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Canadian crooner Michael Bublé is nominated for a Grammy Award for best traditional pop vocal album, but plans to stay home and watch the Vancouver Canucks play on the night of the awards ceremony.

The Vancouver artist, competing for the award with fellow Canadian Sarah McLachlan, said he’s boycotting the Feb. 11 event in Los Angeles because his category will not be presented live on TV…

More at CBC.ca Arts – Bublé plans to give up Grammys for hockey game

Good for you Michael Bublé: ‘Gimme the award live or I’m staying home to watch the Canucks.’ In fact you can come over here to watch if you like.

Nice!

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More proof that Luongo rocks! He seems to be a modest hard working guy who loves his job. Nice!

Tonight’s score 3-1 Canucks over the Sharks. All due to Roberto’s play during the 1st and 2nd periods when the rest of the team was still at home. He gave them the chance to win it and they did. Nice to have a goalie who can steal a game or two. Unlike he who shall not be named, not because he’s evil, just because he stinks.

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From Canucks.com:

SHINING IN DALLAS
Roberto Luongo pitched a shutout in the NHL All-Star skills competition in Dallas Tuesday. He stopped all six skaters he faced in regulation, including Alexander Ovetchkin, to take the overall goaltenders competition.

More NHL All-Star Coverage

I’m looking forward to the game. A buddy is coming over to hang out and watch. I might record it and post some video of my personal highlights later tonight.

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The picture pretty much sums up the road trip thus far. The smug looking jackass ‘thumbs down’ chick actually makes the whole picture. I’m sure what my creative mind sees isn’t what she intended at all. Ptooi on the Sens.

Three eastern Canadian teams up, and three down. Leafs, Canadians and Senators all beaten by the Canucks. Luongo has let in only 2 goals in the last 101 shots! Go Bobby Lou!

The coolest thing about watching this road trip so far is being able to hear Canucks fans chanting “Go Canucks Go!” in every building. How friggin’ cool is that?

Next up, Buffalo on pay-per-view tomorrow night. I doubt they’ll hear much friendly chanting there. Even though the new logo looks like the banana slugs we find hiking here in beautiful Lynn Canyon Buffalo is an awesome team.

After the hard fought win tonight I’m not too sure what kind of gas the Canucks will have in the tank to be honest. The Sabres have had a day off and you can be sure they’ll come to play (lookin’ all sluggy). Vancouver could win, after all the Canucks are on a fairly decent roll so why not?

To celebrate these wins here’s a little ditty by a guy who wants to make love to Vancouver Canucks. Kind of creepy but click play anyway:

How very Borat!

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It’s Hockey Day in Canada again. What does that mean? It means 13 hours of bliss for a rabid Canadian hockey fan like myself. Not all of the games are in HD this year so we don’t get to bask in hockey clarity all day long. The important game (Canucks @ Leafs) is, but the other two are not. Boo CBC! That really sucks. You can get HD cameras to Nelson, BC for the yackety yack crap but not to Ottawa and Calgary for the games? What’s up with that?

Anyway, here’s the schedule:

Hockey Day in Canada 2007 TV Schedule (in PST)

09:00-11:00 – HDIC live on location (Nelson, B.C.)
11:00-13:30 – Montreal @ Ottawa
13:30-15:00 – HDIC live on location (Nelson, B.C.)
15:30-16:00 – Saturday Night (HNIC pregame show)
16:00-19:00 – Vancouver @ Toronto (Go Canucks Go!)
19:00-10:00 – Edmonton @ Calgary
10:00-10:30 – After Hours (Calgary and Camrose, Alta.)

So we’ll be hearing the Hockey Night in Canada theme many times today. Due to overly enforced copyrights and some other legal problems surrounding Canada’s second national anthem the only legal link to said theme is from CBC’s site and in the rarely used Real Audio. If you have realplayer you can listen to the much loved and oft’ heard Hockey Night in Canada theme [.ram]. However, if you don’t have Real Player and want to listen you can download it or you’re SOL. I’d love to post an MP3 version of the Hockey Night in Canada theme song here however it wouldn’t be long before I’d get an email from CBC’s legal folks asking me to remove it. Sorry folks.

Maybe one day CBC and the theme song’s author will settle their differences and Canadians will be able to listen to and share this theme whenever we like.

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I knew they could do it.

After winning a shoot out thriller last night the Canucks have won 7 games in a row. Outstanding considering their less than stellar start to the season. One cannot help but think that the Canucks amazing new star goaltender (pictured above) has just a little something to do with it.

I used to feel extremely uncomfortable with the fragile Dan Cloutier in net, but not so with Luongo. So, while ol’ Danny boy is stinkin’ it up in LA this year with the worst goals against average in the league as of this writing, we get to enjoy some solid net minding.

Watching Luongo play is a real treat.

In other Canucks news:

How does Nazzy spell relief? G-O-A-L!

Canucks captain, Markus Naslund, bumped his slump last night with a well earned goal as well. Thank the hockey gods for this one. He was looking mighty dejected although he never really gave up getting plenty of assists during his drought. Hopefully he’ll be scoring like a maniac for the rest of the season. Markus

Go Canucks Go!

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What a doorknob. Showing off and karma took care of him. Nothing to do with the Canucks (who won again tonight.

Got this straight from Digg.

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The Hurricanes won the cup – shit!

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I started up a Canucks only blog right here: A Canucks Fan. Hopefully, I’ll have lots to post about well into June if you get my drift. So, unless the Canucks win the Stanley Cup I won’t be posting much about them here any more. There will be hockey posts once in a while. Go Canucks Go!

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