Via NorthWest Sports Beat
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April 21, 2012
After Game 4 between the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings was in the record books Wednesday, Canadian Mike aka Mike Dunsmore of FOX Sports Radio did a radio interview with Ryan Kesler.
Or so he thought.
Listen to the interview and you can figure out who it was.
Dunsmore (@CanadianMike101) tweeted this at 2:16pm pacific time on Saturday afternoon:
Kevin Bieksa is a beauty...
Via Rob The Hockey Guy
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April 24, 2012
After a second straight President’s Trophy, not many predicted the Canucks would be gone in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Even fewer would have predicted that they would be gone in only 5 games. So where did they go wrong? Lets investigate.
To start off with, this upset is probably not as big of an upset as you might think. To start off, the Kings finished the year...
Via Fox Sports
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April 23, 2012
So much for home ice advantage. The Vancouver Canucks spent 82 games amassing the best record in the NHL, guaranteeing them the No. 1 seed and home ice throughout the playoffs. But the LA Kings had other plans, bouncing the President's Trophy winners from the postseason in five games and beating the Canucks in every game at Rogers Arena.
In Game 5, the Kings earned a 2-1 comeback...
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April 23, 2012
If you’re going to lose, do it with your best.
That’s how Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault approached the series after going down in the series 0-2.
Cory Schneider, shown here in this file photo, could be the Vancouver Canucks No. 1 next year. Or, quite possibly, another team's starting goalie. Either way, his playoffs performance, despite a lack of wins...
Via AP on Fox
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April 23, 2012
Jarret Stoll beat Cory Schneider with a wrist shot at 4:27 of overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 2-1 victory over Vancouver on Sunday night, knocking out the top-seeded Canucks in five games in the Western Conference first-round series.
Stoll scored from the left wing after a turnover at Vancouver blue line. The forward skated in on a 2-on-1, but took the shot himself, picking...
Via Kukla's Korner
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April 23, 2012
Not sure if this is unusual or not, but the Vancouver Canucks just sent out a notice of media availability tomorrow for both GM Mike Gillis and the players.
No mention of Alain Vigneault.
added 6:39pm, via Mark Spector tweet, If no Vigneault at Canucks avail tmw, he’s done. Coaches ALWAYS talk post season, unless they’ve been fired. We’re hoping not.
Via Goon's World
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April 23, 2012
This was the goal that sent the Vancouver Canucks to the golf course and sent the L.A. Kings to the second round of the NHL playoffs to play the St Louis Blue. Its only fitting that on the game winning goal by Kings forward Jarrett Stoll that there is a Vancouver Canuck defenseman Dan Hamhuis flopping around on the ice as the game winning goal was being scored.
Related...
Via The Nosebleeds OLD
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April 23, 2012
Yesterday was a great day for hockey in Boston. Not only did the Bruins fight off the Capitals in an overtime thriller to force a Game 7 back in the Hub, but the hated Vancouver Canucks also were bounced from the playoffs after losing in sudden death overtime to the L.A. Kings in Game 5 of their first round series.
Despite entering the playoffs as the top seed and Presidents...
Via FreeTheSportsman
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April 23, 2012
Written by: Melissa HarderGame 5 – April 22Current Mood: Disappointed and sadCurrent Song: Nothing. This one I had to write in silence.I woke up at 9 am yesterday and realized that playoff hockey was already on. It is totally weird to watch hockey in your pyjamas (and yet I am happy to watch NFL football in my pjs. But playoff hockey so early in the morning? It seems just bizarre...
Via FreeTheSportsman
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April 23, 2012
Written by: Sean McEachern (@sportsfanspeaks)Wednesday, June 9th, 1993, and Kirk Muller bangs home the winning goal at 3:51 of the 2nd period to see the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-1 Game 5 win and series victory over the upstart Gretzky-led Los Angeles Kings. It had been a ridiculous run for Les Habitants, getting Conn Smyth-goaltending out of Patrick Roy and winning 10 consecutive...
Via Kukla's Korner
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April 23, 2012
from Mark Spector of Sportsnet, “Nobody envisioned this.”
Despite which club you thought might win this series, or whether you reckoned these Vancouver Canucks were made of stern enough stuff in Year 2 of their Presidents’ Trophy reign, head coach Alain Vigneault’s words summed up well what happened to the Western Conference champions in Round 1 this spring.
Lose to the...
Via HockeyBuzz
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April 23, 2012
Winning the Presidents Trophy multiple times is nice. First round failures suck.
How do the Canucks rationalize going from competing in Game 7in the Stanley Cup Finals to screwing the pooch and losing to the Kings in five games in the first round of the playoffs?
The Vancouver Canucks were never in the series with The LA Kings. Ever.
Alain Vigneault's team was so defensive...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat
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April 22, 2012
5 pm start. (7 pm if you're a King...)
We got this.
Via AP on Fox
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April 21, 2012
The Vancouver Canucks will have a new second line Sunday when they attempt to stay alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs against the Los Angeles Kings.
Alex Burrows, Ryan Kesler and Max Lapierre - dubbed by one pundit as the Three Mouthketeers because of their outspoken ways on the ice - want their actions to speak louder than words in Game 5 of the Western Conference quarterfinal series...
Via New England Sports React
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April 23, 2012
This video pretty much sums up how we here at NESR we feel about the Vancouver Canucks! Winning the President’s cup doesn’t mean everything! PLAYOFFS 2012!!!!
Vancouver Canucks center Maxim Lapierre during a game against the Colorado Avalanche on March 16, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I couldn't resist with this one. The most unlikable team in the NHL has told a few of their players to quit yapping. You can't make this stuff up. I guess the coaching staff for the Vancouver Canucks figured out that the rest of the NHL was tired of the Canucks antics.
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