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who thought they'd live long enough to see a season like this? as for the soft sedins - no ones laughing now. keep the faith.

Congratulations to the Canucks once again for winning the Presidents' Trophy with their 117 point season.

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Congratulations to Daniel Sedin for winning the Art Ross trophy with his season leading 104 points.

Congratulations to Luongo and Schneider for winning the William M. Jennings trophy by allowing only 185 goals.

Let the playoffs begin!

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Outside of Rexall Place, there is a large bronze statue of Wayne Gretzky. One would wonder if there would ever be a statue in honour of any former Canuck. Well, that finally happened but I'm sure it was a shock to all fans that among all the great Canuck players and coaches, it would be Roger Neilson. As great at the 1982 Stanley Cup run was, Neilson served as head coach less than two full years, starting in the last of the 1981-82 regular season and being fired in January 1984. But I guess his towel power action will always have place in Vancouver history and thus, the statue.



Now, who will be first Lion to have a statue made of him in front of BC Place? Analogously, I'd say Roger Neilson is to the Canucks as Steve Buratto is to the Lions - a short term coach who achieved some brief success before being fired. But unlike Neilson, Buratto didn't really made any memorable move that would put him in Vancouver folklore.

Robbie wrote:Outside of Rexall Place, there is a large bronze statue of Wayne Gretzky. One would wonder if there would ever be a statue in honour of any former Canuck. Well, that finally happened but I'm sure it was a shock to all fans that among all the great Canuck players and coaches, it would be Roger Neilson. As great at the 1982 Stanley Cup run was, Neilson served as head coach less than two full years, starting in the last of the 1981-82 regular season and being fired in January 1984. But I guess his towel power action will always have place in Vancouver history and thus, the statue.

Not just Vancouver... notice just about everyone has some form of "towel power" these days? Almost every team in every sport you can name is doing now.

Well I think Kesler wins his Selke. I just don't see Daniel winning the Hart. Love to be wrong. The draft is going to be interesting this year, IMO. Hope the Canucks get to pick last at next years draft....

Well its draft time. Been reading about what people think the Canucks need and unfortunately I'd agree. They need, IMO, a guy who will take out any players who think its okay to use Daniel Sedin's head as a speed bag. That type of player doesn't usually come via the draft. Gillis is saying all the right things but I'm personally looking forward to seeing how this draft goes for the Canucks. The organization claimed to have learned from previous playoff hiccups and they are obviously close.

Guess it deserves a new thread but then again why bother.

I saw (via Skytrain monitor news updates) that Kevin Bieksa has forgone free agency and resigned as a Canuck. Not sure of the details but I'm not at all surprised. Even though pro sports is just that a business, you still get some of the loyalty and reasoning that I'll take less because I know what I've got. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, perhaps. Regardless, I certainly among the crowd that would have been happy to see him shipped outta here but he's sure progressed to a level where I'm glad that didn't happen.

So Bieksa took a 'hometown' discount of 4.6 per! Wow, apparently he could have easily gotten 5 million on the market.

Erhoff, no go so they shipped off his negotiating rights to the Islanders. Man, just the chance to sign him before the deadline was worth a 4th round pick. Sounds like no big deal but then again, IIRC Bieksa was a 4 or 5th rounder so go figure.