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Perhaps it’s the collision between politics and sports — in which elections are covered like trade deadline day and the “horse races” leading up to them are covered like game stories — that we’re always preparing ourselves for the spin around a well-hyped game.

If the Boston Bruins skate out of TD [...]

In a huge trade that’s not often seen at this time of the season, the Vancouver Canucks have acquired David Booth, Steve Reinprecht and a third round pick from the Florida Panthers in exchange for Mikael Samuelsson and Marco Sturm.

Booth, 26, is without doubt the centerpiece of the deal. He hasn’t necessarily been the same player since suffering [...]

Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead?

So far in this admittedly very new season, the NHL has broken more or less how people expected. [...]

Today’s Special Guests: Mike Halford and Jason Brough from Orland Kurtenblog, the Vancouver Canucks-centric but all-things-hockey blog from the Vancouver Province. 1. The Player You Most Love To Hate Halford: Ben Eager. The Canucks have been on the receiving end of his goonery for what feels like an eternity. Some prime examples: To top it [...]

Another hockey player gone too soon: Rick Rypien, who played parts of six seasons as a forward with the Vancouver Canucks, was found dead in his Alberta home on Monday.

News 1130 in Vancouver reported late Monday that Rypien took his own life (original story is here) but later changed that language to a “non-suspicious, sudden death.” [...]

Milan Lucic was born in Vancouver and had the awkward honor of winning the Stanley Cup for the Boston Bruins over the Vancouver Canucks in his hometown. When his turn to raise and skate the Cup arrived, the reaction from the crowd was

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So that was an interesting little signing in a summer with no real arbitration hearings of note. Will Shea Weber or Zach Parise go that route? Even that appears unlikely at this stage (it would seem). Arbitration cases only seem to occur about 12-18% of the time in the NHL anyway and this year that rate is 1 for the summer. Jannik Hansen signed a three year, $4.05 million dollar deal today with the Vancouver Canucks. Hansen is a curious case indeed for he really…

Could you see yourself walking away from a nice living and saying, “Honey, I want to have a chance to mold young men’s lives.”

Nowadays, hockey shapes women’s lives! The past year in Calagry with the Canadians sweeping the Gold over the US Teams was a hard pill to swallow for 1980 Olympic hero Mark Johnson [...]

Rodgers arena in Vancouver hosted the visiting Boston Bruins and put the Vancouver Canucks in their own building for what had become the last game of the year!

The Bruins had an extra motivation because of two players, injured Nathan Horton, and 43, year-old Mark Recchi, playing in the real last [...]

Brad Marchand and Ryan Kessler took the opening draw and shortly afterwards Johnny Boychuck smacked Masom Raymond into the boards and Raymond, had to be helped off the ice! The game begins early with penalties to the two capatins Henrik Sedin of Vancouver for embellishment and Zdeno Chara of Boston for interference. [...]