Canucks Edge Stars 4-3 In Chippy Affair
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 11, 2009 10:44 PM PDT
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PrintNo Daniel Sedin? No problem for the Canucks so far. Brother Henrik played a stellar game offensively, yet his line did struggle defensively, as Hank and Alain Vigneault will attest to. He may have cycled a lot less than he's used to, but he still managed 2 assists. So did Mikael Samuelsson. The Canucks got goals from 3 different players: Kesler, Burrows and Mitchell, and this is what is going to have to happen in order for them to maintain any form of success with Daniel Sedin out of the lineup for this amount of time.
I really thought the team as a whole answered the bell tonight. They kept their game quite simple, crashing and banging the Stars all night (Guillaume Desbiens leading the charge there) and not giving up too many quality chances on Roberto Luongo. It's the type of Canucks game I've been waiting for. That being said, the Canucks were outshot 35-25, and sure, it was "sloppy". What does it matter? They won.
It never should have gotten to overtime though. The Canucks were mostly in control until 2 things happened:
-Late in the 3rd period, Mason Raymond missed a glorious chance on Marty Turco after Turco flubbed a passing play and let the speedster walk in alone on him.
-Moments later, Alex Burrows stopped moving his feet on a backcheck and his man, Victoria native Jamie Benn capitalized on a cross-crease pass to not only score his first NHL goal, but also the game tying goal.
It had to go to a shootout, which had me worried, I will be honest. Dallas has some great snipers. But Kyle Wellwood made Turco look silly on his play and Kesler exposed Turkey with a mean shot high to the corner. The Stars could not solve Luongo once in the shootout. Like someone mentioned in the game thread, it was good to get a win here, because it would be so damned pleasant waiting 5 days for the next Canucks game had they lost.
The Canucks are looking better every game now and have a 2-3 record. So much for the world coming to an end.
To be blunt...I am really sick and tired of Sami Salo. He left the game with a lower body injury after only a couple of minutes played. We could make a drinking game out of this. Time cannot go by fast enough when this guy's contract expires and we can rid ourselves of his fragile frame. What? We still have him for another season yet? Dammit! I swear he uses plastic eating utensils at home. Maybe he should just use his hands.
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it is expected that big-minute D-men
Are going to spend time on the injury shelf, but this is madness. Every damned year it is the same damned thing.
So who gets inserted as his replacement? Luko would have been perfect, imo, but that ain’t gonna happen.
by Temujin on Oct 12, 2009 10:24 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
i think rome will be. i think he’s been in the press box this entire time.
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GO CANUCKS GO!
that’s true. Rome is just waiting in the wings. Luko seems like trade bait because he’d never make it through re-entry waivers, imo. Not with other teams getting injuries on D as well.
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 12, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe we should nickname Sammy - Crutches, Wheelchair or the expendable crew member on the starship canuck?
Hard to believe that they did not see this coming when they waived Luko. This was as predicable as Autumn following Summer
Haha! Well said! Since I typed that Salo bit I was wondering why he was signed for so long. I thought his contract was up at the end of this year. To make matters worse, he has a no trade clause.
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 12, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, Dallas doesn't deserve a team...
Their coach whining about how Lu “threw” his stick but Turco still couldn’t make a save…pathetic. It’s sad, the first hockey game I went to was one of the last North Stars games when I was a kid.
There ain't no turning back when our train is off its track, and there's nothing we can do but watch it crash (watch it crash)
And there ain't no right and wrong when we know it won't be long, and there's nothing we can do but watch it crash
-Tomas Kalnoky/Streetlight Manifesto, Watch It Crash
Richards knocked the stick out of Lou’s hand. Geez Dallas get over it. I love seeing Crow get mad though. Classic.
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 12, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Still
he’s by far the most poised and intelligent dman we have, at least until Edler matures a but more, the team’s record when he’s in vs out is no coincidence.
Yeah, I know. I think that adds to my frustration as well!
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 13, 2009 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Unfortunately, he’s as durable as a sandcastle at high tide.
I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.
that’s not a good argument. I’m talking about how often on different occasions Salo is injured. Bieksa took a skate over the back of his leg and missed most of a season. Salo winks at somebody and breaks his eyelid.
by Sean Zandberg on Oct 14, 2009 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I know
it was just a ? ; )
Salo’s problem is he does not protect himself from hits, he just takes them, obviously never learned that there are ways to “take the hit” without taking quite so much of it.
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