longer needed in our game. The Canucks showed the same attitude last season when they sent Tom Sestito down to the minors. In...
Canucks Predictions: Bottom-Six Forwards
September 22nd, 2015 For all the skepticism and questions surrounding the Canucks top-six forwards, like if the Sedin twins are still elite performers, whether Alex Burrows or Radim Vrbata is the right guy for first line duty or if Bo Horvat or Brandon Sutter will lock up the second line position, the collection of bottom six forwards have an interesting...
How the Canucks Built Themselves a Prospect Haven
August 26th, 2015 Just a few years ago when the Vancouver Canucks were still fresh off their dishearteningly close Stanley Cup Final defeat, the team had stripped itself of a sure future. Like most teams on the cusp of winning a championship, former General Manager Mike Gillis took a risk. He decided that trading numerous draft picks and prospects in...
3 Canucks Veterans Bound for a Big Year
August 4th, 2015 While the hockey world debates the substance of the Canucks' offseason moves and often the intellect of the Canucks' brass, the reality is that the moves they are making do follow their words. In an attempt to infuse youth into the lineup, remaining respectively competitive is still what's going to sell tickets. Let's not forget what...