Be wary of should win games

Canucks 1
Blues 3

Another should have won game, but didn't. Another missed oppurtunity to put some space between them and the Flames and Wild. It was such a boring game. I have to admit after spending the day with my 3 year old nephew, and my nephew of a month and a half - i was tired. Turning on this game - put me to sleep, and I woke up in time to hear St. Louis open the scoring. Daniel Sedin tied it a bit later, but that would be it for the Canucks. I dont know what it was, end of a long road trip, coming down from a high after the trades. Who knows. It seemed to be a pretty lacklustre effort.

Next game, on thursday against the Coyotes. I hope they win!

Jan BOOLIS

WELCOME

TO BRYAN SMOLINSKI and BRENT SOPEL

who are the newest Vancouver Canucks !!

SPORTSNET ARTICLE :

The Vancouver Canucks bolstered both their forward and defence corps Monday.

The Canucks landed centre Bryan Smolinski from the Chicago Blackhawks for a conditional second-round draft pick, then re-acquired defenceman Brent Sopel from the Los Angeles Kings for conditional second- and fourth-round draft picks.

Smolinski, 36, will be an unrestricted free agent July 1. He had 37 points (14-23) in 62 games with the Blackhawks this season.

Canucks GM Dave Nonis made it a priority to pick up help centre before Tuesday's trade deadline and got it in the reliable Smolinski, a two-way centre with playoff experience.

Earlier on Monday, the Canucks waived centre Marc Chouinard.

The Canucks drafted Sopel in the sixth round in '95 and he spent parts of six seasons with Vancouver before being dealt Aug. 3, 2005 to the New York Islanders for a conditional draft pick in the 2006 NHL entry draft.

The Islanders traded Sopel to the Kings on March 8, 2006 with Mark Parrish for Denis Grebeshkov, Jeff Tambellini, and a conditional 2006 draft pick.

BOOOLIS!!!!!

Canucks 1

Stars 2

Overtime loss

It's official ! I hate Jan Bulis. If it wasn't for Bulis, we very likely would have won this game 1-0. Too many penalities, again. And Bulis's penality with less then 3 minutes left was a stupid one. There was no need for him to run Turco. In what should have been a win, and two points for Vancouver, they have to be satisfied with just the one point. When will this team learn? Pyatt scored for Vancouver in the second period, and with less than 3 minutes left, Vancouver looked in good shape, until Bulis started the ball rolling. Its too bad, but at least we got the point. It should have been two.

"He's just a dumb hockey player" - Tom Larscheid after the game on Jan Bulis