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Canucks, Pens battle in Vancouver Thu Oct  6 11:02:35 2011 EST
e NHL's yearly schedule comes when Sidney Crosby makes his annual trip to Western Canada, but injury will prevent one of the league's brightest stars from taking to the Rogers Arena ice on opening night. Dealing with their own injuries, the Vancouver Canucks won't mind Crosby sitting this one out as the Stanley Cup runner-ups open up the 2011-12 season against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Crosby has not played since January due to a concussion and will open the season on injured reserve as his retu
2011-12 Vancouver Canucks Preview Thu Sep 29 13:58:10 2011 EST
(Sports Network) - Last year, the Vancouver Canucks won the Presidents' Trophy as the NHL's best team in the regular season. The award's most practical purpose is that the winner gets home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs. Unfortunately for the Canucks, that wasn't enough to deliver the franchise its first-ever Stanley Cup title. Instead, the Canucks succumbed to the visiting Boston Bruins in a decisive Game 7 at Rogers Arena. Shortly after the B's put the finishing touches on a 4-0 victor
2011-12 Phoenix Coyotes Preview Thu Sep 29 09:22:43 2011 EST
yotes could use either Boyd Gordon or Alexandre Bolduc at the third center spot, although clearly this is where still having Belanger would help. Gordon is a veteran with 363 NHL games under his belt, while Bolduc has split time between the Vancouver Canucks and the AHL's Manitoba Moose for the last few years. Gordon inked a two-year deal with Phoenix and Bolduc agreed to a one-year, two-way contract. The Coyotes also signed winger Raffi Torres to a two-year, $3.5 million deal this summer. Torr
Ducks F Jacques suspended Tue Sep 27 18:25:30 2011 EST
Network) - Anaheim Ducks forward Jean-Francois Jacques has been suspended for the remainder of the preseason and five regular-season games. Jacques received the ban for leaving the bench during a legal line change to engage in a fight with Vancouver Canucks forward Mike Duco during a preseason game last Saturday. He was assessed a minor for instigation, a major for fighting, a 10-minute misconduct as well as an automatic one-game ban for starting a fight inside the final five minutes of a game
Five burning Northwest Division questions Mon Sep 26 12:06:51 2011 EST
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The Vancouver Canucks had by far the best regular season of all 30 teams last year. Unfortunately, they could not get the job done against Boston in the Stanley Cup Finals. Their over-reliance on the power play took its toll as they converted just 2-of-29 opportunities with the man advantage. That couldn't cut it especially since the Bruins allowed just six even-strength goals in the entire seven-game series. The Canucks will now have to deal with a shortened
Canucks ink first-round pick Jensen Thu Sep 22 18:09:26 2011 EST
Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) - The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Nicklas Jensen. Jensen, 18, was taken with the 29th overall selection in this past June's draft. He has appeared in one preseason game this year for the Canucks, recording a goal and an assist en route to 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. Jensen spent last season with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, collecting 29 goals and 29 assists in 61 games played. Also on Thursday, the Canucks agreed to
Canucks sign Oreskovich Thu Sep  8 18:46:00 2011 EST
Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) - The Vancouver Canucks signed right wing Victor Oreskovich on Thursday. The 25-year-old played in 16 games last season for the Cancuks and had three assists and also appeared in 19 playoff games without registering a point. He spent the 2009-10 season with the Panthers and totaled two goals and four assists in 50 games.
Canucks sign Legace, Begin to tryout contracts Wed Sep  7 19:23:18 2011 EST
Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) - The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Manny Legace and forward Steve Begin to professional tryout contracts. The pair have combined to play in 853 NHL games. Legace, 38, played last season in the German League after starting 26 games for the Carolina Hurricanes during the 2009-10 campaign. The Toronto, Ontario native spent six of his 11 NHL seasons with the Reds Wings, and in 365 career games compiled a 187-125-18 record with a .912 save percentage and a
Five burning Northeast Division questions Mon Aug 29 11:57:13 2011 EST
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The Boston Bruins come into the 2011-12 NHL season as the reigning Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Vancouver Canucks four games to three in the Finals. Many prognosticators are predicting great things once again from the Bruins but the club's most pressing issue is an offense that will score fewer goals in the upcoming campaign. To that end, the key question for Boston is: where will the scoring come from? Don't forget, the Stanley Cup champs are ju
Crosby's cloudy status is no surprise Tue Aug 16 13:43:41 2011 EST
Crosby's long-term value is worth more than him making it back for the start of this season. It's time for the rest of the hockey world to take the same approach. R.I.P. RICK RYPIEN The hockey world suffered another tragic loss when former Vancouver Canucks tough guy Rick Rypien was found dead Monday in his Alberta home. Rypien, who had signed a one-year deal with Winnipeg back in July, was just 27 years old. No cause of death has been reported, although police have labeled the tragedy as "sud
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