Man, what an intense looking bunch there. Wellwood especially. I kid, I kid. Anyway, here’s a brief recap of the Canucks week that was, although it’s a little light on some details.

It’s Team Canada night and the Moose are looking to avenge themselves after last night’s 7-2 decimation which saw Cory Schneider get chased and Desbiens get beaten like a pinata. Can the Moose do any better tonight? Let’s find out!

The announcer for this game is going about a mile a minute here, not stopping for anything. Kind of like it, as his delivery makes for the game seeming as though it’s going at a frantic pace, trying to cram as many tidbits about players in as possible as the game goes along.

The title is a reference to the parking lot at the Abbotsford rink, apparently things are a little hairy as everyone’s in to check out the Baby Canucks. Twitter and radio was rife with complaints, so there ya go.

What a huge week for Alex Burrows and the Canucks! Although it ended on a sour note, the Canucks continued their solid play to start the New Year. Plenty to go over, so no mucking around. Let’s take a look at the Canucks Week That Was.

Okay, so I’ve got my MANLY green tea and honey, I got HNIC up on the telly on mute and everything seems to be working fine. Not missing the first period this time around.

WAUGH and Walsky are both scratched. Can’t blame Walsky as no matter how much razzle dazzle you’re showing, it doesn’t matter if you can’t produce on the scoresheet. Sucks that horrible doody head Mathieu Schneider is forcing WAUGH to sit.

First Period

(Thanks to technical difficulties, I’ve missed the first 18 minutes of the first. OOPS. Score’s nothing nothing, though, so it looks like I didn’t miss much of anything.)

Mathieu Schneider in #24. He looks good wearing the antlers.

Penalty to the Hershey Bears, Moose going onto the man advantage, their first of the game. Bears PK is #1, though, so the Canucks look like they’ve got their work cut out for them.

First Period

Right off the bat we’re talking about how COLD it is. Yes, Canada is cold, Mr. Announcer. Quit acting so freaking mystified/astounded with this relevation.

LABRIE drops the gloves with Wathier (SP). He wades in with a couple of fights and then they both grab for jersey. Wathier gets a couple of tags and then they decide to hug it out. Boring tilt. I’d probably give it to Wathier as he got more punches in.

Good open ended play so far with the Moose, almost a continuation of the Finland/Sweden game from earlier. Going to suck when things slow down for the Canucks game.

The Moose are looking to wrap up their 2 game homestand against the Lake Erie Monsters with another victory, after Cory Schneider shut out the Monsters last night 1-0. Guillame Desbiens had the lone marker in what was my first Manitoba Moose game of the season. I’m still getting a handle on the Moose, so I’m just going to do some pseudo live-blogging for the next few games. That said, here’s my thoughts on tonight’s game!