The Flying V

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Talk Is Cheap: My Issues with the Bell Let’s Talk Platform

Talk Is Cheap: My Issues with the Bell Let’s Talk Platform

Last week marked the 5th annual Bell Let’s Talk campaign, which raised over $6-million in donationstowards Canadian mental health programs. This, in itself, is a tremendous accomplishment. According to Bell’s website, the company has committed $83.6 million to mental health initiatives in Canada since 2010. This is also an incredible accomplishment and goes well beyond what many other companies…

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Value Added: Forget the trading block, Canucks GM Jim Benning has a trading wall

Forget the trading block, Jim Benning has a trading wall

Welcome to Value Added a recurring post format that will featuring interesting links from around the Smylosphere, allowing us to add some value to them in the process. Have any Canucks-related content that would add value to The Flying V? Tweet us @FlyingVBlog.

  Sportsnet released an interesting video todaydetailing Jim Benning’s office, specifically a roster wall that includes every team in the…

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Scared Straight: Why Steve Moore deserves every dime from Bertuzzi, Orca Bay

Scared Straight: Why Steve Moore deserves every dime from Bertuzzi, Orca Bay

Welcome to Scared Straight, a new feature in which The Flying V will analyze interesting articles from the Georgia Straight, which this blog seems to disagree with regularly. It’s a scary thing when you can’t tell whether or not a writer is trolling their audience. Today we debut Scared Straight with our thoughts on Steve Moore’s recent settlement and Mike Usinger’s reaction to it found here. 

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Canucks management caught talking trades in coffee shop, plan to draft Virtanen?

Canucks management caught talking trades in coffee shop, plan to draft Virtanen?

The Vancouver Canucks have been busy to start NHL draft day, making moves and freeing cap space in such a frenzy that at least one member of the Canucks’ management team was forced to do his draft day duties from a Yaletown coffee shop.

Shortly after the Canucks moved Ryan Kesler to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Nick Bonino, Lucas Sbisa, and the Ducks’ 24th-overall pick (more on that, later)…

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Canucks by the numbers: what remains of the regular season

Canucks by the numbers: what remains of the regular season

The Vancouver Canucks are in a bitter battle for a playoff spot this season, and the numbers are beginning to add up as teams work towards securing a spot in the big dance. With just over a quarter of the regular season remaining the Canucks themselves have some points to make up if they are to book their ticket to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The following are a few numbers worth paying attention…

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Canucks and Flames square off in 10-man line brawl, Torts confronts Flames in hallway

The Canucks and Flames started Saturday’s game with a bang breaking out in a full five-on-five line…

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Canucks can't choose truculence over two points as NHL's neanderthal ways knuckle-drag on

Tonight the Vancouver Canucks will take on the Anaheim Ducks in search of only their second win of…

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On Jordan Nolan, Tom Sestito, and the cognitive dissonance of Canucks fans

Last night’s “hockey game” between the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings was an absolute…

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Canucks fans find silver lining in Game 42 without Stamkos, Salo

Canucks fan are certainly disappointed that both Steven Stamkos and Sami Salo will be out of the…

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V with a vengeance: 2014 programming preview

And…we’re back. After a rough start to the regular season The Flying V is back and better than ever…

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Reignwolf rip through raucous set to remember at The Media Club

Reignwolf (AKA Jordan Cook) tore through a furious set at The Media Club Thursday night in Vancouver, opening the show as a one-man band before inviting his cohorts Joseph Braley and the man they call Stitcx onstage for a thunderous performance. Beginning…

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Ben Rogers shines opening for Reignwolf at The Media Club

Vancouver’s own Ben Rogers opened Thursday’s show at The Media Club with a touching set beginning with a handful of acoustic tracks before strapping on the electric and shredding his way through the remainder. Opening for Reignwolf I expected Rogers to…

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Concert Preview: Black Joe Lewis - November 30th at the Rickshaw Theatre

Blues fusion sextet Black Joe Lewis perform in Vancouver November 30th at the Rickshaw Theatre.…

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Concert Preview: King Khan & The Shrines - October 15 at The Richshaw Theatre

The spectacular King Khan & The Shrines visit the Rickshaw Theatre on Tuesday, October 15th touring…

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Gallery: Jacco Gardner October 8th at the Biltmore Cabaret

Jacco Gardner and his band played a beautiful set at the Biltmore Cabaret last night, soaring through his debut album Cabinet Of Curiosities as well as their latest single ‘End Of August’.

The album is a collection of psychedelic melodies and unique…

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V-Lance: Canucks beat Flames because of turnovers, not the Sedin split

It took only three games for John Tortorella to split up Henrik and Daniel Sedin, but the move…

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The Zolas release impromptu track 'Invisible'

Local rockers The Zolas took to Twitter on Wednesday night to release the impromptu single…

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