Archive for the month of September, 2009

TCC#79 – Canucks Fan Zone Suite Night

Published Friday September 25th, 2009
By John

Come along for a ride with all sorts of hi-jinks with not only your TCC crew, but a whole bunch of Canucks fans who are on the new media front lines with coverage of our favorite team in the NHL. Thanks to the Vancouver Canucks organization, members of the Fan Zone had the awesome opportunity [...]

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Tracking down Canucks players on Raise A Reader Day 2009

Published Wednesday September 23rd, 2009
By John

As Rebecca put it to me this morning, she hasn’t missed a Vancouver Sun Raise A Reader Day in four years, and today was no exception. Taking my new Nikon D90 out for an inaugural spin into the real world, here’s a few photos of players we were able to run into today. Raise A [...]

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TCC#78 – Preseason Season 4

Published Friday September 18th, 2009
By John

Good day, and welcome to season four of The Crazy Canucks. As mentioned in blog posts recently, we’re coming back for another one, and this one is shaping up to be a good one. This episode finds a group of us outside the Hurricane Grill in downtown Vancouver during a preseason game in Anaheim for [...]

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Commercial for NHL 2K10 features Kesler and Bieksa; Oscar nod to follow

Published Wednesday September 16th, 2009
By John

I made a Twitter post about this today, and the reception to it was an all around agreement that yes, this is funny. Check out 2K’s latest commercial for NHL 2K10, which I would love to play on the Wii some time. Gotta love those accents. Edit: I just noticed on the 2ksports.com website that [...]

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If he wasn't before, Luongo is the face of the Canucks now and for the next 13 seasons

Published Thursday September 3rd, 2009
By John

I recall an episode we recorded awhile back when the joke was to call the Canucks the “Vancouver Luongos” from now on, simply because of two facts: Luongo is an amazing goalie, and so much of the team rests, certainly in the fans’ eyes, on him. Now, in the event that you haven’t been paying [...]

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