Pucked in the Head

A black Canucks jacket with the #32 on the breast and bedazzled sleeves is folded on an airplane seat.

The bedazzled jackets the #Canucks moms are wearing on this trip are fantastic.

Whoever designed these outdoor game uniforms deserves to be punched in a bare knuckle fight with one of these goalies.

The Tampa Babies scored against the Boston Poohbears on this play.

Two ugly-as-sin men dress up in uglier-than-sin pyjamas for bragging rights in the NHL’s latest outdoor napathon.

Hot take. Both the Bruins and Lightning uniforms for the outdoor game were butt ugly.

Whoever designed them deserves to be jerseyed in a bare knuckle fight by Swayman and/or Vasilevskiy.

Consecutive commercials referencing "the backbone of America" and "the history of America" during the #Canucks broadcast tonight. WTF, @sportsnetpr.bsky.social ?

Another Demko injury?

Is he gonna get to the end of his 3-year extension, or is he going to wind up being yet another goalie with more potential than results, who never gives the #Canucks a deep run?

I mean, Vancouver won't be good for a couple of years anyway, but jeez, Thatcher's made of glass.

Why is the #Canucks power play not looking for a massive Hronek one-timer? Buddy has one of the hardest shots in the league.

How often these days do people ask you about Nancy, Mike, Holly, Karen, and Ted?

Excellent piece for today's Rat Bag Lit. Practically a haiku, it's so short, but damn it's a powerful one.

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Today's story is "Paltbröd" by Jason Kurylo. @puckedinthehead.bsky.social
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A damned shame you ship to Canada from the US. A lot of us aren’t spending our dollars in that crackpot regime any longer.

He's no Quinn Hughes, but in garbage time last night, Zeev Buium showed he's got some wheels as well. Even if the Flyers were mailing it in by then, Buium went coast to coast and delivered a lovely backhand pass to assist on O'Connor's gimme. Nice hint of things to come for the #Canucks.

#Canucks fans are cheering for OT or a shootout between the #Kraken and #Flames tonight.

The Goldeneyes said from the outset they wanted to make the Coliseum a tough place to play for visitors. Looks like they’re doing so.

3-0 at home!

Other corporate crossovers:

Dairy Queen Soft Serve Socks.
Don Deluise Grilled Cheese Dryer Sheets.
Burger King Whopper Briefs.
Olive Garden Bread Stick Scent Infuser.
Funk & Wagnall Pickles.

I really liked Zadorov when he played for the #Canucks. I really liked Hughes when he played for the Canucks.

So this afternoon I’m watching them both in a #Bruins vs #MNWild game.

#LeSigh

Beautiful hardcover edition of the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Sprayed page edges are lovely, and special editions slap so hard. What are your favourites?

Mine right now is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, sprayed deep green with seven golden wedding bands. (Image stolen from the evil A empire because my I lent my copy out.)

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I hope you’re right.

Welp, other #Canucks fans have started calling ME names and cursing ME out over the Quinn Hughes trade—like I’m somehow involved in making that decision—so I think I’ll go watch Wake Up Dead Man.

Good night, my friends.

Aquilini has been a meddling influence since he took over the #Canucks in 2004.

Linden wanted to rebuild the team in 2014, but Benning (on Aquilini's orders) said no.

The post-Sedin era has been a miasma of atrocious hockey, an *occasional* glimmer of hope, and cash grabs that fleece the fans.

Quinn Hughes needs 504 helpers to tie Mikko Koivu for most assists in a #MNWild uniform.

#Canucks

What kind of puppy dog eyes do you think Brock Boeser has right now?

Buddy chose to sign with the #Canucks instead of going to Minnesota as a free agent, in part so he could keep playing with a guy like Quinn Hughes.

Like a lot of folks, I've been calling for a rebuild for quite a few seasons now. The #Canucks have FINALLY gone team tank.

Now watch Pettersson wake up and put the team on his back, just enough to fuck up Vancouver's draft pick.

What do the #Canucks get?
C Rossi, decent 2C. Upside: little less than a point a game.
D Buium, rookie, also American, big but not a great skater.
LW Ohgren, don't know much about him. 7 points in 46 career NHL games.
2026 1st round pick: Minnesota would pick 25th now, lower with Hughes for 40 GP.

There have been MANY nights in the past three seasons when Quinn Hughes was literally the only thing worth watching for #Canucks fans.

Fumbling an elite talent like Quinn Hughes SUUUUUCKS.

As a lifelong Canucks fan, I honestly don't know how long it'll be before I come back to the team after this.

In 54 years, we've witnessed what, eight decent seasons?

#Canucks

It's days like this* I wonder if being a #Canucks fan is worth all the money, time, energy, and emotion.

*That is, those with names that end with 'day'.

Rossi's a helluva decent roster add, but in Quinn Hughes we lose the most dynamic player Vancouver has had since Pavel Bure.

Today is a sad day in a long, long list of sad days to be a #Canucks fan.

Was busy last night, so I've just watched the #Canucks #RedWings game this afternoon. Jeez Vancouver just can't catch a break.

They need to go full Sabre: raze that organization to the ground, burn out the rot. New owner, practice facility, 10 years of suckage, multiple #1/#2 draft picks...

A vinyl pressing of Stop Making Sense, the Talking Heads classic double love album.

Still one of the best live albums ever recorded.

“I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now, I don’t know what I look like.”

Sting-Bring on the Night on vinyl. The cover is a beautiful pastel sketch called “M. le Sting et les Tortues Bleus”, which is French for Mister Sting and the Blue Turtles.

Still one of the best live albums ever recorded.

Artwork by Donna Muir And Su Huntley.

Hockey games do not need a DJ blasting us into atoms every puck stoppage, or bland ‘personalities’ screaming pleas for us to make some noise.

Let us watch the game. Let us talk to our friends. Let us go through one fucking event without having to listen to your shitty synth bass and drums.