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Canucks Super Skills competition results

Posted on February 11, 2013 by admin in Province Hockey | No comments

CANUCKS SUPER SKILLS COMPETITION

Fastest skater, one lap

Blue: Kassian (14.590 seconds), Weise (14.037), Raymond (14.133).

White: Ballard (14.582), Schroeder (14.385), Hansen (14.314).

Winner: Weise 14.037

Hardest shot

Blue: Barker (88.9 mph/90.0/90.0), Garrison (97.4/100.5/101.8), Luongo (64.3/67.8)

White: Alberts (96.3/97.4/95.4) Edler (97.8/97.3/96.7), Schneider (72.3/75.3/76.4).

Winner: Garrison 101.8 m.p.h.

Shooting accuracy (four targets)

Blue: Barker (4-for-5), Raymond (4-for-4), Kassian (1-for-8).

White: Lapierre (4-for-4), Burrows (4-for-7), D. Sedin (4-for-8).

Winner: Tiebreaker time: Lapierre 8.6 seconds, Raymond 8.8.

Puck-control relay

Blue: Ebbett-Tanev-Volpatti

White: Higgins-H. Sedin-Hansen

Higgins over Ebbett/H.Sedin over Tanev/Hansen over Volpatti/

One-on-one challenge

Blue: Kassian

White: Schroeder (winner)

Breakaway relay

Blue: Raymond (0-for-2), Bieksa (0-for-2), Ebbett (0-for-2) vs. Schneider/Volpatti (1-for-2), Hamhuis (1-for-2), Malhotra (0-for-2)/Kassian (0-for-2), Weise (0-for-2).

White: Higgins (0-for-2), Burrows (1-for-2), Ballard (0-for-2) vs. Luongo/Schroeder (1-for-2), D. Sedin (0-for-2), Lapierre (0-for-2)/Edler (0-for-2), H. Sedin (0-for-2).

Winner: White

Overall points: White 14, Blue 9.

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Canucks’ Sedin twins true hope for Stanley Cup

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin in Province Hockey | No comments

Daniel Sedin (L) talks with his twin brother Henrik while on the bench during Game 4 of their NHL Western Conference Hockey quarter-final playoff against the Los Angeles Kings in Los Angeles, California April 18, 2012.

Mayday! Throughout the month of May, we’re taking a look at the Canucks roster, and the organization, every weekday. Today’s subjects: Henrik and Daniel Sedin. It's commonly postulated that elite NHL teams have a window of opportunity to win the Stanley Cup, based on the age and makeup of their roster. If you want to view the Canucks through this lens, the window – at least the way it looks at this point in time – closes along with the decline of the Sedin twins, Daniel and Henrik. The elite forwards have been the Canucks' offensive engine since the 2006-07 season when the team traded Todd Bertuzzi the previous summer and then-captain Markus Naslund ceased to be close to a point-a-game player. Daniel and Henrik and won back to back NHL scoring titles one and two seasons ago, respectively, but back-slid to less than a point-a-game this year. Certainly, the change in the league officiating standard we saw in the second half...

Spitballin’ on Chris Tanev’s glove, the creepiest Sedin video ever, and Luongo’s future

Posted on April 19, 2012 by admin in Sun Hockey | No comments

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Spitballin on Chris Tanevs glove, the creepiest Sedin video ever, and Luongos future

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Spitballin’ (or Super Pass It To Bulis: All In, if you love adventurous acronymizing) is a feature that allows us to touch on a multitude of things really fast, because in the world of hockey, there are always lots of things to find and colour. Here are a few quick topics.

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Chris Tanev ruined a perfectly good glove for nothing

You may remember the Dustin Brown shorthanded goal from the dying seconds in the first period of Game 2 (unless, like Jim Hughson, you never saw it). You’ll recall that, amidst the scramble, Chris Tanev made a valiant, albeit ill-fated, attempt to spell Roberto Luongo and snatch the shot out of the air.

He nearly got it, too. In fact, he would have if his glove were built to do what he was attempting to do with it. Were Tanev wearing a trapper, for instance, this puck stays out. But the...

MacIntyre: Canucks hope to say ‘you’re it’ to Daniel

Posted on April 17, 2012 by admin in Sun Hockey | No comments

Iain MacIntyre, Vancouver Sun columnist LOS ANGELES – Not only could he not play hockey with his teammates, Daniel Sedin couldn’t play tag with his kids. And while it was a funny anecdote the Vancouver Canuck shared about telling his children he couldn’t come out and play – “they said: ‘Your legs are fine, let’s play tag’” – it was sad, too, because it illustrated how players risk losing more than hockey when they are struck on the head as Daniel was by Duncan Keith’s vicious elbow on March 21. Four weeks later, most of it endured by Sedin with a constant headache and neck pain, the Canucks hope to get back last season’s National Hockey League scoring champion. Outrageous as it may seem to a combustible Canuck Nation living and dying on tonight’s National Hockey League playoff game against the Los Angeles Kings, probably the more important development is that Ronja, Erik and Anna Sedin are getting their dad back, too. “Headaches...

