Carol Schram: Vancouver Canucks stay positive as they face league-best Montreal Canadiens The Vancouver Canucks hope to snap a five-game losing streak as they prepare to face the NHL-best Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday at the Bell Centre.

Great blog as always Carol I flagged Walshy as well.

On another note, can somebody please tell Marwood to stop replying to my posts? Thanks in advance season ticketholders.

I for one am glad to see Burrows and DD back in the line up.

Hopefully Tanev plays well and can be that top 4 D that Mtl is looking for.

Great blog as always Carol I flagged Walshy as well.

On another note, can somebody please tell Marwood to stop replying to my posts? Thanks in advance season ticketholders.
- CanuckDon

Excellent work Carol!

I predict a W tonight.

Thanks as always Carol!

Burrows......"It was an optional skate this morning, but I'd pay to skate on this ice!"

Really? Then how about waiving for MTL and a late draft pick?

Takahashi calling out the WHINERSSS.. ahah wow. Wonder who it's directed at...

SEDINS- Nope
LOUIE- Nope
HORVAT- Nope
BAE- MAYBE
HANSEN- Nope
VIRTANEN- Potentially
BURR- Nope
DORSETT- Nope
LARSEN- Potentially

Anyone else have any thoughts? Or was it just an innocent tweet?

I for one am glad to see Burrows and DD back in the line up.

Hopefully Tanev plays well and can be that top 4 D that Mtl is looking for.
- dbot

He's hopefully going to Colorado or Buffalo......insert player tba here

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Takahashi calling out the WHINERSSS.. ahah wow. Wonder who it's directed at...

SEDINS- Nope
LOUIE- Nope
HORVAT- Nope
BAE- MAYBE
HANSEN- Nope
VIRTANEN- Potentially
BURR- Nope
DORSETT- Nope
LARSEN- Potentially

Anyone else have any thoughts? Or was it just an innocent tweet?
- VIRTBOHUT

Rockets suck

I predict a W tonight.
- dbot

I agree, I said we go 5-3-3 over our next 11 and I think it starts tonight with a blowout.

Eriksson with a hat-trick.

He's hopefully going to Colorado or Buffalo......insert player tba here

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- VanHockeyGuy

Buffalo seems pretty full on the backend.

Col is interesting...Landeskog is a pipedream i think.
Tanev for Mikhail Grigorenko + ?

I agree, I said we go 5-3-3 over our next 11 and I think it starts tonight with a blowout.

Eriksson with a hat-trick.
- belcherbd

I was thinking Burrows would finally stick that forehand backhand move of his....it's gotta work one of these days.

I agree, I said we go 5-3-3 over our next 11 and I think it starts tonight with a blowout.

Eriksson with a hat-trick.
- belcherbd

http://www.sportsnet.ca/h...ospect-rankings-november/

Vilardi would definitely be my target if we get in the top 5. similar size and skill to Patrick but almost a year younger. We should select Strome with our 2nd round pick and then our future center problems are likely solved. Strome is a pretty brutal skater but his brothers figured it out

Stecher back to Utica...let the riots begin!!!!

Well done Carol.

Optional #Canucks morning skate. Burrows and Tanev are skating, no Dorsett, Sutter, Eriksson, Edler or Sedins.

Back when I played sports, I used to spend every available minute I could playing. Whenever my teams had optional practices, I was there. Because that was extra time to play a sport I loved. I wanted to spend every waking minute playing. Even if I was sore or injured.

But...

Every single team-mate I ever had skipped these things. You couldn't pay them to go to anything optional. And, no matter how much you begged and pleaded, none of them would ever go and play a game of pick-up on the weekends. The only time you ever got to play with your team-mates was during games (at practice, you were just running drills). So, the teams never gelled. No one was ever used to playing together. No one ever meshed with anyone else. It was like a team of strangers playing together. Actually, it wasn't 'like' a team of strangers, it actually was a team of strangers. Every single game, you were playing with people you'd never played with before. And, every single game, there were mistakes that would never have happened if the team was used to playing together.

And, not the least bit surprisingly, we never won poop.

