Here’s the final minute of the Vancouver Canucks’ 2011-2012 regular season; a season that saw the Canucks finish with 111 points to clinch their second consecutive Presidents’ Trophy.
The Canucks defeated the Edmonton Oilers by a score of 3 – 0 and look ahead to their first-round playoff opponent: the Los Angeles Kings.
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I’m always fascinated by the national anthems at sporting events. A good anthem can get the crowd engaged and excited even before the opening face-off, kick-off, or tip-off. Conversely, a poor rendition can leave both players and fans distracted and confused.
Starting tonight, for Canucks games that I’m at, I will be scoring the national anthems in 5 key categories:
1. Tone/Pitch
2. Pace
3. Ending
4. Appearance
5. Crowd Involvement
I’m looking forward to having some fun with this. Follow me @canuckclay and look for #clayanthemanalysis
This CCC also includes bonus footage of my sons Sean and Jake singing O Canada back in 2006.
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This isn't what we ate at Pizza Hut but it sure looks yummy!
It’s funny how a simple dinner never turns out simply for our family. Last night, we were looking forward to going out for a nice meal together courtesy of the school that I had spoken at on Friday night (they generously gave me a gift card as a thank-you). One of the restaurants listed on the gift card was Milestones.
It was 8pm by the time we got out of the house and we made our way to the London Drugs complex in Richmond. After parking the car on the second level of the parkade we excitedly made our way to what we thought was the restaurant. To our collective surprise, the former restaurant was vacant with “for lease” signs plastered over the windows. Needless to say, we were quite disappointed.
Here’s another collaboration with the lovely and talented Arielle Tuliao. Watch and listen to her powerful rendition of Christina Aguilera’s “Reflection” from Mulan.
No Kayla dancing in this one but it’s still awesome. :p
Much has been made in the last couple of days about the Passion Vancouver event that took place at Rogers Arena last Friday evening and in particular the prayer for concussed-Canuck Daniel Sedin led by the founder of the Passion Movement, Louie Giglio.
And while a couple of blogs have done a decent job of presenting and analyzing what happened, I can offer you a perspective that they can’t: a first-hand account as I was present at the event. Not only was I in attendance at the Passion event, I also attended a pre-event dinner hosted by Louie. But more on that later.
