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Dissecting the 2011-12 Canucks Carcass – By Vincent

April 27, 2012 Rob 1 Comment Special Feature

Vincent is a mysterious friend of Rob The Hockey Guy. He fights crime by night, so we won’t reveal his last name. He is @stuff99 on Twitter. Hi everyone, I am writing this blog as I listen to the Game of Thrones theme song in a circular loop. This makes blog writing sound even more [...]

Better team: This year’s Canucks or last year’s Canucks?

April 1, 2012 Rob 3 Comments Special Feature

The Canucks took back top spot in the conference Saturday night with a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames. With only three games remaining in the regular season, the Canucks sit one point up on the St Louis Blues and tied in points with the New York Rangers for top spot in the entire league [...]

Your 2011-12 Canucks MVP: Dan Hamhuis

March 28, 2012 Rob 0 Comments Special Feature

Over the last couple of months, as Daniel and Henrik Sedin have gone into slumps (coupled with the NHL’s return to the dead puck era), there has been a lot of scuttlebutt among Canucks fans about who the team’s MVP is. Roberto Luongo has been a popular choice of late (despite the fact that his backup has [...]

Four Reasons Why Rogers Arena is so Quiet

March 16, 2012 Rob 1 Comment Special Feature

Ed Willes wrote a nice little column in the Province today about how Rogers Arena is a quiet place to play hockey right now. This caused quite the ruckus on Twitter after the Team 1040 piggybacked on the article, as they often do. I think every show on the Team 1040 had a poll question [...]

Max Lapierre, Unsung Hero

March 5, 2012 Rob 2 Comments Special Feature

In case you haven’t noticed, Max Lapierre is having one heck of a season. Lapierre, who was picked up a year ago at the trade deadline, has brought an element needed to the Canucks. Early on this season, Lapierre filled-in nicely centering the third line while Ryan Kesler was injured and Manny Malhotra was struggling [...]

Five Ways to Fix the Team 1040

February 25, 2012 Rob 4 Comments Special Feature

Like a lot of Canucks fans, I’m addicted to the Team 1040. I listen to it all the time because I can’t get enough Canucks talk. But in the last year or two, my addiction has subsided. I still listen to it, but I find myself needing a break from it more often and I [...]

Mats Sundin’s Canucks Legacy

February 13, 2012 Rob 2 Comments Special Feature

Mats Sundin’s #13 banner was raised to the rafters of the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Saturday night, and it made me think back to his time in Vancouver. Sundin, as you might remember, spent half a season in blue and green during the 2008-09 season. The Mats Sundin that Canucks fans got to [...]

Rob The Hockey Guy featured in The Province!

February 10, 2012 Rob 1 Comment Special Feature

In the biggest thing to happen to this since Yahoo’s Puck Daddy blog talked about us last year, Rob The Hockey Guy has an article up on The Province’s website! You can read it on our website here or on The Province’s website here. Big thanks to Wyatt Arndt and the boys at the Legion [...]

The method behind Vigneault’s line juggling madness

February 10, 2012 Rob 0 Comments Game Recap, Special Feature

Note: This article was also featured on the Legion of Blog on The Province’s website as part of Feature Friday. Big thanks to Wyatt Arndt (better known as @TheStanchion on Twitter) for the opportunity! Early on in head coach Alain Vigneault’s tenure with the Vancouver Canucks, he was known as a compulsive line juggler, and [...]

Seattle could be getting a new arena… and an NHL Team in the near future

February 8, 2012 Rob 0 Comments Special Feature

There is some interesting news this week concerning the NHL possibly moving the Phoenix Coyotes to Seattle this week. More from the Vancouver Sun: That was the puck chatter north and south of the border, after an article appeared in the Seattle Times over the weekend, stating talks between city staff and San Francisco multimillionaire [...]