I've noticed this with the Canucks too over the years. It seems to be a job for them, not a game (the notable exception being Burrows). They don't want to go out and play a game with their team-mates. They want to come to practice, do what's required of them, and leave. And, if it's not required, they don't do it.

When you've got one of the worst teams in the league, it's pretty depressing seeing half the team skip an optional practice (after several days off, no less).

Rockets suck
- VanHockeyGuy

Back when I played sports, I used to spend every available minute I could playing. Whenever my teams had optional practices, I was there. Because that was extra time to play a sport I loved. I wanted to spend every waking minute playing. Even if I was sore or injured.

But...

Every single team-mate I ever had skipped these things. You couldn't pay them to go to anything optional. And, no matter how much you begged and pleaded, none of them would ever go and play a game of pick-up on the weekends. The only time you ever got to play with your team-mates was during games (at practice, you were just running drills). So, the teams never gelled. No one was ever used to playing together. No one ever meshed with anyone else. It was like a team of strangers playing together. Actually, it wasn't 'like' a team of strangers, it actually was a team of strangers. Every single game, you were playing with people you'd never played with before. And, every single game, there were mistakes that would never have happened if the team was used to playing together.

And, not the least bit surprisingly, we never won poop.

I've noticed this with the Canucks too over the years. It seems to be a job for them, not a game (the notable exception being Burrows). They don't want to go out and play a game with their team-mates. They want to come to practice, do what's required of them, and leave. And, if it's not required, they don't do it.

When you've got one of the worst teams in the league, it's pretty depressing seeing half the team skip an optional practice (after several days off, no less).
- stringerbell

sounds like your feeling are hurt.

Back when I played sports, I used to spend every available minute I could playing. Whenever my teams had optional practices, I was there. Because that was extra time to play a sport I loved. I wanted to spend every waking minute playing. Even if I was sore or injured.

But...

Every single team-mate I ever had skipped these things. You couldn't pay them to go to anything optional. And, no matter how much you begged and pleaded, none of them would ever go and play a game of pick-up on the weekends. The only time you ever got to play with your team-mates was during games (at practice, you were just running drills). So, the teams never gelled. No one was ever used to playing together. No one ever meshed with anyone else. It was like a team of strangers playing together. Actually, it wasn't 'like' a team of strangers, it actually was a team of strangers. Every single game, you were playing with people you'd never played with before. And, every single game, there were mistakes that would never have happened if the team was used to playing together.

And, not the least bit surprisingly, we never won poop.

I've noticed this with the Canucks too over the years. It seems to be a job for them, not a game (the notable exception being Burrows). They don't want to go out and play a game with their team-mates. They want to come to practice, do what's required of them, and leave. And, if it's not required, they don't do it.

When you've got one of the worst teams in the league, it's pretty depressing seeing half the team skip an optional practice (after several days off, no less).
- stringerbell

You can thank the NHLPA for that. they negotiated mandatory days off and optional skates/practices into the last few CBA's. 'Maintenance days' will become 'maintenance weeks'.

The players have rights you know...and feelings...

sounds like your feeling are hurt.
- SRam19

he is comfortable in his own shoes but hasn't worn the shoes of others.

Stecher back to Utica...let the riots begin!!!!

Well done Carol.
- LordHumungous

It's actually good for us he got sent down, because we are a worse team without him.

#tanknation

http://www.sportsnet.ca/h...ospect-rankings-november/

Vilardi would definitely be my target if we get in the top 5. similar size and skill to Patrick but almost a year younger. We should select Strome with our 2nd round pick and then our future center problems are likely solved. Strome is a pretty brutal skater but his brothers figured it out
- CanuckDon

I like Mittelstadt and Rasmussen but they are probably around the 10 spots. I know we have been bad recently but I think this team and specifically its "stars" have a lot more to give and I don't doubt they will deliver.

It's actually good for us he got sent down, because we are a worse team without him.

#tanknation
- dshiddy

can we give it til xmas? I'd be all aboard if we were just spinning our tires, but want to give it 30 games.

It's actually good for us he got sent down, because we are a worse team without him.

#tanknation
- dshiddy