Canucks recall Yannick Tremblay

The Vancouver Canucks announced today that defenceman Yannick Tremblay has been recalled from the Manitoba Moose of the AHL.

Source: Canucks.com

Tremblay, 31, has suited up in 10 games in his first season with the Vancouver Canucks so far. He has one goal and two assists all recorded in his Vancouver Canuck debut on December 8, 2006.

Sami Salo must be out again, he admitted yesterday that he wasn’t 100% yesterday in Colorado. Salo is more of an offensive defenceman, so it makes more sense to recall Tremblay who is an offensive defenceman rather than for example Alex Edler, whose more of a defensive defenceman.

Canucks re-assign Alexander Edler

The Vancouver Canucks announced today that they’ve re-assigned defenceman Alexander Edler to the Manitoba Moose of the AHL.

Also, Sami Salo who has missed the last three games with a groin injury will return to the lineup tonight.

Source: TSN.ca

New Lines for the Canucks

After a disappointing loss to the Avalanche yesterday, Vigneault used some new line combinations at practice. Cowan moved up to the second line with Naslund and Smolinski and Bulis moved to the third line with Cooke and Morrison.

Sedin-Sedin-Pyatt
Naslund-Smolinski-Cowan
Cooke-Morrison-Bulis
Burrows-Santala-Linden

Vigneault says he intends to use these lines tomorrow in Colorado.

“I think Cowan with Bryan and Markus might give them a physical presence. You already have that with Mo – Matt Cooke is the physical presence on that line” said Vigneault. “We have two guys doing a little bit of the same thing. We’ll try and see if that might not be a better balance.”

Source: Canucks.com

Hockey Night in Canada to remain on CBC

The National Hockey League and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced today that they’ve reached an agreement that will keep Hockey Night in Canada on CBC until 2014.

• CBC will continue to get exclusive Canadian coverage of NHL games on Saturday nights
• more regional broadcasts
• continue to get exclusive rights to the Stanley Cup Final, NHL All-Star Game, NHL Awards Ceremony
• coverage of all Canadian teams in the playoffs
• live and on-demand video streaming of HNIC will be available online at CBC.ca in the near future. There will be no blackout restrictions online.
• Leafs games will be limited and they will not be on every week

Source: CBC.ca

The best part of this deal is no doubt that we won’t be forced to see the Leaf every fricken week.

“The mix is not going to be what it’s been in previous years,” Bettman said. “We decreased the number of the Leaf games and increased the number of games of the other Canadian teams that can be made available.”

Ohlund out up to one week

Mattias Ohlund will miss up to one week with a sore elbow.

Willie Mitchell is expected to return to the lineup tomorrow against Colorado and Sami Salo has a 50/50 chance of returning tomorrow.

Source: News 1130

We can only hope that Mitchell will be back tomorrow, or the Canucks will most likely recall Yannick Tremblay from the Manitoba Moose. If that’s the case, the pairings will most likely be: Krajicek with Sopel, Alexander Edler with Kevin Bieksa, and Rory Fitzpatrick with Yannick Tremblay. If Mitchell is back, pairings will most likely be: Willie Mitchell with Kevin Bieksa, Lukas Krajicek with Kevin Bieksa, and Alexander Edler with Rory Fitzpatrick. If both Salo and Mitchell are back, expect the pairings to be: Willie Mitchell with Kevin Bieksa, Lukas Krajicek with Sami Salo, and Alexander Edler with Rory Fitzpatrick.

Rahimi to join Moose soon

Daniel Rahimi, the Canucks’ third round pick (82nd overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft is expected to join the Canucks farm team, the Manitoba Moose once his season with Bjorkloven (Sweden) ends.

Rahimi is expected to join the Moose once his season in Sweden ends. Bjorkloven is currently playing in a playoff round to try to earn a spot in the SEL next season and Rahimi should be available in early April.

Source: Hockey’s Future

The article linked above is definitely worth reading, it gives you an update on all the prospects in the Canucks organization as well as scouting reports. It also lists their top 20 Canucks prospects.

Bulis wants to re-sign

Canucks forward Jan Bulis told the Province that he would like to re-sign in Vancouver next year if Canucks GM Dave Nonis offered him a reasonable deal.

“I would for sure want to come back with this team and would be very happy in the role I’m in,” the Czech winger said.

“If [Canucks GM] Dave Nonis offered me just a reasonable contract, I wouldn’t even think about it before signing.”

Source: Vancouver Province

You may remember, back in January he requested a trade after he was unhappy with his playing time and was a healthy scratch. But after him and his agent had a chat with Dave Nonis, everything worked out and stayed with the team.

I personally think that it wouldn’t be a bad idea bringing back Jan Bulis just as long as he is willing to be a third-line player and part-time fourth line player. Next year, he probably won’t be playing with Markus Naslund and Bryan Smolinski. A contract that pays him at max. $1 million seems fair to him who has only 12 goals and 22 points and is as streaky as he is. By the way, if you’re wondering who are free agents at the end of the year on the Canucks, click here. For the rest of the NHL, click here. Thanks to Cory Brolund.

The Luongo Story

This was a feature shown on Rogers Sportsnet during the 1st period intermission of the Canucks and Oilers game on Monday.

Schneider expected to turn pro

Cory Schneider, the Canucks first round pick (26th overall) in 2004 is expected to turn pro and report to the Salmon Kings or Moose following the conclusion of his NCAA season with Boston College.

Source: Victoria Times Colonist

Canucks recall Alexander Edler

The Vancouver Canucks announced today that they’ve recalled defenceman Alexander Edler from the Manitoba Moose of the AHL.

Source: TheAHL.com

Also, both Willie Mitchell and Sami Salo missed practice today and will not make the trip to Edmonton for tomorrow’s game. Lukas Krajicek also missed practice because of the flu, but made the trip and will play tomorrow; he was sick yesterday too.

Source: TSN.ca