and of course Nickhead ,with all our trash talking and insults over the years i know your not a rat and would never be one..its not in your make up..i know that

I dont wear makeup

often

Quote: Originally Posted By banned_muddy on 5/14/2010It may, but I have the feeling the team with better balance is gonna be the difference. Whoever can have those extra 5 or 6 good shifts per game due to that balance is gonna eke it out.

I was wrong about Hawks/Canucks being the most evenly matched series....this one is

Definitely looking that way, eh? At least the Canucks got to game 6. Not sure the Sharks will get to game 5. The Sharks look completely overmatched, unlike most of the games against Vancouver where the Canucks looked dominant for at least some of almost every game.

At least got to game 6?... There's no consolation in losing... you either win or lose, end of story... close is not good enough.. but, hey, if it makes you feel better, you did better than the Flames... if thats a measure of success then so be it... rivalaries work that way

no I was merely stating that the Hawks/Sharks series was less evenly matched than the Hacks/Nucks series.

Hacks? Typo? That "C" is pretty far away from the "W" on the keyboard

Somebody was paying attention lol

Bottom line..Flames lost..Canucks lost..the goal is to win the cup ..and we both were losers..better luck next year..Thing i like about the Hawks is that their high end players are North American..I think that is key..Canadian and American players have more Heart and Desire..Canucks have too many Euro's and a mentally fragile french Canadian in net(go ahead ,throw me under the bus)..we will never win with this combo.I would take a few more reg season losses if we could change this mixture. Gillis needs to deal Luongo and the Sedins..who would you rather have? Canadian Toews or swedish H.Sedin?..big f*ckin deal about reg season points..I would take Toews any day/hour/minute over H.Sedin..once this mentality changes VCR will be a cup winner..simple as that..VCR is too soft.if your core is European you wont win the cup..forget about the Wings argument..we dont have the Euro's the Wings have..their scouting staff is 100 times superior than ours..Holmstrom is practically North American..

Luongo is overated,lets face it ..Keenan bent Nonis over and came all over his hairy a$$..you dont need to be a rocket scientist or even a big breasted intern to figure this out..Luongo blows..his stats prove that ..the guy is sooo overated..those in denial need to get a brain scan to make sure those **** shots to the forehead have not caused permanent damage..lets find a sucker and set this anchor adrift and never talk about it again..like it never happened..Luongo who?

Hopefully now we can all put the" Luongo is in the top 3 goaies in the world" debate to bed finally..Luongo choked yet again..we are seeing how great goalies up their game..Niemi,Leighton,Halak,Rask all making a fraction of what Luongo,Brodeur,Nabakov make..im sure ill still hear he's a suposed superstar yet again next year,while the unheralded real superstar's get no respect again..Niemi is doing what a 7 million dollar goalie is supposed to do,win games..hold off that tying goal.. I was wrong trashing that kid in rd 2 against the Canucks..what a player . Vancouver couldve used that extra 5 million difference in netminding to upgrade their Defense.

I think you have hit on the biggest part of the Canucks problem - defence. We don't have a legit number 1 or 2 d-man, lots of 4-6 d-men though. You can see how much better the Hawks, and Flyer's d-men clear the bodies in front of the net and clear the rebounds.

CONGRATS to Henrik............Hart winner!!!!

good job.  sedin deserved it, IMO.  :>

We seem to like trading with Florida.

I hope we re-sign W Mitchell.  Maybe Wille signs a bonus laden deal with us.......But I doubt it.

I hope we resign M Raymond and S Ob.  Raymond may get 3 mil+ to stay.  S Obrien will likely get his qualifing offer of 1.6......

Hamhuis would be a HOME RUN signing..........But Bieksa would have to go, which is not a bad thing if we get HAMHUIS!!!!

I hope we shed Salo and his 3.5 mil cap hit, but I see no takers in that one.......So maybe we buy out Salo!!!

We are stuck with LUI!!!  So make the best of it.....

I wish we had gotten BIG BUFF!!! 

Either Schroeder or  Hodgson has to make this team...........My guess is they both play at least 40 games!!!!  But that is a big "WHAT IF"

July 1st 2010.........Won't be X-Mas for the Canucks.  We need to resign our own RFA'S just to remain the same.......CONTENDERS and Want-to-BE's......





So 2011=Canuck's contend for 1st in the div.  AND maybe make the 3rd round of the play-offs...............BUT NO CUP in 2011 for my team!!!!!!!!