I didn't even realize this was happening or I would
have rallied the cause earlier. The Vancouver Sun will
present this petition to the NHL HQ in New York
tomorrow. It reads as follows:
Mr. Bettman,
...
posted by Jeffery Simpson at 2008-11-07 02:52:41
Anytime anyone tries to do a definitive list of whose
the best, most important, or drunkest, bloggers in
Vancouver it always falls short. It’s the
nature of the beast, if you mention x
...

From
Tony Gallagher at the Province:
For one night at least, it was back to reality for
the Canucks and their fans.
And while there were a lot of factors that played
into Monday 's disastrous replay
...
posted by Mike Halford at 2008-10-07 19:30:00
In example No. 2,320 of why every other team in the NHL
is infinitely more fun than the Vancouver Canucks, we
present to you the latest from The 2 Man Advantage – a
sit down with Bill Guerin and ...
posted by Mike at 2008-10-07 15:19:41
October 7 - Two days to go and two new guys in
tow.
Now what to do with Mike Brown as well as
Pettinger, Wellwood, Krog, Nycholat, Rypien and
Hansen? Pettinger and Krog have been
waived.
And boom ...
There is a lot of Gino love going on at
CDC
(when they aren't getting their forum locked). Someone
had posted this video of Gino going on a rampage and
taking shots at all the Blues on the ice. In ...
posted by Mike Halford at 2008-09-23 21:00:00
Oh yes, it's that time of year again. Time for cubicle
jockeys across the country to participate in office
hockey pools. As far as interoffice mingling goes, the
hockey pool is the great social ...
posted by Jeffery Simpson at 2008-09-19 22:46:08
Apologies for not posting for a little while.
First The Georgia Straight said they’d pay
me to write for them, and I was sort of shocked by
the fact that there’s money to be made in
...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-09-19 00:20:00
Don't ever accuse the Kurtenblog of acting
unilaterally. We are just a small part of the world
community. Which brings us to this: In light of
continuing criticism of our boycott of the sport of ...

I have been a Metallica fan since 1988.
Some dude sitting next to me in English class had his
walkman on, and I could hear this crunchy fast music
faintly coming out of the headphones. I nudged him ...
posted by Mike at 2008-08-29 20:04:33
August 29 - It's been a whole three seasons
since the west coast express was derailed and a whole
eight weeks since it was scuttled, blow up, picked
apart by ravens and sent to the far corners of the ...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-08-27 21:46:00
This isn't to say the New York Islanders are a more
successful NHL franchise than the Vancouver Canucks.
The Isles struggle to fill their building; the Canucks
don't. And maybe that's why they don't ...

Finally bought the mag yesterday. If you
have not bought it yet or are not going to buy the
issue, then this post is for you. I will give you what
The Hockey News is saying and projecting for each ...
posted by Jeffery Simpson at 2008-08-19 07:57:54
Ah blog wars.
We’re all tough behind our keyboard and everyone is
brave when they can say things using a fake
name. I’ve been pulled into a few cross blog
arguments, and I generally
...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-08-05 22:25:00
The Summer Olympics kick off this week in Beijing,
China, and billions of people are excited about it.
After all, who wouldn’t be jacked up to watch the best
in the world compete in the following ...
posted by castewar at 2008-07-28 10:15:19
One of two things are afoot - either the Internet is
failing to filter the world of podcasts in a way that
helps me find a funny, Vancouver, talk podcast (lots
of music options, lots of so-so comedy,
...

I managed to catch the special Off The
Record today with Ray Emery as the guest. Michael
Landsberg asked Emery some serious deep questions and
tried hard to get some dirt on Emery and I thought the
...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-07-11 01:19:00
Say what you will about the signing of Pavol Demitra,
at least the guy doesn't take himself too seriously. We
assume this commercial the Vancouver Canucks' newest
player did with fellow countryman ...
posted by Mike at 2008-07-10 20:58:48
The worst kept secret in hockey is official: Pavol
Demitra is a Canuck. Two years @ $4,000,000 million.
And the happiest person on the planet isn’t Demitra or
Matt Keator (his agent). Nope, ...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-06-30 21:20:00
In its brief history, the KB has called for a number of
bans. A few days ago, it was Barry Melrose mullet jokes
. Today, we tackle an even bigger scourge: viral
videos. Viral videos, like most ...
posted by Mike Halford at 2008-06-23 20:13:00
What’s wrong with ordering the “Chicken without Sexual
Life?" According to the Chinese government, everything.
In a new 170-page book offered to Beijing hotels, the
government has listed more ...
Some punk threw something at Josh Homme, lead singer of
Queens of the Stone Age during a concert. Listen to the
verbal tirade that this idiot fan has to hear from
Homme before he gets booted out. I ...
posted by Mike at 2008-06-18 15:54:47
Does this sound like a guy eager to embrace the Gillis
empire? Money is not most important to me, I prioritize
the social part, what type of hockey the team plays and
which type of players they have. ...
posted by Jason Brough at 2008-06-12 20:00:00
This...is... Jeopardy embarrassing: Great find by our
very own Puck Daddy , Greg Wyshynski: That three
bookworms with buzzers didn't know who the Minnesota
Wild were, or that a question that ...