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November 26, 2003

Twin Towers Take it to Royals on Home Turf

Women’s Basketball

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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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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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