Thursday, December 17, 2009

i know, it's been forever.......

....but i've been doing most of my stuff over at Nucks Misconduct.
several things have happened so far this season:
-tons of injuries. several regulars get injured, kids get called up from manitoba, a couple kids get injured, more get called up, regulars come back, kids sent back down. daniel sedin was the most notable, breaking his foot in october and coming back in november. other smaller injuries happened here and there, including luongo, rypper, wellwood, grabner and bolduc.
-during the injury streak, there was tons of line-juggling, and lots of horrible play. luckily, we're just starting to get hot again.
-those sedins are on fire. henrik did quite well without daniel in the line-up, and now that he's back both are on fire. they've each had about 12-14 points in about 7 games, both have had recent hat tricks, and henrik is tied for 2nd in the league for points.
-ehrhoff fits into the defense quite lovely. he's 3rd in the league right now for +/-
-we're sitting at 19-15-0 right now, with a 22.9% powerplay (4th in league) and 79% penalty kill (21st in league, recently had a huge drop).
-since when has being tied in 9th in the league for number of wins with 19 results in being 10th in the West???? (conference standings here) seriously, the extra overtime points are having an effect on the standings. now last year, it helped us win the NW. this year, we don't have any yet!!! seriously, we're the only team that hasn't had any overtime losses (we've only been to overtime twice)!!!! this is allowing teams like dallas (with 10 OTL's already) to be tied with us for points. because of this, we're in 10th right now. i think the rules need to be changed.
-the olympic road trip. it is coming very soon. the canucks are on an 8-game homestand right now, and so far they've been doing okay at gaining some wins. but still, we really need to get ahead now to prepare for the worst. we play the caps in vancouver tomorrow night. (scores and schedule here)

well, i think that covers everything. i'll try to keep this updated more often. in the meantime, i can be found at Nucks Misconduct, as well as the other hockey blogs at SBNation when i make field trips (whether for nucks games or for socializing and learning about the other teams). i go by "missy" there. i can also be found on twitter.

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