The Vancouver Canucks

VanCanucks: #Canucks clipped by Kings 4-1. Boom Boom Bieksa with the lone Vancouver goal (It was a really nice one at least!) http://t.co/CraCJlTp

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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

•  …(Ron) Wilson will continue to coach the team so long as he makes the playoffs this season. If he doesn’t make the playoffs, he gets shown the door. The only difference now is, if he gets ousted because the team misses the playoffs, he leaves the way many heads of large corporations leave — with a healthy going-away present, a hockey version of the golden parachute.

Burke is loyal.

He isn’t stupid.

• Stan Bowman needs a goalie. If he gets one, the Chicago Blackhawks can win the Stanley Cup. But they can’t win with Ray Emery and Corey Crawford in net.

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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

•  …(Ron) Wilson will continue to coach the team so long as he makes the playoffs this season. If he doesn’t make the playoffs, he gets shown the door. The only difference now is, if he gets ousted because the team misses the playoffs, he leaves the way many heads of large corporations leave — with a healthy going-away present, a hockey version of the golden parachute.

Burke is loyal.

He isn’t stupid.

• Stan Bowman needs a goalie. If he gets one, the Chicago Blackhawks can win the Stanley Cup. But they can’t win with Ray Emery and Corey Crawford in net.

more hockey notes…

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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

•  …(Ron) Wilson will continue to coach the team so long as he makes the playoffs this season. If he doesn’t make the playoffs, he gets shown the door. The only difference now is, if he gets ousted because the team misses the playoffs, he leaves the way many heads of large corporations leave — with a healthy going-away present, a hockey version of the golden parachute.

Burke is loyal.

He isn’t stupid.

• Stan Bowman needs a goalie. If he gets one, the Chicago Blackhawks can win the Stanley Cup. But they can’t win with Ray Emery and Corey Crawford in net.

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Ron and Don touch on numerous hockey topics….

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Ron and Don touch on numerous hockey topics….

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Ron and Don touch on numerous hockey topics….

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VanCanucks: #Canucks lose 4-1 to Kings to close out 2011. Onward and upward – 2012: The Year of the Canuck #Canucksin2012

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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

Roster size is a very touchy subject with players and their union, because every roster spot represents about $3 million in salary. Fine, leave the roster size alone (21-23 paid workers per team), but scale the nightly game roster back by two. Instead of heading into action with 18 skaters and two goalies, mandate coaches to dress only 16 skaters, most likely meaning 10 forwards and six defensemen.

In most cases, the two forwards to sit out would be precisely those players who make their gravy by negating goals and delivering hurt in small, medium, and large packages. Few in the viewing audience, or in charge of the scoresheet, would miss them very much.

Again, they’d still have jobs, because paid roster spots would remain in the collectively bargained 20-23 range, but they would be spare parts rather than essential pieces come game time. They also would serve as a taxi squad that would produce great competition for ice time, a coach’s dream. What’s not to like about that?

With the game trimmed of its nightly brat pack, the 10 most skilled forwards on each roster should be more productive, dealing in a workplace where they’re not unrelentingly checked and pummeled.

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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

Roster size is a very touchy subject with players and their union, because every roster spot represents about $3 million in salary. Fine, leave the roster size alone (21-23 paid workers per team), but scale the nightly game roster back by two. Instead of heading into action with 18 skaters and two goalies, mandate coaches to dress only 16 skaters, most likely meaning 10 forwards and six defensemen.

In most cases, the two forwards to sit out would be precisely those players who make their gravy by negating goals and delivering hurt in small, medium, and large packages. Few in the viewing audience, or in charge of the scoresheet, would miss them very much.

Again, they’d still have jobs, because paid roster spots would remain in the collectively bargained 20-23 range, but they would be spare parts rather than essential pieces come game time. They also would serve as a taxi squad that would produce great competition for ice time, a coach’s dream. What’s not to like about that?

With the game trimmed of its nightly brat pack, the 10 most skilled forwards on each roster should be more productive, dealing in a workplace where they’re not unrelentingly checked and pummeled.

more plus other hockey topics…

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