the other press Sports http://otherpress.douglas.bc.ca Jordan Crip } Sports Editor Okay, I believe. There’s no other way to put it. Every time I see something that concerns me about the Vancouver Canucks and point it out in these pages, the issue has either been resolved or disproved 15 minutes after it’s been put on paper. From what to do with Peter Schaefer to Ed Jovanovski’s impending free-agency, it seems that the Canucks are determined to steal my thunder and make me look like an idiot. Not that I need their help for that. This 11 game unbeaten streak they're currently on, cou- pled with the 10 game surge earlier in the season, is enough to convince me that this team is for real. Even when they play an awful game as they did during the first 40 minutes against Calgary, they are still able to find a way to get points and keep this ridiculous streak intact. This is the sign of a good team. Previous incarnations of this team would have handled the adversity they faced during the Detroit game very differently than this team. That is, not very well. Now, though, they seem to find that extra resolve that they're not going to lose a game. Sure enough, they usually don't. In the past, the Canucks might have had some pretty good streaks, but these would be followed up by an abysmal stretch. This seems to no longer be the case. Their worst stretches of the season have seen two or, at the most, three consecutive losses. This is another sign of a good team. Mediocre or poor teams, once they have a taste of losing, seem to migrate towards this negative mindset more and more frequently. This is certainly not a problem here. February 26, 2003 idversity No Problem for Canucks I think the Canucks good fortune was best illustrated dur- ing the game against Detroit by Mikko Jokela, a Manitoba Moose player recalled on an emergency. He arrived at Joe Louis Arena without his equipment, sticks, and skates, play- ing the first two periods wearing an eclectic array of equip- ment supplied by other players. Even though he didn’t play much during the game, just over five minutes to be exact, it shows that not even being without the proper equipment can slow this team down. Ona slightly more serious side, the team’s five regular defensemen were forced to step up and play a bigger role. Furthermore, I was impressed by the way Todd Bertuzzi rebounded from his “benching” (he really only missed three or four shifts) by Marc Crawford against Calgary. He and Chris Chelios will never exchange Christmas cards but, except for the invisible roughing penalty he was given dur- ing the first period, he maintained his composure and bat- tled through the antagonism of the Red Wings’ checking. He was instrumental in the victory because he was on the ice and not in the penalty box. 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