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November 26, 2003

 

Twin Towers Take it to Royals on Home Turf

Women’s Basketball

 

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ressive and maybe a little unfair

id not get i eeance to give Ed Bin props for his first win over ¢
weekend. The score was 59-47. It was the team’s first win in two years. Lunn was pleased his team
won but not comforted since he expected to beat Malasapina on the Friday game. Lunn should

"get a few more c OP POntnnES to win this season.

hem right away when they entered the Pine Tree gym. UCC's twin towers, Lisa
Peterson and Tosh Hassel. Forget that they have different names and are not the same height and
look completely different. Hassel and Peterson were important factors in the Sun Demons’ suc-
cess in the Provincial Tournament last season. Peterson steps in at six-foot-two and Hassel is six-
sim 1 the women’s beet Anna Rowinska stepped

  

   

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CF Miley
OP Columnist

We Vancouverites love our Canucks.
That’s why I’m so sick and tired of the
CBC’s focus on the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Let’s get one thing straight right off the
bat: the Leafs suck. Their team consists of
overpaid, under-performing, — elderly
bums. Let’s get another thing straight:
CBC (and, therefore, Hockey Night In
Canada) is paid for by the tax dollars of all
Canadians. Why then are our tax dollars
paying to show the stinking Leafs every
single Saturday night? The Canucks are
on HNIC a total of fourteen times this
season. The Leafs are on twenty-six times,
or every single Saturday, all season long.
CBC owns the rights to all Saturday

games involving Canadian teams. When
any game coincides with a Leafs game, it
is simply not shown on the network.
What a rip-off. Canucks  Pay-
Per-View went ahead and purchased the
rights to the three Saturday Canucks
games that CBC decided not to air,
including the November 15
tilt against the Boston
Bruins. So instead of
watching the Western
Conference leading
Canucks play the
Boston Bruins on
CBC, we get to pay
to watch it, at
home (if you spring
for digital cable) or
in a bar. The only pos-
itive I can think of is not
having to listen to Harry
Neale and Bob Cole talk about
the Leafs for three hours (regardless of
who's actually playing). Those two don’t
even know the names of half the players
on any team not named Toronto. Please
CBC, for all Canadians, spring for anoth-
er crew and televise our Nucks dammit.

The Boston game lived up to the hype

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and provided great entertainment for
folks that actually got to see it. I hate to
say it, but the Beasts of the East looked
like the best team in the league. Playing in
front of a sold out Boston Garden, the
Bruins skated away with a hard fought

2-1 victory. Jason King tallied his sev-
enth goal in seven games, and
the Mattress (two
twins and a King) con-
tinued to roll. The
Sedins have played
stellar hockey this
season, and the bal-
anced scoring has
helped the Canucks
maintain first place
in the West. PJ.
Axelsson looked like a
modern day Ron
Duguay with his flowing
locks. The game featured two of
the best power forwards going head-to-
head in Todd Bertuzzi and Boston's Joe
Thornton. Look for each player to be an
integral part of any Team Canada for the
next seven years. The low scoring affair
was a bit of a surprise. In two games last
season, the teams scored a total of 19

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goals. It’s too bad that this is their only
match up this year, unless we meet for
Lord Stanley’s Cup.

November 18 saw the Canucks home to
face the Montreal Canadiens on retro jer-
sey night. The Canucks brought back the
slick-looking “stick in the rink” jerseys
from their inaugural season. The team not
only beat the Habs 4~3, but they looked
good doing it. Although the Canucks cur-
rent jerseys are no “flying V,” they do
reflect the corporate ownership (Orca
Bay) a whole lot more than they reflect
the team. The orca on the crest looks con-
stipated.

The game was a seesaw battle, with
Richard Zednik staking the Habs to a 2-0
lead before Sami Salo and Brendan
Morrison pulled the Canucks even. Each
team scored twice in the third period,
sending the game to overtime. Mattius
Ohlund snapped a wrist shot past Jose
Theodore to give Vancouver a much
needed 5—4 win. After OT losses in both
Philly and Boston, it was great to see the
Canucks get two points.

Thursday saw the Canucks hosting the
Chicago Blackhawks. The first period was
yet another putrid installment of “The

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