Burning it to the Ground: Reliving the post-2011 Cup loss Canucks

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game 5

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game 6

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game 7

Marky gets the start today

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game 8

Staying with Markstrom in net.

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game 9

Wow four shorthanded goals in one game that must be some kind of record.

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game 10

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Canucks red hot through October

Vancouver has surprised fans and critics alike after stumbling last season and offloading a handful of vets in the summer. They have looked dominant at times, their best players are playing like it, Kesler is top 5 in the league in goals with 6, and Jacob Markstrom has been on an absolute heater. Preseason darling Sergei Shirokov has continued his stellar play into the games that count, Chris Tanev has added more offense than was expected of him, and the team looks very cohesive. They are buying in to Trevor Linden right now and he is looking good. Two defensemen they traded away, Edler and Campbell, are having standout seasons so far with Montreal, both good for top 5 in league scoring, but they don't even seem to be missed. These Canucks are looking much more like the President's Trophy winning, Stanley Cup Finals reaching team from two years ago, but can they keep it going?

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game 11

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game 12

Schneider back in between the pipes after Markstrom has a great run. David Rundblad steps in for the injured Dan Hamhuis, who is listed as day to day.

Alex Burrows was fired up tonight and played a huge game, fantastic on defense, throwing seven hits, four of them massive ones, and also absorbing four big hits. Very involved. Subban had a quiet but very solid night against his former team, taking six shots on goal, blocking a shot, and getting a takeaway in almost 25 minutes of icetime.

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game 13

Ryan Ellis has quietly put together a point streak that is up to seven games after this match

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game 14

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game 15

Dan Hamhuis slots back into the lineup

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game 16

Patrick Thoresen and Joey Tenute come back into the lineup for Brandon Yip and Manny Malhotra.
Markstrom gets the start tonight against his old team. Florida, however, rests Lui for this one and goes with Jose Theodore.

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Trade Tracker

Toronto trades Tim Connolly and a 7th to Ottawa for defenseman Filip Kuba
(the trade was actually for Zibanejad and Kuba... I try to just let things be for the most part - real life GMs make dumb trades too, but that's INSANE... Connolly is 1.5 star, 31 yo, and has 1 goal in six games... Zibanejad had more games and points this year... IRL they gave up on him too soon and shipped him off to the Rangers, but they got (at least perceived at the time) good value... also noticed Zibanejad had crazy low potential, so I fixed that too... thankful that this game makes it very easy to go to commissioner mode and undo ridiculous stuff like this with a couple clicks)

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game 17

Back to Schneids in this rivalry game.

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game 18

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game 19

*wow, Radulov has a 14 game point streak going

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game 20

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Canucks player and goalie statistics through 20 games:

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game 21