Canucks Sign Sergei Shirokov
The Vancouver Canucks signed Sergei Shirokov today. Shirokov was drafted in 2006 in the 6th round and 163rd overall.
2005-06: He spent the past season with CSKA and posted good enough numbers with seven goals and six assists in 39 regular season games. Shirokov’s draft value went up after the...
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Posted on Aug 06
Canuck Happenings this Week
Mike Gillis named Team President
Earlier this week the Canucks named Mike Gillis the new team President when Chris Zimmerman abruptly quit and a replacement was needed. Now I didn’t know much about Zimmerman his three years here seemed unimpressive. He came from Nike Bauer Hockey Inc. so he had the...
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Well Well Wellwood
Kyle Wellwood is expected to get a 50% raise today when the aribtrator hands down his ruling. Actually it looks like regardless of the ruling the Canucks will keep the speedy center anyways. Apparently he will sign a contract worth about 1.5 million for the upcoming season, most likely with...
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Vancouver Canucks 2009/2010 Schedule Released
Hockey Season is a little bit closer today with the release of Vancouver Canucks 2009/10 regular season hockey schedule. Now I can already here some people moaning about the fact that the Canucks have a fourteen game road trip from Jan 30th to Mar 10th(happy birthday Bonnie) because of the...
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Andrew Raycroft signs on as a backup goalie?
The Vancouver signed former Calder Trophy winner Andrew Raycroft to a one year $500,000 one way contract. Whooop dee fucking doo! I put Raycroft in the Jim Carey category of “One Year” wonders in the NHL. For those of you who remember Jim Carey had a stellar breakout year in...
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Canucks sign Mikael Samuelsson
Y’know when I started this Canuck Blog I had the intention of ripping into Canuck management especially Mike Gillis. I was not a fan of Gillis getting the job. I felt Dave Nonis deserved one more year as GM since he had a lot of inherited contracts from the previous...
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Canucks Sign Sedin’s for 5 Years
Gillis got his men! The last minute trip over to Sweden with a Final Final offer did the job. GM Gillis increased his bottom line offer to the Sedin’s and they accepted a deal reported to be worth 6.1 million a season for each of them over 5 years.
This was...
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