Oh those Vancouver Canucks. Always finding a way to screw it up somehow and they did just that earlier today when they sent their promising 22-year old stud of a hockey player Cody Hodgson to Buffalo. In return, the Canucks received a tougher hockey player in Zack Kassian, a 21-year old bloomer. Hodgson is hands down a better skilled hockey player than Kassian is. Hodgson had an absolute howitzer of a slap shot and scored 16 goals this season while he only averaged 13 minutes a game. Playing behind the Sedin sisters he obviously wasn't going to develop much because those two don't make players better, they just like padding their statistics. What this move shows is that the Canucks lack of toughness has been bugging them and that was evident in the 7 game series against the Bruins in the Stanley Cup. The Canucks couldn't hang. They ran out of gas because of the "Big, Bad, Bruisin Bruins." With Kassian on the squad now they have a tougher presence on the ice and we will see how that plays out for them. They were a bunch of fairies on the ice in the playoffs and don't play the game the proper way. They are chippy and all they do is let their mouths run all game long. They are the 1 seed in the West again currently and it looks like it could stay that way due to their horrific division opponents. I'm hoping for another Bruin, Canuck final and I can bring home the Cup for the second straight year.
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