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Okay, I promise right now not to turn the Daily Flickr Pickr into an all-Canucks all-the-time post. But the Canucks organization has done a really good job this season promoting their 40th year in a classy way. Sure, there's no Stanley Cup banners in the rafters of Roger's Arena - yet - but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been good people working for the team throughout the years.
And one of the classiest gestures that the team did during this year-long promotion was on the final home date of the season, when they unveiled a bronze statue of the late Roger Neilson by sculptor Norm Williams outside of the arena. I won't go too much into what Roger's legacy in Vancouver and the NHL is because it is too simply too enormous for the space we have here, but I will add that he was a great innovator in the game, and was the first NHL coach to see the value in using video to scout your opposition. If you don't know much about the man and would like to learn more, PiscesDreamer has included a lot of information in the caption of his photograph Towel Power below.