Swede dreams of no split decision; Sedin twins hoping thrill of separating them is over before the all-star game

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin in Player profiles, Province Hockey | No comments

>Daniel Sedin (left) and Henrik Sedin (right) talk to Matthew Barnaby after being drafted to opposing teams for the All-Star game.

Jason Botchford The Province Daniel Sedin has something of a secret weapon heading into the all-star game; his agent, J.P. Barry. That's because Barry also happens to represent Daniel Alfredsson, one of the all-star team captains, which may give the Sedins the inside track they're looking for to get picked for the same team. Daniel Sedin gets it. He understands what most did not last year. Splitting up the twins is a cheap plot device that predictably fell flat, even though last year's all-star game was the first time the brothers had ever played against each other in hockey. The twins are better together. They always have been and probably always will be. They work off each other, setting plays up, chucking the puck around the rink like they're playing catch in a meadow. Their game is about precision passing. It's about timing and the give-and-go plays, which, when done right, suggest they are two players who know each other's games inside and...

Sedins on the outside looking in; Twins struggling as they spend too much time on the perimeter in the offensive zone

Posted on January 11, 2012 by admin in Player profiles, Sun Hockey | No comments

>Daniel Sedin controls the puck along the boards against Eric Brewer of the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Daniel went pointless in consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 26 despite the Canucks 5-4 shootout win.

Iain MacIntyre Vancouver Sun Columnist TAMPA - To win in the National Hockey League, countless coaches have said, your best players have to be your best players. And it doesn't hurt if they're better than the opposition's best players, too. Neither situation occurred Tuesday for the Vancouver Canucks, yet they still managed to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4 in a shootout. This is a good thing in the long-term for the National Hockey League team, but a bad thing in the short term because Daniel and Henrik Sedin are in a lull. It's been only three games - of which the Canucks have won two - and probably indicative of nothing more than the cyclical ebb and flow of an 82-game season, but the twins have been ordinary so far on this road trip that ends Thursday against the surging St. Louis Blues. The Sedins have been extraordinary for so long that even a little mediocrity stands out like a dissonant chord....

Wondertwins live up to billing; Despite climbing number of hooking penalties, Sedins are tough, generous, genuine and sometimes under-appreciated

Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin in Player profiles, Sun Hockey | No comments

Iain Macintyre Vancouver Sun COLUMBUS, OHIO - Henrik Sedin makes a lousy Captain Hook. His hands are much softer than iron, he thinks the Jolly Roger is amiable conditioning coach Roger Takahashi, and Peter's pan is what his older brother uses to fry herring. Besides, pirates take money; they don't give it to Children's Hospital. So, as it relates to Henrik, we're not getting the whole Captain Hook thing. Except for the whole hooking thing. The Vancouver Canucks' captain leads the National Hockey League with nine hooking penalties. But that's only because hockey sticks have blades. "You get a lot of points in fantasy leagues with penalty minutes," Sedin joked after Mon-day's practice here. "Friends picked me first." Canuck coach Alain Vigneault, who is in no hockey pools, was not amused and said: "I'm going to deal with that tomorrow. I'm going to deal with that in my own little way." Vigneault was speaking, as people usually do, about Hen-rik and Daniel Sedin, whose six hooking...

Henrik doesn’t see himself as an all-star; Twins differ from each other more than people realize

Posted on January 27, 2008 by admin in Player profiles, Province Hockey | No comments

Ed Willes The Province ATLANTA - It's strange to see him this way -- his twin brother 3,000 miles from here; not one person staring at him, asking, 'Daniel?' -- but if Henrik Sedin looks a little uncomfortable, it's for reasons other than you might think. The Canucks centre, in fact, doesn't feel lost, out of place, or otherwise disoriented, without having his brother by his side. Truth to be told, it's not much of an issue to him one way or the other as he patiently explains to the media types here who are intent on mining this story vein. No, what Daniel doesn't like about being at the all-star game is, for an hour, he's forced to talk about himself and, given a choice, he'd rather spend 90 minutes pouring battery acid into an open cut on his hand. "We've never wanted that," Henrik says, using the collective pronoun that characterizes the twins' speech. "We don't want to be treated differently....