Posts Tagged ‘hockey’

Canucks Movie Forever Faithful

November 7th, 2008 by Miss604   2 Comments

This Monday, November 10th, you can check out Forever Faithful: A Canucks Movie; a documentary following fans and players of the last 38 years of the franchise through the course of a season.

The documented life of Canucks fans and their relationship with their team… and it’s not a horror movie. The film will be shown [...]

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Slap Shot 3 Takes the Ice in Vancouver

November 4th, 2008 by Miss604   4 Comments

I also published a slightly different version of this interview over on E!Online
This fall the Hanson Brothers will take to the ice in the 3rd movie in the Slap Shot series: Slap Shot 3: The Junior League. The film was shot around Metro Vancouver and features comedy and hockey legends along with a promising young [...]

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Vancouver Canucks October 25th Who Else?

October 23rd, 2008 by Miss604   10 Comments

There’s a cryptic video on the Canucks website right now that asks several (rhetorical) questions and leads us all to believe the organisation is cooking something up for this Saturday’s game versus the Oilers.
Who else suffered rejection for an NHL franchise, but never quit?
Who else turned a symbol of surrender into a passionate tradition copied [...]

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Hottest Ice Girls in the NHL

October 22nd, 2008 by Miss604   8 Comments

Almost two years ago I wrote a silly post on Metroblogging about becoming a Canucks Ice Girl. This afternoon John sent me a link to a website, courtesy of his co-worker Cody, that lists off the “hottest” ice girls in the NHL.

I kind of like the fact that Vancouver’s ice team is more utilitarian - [...]

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New Canucks Third Jersey - Rumoured

October 15th, 2008 by Miss604   13 Comments

Update: According to the TEAM1040am the third jersey will be unveiled tonight (November 13th) at 5:00pm Pacific time. [via icethetics]

Update: It was true, the third jersey was launched tonight, you can view the announcement on Canucks.com and watch the following video for more details. I’m just glad they mentioned Denman Arena.

Before I start saying that [...]

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Luc Bourdon and the Start of the Canucks Season

October 11th, 2008 by Miss604   2 Comments

With the way last season ended, many had lost faith in the Canucks and with so many changes over the summer no one really knew what to expect when the puck dropped for 2008-2009.
There are those who wanted to sell off their season tickets as soon as they got them, and those who have [...]

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New Captain of the Vancouver Canucks

September 30th, 2008 by Miss604   22 Comments

What do Orland Kurtenbach, Andre Boudrias, Chris Oddleifson, Don Lever, Kevin McCarthy, Stan Smyl, Dan Quinn, Doug Lidster, Trevor Linden, Mark Messier, and Markus Naslund have in common? They’ve all worn the “C” for the Canucks since we entered the league in 1970.
This morning at a press conference at GM Place the organization announced [...]

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New Canucks FanZone Celebrates Bloggers, Podcasters

September 16th, 2008 by Miss604   2 Comments

A while ago I mentioned a photoshoot that us Crazy Canucks had at GM Place along with Richard Loat, well the pics are now up on the official Canucks website in the FanZone section.

You can listen to our first podcast of our third season, which was recorded and published Monday night with everyone on the [...]

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WTS - What the Surrey #33: Surrey Minor Hockey Stars

September 9th, 2008 by Miss604   No Comments

My weekly Hockey Stars post is now up and it discusses team logos and hockey jersey pride. I originally wanted to include a blurb about how in the locally-filmed movie, Happy Gilmore (during the opening credits), Adam Sandler is sporting a Surrey Minor Hockey jersey. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the clip anywhere online so I [...]

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Naslund to the New York Rangers

July 3rd, 2008 by Miss604   9 Comments

New York took the Stanley Cup from under our noses in 1994, our beloved Captain Canuck went to the Islanders in 1998 and as of this afternoon the Rangers have scooped up our free agent captain, Markus Naslund.
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
Markus Naslund signed a two-year deal with the New York Rangers today—New York [...]

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