I wouldnt say that....first off, Regehr is tougher than both those guys....but Bieksa, Mitchell, O'Brien, and Ohlund aren't exactly pansies themselves

Betcha didn't call him PYLON! He mighta punched you in the mouth :P

do you guys believe the canucks will stay on the top 5 in the west conference?
perhaps catch up with the flame ?

I don't think they'll catch the flames but holding 5th doesn't sound to far fetched if they keep playing the way they've been as of late.

To catch Chicago or Calgary would be really hard unless they have a bad stretch of games like Vancouver did after Xmas. Calgary has a 9 point lead with same amount of games played and we play them twice. They're 8 back of Chicago but they have 2 games in hand and we only play them once.

If Vancouver can manage to finish 5th and play Chicago that would probably be the best case scenario (bar moving up) IMO.

yep, none of the three u mentioned are pansies, but just in my opinion, i think CGY is tougher on the blueline
also, will we see the kesler/burrows pair come back together, since they can shut down iggy and cammalleri so well so well

Like quasi mentioned, we're not going to catch Calgary. It would have to take a long string of bad luck with the Flames, and a whole lot of good luck with the Canucks to get ahead of Calgary.

I think at this point, the Canucks have to keep getting wins to keep themselves in the playoff race. As you can see, 5th and 9th place is just 2 points away, so winning every game and keeping ahead of 8th is paramount. Also, the Canucks have to be somewhat strategic about who they play against. You probably don't want to play against San Jose or Detroit in the first round (OK, well, with how we do, maybe the Red Wings might be OK) and get bumped off before you can make it into the 2nd round.

catching CGY will not happen..sigh..neither will be catching up the the hawks...
but hey, theres enuff games left that the possibility might happen, theres 2 more games vs the flames for 4pts
but yea...the nucks play the aves alot soon
hope that fairs well

Yeah but despite being a Canucks fan, realistically speaking, I'd have to give Celine the edge on this fight.

100% agree. Burrows and Kesler seriously earned the spots that they're currently in right now to play with our star forwards. I really really hope Alain doesn't blow this up when we hit a minor losing skid.

Looks like Schneider is going to MTL for 2nd/3rd round picks.





You can be damn sure AV will! lol its not his style to keep slumping lines together.

Seriously? What did you see that? Tsn, cancuks.com and NHL.com doesn't show anything about it.

I figure he'd be worth more than that...but then the Habs traded Huet for a 2nd round pick at the trade deadline last year, and Huet ain't too bad of a goaltender either...

Lol last night at the game they did this little "rpm" thing on the big screen, they showed an "R" then a liitle clip of kesler and so on

yepyep
schneider to MTL for 2nd n 3rd picks

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=2673...=topStory_main

I think the deal's for Mathieu Schneider, and not our goalie prospect.

:lol

Nice.. Nice..

wheeee
huet
salary dump
it didnt mess up the chemistry of the habs at that time either
Heut's time was up in MTL anyways

They played it on PPV as well, had a good laugh.

does this Schnieder deal open the floogates for trading....

Calgary is only 9 points ahead of us.. how can you say we can't catch them? There is still like 30 games left lol

Canucks next 7 should be easy points if they keep playing like they are.. well except tomorrows game will be a good tilt.

Tue. Feb. 17 at Calgary, 9:30 pm
Thu. Feb. 19 at Ottawa, 7:30 pm
Sat. Feb. 21 at Toronto, 7:00 pm
Tue. Feb. 24 at Montreal, 7:30 pm
Fri. Feb. 27 Tampa Bay, 10:00 pm
Sun. Mar. 1 Columbus, 10:00 pm
Tue. Mar. 3 Minnesota, 10:00 pm

The flames next 7 look like this.

Tue. Feb. 17 Vancouver, 9:30 pm
Thu. Feb. 19 at Minnesota, 8:00 pm
Sat. Feb. 21 at Edmonton, 10:00 pm
Tue. Feb. 24 Columbus, 9:00 pm
Fri. Feb. 27 Minnesota, 9:00 pm
Sun. Mar. 1 Tampa Bay, 8:00 pm
Tue. Mar. 3 at Ottawa, 7:30 pm

wow we play the same 4 teams haha

It's Mathieu Schneider from ATL so who gives a shit?

Lol I forgot to post before kinda funny last night sundin was singing the Canadian anthem lol

it gives mtl some depth...thats about it...how good of a Dman is he, well..he's steady

No doubt, multiple cups and an offensive Dman with a 1 year contract. Not to many of those out there up for trade would have fit perfectly on just about any team in the playoff hunt including ours.

haha...makes more sense. :D

The poster of the news should have clarified that since this is a Canucks thread. My first thought was the goaltender and not Mathieu Schneider.

Well, we can only catch up if Calgary loses some, and we win all ours. If both Calgary and Vancouver both win, then the gap remains the same. If we played Calgary a bunch more times, then that's the only definite way of making any ground on them. However, I think tomorrow is our last meet with Calgary this season.

he might be old, but hes a solid Dman with tons of playoff experience

as quasi said
his playoff experience is the key