Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Canucks-Senators Preview
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 12:00 PM PST
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| Time | 7:00 PM PST |
TV | CBC |
| Season Series | 1-0 Senators |
Last Meeting | 3-1 Sens (02-04-10) |
| The Enemy | Silver Seven | Scoring Leaders | H. Sedin: 27-63-90
Alfredsson: 17-37-54 |
| Senators | Category | Canucks |
| 5th | Conference Position | 3rd |
| 4-5-1 |
Last 10 | 6-3-1 |
| 2.66 (17th) |
Goals Per Game | 3.24 (2nd) |
| 2.76 (17th) |
Least Goals Against Per Game | 2.55 (9th) |
| .89 (24th) |
5 On 5 GF/GA | 1.30 (3rd) |
| 15.8 (26th) |
Power Play % |
21.1 (5th) |
| 84.4 (5th) | Penalty Kill % |
80.8 (18th) |
| 29.8 (18th) |
Shots Per Game | 30.5 (12th) |
| 28.3 (4th) |
Least Shots Against Per Game | 29.2 (10th) |
| 73.5 (10th) |
Winning % When Scoring First | 80.0 (2nd) |
| 78.9 (8th) |
Winning % When Leading After 1 | 86.4 (3rd) |
| 35.3 (12th) |
Winning % When Trailing After 1 | 45.9 (5th) |
| 95.8 (5th) |
Winning % When Leading After 2 | 96.2 (4th) |
| 7.4 (25th) |
Winning % When Trailing After2 | 37.0 (1st) |
| 49.3 (18th) |
Faceoffs % | 51.2 (7th) |
| 13.4 (20th) |
Least PIM's Per Game | 15.5 (26th) |
| -4 (14th) | + / - GF/GA | +39 (3rd) |
Update (2:30): The struggling Pascal Leclaire will start for the Sens.
Update: Aha, AV said today: "Rome was one of our best defencemen throughout the trip," according to the Sun. That is why SOB is sitting. Take that, Rome haters!
Update: Did you know that Brad Lukowich never reported to the Moose after he was waived at the Olympic Break due to a shoulder injury? He's is done for the season as he requires major shoulder surgery. Not that he was getting called up again anyway, but hang in there, Luko!
Update: Bieksa in, Shane O'Brien out, according to Canucks.com. Huh. Hordichuk draws in and Glass sits as well.
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The last time Vancouver played Ottawa, they were stymied by Brian Elliot, who stopped 29 of 30 shots in a 3-1 win. Milan Michalek had a goal and an assist and Alfie the Clown had 3 assists. Raycroft played well in the loss. That was the Sens' 11th straight victory. They would lose their next game 2 nights later to the....Leafs. Yeah.
Since that terrible day, the Sens are 4-5-1. The Canucks are 7-3-1. This game should hopefully be different, as the Canucks play their first game at home since January 27th. They should be pumped. The Sens know that.
The Sens are coming off a 2-0 loss to the Flames, where they outshot Calgary 33-25. The Canucks, eager to get home, barely lost to the Coyotes in a shootout 3 days ago.
Who's rolling for the Sens? Well, they are 1-3-1 in their last 5 games, losing to Calgary, Toronto, Carolina and the Rangers. They have only scored 7 goals in that span. Regardless:
-Daniel Alfredsson (god I hate him) had 5 assists
-Jason Spezza had 4 assists.
-Chris Kelly and Mike Fisher had a goal and an assist each.
-Milan Michalek and Matt Cullen each had 2 goals. Watch Matt Cullen and tell me you didn't wish he was a Canuck (on line 3).
Chris Phillips and a Swedish kid named Eric Karlsson chew up most of the icetime on the back end nowadays. Phillips has 7 goals and 19 points this season and Karlsson has 1 goal and 14 points. The Sens' most offensive defenceman, Filip Kuba Gooding Jr, has missed a bit of time with a lower body injury and has not yet returned.
I am curious as hell to see how Kevin Bieksa plays in his return. Prior to his injury he had only scored 1 goal in 40 games. That goal came on the opening night of the regular season. In the 5 games prior to the match where he was injured, his icetime was all over the place. He'll need to play smart in his return, because in all cruelty, the team has been fine in his absence. I'm hoping he excels down the stretch.
Alright, here are a couple videos as usual..and you won't like all of them!
1. Matt Carkner vs Tanner Glass. Ouch.
2. Chris Neil fights Rick Rypien. Strong finish by Neil.
3. One of Markus Naslund's best goals came against the Sens:
4. Nice goal by Edler against the Sens in low def (2008).
Enjoy the game! Go Canucks! And...welcome home!
Roberto Luongo will be the oh so special guest on Hockey Night in Canada's After Hours tonight. You can email a question to Scott Oake and Kevin Weekes to ask Lou here, like, if he's developed a drug problem since the Olympics...
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I was at that last game in Ottawa, so the Canucks better avenge that loss.
Of note, Bieksa is in for O’Brien and Hordichuk is in for Glass. Any chance Hordichuk fights Neil?
So don't get violent and don't get caught with your head down, the night she stole the moon.
WTF? CDC is saying SOB is out. Doesn’t say why.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
I gotta think it’s something other than ‘Rome played well on the trip’… Injury? Hangover? Missing in Surrey? Called the coach a “snivelly french fry wiener” during practice? One of those things has to be the reason its rome over SOB.
"Hope you like pancakes, Norway..." Morgan Freeman
"you'll be playing in england the rest of your career" Sir Alex Burrows
"hank passes to dank over to bank. Hank and dank go to the bench for tank and jank. Bank to tank over to Bernier, he misses! ooo that stank!"
Exactly...
…because Rome did not play well on the trip. Rome has had 3 decent games.
