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On Wednesday the name of their new head coach named NHL “Vancouver Canucks”. Now the team will be headed by a Canadian specialist Allen Vine, who last season worked as a farm-club “Canucks” “Manitoba Moose”. While serving as a mentor “killer whale” to replace sacked Vine for the team misses the playoffs in April, Mark Kroufforda.

Vine ended in season finished with the “Manitoba” in third place in the division the AHL, and the team scored 100 points. In the playoffs farm club, “Vancouver” has reached the second round. In his twenty-year coaching career specialist, who is now 45 years old, worked as an assistant coach, “Ottawa Senators”, and from 1997 to 2000, the year he worked the head coach of another club of NHL “Montreal Kanadienz”.

Guide “Canucks” expects Vine began a new era for the club, because “the Canucks' first time since 2000,” passed “by the playoffs, finishing ninth in the Western Conference. “Vancouver” traditionally has a very good selection of field players, including such “stars” as Marcus Neslund, gray brothers, Todd Bertuzzi and Ed Zhovanovski, but all the troubles of the team go from the goalie line. So for the second successive season, “Orcas” “break” the ground injured goalie Dan Cloutier, which is prone to damage. Replace it at the moment there is nobody fully.

Interesting news came from the camp of the opponent and “Vancouver” on the conference and division. “Colorado Avalanche” has signed a new contract with their spiritual leader and captain John Sakiko. The agreement is for one year for which the veteran will receive 5.75 million dollars. Saquic for next season the NHL will be the eighteenth, and his career was spent in a club. In the NHL at the moment there is only one hockey player, protecting color longer than his team – Steve Yzerman of the “Detroit Red Wings”.

Alexander Sedov, Down-the-line.com

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