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Hodgson Update from Canucks.com

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According to the Brampton Battalion, Cody Hodgson still has no timeline set for returning to the team, but “his ailing back is slowly returning to full strength.”

“Hodgson got a positive report on a second visit to Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic last week. Hodgson, who injured a disc in his back while training in July, is scheduled to return to the facility later this month for another evaluation.”

Hodgson said he feels “good” so far and that “the people at the Cleveland Clinic have seen a big improvement since I was there the last time. Hopefully everything continues to go well. They’ve given me some more functional exercises to do and, if I feel no pain and things are going well, I can start light skating soon.”
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Hate to say it... but man... back problems like that at his age... yikes........... hope he doesn't end up being a Magnus Arvedson.

The City TV broadcast was mentioned a few pages back. It'll be interesting to see what feed it is but Rogers does own both SN and City TV so I assume it'll be the SN feed.

on H1N1 shots for the Flames/Heat and now the Leafs/Raptors

this is Don Taylor's opinion and i have to agree. Families were involved for the Flames case. So lets put these players and staff into a regular persons shoe. The job these people took requires alot of interaction. If its going to protect their families, then its like why the hell not. Family still comes first.

As per CityTV

I think its to promote local TV as alot of these stations are struggling to save alive. So why not throw some high profile event on there

Canuck Ryan Kesler puts muscle where his mouth is


By BRAD ZIEMER, VANCOUVER SUNNovember 4, 2009


During a recent Canuck game, one of the officials skated over to the Vancouver bench and suggested to coach Alain Vigneault that he needed to persuade a couple of his players to tone down their verbal taunting of the opposition.

Vigneault didn't even need to ask who one of the culprits was. One of them just had to be Ryan Kesler, who on the ice is as fast with his mouth as he is on his skates.

“I am a different person on the ice than I am off,” Kesler said Wednesday before leaving for Minnesota, where the Canucks begin a five-game road trip tonight.

“I’m pretty intense. That’s the way I have always approached it. Coming into the league I knew I had to play that way and it just kind of stuck."

Off the ice, Kesler is more like the guy who stars in that B.C. Hydro Power Smart commercial and mumbles just two words ("Uh, no") in the 30-spot. On the ice, he’s part pitbull, a chatterbox who does everything he can to get under the skin of opposing players.

"Like I said, I’m a different player on the ice and for me it’s fun to play like that," Kesler said with a wry smile.

Quite frankly, the Canucks don’t want Kesler to change a thing.

More than anyone, Kesler has been the glue that has held the Canucks together and allowed the team to scratch and claw its way to two games above .500 despite missing so many injured players.

“Right now, without a doubt he is our most efficient player at both ends of the rink and that is why he is playing the most,” Vigneault said of Kesler, who had three assists in Vancouver’s 4-1 win over the Rangers on Tuesday night.

Vigneault’s philosophy as a coach is quite simple. Those who play the best get the most minutes. It’s not surprising then to see Kesler averaging better than 19 minutes a night. He’s second only to Henrik Sedin among Canuck forwards.

“When I got here my first year, Markus [Naslund] and Brendan [Morrison] had been the go-to guys and the [Sedin] twins beat them out,” Vigneault said.

“The twins played more and right now it’s the same for Ryan. He has been playing real well. Every player that I seem to put him with, those guys seem to go.

“I have always felt that the elite players, they make the players around them so much better and you can see Ryan right now what he’s doing, whoever he’s playing with, those guys are playing real, real well.”

Mikael Samuelsson leads the Canucks with eight goals this season and many of those have come playing alongside Kesler. He played against Kesler as a member of the Detroit Red Wings and knew he was a good player. Only now as a teammate, is Samuelsson beginning to realize how good.

“He really skates hard, he wins battles and that makes it easy to play with him,” Samuelsson said. “He really goes out there every shift and battles for the puck and he skates like the wind.”

On Tuesday night, Kesler’s best play just may have been the cross-ice pass he delivered to fourth-liner Rick Rypien to set up the game-winning goal.

“It’s my job to make the players around me better and almost force them to become better players,” Kesler said. “Playing with Mase [Mason Raymond] and Sammy [Samuelsson], they are making me push myself even harder to make myself a better player.”

Kesler heads into tonight’s game with 16 points in 16 games. His offensive game seems to be catching up with his defensive skills, which garnered him a Selke nomination last season.

“I’m feeling pretty good,” Kesler said of his game.

“I think there is still more there, though. Like always. The team is winning, that’s what I’m happy about. We won two very good games, had two very good performances from the goaltender on out and we have to stay with that and have to keep going.”

