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It's Monday March the 20 around 6:17AM and

Canucks Lose 7-3: Golf Season To Start Soon?

You know, when you get beat down 7-3, there are other headlines I would think The Province could have come up with over, "Season Slipping Away." Especially when you read this bit: "Not only did the Canucks give the league's top-rated power play six chances in the opening 20 minutes, they couldn't even defend well 5-on-5 in what was easily their worst period of the season, and were greeted by a chorus of boos."

The Sun offers the more hard hitting headline, "Back off track: Detroit dismantles Vancouver". "he Canucks now have something in common with Gordie Howe. They're both No. 9. For the first time all season, Vancouver is out of the top eight in the NHL's Western Conference standings."

Vancouver Canucks Oped says, "Why - in the name of all that is good in the universe - do you put Naslund and Bertuzzi on the ice with less than a minute to play? Defense is not their forte by any stretch of the imagination. And so the puck ends up in the net with only seconds on the clock."

Personally I like CKNW's Neil Macrae's summary judgement this morning: "The Canucks are all playing they call Rick Tocchet and bet against themselves." He added, "If this were Toronto they would be run out of town." Nice.

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Posted by: Sam Salmon

March 20, 2006 08:46 PM

One of the Swedes-his name ends with 'und'-was in the place I work today.
NOT looking happy at all.
Maybe the weather in Sweden isn't quite warm enough for a return trip quite yet.