CBC Sports: Brett Hull announces his retirement
You did not so bad.
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In celebration of the NHL’s return (and yes the Canucks won game one against Gretzky’s Coyotes!) we bring you NHL Academy. You can learn to be a professional hockey player in your own home and my bet is that the salary you’ll be worth will help any team stay well within that salary cap.
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CBC Sports: Maple Leafs sign Lindros for 1 year
There you go you big whiny dork. You can play for the dirty rotten stinkin’ Leafs now. This ought to be rich. Remember?: “Whaaaaa I don’t want to play for Quebec!” They became Colorado Avalanche and won two cups. I don’t see any rings on those fingers of yours Eric. Perhaps you’ll give your self another concussion chewing some gum.
Lindros in a quiet room: “Will somebody answer the goddamned phone!” or the more Quasimodo-esque: THE BELLS! THE BELLS!
Asshole. You belong in Toronto.
Can you tell I’m not a fan?
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CBC Sports: Canucks get Sedins under contract
Yahoo, the sisters are back. Hit him with your purse Daniel!
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When playing for The Wild he was a thorn in Vancouver’s side. Now Korean born Richard Park is a Canuck. This is shaping up to be an interesting hockey year already.
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CBC Sports: Bertuzzi reinstated by the NHL
Woohoo! Finally. No more wondering. I love the first sentence in the article:
“Suspended forward Todd Bertuzzi can resume playing for the Vancouver Canucks, effective immediately.”
I just hope he doesn’t take his new sensativity too far. Remember the teary press conference with his suit that was way too small? I think he had an onion in that hanky anyway.
All that aside, Bert’s back.
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CBC Sports: Canucks re-sign Brendan Morrison
Woohoo! Go Canucks Go! That’s all of the big line (that is if they let Big Bert play after the mess last year).
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After all this mess with the lock out and whining from players and team owners about only making millions of dollars a year I thought I might just ditch my Canucks jersey and take up watching professional knitting. “Go Grandma!” I even neatly avoided blogging about the hockey strike the whole time it was on but, now that it’s about 99% sure there’ll be a season this year (I’ll say 100% when the first puck drops) I feel like a hockey fan again. It must be a Canadian thing…
The CBA has already seen players bouncing around the league to stay under the salary cap. Of note Scott Niedermayer, a once proud New Jersey Devil, is going to Disneyland to play with the Mighty Ducks (Does my semi look-alike Emilio Estevez still coach the Ducks? Oh wait, taht was a movie. Nevermind.) and Peter Forsberg is leaving those whinging, Bertuzzi suing, mile high a-holes in Colorado in the lurch and heading to Philadelpia for cheese steak sandwiches. We’d have likeed to have seen Forsberg here in Vancouver to play with Markus, but not for two years at least without a major trade.
Speaking of the Canucks (Go Canucks! Go!) and specifically Nazzy, he has been resigned with the Canucks for another three years that will see the destitute hockey player earn a mere $18 million under the new agreement. On a semi-sad note, sometime lazy ass Canucks defenseman Brent Sopel and his horrific hockey hair were traded to NY Islanders for a conditional 2006 draft pick.
The Canucks roster is still in doubt as according to the NHL’s website, specifically the page on free agents, Vancouver has a number of people as yet unsigned and still free agents a lot of which are players of some stature in our fair city. Here’s the list:
Bryan Allen, Tyler Bouck, Artem Chubarov, Dan Cloutier, Matt Cooke, Jason King, Brendan Morrison, Mattias Ohlund, Jarkko Ruutu, Sami Salo, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Nathan Smith, Brent Sopel (gone already).
Holy crap. Looking at it again it reads like the whole team. I think I just pooed my pants. Come on Canuckleheads let’s get most of these guys signed before the season so we can a little breathe easier. Notice I said most… Cloutier? I’m not a big fan, but I know Calgary’s cocky Finnish netminder Miikka Kiprusoff is up for grabs. The Canucks should snag him and piss off all the folks in Cowtown. That would make the Red Mile turn green.
Yay! Hockey’s back!!
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CBC Sports: Bertuzzi not yet reinstated by NHL
The whole decision is “under advisement” with the ultra-evil Sesame Street count lookalike and NHL Chair, Gary Bettman. Under advisement? Come on. Make a a friggin’ decision already. We’ve been deprived of hockey for over a year and want to see at least some of our favourite players. Let Bertuzzi play. I can’t think of a better way to ease him back into elite play than at the international level where, if he acts like a knuckledragging bonehead again, he’d be shunned by the entire country. It’s okay to embarrass the city, just don’t make Canada look bad.
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