The only disappointing thing about Kesler’s fast start from a Canuck perspective involves the bottom line. Now in the final year of a three-year deal that pays him $1.75 million a season, Kesler’s stock is most definitely on the rise.

It may cost the Canucks more than they had ever imagined to lock him up long term.

bziemer@vancouversun.com
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

Canucks' Shane O'Brien suspended one game for sticking it to Sean Avery


By Ben Kuzma, The ProvinceNovember 4, 2009


Vancouver Canucks Shane O'Brien (55, top right) and Darcy Hordichuk (24, bottom right) argue with New York Rangers Sean Avery (16, left) with linesman Steve Barton in the middle during the third period of regular season NHL game action at GM Place Stadium in Vancouver November 3, 2009.

Vancouver Canucks Shane O'Brien (55, top right) and Darcy Hordichuk (24, bottom right) argue with New York Rangers Sean Avery (16, left) with linesman Steve Barton in the middle during the third period of regular season NHL game action at GM Place Stadium in Vancouver November 3, 2009.
Photograph by: Ric Ernst, The Province

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Shane O'Brien has received a one-game suspension for sticking it to Sean Avery on Tuesday at GM Place.

The Vancouver Canucks defenceman, who had been benched after taking a double-minor penalty late in the second period, stormed the length of the players' bench early in the third period to challenge the agitating Avery and stuck his stick into the abdomen of the New York Rangers winger.

O'Brien was so worked up that he had to be restrained by Canucks coach Alain Vigneault.

"You never want to be suspended and I don't think it deserves one, but I'll take my punishment," said O'Brien, who won't be eligible to play Thursday night against the Minnesota Wild.

"I got sucked in a little bit. Avery was chirping and he cross-checked me in the first period for no reason.

"He was saying stuff to [Darcy] Hordichuk on the bench before it happened and I just felt that was over the line. I just let my emotions take over. It was a heated point of the game and it was getting a little physical."

In a conference call Wednesday with NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell, O'Brien was reminded that he's a repeat offender and will be watched more closely.

Last season, he was fined $2,500 US in a post-game altercation at San Jose after Ryan Clowe and Joe Pavelski had confronted Henrik Sedin following the Canucks' 2-1 overtime win on Jan. 20.

This time, it was being benched by the coach and goaded by Avery that got to O'Brien.

"I was probably not the most happy guy at the time, but I've been trying to control my emotions." added O'Brien. "I was pretty upset, pretty fired up. Avery wouldn't even think about fighting and some of the things he was saying to Hordichuk, there was no respect there. You want to play hard against people. But that guy has no respect for anybody."

O'Brien also thought the fight-filled 4-1 victory galvanized the injury ravaged Canucks, especially when Ryan Kesler was confronted by three Rangers during the course of a line change in the third period to spark a melee.

"I know there was part of me that wanted to hop the boards and get in it," said O'Brien. "And I know Hordi did too and Ryp [Rick Rypien] was licking his chops. But you've got to be controlled."

OF NOTE — Dane Byers of the Rangers has automatically been suspended one game and head coach John Tortorella fined $10,000 for their actions Tuesday. Byers was originally assessed an instigator penalty in a bout with Tanner Glass in the final five minutes.

With file from Jim Jamieson
© Copyright (c) The Province

good read on those 2 articles lol

Ryan Johnson is on the line up tonight, great... more shots will be block

hahahahahahah Parros is so oblivious

I am out of word.

Cabbie is hilarious...we need more exposure here on the west coast for the players here.

I wish death upon cabbie
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^ lol. I don't mind cabbie... for the most part.

cabbie is a fat fuck..gerry dee can lick my balls..i hate both those guys...fuckin try hard

Cabbie is hilarious.

except when he interviews dion phaneuf, thats just boring.

Off topic.. but tonights game not in HD???

Okay, people can relax now... because the World Series is finished, Sportsnet WILL be showing the game now!

Not sure if this means both Sportsnet and City TV will be showing it, but it could.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/tvschedule/

Boston Bruins forward David Krejci has been diagnosed with H1N1

^^thank god baseball is over and done with..phew!

I remember the summer was soo boring...nothing but baseball highlights

(btw..I hate baseball);)

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I hate summer. Nothing to watch. No Poker on Sportsnet because of baseball.

I hope this is wrong... Bieksa on top (offensive) line is not cool :cry:

bieska is overrated

Bieksa on the top line.....ahahahaha

Bieksa as a forward!