December 31: Up next in the carousel of goalies marking their own graves: Antonio Jason Labarbera, come on down! If you liked being left to hang yourself by your own skate laces down in the pits of LA, you may enjoy your trip north where your new team hasn’t quite figured out how to play in front of either goalie you’ll be looking to replace while the team captain sits with his wounded groin (and pride).

December 28: Our fair team can’t buy a win these days. So what better way to cure those ills then welcoming the incredibly sucky Ottawa Senators into town? We have to win this game. We just have to.

December 18 - Six months later and 13 million dollars less, the new bald savior has decided retirement sounds boring and a short vacation to Vancouver sounds just about right. Christ. Talk about sloppy seconds!

December 17 - I hope everyone is near a TV tonight because the Canucks retire jerseys about once every thousand years. For one last time, let’s tap the sticks for #16, Captain Canuck, Trevor Linden. Now and always a tall glass of awesome.

December 14 - Arrested Development anyone? The Canucks need a swift kick in the ass and I guess I’m the one who’s going to have to do it. Albeit metaphorically. In an officially sanctioned liveblog too.

December 9 - Did you know you can donate $100 to charity and get to watch pregame warmups at Nashville home games from the penalty box? Here’s an idea: let’s just put O’Brien in there now so at least we did something charitable this holiday season.

December 8 - Over the weekend Vancouver used their time to end one losing streak and start potentially another. So it’s a festivus miracle that Luongo is rumored to be back by the weekend.

December 1 - Nothing ruins a well-earned and well-rested vacation like seeing your team lose to Calgary twice in a row. Several curse words come to mind. But is it the end of the world? Of course not. Well, not yet anyway.

November 27: Vacation west coast style has included (1) informing SF folks that there is indeed a hockey team near them and (2) going to see that very team play. A great game but likely no where near as much ’spirit’ as Burrows and the rest of the Canucks will bring tonight against Calgary.

November 24 - Your new netminders are set: a mohawky Sanford and “I just graduated third grade”-looking Schneider. A motley crew indeed…so are the Canucks screwed or what?