Greatest 1/2 season in Canucks history

[Jyrki]

I think the '94 squad not winning Game 7 depresses me more than the '11 one. Bure was playing in a higher plane of existence, and it still wasn't enough.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

My heart says Bure, that is what got me in to the Canucks.

My head says Luongo.

I'll go with my heart for once.

 

[Scott Stevens]

A lot of this will have to do with how old you were and how connected you were to the team at the time.

For me, Todd Bertuzzi in the calendar year of 2002 was just the most ridiculous thing, and I had more fun in that red wings series than probably any other playoff series that the canucks lost. With the breakout of Bertuzzi and Naslund and the Sedins as prospects, I thought a dynasty was coming (I was 16.)

Love the Sedins but wasn't as connected with what was going on in 2010 due to life,and didn't really jump on the bandwagon in 94 until the playoffs started

And I just don't care about goalies. Sorry, I know. Blasphemy.

Todd Bertuzzi and “the calendar year”. Hell yeah. Just un effing real. Never seen a hockey player like that, before, then, or since.

 

[Luongos Knob]

In the sedin's peak it seemed like on the rare case where they lost the puck in the offensive zone, they'd just get it back and generate another scoring chance on the regular

 

[David Bruce Banner]

I’m not sure where to dig up these half season stats, but Tony Tanti would probably have a horse in this race.

He would always score a ton until some time in early January... then he’d slowly break down and limp through the last stretch of the season.

Could have been a 50 goal scorer if he’d been a bit more resilient.

 

[ChilliBilly]

I know its not a choice, but the first moment of exultation for the Canucks was the last 10 - 15 games of the 82 season, then the amazing SC run. And they got their beating the 2nd best team in the nHL, Calgary, in the first round. Another game 7 win with calgary.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

ok some other crazy but less euphoric runs


tony tanti, first 30-odd games of the 1983 season—

31 games, 25 goals, 46 points
3rd in goals, behind gretzky (34) and kurri (27); 6th in pts


pavel bure, end of 1992 regular season—

23 games, 22 goals, 32 pts
1st in goals, 6th in pts


bure, beginning of 1993 season—

48 games, 44 goals, 73 pts
2nd in goals, 5th in pts


mogilny, game 2 to 60 of 1996 season—

59 games, 51 goals, 92 pts
1st in goals, tied with mario and jagr; 3rd in pts (119 and 111, respectively)


bure, 1/24 to 4/09/1998—

29 games, 21 goals, 35 pts
1st in goals, 4th in pts


jason king, first half of november 2003—

7 games, 7 goals, 7 pts
1st in goals, 10th in pts


brock boeser, 11/16 to 12/28/2017
1st in goals, 5th in pts


elias pettersson, hard to do any consecutive stretches because he kept missing games

 

[Horse McHindu]

This won’t be at or near the top, but I’d like to give it an honorable mention:

Martin Gelinas during the 2nd half of the 1996-1997 season.

The season as a whole was disappointing, but Gelinas’ work ethic was off the charts and he had himself a heck of a season (I think even Moreso in that 2nd half). He had a 4 goal game during that half of the season and received a standing ovation from the fans.

Gelinas’ peak obviously doesn’t come even close to early 90’s Bure, 2002 Naslund, 2003 Bertuzzi, 2007 Luongo, or 2009-2011 twins, but this dude was a f***ing workhorse and always showed up to play. Gelinas is and was one of my favorite Canucks of all-time.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Yeah, Gelinas is up there for me too.

 

[Hit the post]

No honorable mention for Skriko? Guys nickname was “Streak”!

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

loved gelinas. so many heart and soul guys we let go in the second half of the 90s, him, peca, scott walker, dave scatchard...

here’s another honourable mention—

dan cloutier, november 2 to december 4, 2002

14 games, 12 wins, 2.12 GAA, .923 SV%

people forget that for a lot of the first half of that 2003 season, clouts was a legit vezina contender, and people were talking about him, not naslund or bert, for the hart during that crazy november streak.

 

[MikeK]

Bure or the Sedin's run for me. That Sedin's run was pretty fun so I think I'd give the edge to that one.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

bumping for this blast from the past—

30-point months in the NHL (regular season)

31 Stan Smyl -- March 1983 (16GP: 10G, 21A +7)
30 Darcy Rota -- March 1983 (16GP: 15G, 15A +8)

Smyl and Rota really stick out here.

gradin had 16 games, 11 goals, 16 assists, +10

it was before my time but on march 1, 1983, gradin, smyl, and rota were 51st, 55th, and 76th in scoring.

the canucks were last in the smythe division, one point behind LA.

gradin was -28, smyl was -17. rota was +4, spending most of the year on a line with ivan boldirev. gradin and smyl’s longtime linemate curt fraser was traded mid-year and it took a while for them to find a regular LW but they caught fire when rota joined that line for the last month. the team went 9-3-4 and outscored its opposition by 25 goals.

by the end of the year, the canucks had climbed to the third seed in the division, smyl was 20th in points, gradin was 21st, rota was 28th.

their +/- had jumped to -17, -9, and +13, respectively.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Pavel Bure was the most exciting player ever to wear a Canucks uniform...bar none...over the Sedins,Pettersson,Naslund etc..

Beating Calgary and Toronto in the playoffs in 94' was most satisfying...The player that really changed the Canucks fortunes in the last half of that season was Jeff Brown...Bure though, was exceptional.

 

[wetcoast]

For the first half of 1993-94, the team put Pavel's best buddy Gino on his line. And it was great for Gino, who scored at a 30 goal pace on the top line (14 goals in his first 39 games). But it was really bad for Bure, who was being dragged down by playing with a 4th liner and additionally was over-passing to try and get goals for Gino. And bad for the team, which was hugely disappointing after winning division titles the prior two years.

They finally pulled the plug on this in January and Bure (predictably) took off with better linemates and scored at nearly a goal-a-game pace down the stretch.

Bure would have scored 70-80 goals that year if he'd been with quality linemates all year. That was him at his absolute peak.

Better linemates is still a relative term as Bure never had the linemates the other 4 guys did.

His performance was the best individual half season we have seen as Canuck fans IMO.

 

[crobro]

Esa Tikkanen had the best half season ever in a Canuck uniform even ran the point on the power play