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
oh! conspiracy theorists unite! AV has a better view of the team on the ice than we do. I trust his judgment.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
So do I...
…especially considering he trust Bieksa more than most people around here… :)
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
One would think it’d be Alberts out, not SOB. But maybe AV is just giving him the benefit of the doubt, and wants Alberts to get used to the system.
So don't get violent and don't get caught with your head down, the night she stole the moon.
by thelastjohnny on Mar 13, 2010 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
5-3 Nucks. Samuelsson FTW.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
by eightyseven on Mar 13, 2010 12:31 PM PST via mobile reply actions
fun fact
SOB is sitting tonight and he’s on the season tickets for tonight’s game. 7-2 back to Gm place in a big way burr to win
I just updated the post. AV praised Rome as the best d-man on the road trip which is why he is not sitting. I knew I wasn’t seeing things. Rome is gold, Jerry.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 12:52 PM PST up reply actions
Also, Bieksa will be brought in “slowly”. No PP time according to AV.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
Oh God, We're Doomed
7-0 Sens
Alfredsson (5), The ghost of Laurie Boschman (2)
Elliot with 47 saves and three assists.
Kesler with a season-ending deep-thigh bone bruise after a slash from Jarkko’s Ruuttu
:-)
I had to google who the Sens first captain was
I had it on the tip of my fingers, but couldn’t remember the name. Boschman = Quality.
Huh and I thought it was Randy Cunneyworth
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
Ah, Boschman!
Far and away the league’s top scorer when I played NHL ’93 (as Ottawa, natch). What a great game…
Loads of distractions for the first game at home, against a Sens team that can’t score, but has dragged themselves back from playoff oblivion and is pissed about getting stoned by Kipper last game. (Nice image, BTW.)
3-1 ’Nuckleheads, with Daniel getting an empty netter and Hansen with his 3rd game winning goal in four games.
ha! texting is stupid. you’d have pressed less buttons if you called instead. hyuck hyuck
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
First game back after a road trip….4-2 Ottawa Mister Underwood FTW!!!!
"We love them, We mourn for them, Unlucky boys of Red" - Morrissey
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"He's got a man deep..wait, no that IS Mandeep!!" - Don Taylor
by Section 312 on Mar 13, 2010 1:00 PM PST reply actions
I fear that all the married Canucks will have spent the last few nights getting royally shagged by their wives, and the single ones spent the last few nights picking up puck bunnies (not the same ones kane picked up, obv…) and getting royally shagged AND drunk, and the whole team may have raw vag’s and hangovers today. But still.. I gotta make the homer prediction:
5-2 Vancouver, Kesler slamming home the winner on the way to a hattie.
"Hope you like pancakes, Norway..." Morgan Freeman
"you'll be playing in england the rest of your career" Sir Alex Burrows
"hank passes to dank over to bank. Hank and dank go to the bench for tank and jank. Bank to tank over to Bernier, he misses! ooo that stank!"
^^^uhhhhh
5-1 Canucks
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4-3 Vancouver, Keslord FTW
I think they are barely gonna squeak by in this game.. As mentioned above, hangovers might be an issue.
I predict major Sens fail tonight. 6-2 for the team with the be-whaled chest. Alexandre Burrows.
by Beantown Canuck on Mar 13, 2010 1:41 PM PST reply actions
4-0 Canucks, Son of Sam
"What is Jumanji?" --Jason Owens
100 things to do before I die -- I dare to dream.
4-1 canucks, salo with the winner.
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GO CANUCKS GO!
New, Late participant, getting into the swing of things for playoffs.
3-2 Canucks, Son of Sam w/ the game winner.
OT: Let’s all get game ready…with Showcase playing 27 Dresses nao.
Guys love Katherine Heigl, we love James Marsden. Everyone’s happy.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
talent-wise, Judy Greer is the shiz tho.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions
I heard Heigl isn't a very nice person.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 13, 2010 5:28 PM PST up reply actions
I have a confession to make...
I clandestinely support the Senators too. I was born in Ottawa and lived there till I was 7. I supported the Senators when I lived there…
But when I moved to Vancouver I supported Vancouver. I still keep tabs on Ottawa and hope they beat those goddamn Laffs. Whoever wins tonight, I wont be too choked. Ill be cheering for the Canucks though. I do it automatically without even thinking about it. Just like I cheer for whatever team is facing the Flames. Go Canucks! 5-1, Dank with GWG.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 13, 2010 5:31 PM PST reply actions
I cheer for any team that plays against the Penguins primarily. Strange huh. And I’ve lived in BC my whole life. My Flames hatred isn’t nestled as deeply as others. I know why that is, but it’s a long story.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
My Flames hatred burns with the fire of a thousand suns!
Which is actually quite fitting, when you think about it. You know, flames, fire, etc….
THATS THE JOKE
AND NOW LAUGHING TIME IS OVAH
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 13, 2010 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
Nice Sens logo!
Look at the size of that spliff, it almost appears that he’s smoking the Olympic torch.
3-2 Canucks. Burrows.
"He's a coward, he'll always be a coward, at least he was man enough to hit me when I was looking this time."
lol! thanks..the Senator has found the power of BC Bud. Speaking of buds:
2 Maple Leaf players go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside. Leafs are killing the Coilers 5-2 right now.
by Sean Zandberg on Mar 13, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
BTW, does anyone know what the Canucks need to clinch a playoff spot?
I assume what is needed to clinch the division would be too hard to deduce.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on Mar 13, 2010 5:59 PM PST reply actions
Damn, this entire page is out of format and in Times New Roman.
"I was thinking it would be cool to see a game on the road. I have been looking all over this atlas but I don't see Vancouver anywhere. What state is this sh*t in!?"
- Dallas Stars Forum
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