Team doctors and specialist have determined that Manny Malhotra will be our for the regular season AND the playoffs. no further comments will be made.
This is a HUGE lost for the Canucks like HUGE! but thats important is that he gets healthy - i'd rather loose him now and have him for the next 2 season than have him come back prematurely and loose him for good.
Manny has been a huge asset for the Canucks this season both on and off the ice he has been and still is a leader on and off the ice. As our top face-off guy he has a big shoe to fill in but i'm positive that out guys can and will step up to the plate just like they did when our D was hurting.
but what to do now? Canucks havecalled up Alex Bolduc to sill in for Tanner Glass (rib) he will practice with the team in Detroit - the 1st preactice he's had in a week. Kevin Bisksa will play on Wednesday against Detroit as well - Juice has missed 15 games due to a broken foot.
Anything can happen in this game it's the fastest sport in the world and i'm happy to see that the league is doing more the make this game safer. I think that the league should however make visors mandatory to prevent more accidents like this happening. At the end of the day accidents happen and theres nothing we can do about it but sometimes you just wish it'd happen to the player that you hate rather than one that you love.
All i can really say is... Get better Manny hope to see you next season!
http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=556729
its gonna be okay because like the guys always say "you can't win them all" and besides who has the division title? we do, and who is 1st in the NHL? we are, and who has a playoff spot? we do! don't worry we'll get'em in Detroit and wipe the smile right off Burtuzzi's face :D
don't get me wrong i totally thought that we could have gone on and won 8 in a row but a small part of my heart slightly doubted because we are missing one of our greatest players- Manny Malhotra who is out with an eye injury from Wednesday's game when he took a puck to the eye. (no set timeline for his return) AV: " Talked with Malhotra last night. No timeline set."
i admit that its gonna be tough with out Malhotra but we have a great team and I know that they'll step up to the plate just like they did when our D was hurting.
Last night's game well just like a few of our past games have been filled with a ton of bad reffing.
i'll use last night's game specifically. Alex Burrows' "hit" on Fiddler, i understand the new rules and that hits like that are not tolerable in the league anymore but the fact of the matter is- Burrows barely laid his hand on him! Fiddler skated into the boards on his own. Due to the rule i would understand a 2min minor for boarding but honestly a 5min major? And later that period Daniel Sedin was tripped deep in the Coyotes' end and low and behold NO CALL! During the game against Colorado no PP for the Canucks till the 3rd period and there were a few things that should have been called.
Luongo did a decent job last night for a 3-1 loss, 1st goal he was scrambling 2nd goal a screen- not much you can do about it, the open net... well D could have done a little more but you really can't do much about it. We had a TON of chances last night but unfortunately LaBarbera did really well last night and its clear that they wanted it more than we did.
All in all i think we did okay not great but okay. and life i said it's only one game and we are already have the division title a playoff spot and we're still #1 in the league. It's not the result that matters it the way they play (in my mind at least.)
now yes i will be the first admit that we were off to a rough start and i admit i didn't see a play off spot in our future but like any good fan would do i watch game after game and then we finally pushed our way to the top. so what do we need to improve on? are we going to be able to keep our 1st place?
FACT: only 3 teams in NHL history have stayed in 1st after the NHL All Star and only one of those teams have gone on to win the Stanley cup that year (Detroit)
So my question is are we going to be like Detroit? are we going to win the cup? i have no doubt in my team don't get me wrong there is always room for improvement (goalie consistency, PP...) but what are they going to do to ensure that we will win the Stanley Cup?
BUT let's concentrate on where we are now
lets see where to begin
1st in our Conference: 97 points
1st in NHL: 97 points
1st in PP%: 24.2%
1st in PK%: 86.3%
Daniel Sedin leading in points with 86 points and Henrik not to far behind with 81 points
Henrik leading the league in Assist
Manny Malhotra 2nd in Face off's
Daniel Sedin 2nd in Goals
looks pretty good to me.....
