Canucks Hold On To Beat Wild 4-3
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 13, 2009 12:34 AM PST
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Quietly, Henrik Sedin has scored 501 points in his NHL career. With 3 assists tonight he has moved into a tie with Marian Gaborik at 2nd place in League scoring. Individual stats are fine and dandy, but right now the team's stats are more important. The Canucks needed those 2 points:
1. To pull 3 points ahead of the surging Wild in the standings
2. To keep pace with the 6th, 7th and 8th seeds in the West (Coyotes, Predators and Stars). All 3 of those teams earned at least a point tonight. Damn!
The Canucks have now won 2 straight, 4 of their last 6, and 6 of their last 10. Only 3 teams in the NHL have 12 home wins: Phoenix, Chicago and Vancouver (12-4-0). Nobody has more.
-The Wild outshot Vancouver in all 3 periods, finishing with a 41-29 margin. Roberto Luongo was pretty solid.
-I have to give the Wild props. What a hell of a road game for them, even in a back-to-back scenario. Canucks take note! Sure, they lost, but they hardly let up. That is one tenacious speedy team.
-Marty Havlat...hate the guy.... but he scored a goal and 3 points tonight. I believe he is finding his groove.
-The game was entertaining, but too wide open for my liking. How many odd-man rushes did the Canucks give up? Is that how we are going to play? That won't cut it if we are looking for consistency.
-Kesler and Mitchell playing it up for the media pregame was priceless. You can see video footage of the scrum and the brotherly love here.
-No Rypien-Boogaard tilt. I have almost lost hope that it is going to happen. Then again, here are a few intriguing ice times: Hordichuk: 2:57, Rypien: 6:46, Boogaard: 4:13.
I still can't believe Boogaard tried to pull that interference stunt...and then got busted for diving. The guy bounced off Kevin Bieksa like a bus hit him! Are you kidding me? Is this guy a soccer player in disguise? Pathetic. 2 minutes for being stupid. And, Mason Raymond scored on the ensuing power play. On second thought: Dive Boogey dive!
NUCKS MISCONDUCT 3 STARS:
1. Henrik Sedin
3. Roberto Luongo
Next up: The Western Conference-leading Los Angeles Kings. That a misprint? Wow. Remember what I said about "too wide open". It would be best if the Canucks tighten it up a little against the high-octane Kings.
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The home record is great but with that 14 game road trip looming they HAVE to improve their road record. Kesler seems to be able to score goals at home but for some reason has trouble scoring on the road.
Also 2:57 for Hordichuk! I didn’t get to watch the game (was watching the fights instead) but it seems to me all he did was get a -1. Why even ice him? There has to be someone that can take his place. Pettinger maybe? I don’t really see us needing Hordi since we have Glass and Rypien.
Well…he did draw a penalty on Boogey man too…but yeah…4th line didn’t play much!
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
He did get a penalty...
I still don’t think it was worth a dive call though, he did fall easy but never got up looking at the refs for a call or anything, but shit happens, you sure made him pay for it either way, and ya think the High-Sticking call on Havlet will start a new trend? High stick yourself to get a call LOL but unfortunatly a ref has to call it based on his view. Guess we picked a Bad day to give ya extra PP time
LA Kings are leading the conference and the Coyotes are tied for most home wins? What’s going on?
Also, anyone else notice no Canucks were in the positive? Must have something to do with going 3-5 on the PP.
damn, I forgot to mention the PP! It’s alive! It’s aliiiive
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 13, 2009 1:30 PM PST up reply actions
Great game last night
That was not the Minnesota team we saw earlier this year. They are playing a high tempo game, that they have all bought into with the tenacity of souls possessed. The Canucks countered with a matching compete level, some real grit and a high octane powerplay.
Hank was truly unbelievable last night. Lou was good – very very good. I think we were a little lucky that they threw Josh Harding in- but that was just a damn good hockey game with both teams playing at a high level.
The Twins they just keep getting better every year. It is mind boggling to consider how good these two may ultimately become. Great resigning Gillis!
What really seems to be killing this team is not lack of wins rather it is lack of overtime losses. We are the only team in the league with no bonus points.
What really seems to be killing this team is not lack of wins rather it is lack of overtime losses. We are the only team in the league with no bonus points.
Is there some kind of record post-lockout for that? Makes me wonder.
I hate looking at that zero in that column. It makes my brain go in circles. The best way to combat it is to tie the game when falling behind to get to OT.
I’ll take the wins, because if we are looking at standings and positioning at the end of the year those wins are a tie-breaker for points. Huh? Made you feel better didn’t I?
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 13, 2009 1:34 PM PST up reply actions
I hate looking at that zero in that column. It makes my brain go in circles.
Especially if the number preceeding the zero is almost as large as the first number (Wins).
by Bobby Canuck on Dec 13, 2009 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
Part of me thinks "if it aint broke, dont fix it"
but considering the abyssmal faceoff numbers, Wellwood had better be back for the Kings game.
Wasn’t it mainly Belanger and Koivu winning against Hank and Kes?
Though, did Ripper or RJ win a draw all night?
The Canucks won the draws they had to late though. Kes’ had one in the last 30 seconds that helped ice the game.
Gotta give it to the Wild though…they were pretty good in the circle all night long.
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
It seems like faceoffs don’t matter all that much this year. Not in the standings.
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 13, 2009 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
here’s a few things i noticed for the standings:
-we are tied for wins with colorado, but they have 6 overtime losses and they’ve played 2 more games than us. and yet, they’re in 5th and we’re in 9th.
-montreal is in 8th in the east with 33 points. minnesota also has 33 points, and is 13th in the west. ???
-the point totals for 6th to 10th place in the west: 40, 39, 38, 37, 36. creepy.
"If Chuck Norris was up against 7 Rangers, he'd call Ryan Kesler."
GO CANUCKS GO!
Awsome game,
the Minnesota team I saw plays the most exciting game I’ve seen in a while. Unbelievable change.
I disagree with the CKNW98 (this is a Vancouver talk radio) talk show host on Saturday night, saying tha the Wild outplayed the Canucks, but it was a very close game.
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