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It’s early season, yes. But teams starting out with a bang are great but it’s the ones you don’t expect to do so that make it all very interesting.
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Of course, this will come to an end, but forget about that for now.
The dreams of the playoff, they’re there. They make fans happy.
Let’s get skating.
The Home Team
Yet another Canucks Game Day, so I’ll direct you there for my own keys to the game.
Kuze was at Canucks practice yesterday. Brock Boeser looks likely to make his season debut tonight, skating with Bo Horvat and Sven Baertschi on what’s kinda-sorta the Canucks’ first line.
— Bulis may or may not want “Vanekcouver” as a saying. More here.
— Stephen Brunt has long been one of my favourite sports writers. Now that he’s at Sportsnet, his focus has changed, more video than writing, but when he pops up, it’s guaranteed to be great.
This week, he came to Vancouver and penned this about Alex Burrows. As he notes, people outside B.C. don’t think highly of the former Canucks pest, but people here do.
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What bonds an athlete and the people who cheer for them is a sense of shared purpose, caring in the same way about the town, about the uniform, about the team, about winning. Sometimes there’s a large dollop of suspended disbelief in there, given the mercenary nature of the business, but that bond is real, and in many ways, it is what makes the sports world go ‘round.
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— One more thing from Burrows: I love how he uses the word “souvenirs” in the badly-translated sense, as “souvenir” — which means “memory” in French, as in “memories,” not things you take home from a vacation.
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— Scott Stinson notes this wacky World Cup qualification campaign still has fun to come, like, say, Burkina Faso, who stand a strong chance of qualifying for the first time.
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