Recap: 1/26/2006 Canucks vs Vipers

“I can’t believe we’re losing to the Vipers!” - This phase was reverberating throughout the Canucks bench for the first half of the game on Friday night. Fortunately a couple of the Canucks took it upon themselves to turn the world right-side-up again and dumped a bunch of goals in the net to get the Canucks the 7-3 victory.

The Canucks knew the game was going to go south quick as soon as they walked into the dressing room and saw our scorekeeper lacing them up. The group thought seemed to be “Ah well, we’re only playing the Vipers…” That attitude was evident early as Chris’s decision to play with his eyes closed resulted in the Vipers putting a couple weak goals past him. After much laughter at the Vipers high hopes, the Canucks jumped back on the ice and scored goal after goal to dash those high hopes. Silly Vipers… wins are for Canucks. Goal scorers for the Canucks were: Dave, Rich (2), Matt, Jack (2), and Joel.

Next week is a big much anticipated match against the Oilers. This will no doubt be a preview of the first playoff round so lets step it up and show ‘em what we got.

Recap: 1/19/2006 Sharks vs Canucks

After two Canucks/Sharks games in two consecutive weeks, and one win a piece, the two teams met once again for the rubber-match Friday night at the Wave Twin Center. The Sharks had to play their best to beat the mighty Canucks, and they stepped up to the plate and managed to win 2-1. The Canucks will have to be content with the single victory last week, and will now turn their attention to getting in shape for the playoffs as the two teams are destined to meet again in a couple months in the B-Central Division final.

The game was a close one - both teams played a hard-fought battle. The Sharks got about a billion shots on Chris, but he managed to shut the door until the game’s half-way point. The Shark’s aggressive play eventually wore down the Canucks, who were playing with a shortened bench. The Sharks notched two goals in the second period, but the Canucks did not quit. In the third period, they made some adjustments, pulled up their socks, and managed to out play the Sharks for the rest of the game. But alas, only one goal was scored as Dan finally busted out of his scoring slump to put one past the Sharks goaltender. The Canucks got a bunch of chances to tie it up, but could not seem to find the twine. Just wait till playoffs… we’ll get ’em next time.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of highlight material from the Canucks, this week's video is a bit of a Shark's highlight reel. Ah well... that's what we get for losing. Next week against the Vipers we should be able to get a few H.O.N. candidates to make up for it.

Recap: 1/13/2006 Canucks vs Sharks

Canucks win! Canucks win! – There was great rejoicing throughout all the land as the Canucks conquered the Sharks in a convincing 4-0 shutout victory. The Canucks finally lived up to all the smack-talk and cockiness by playing a phenomenal game of hockey against the formerly unbeaten Sharks. All who attended the event were absolutely stunned by how talented this Canuck team really is. The whole team gave this game a hundred and eleven percent. The team was embarrassed after our poor outing the week before, and were all fired up and ready to show the Sharks what we are capable of.
From the goalie, to the entire defense core, and all three forward lines, everyone played their best game of the season. Chris made spectacular save after spectacular save as he kept the gates shut for the whole game proving that he is probably one of the top netminders to ever strap on the pads. Our defense also played an exceptional game, stopping the Sharks offensive attempts time after time. After a while it almost looked as though they were scared to even come into our zone. Our forwards also rose to the occasion by stuffing the Sharks net full of pucks. Rich opened the scoring in the second period with a nice wrister: top corner, blocker-side which lifted the entire team to their feet and sparked a fire under the rest of the team. In the third period Kenny decided to take the game into his own hands. He crashed the Shark’s net with reckless abandon, wack after wack, forcing a big juicy rebound to come out onto Jack’s stick, and when that happens - the puck usually ends up in the net. After that in another scrum in front of the net Ken managed to get his stick on a puck sitting on the goal-line to poke it forward into the back of the net securing the victory. Wade also managed to extend his scoring streak by breaking through the Sharks’s defense, and undressing the goalie to throw one upstairs. With four goals, the Canucks shut down the opposition for the rest of the night. When the game ended, the Canucks celebrated as only the Canucks can. The frosty beverages never tasted so sweet…
With less than a week away till the next meeting of these two teams, we can’t wait to do it all over again. Look out Sharks! Go Nucks!

Sweet video this week – Some nice post-game analysis from Ken “Pierre McGuire” Vanderboom too. Check it out:

Recap: 1/5/2007 Sharks vs Canucks

The Canucks faced an unbeaten Sharks team last weekend for the first game in a much-anticipated 3-game mid-season series, and even though we are probably the best team to ever play in the CRHL, we ended up losing the game 4-1. The Sharks came to the game with a little more in the tank than the Canucks, as we failed to do much of anything due to an overall lack of offence, defense, skating, effort… you name it - it was missing.
The Canucks once again failed to get going early, but we still stayed close with them for the first 2 periods. When the third period arrived, the Sharks scored a few goals amidst scrambles in front of our own net. Wade did manage to score one to break their shutout bid – which is important to Chris as he wants to keep his goalie stats on top.
The refs did well this week as only one Canuck got kicked out this time. They also managed to call more penalties on the Sharks than on us –which is a true testament to a job well done by our coaches and players. Keep it up and we’ll have a chance to win these next two games.
Sorry, but no video this week, which is probably a good thing as there wasn’t many Canuck highlights in the game. Let’s save it all for this weekend’s game and make a highlight reel such as no one has ever seen.

PS- Sorry this is so late guys. I've been out sick/busy/lazy for the past week. I'll try get it up earlier next week.