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For better look at the week ahead, PITB http://vansunsportsblogs.com/2014/01/15/the-week-ahead-goodbye-california-hello-alberta/

Edler is back, and Burrows is due back Saturday vs the Flames, it will be nice to see someone who can play with the twins again.

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

so much for the 'moral' victory setting the team on the right course.....



at least there won't be any goalie controversy in the near future

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

So I quit watching at 4-1, what the hell happened at 12:49 in the third?

12:49 Vancouver Tom Sestito: 2 minutes, instigator
12:49 Vancouver Tom Sestito: 5 minutes, fighting
12:49 Vancouver Tom Sestito: 10 minutes, misconduct
12:49 Vancouver Jannik Hansen: 2 minutes, instigator
12:49 Vancouver Jannik Hansen: 5 minutes, fighting
12:49 Vancouver Jannik Hansen: 10 minutes, game misconduct
12:49 Vancouver Zack Kassian: 10 minutes, misconduct

and not a single penalty against Anaheim at that time?

and a 7 minute 5 on 3, damn I wished I had watched this, won't see that everyday, if ever again

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

my team sucks, looking more and more like what I feared at the end of last year, past their best before date.

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

Don't know if it was the last two games that did the majority of the damage, but the Canucks are the 2nd most penalized team in hockey.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/teamstats.htm?se ... =penalties

Also, the Canucks' goal differential with that 1-0 loss is now minus-1. Doesn't seem like that long ago Vancouver led the league in goals-for and fewest goals-against.

If any team can help the Nucks bump the slump it's the Flames tonight!

Go Nucks Go!

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Well we may have lost Tuzer's boundless optimism but glad we still take a view through your rosey glasses CC

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

Crap miss the first minute of the game and find everyone in the penalty box, 2 seconds in there is a line brawl???


Poor Kellan Lain, 1st game in the NHL and has a game misconduct already.

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Crap this looks like 70's hockey, 3 minutes later and another scrap.

and WTf is with Giordano punching Burrows, the guy is wearing a full shield just coming back from a broken jaw, I know Burrows normally deserves pretty much every thing he gets but damn that's way beyond the pale.

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Quite the clown show tonight. Only 5 Canucks on the bench now.

https://twitter.com/imacVanSun/status/424748826138660866/photo/1

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I step away for a wizz and come back to find Torts is trying to scrap in the hallway, my timing really sucks. This really is 70's hockey

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

Pretty much the most bizarre period of Canucks hockey I've ever seen. Torts making a scene in front of the Calgary dressing room at the end of the period.... What's next?

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1st period

00:02 Calgary Ladislav Smid: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Vancouver Kevin Bieksa: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Calgary Brian Mcgrattan: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Vancouver Tom Sestito: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Calgary Blair Jones: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Vancouver Dale Weise: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Calgary Chris Butler: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Vancouver Jason Garrison: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Vancouver Kellan Lain: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Calgary Kevin Westgarth: 2 minutes, roughing
00:02 Calgary Kevin Westgarth: 5 minutes, fighting
00:02 Calgary Kevin Westgarth: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Calgary Chris Butler: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Calgary Blair Jones: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Calgary Brian Mcgrattan: 10 minutes, misconduct
00:02 Calgary Ladislav Smid: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Vancouver Kellan Lain: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Vancouver Dale Weise: 10 minutes, game misconduct
00:02 Vancouver Tom Sestito: 10 minutes, misconduct
00:02 Vancouver Kevin Bieksa: 10 minutes, game misconduct
04:26 Calgary Mark Giordano: 2 minutes, hooking
04:26 Calgary Lance Bouma: 2 minutes, roughing
04:26 Vancouver Zack Kassian: 2 minutes, roughing
04:26 Vancouver Zack Kassian: 2 minutes, roughing
07:02 Vancouver Brad Richardson: 2 minutes, holding
11:27 Calgary Lee Stempniak: 2 minutes, roughing
11:27 Calgary Shane O'Brien: 10 minutes, misconduct
11:27 Vancouver Zack Kassian: 10 minutes, misconduct
11:27 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 2 minutes, unsportsmanlike conduct
11:27 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 2 minutes, roughing

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

PJ Stock is a maroon.

Of course Torts should have started his skill line against the Calgary goons.

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Someone better get PJ Stock some lemonade - he's positively apocalyptic.

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PJ Stock getting paid to be a mouth piece for Calgary? Torts has every reason to be pissed but he is looking at a very hefty fine and long suspension

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Tortorella goes after the Flames

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The line brawl, Torts with livid with Hartley from before the puck even dropped. Class act by a veteran Bieksa having Lain step back from the faceoff, and he even won it.

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

Well that's it for the second. Tied 1-1. Probably not much violence in the third - remaining skaters are too tired. Only 4 D left each.

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Well, it wasn't purty but it was a win. Interested in the post-game media noise. Sports radio will be abuzz tonight.

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