Thank you, Trevor Linden
By samanthaorwell on April 6, 2008 - 12:12am
can we take a moment for Trevor Linden?
Wonderful man.
Vancouver Canucks
Welcome to True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time
By Richard Eriksson on May 4, 2007 - 12:46am
I only heard about it on the radio, waiting for the SeaBus to come in, but a part of me doesn't want to see The Goal. The part that doesn't to want to believe that any professional hockey goalie, much less Roberto "MVP" Luongo, can make a mental mistake like that, tired or not. The part of me that doesn't want to believe the season's over. The local junior team, the Vancouver Giants, are in the playoffs too, but I don't know the name of any of the players. (Granted, a Giants game is decent hockey at a decent price, and would watch at the old Pacific Colosseum game again sometime.) Nevermind a war without end: in Canada, with the World Championships, Memorial Cup, and talk about the Olympics going to heat up in a couple of years, we're a country engaging in hockey with no end. Says the guy who just started playing floorball.
Now we fans are cured of our 3-hour long fits of belief suspension, and can finally get to the serious business of berating the weather for teasing us (or, like this morning, tricking us). Game 7 might have happened during a book reading I want to attend, and local grumps can finally thank their goodnesses. Welcome to True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time.
Canucks Outsider Live Game 5 is here starting at about 5:30p.m. Pacific
By Roland Tanglao on May 3, 2007 - 4:11pm
To get in on the live chat go to ustream.tv/canucksoutsider
Alive for Game Five! Canucks Outsider Servin' it up Homestyle tonight
By uncleweed on May 3, 2007 - 3:07pm
Alive for Game Five!
Canucks Outsider Servin' it up Homestyle
May 3rd ~ 5:30PM PST ~ Ustream.tv/CanucksOutsider
Mr. Furley and his cameras are heading to my confines in North Van for the impending Canucks win tonight - Game 5 pucks drops at 6PM PST so we'll try to fire up by 5:30 or so.
Same channels etc. and hopefully a solid stream and working chat for all three periods.
Canucks Outsider Live Game 4 is here starting at 5:30 PM Pacific 03 May 2007
By Roland Tanglao on April 30, 2007 - 4:11pm
Canucks Outsider Live Videocast of Hockey Punditry from Dave Olson and his crew of pundits of Game 4 of the Anaheim Series from Elastic Path (thanks once more for the fabulous venue) will be at ustream.tv/canucksoutsider starting tomorow May 1, 2007 at 7:15 p.m. -ish. See you online!
Roasting Ducks in Overtime - Canucks Outsider podcast #53
By uncleweed on April 30, 2007 - 2:26pm
Just before OT in Game 2 versus the Ducks, Dave and Dan Funboy review the recent action including the pandemonium following the Game 7 victory over the Dallas Stars. They talk about heroes - both new and vintage - stepping it up for playoff glory, plus outline key matchups against the Ducks and highlight noteworthy performances for and against the Stars.
Finally, after the late night win, Dave recounts Cowan's heroics and drops in a few recent mainstream media appearences (CTV, CBC, CKNW + Dallas Stars podcast and Vancouver Courier).
Download Roasting Ducks in Overtime - Canucks Outsider #53 (.mp3, 24:24, 45MB)
Round 2 Predictions? Consensus Says Ducks in 6, Sacha Says 5
By Richard Eriksson on April 25, 2007 - 3:52pm
After the Canucks won in the two most exciting periods I'd seen in a long time (the second and the third), I'm still left with a few questions:
- who's playing hurt? Remember when Naslund played hurt and resorted to slapshots in the previous playoffs? People are saying Sami Salo is banged up, but I think that's just because of the trip in Game 7, which looked to me like it knocked the wind out of him (and no doubt bruised his back). Naslund seems okay, playing the role he played all season, stepping up the defensive and physical game possibly at the expense of the offensive game.
- I read in the papers that Cooke might make it back for Round 2, but when? And are we going to see Kesler at all this year?
- are the Canucks going to change their game like so many predict? Obviously you adjust to each team, but can a team have more than one system?
- are we going to see vintage Brian Burke, master of misdirection?
Game 7 Prediction: Conflict-Avoidance Edition
By Richard Eriksson on April 23, 2007 - 3:54pm
I can say with 100% confidence that one of either the Dallas Stars or the Vancouver Canucks will move on to the second round of the 2007 NHL playoffs. It's a coin toss, as Dave put it on Saturday's Canucks Outsider Live, but Vancouverites win both ways: if the local hockey team moves on, we dance on the streets; if they lose, then we enter True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time, that is, the gain of two and a half hours every two days of sunlight where we would normally be watching the game. I usually try to be downtown during the game in which it's possible for the Canucks to move on, but never a Game 7. Since it's essentially a 50-50 chance as it has been all series, I can't bear to watch among the possibly dejected (and almost certainly inebriated) fans. Yet I cannot look away: I'll be watching, but at the same time I'll get some long-needed ironing done.
Dave's awesome Game 6 Canucks Outsider Live Wrapup - see you at hockeynw.com at 5:45p.m.
By Roland Tanglao on April 23, 2007 - 10:46am
Check out Dave's excellent Canucks Outsider Live Game 6 wrapup. See you live at 5:45p.m. Pacific for Canucks Outsider Live Game 7.
Canucks Outsider Live Game 6 rocked. Game 7 here we come!
By Roland Tanglao on April 22, 2007 - 5:51am
[Cross posted from Hockey NW]
The Canucks Outsider Live premier live videocast for Game 6 rocked, let me count the ways:
1. Dave Olson's "Don Cherry Red" jacket was delightful to behold. Almost as delightful as Dave's punditry.
2. We had viewers from all around the world, from Australia to China as well as Canada and the USA.
3. We learned about Floorball and their fantastic cool sticks during the first intermission from Stewart and the BC Floorball guys
4. The fascinating topic of Iceland hockey and the Icelandic influence in Canada was covered by Richard during the second intermission.
