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Vancouver Canucks soon to hoist the Stanley Cup – 2011 edition
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The Vancouver Canucks are now sitting back, chilling and enjoying the view as they wait for the Stanley Cup Finals to begin June 1st, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. And while they wait, they get some of their banged up bodies time to heal, players such as Ryan Kesler, Aaron Rome, Christian Erhoff and Manny Malhotra.
Manny Maholtra? Yes, Malhotra! Having had his eye almost sucked out of the socket, talk was that he may never return to play professional hockey again. Now it’s looking that he’ll likely come back to play sometime during the Cup Finals. What an added dimension he will give an already deep Canuck team that led the league in: goals for, goals against, power play and faceoff percentage. So now with Henrik Sedin, Kesler, Max Lapierre and Malhotra taking draws, the Canucks will have another significant advantage, starting with the puck the majority of the time.
So things are really looking up for an organization that is looking to capture its first-ever NHL Championship, having gone 40 season watching neophyte organizations such as Tampa Bay, Carolina, and Anaheim win Lord Stanley’s holy grail. It’s very much looking like everything is lining up this year for the 2011 President Trophy champions.
The first line with the Sedins and Burrows is back on fire, the second line is led by all-world centre Kesler, the third line has been extremely solid with Lapierre, Raffi Torres and Janick Hansen. The layer in Malhotra along with a plethora of other wingers ranging from Glass and Oreskovich to Hodgson and Tambellini. The factor in simply the deepest, most skilled group of defencemen in the league, along with Luongo in net, who’s playing better with each passing round. It simply all adds up to a four or five game series win for the Orcans from the left coast of Canada.
For the first time since the Habs lifted the Cup, Canada will once again be the proud owner of Lord Stanley mug. Good on ‘ya Vancouver.
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