Vancouver Canucks - 25 games into the season
What an october, our team played like it was unstoppable
(atleast outside the division) finishing with a 8-2-0-2 record.
Good goaltending, even better defence and in the end, Bertuzzis
first game in Denver. Everyone in the Pepsi arena booing,
dressed up in prison jumpers with no 44 on it, others wore fake
neck braces and on top of that the constant heckle. But with
that game over and done, we hoped to see the Bertuzzi we grown
to love.
November is looking like a so so month with a record of 7-0-7-0.
Pay notice to the fact that of our 9 losses, 7 have been against
our own division, many 4 point games lost and the most important
fact that we only are leading the division by 1 point.
So far the offence of our defenceman has been a great surprise
with Sami Salo being the most surprising one. Throw in Ed
Jovanovski and Mattias Ohlund and no other team can match our
top 3 defenceman in the league.
In the goal Alex Auld got off to a good start going undefeated
in his first 5 and Dan Cloutier looked like his form from 200304
was still there. But a few injuries lately has changed things
around and the question arise if Alex Auld is ready to take on a
bigger role of the club while Dan is out with injury. The result
so far is a ? at best.
The forward position is lead by the captain Nazzy that leads the
team in points with 30 in 25 games. Bertuzzi is second with an
average just under 1 points per game and after that is Henrik
Sedin with a strong start of the season. The Sedin line has been
the most improved one over last year and the twins with Carter
are starting to show some promise of what the future might hold.