Tuesday, November 18, 2003
CANUCKS 5, CANADIENS 4 (OT)...HEAT 105, SUPERSONICS 98
The Canucks played their third overtime game in a row, and managed to win this one.
Mattias Ohlund scored 3:02 into the overtime to keep the Canucks unbeaten at the Garage this season, tying Geoff Courtnall for most game-winning goals in Canucks history (I think the number is 5).
The first period apparently sucked, and no goals were scored. Richard Zednik scored back-to-back goals to put the Habs up 2-0 in the 2nd. Salo and Morrison then scored power play goals to tie it. Markov of the Habs and Jovo traded the first two goals in the 3rd, then Jovo popped in a power play goal to get the Canucks a 4-3 lead which lasted exactly 51 seconds thanks to Michael Ryder (and Dan Cloutier). It went to overtime, then Ohlund scored the game-winner as noted above.
Goal scorers for the Canucks tonight: Jovanovski twice, Ohlund, Salo, Morrison
Top lines...
Bertuzzi (3 A)/Morrison (1 G)/Naslund (zip) = 4 pts
H Sedin (zip)/King (1 A)/D Sedin (zip) = 1 pt
defensemen: Jovanovski (2 G, 1 A), Ohlund (1 G), Salo (1 G) = 5 pts
Jovanovski got an insane 10 shots...unheard of for a defenseman. He also put a deathly hit on Richard Zednik, which got onto the ESPN highlights.
Various things tonight from hearing the Canucks postgame show...Bertuzzi apparently looked like crap tonight, but still got three assists; a testament to how good he is. Matt Cooke seems to be able to get away with anything at GM Place in the realm of rough stuff. The Canucks scored twice on 4-on-4 tonight, their first two tallies on 4-on-4 in the situation all year after being scored on 5 times. In a year so far in which the Canucks have been great 5-on-5 but sucked on the power play, they scored three times tonight on the power play. Callers think defenseman Brent Sopel makes too much mistakes and want his ice time reduced.
Game photos: one, two
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As for the Sonics, well, they lost to the damn Heat. There's not much more I can say about it, other than that sucks. That aside, here's some quickie stats.
Ron Murray is still nuts, scoring 31. Rashard Lewis scored 16, but went 6-for-17 from the field. Bad Vlad Rad was out tonight, scoring 10 on 4-of-11 shooting. Oh yeah, the Sonics were outrebounded 48-30.
What a stinker. That's why there's the Canucks.
Mattias Ohlund scored 3:02 into the overtime to keep the Canucks unbeaten at the Garage this season, tying Geoff Courtnall for most game-winning goals in Canucks history (I think the number is 5).
The first period apparently sucked, and no goals were scored. Richard Zednik scored back-to-back goals to put the Habs up 2-0 in the 2nd. Salo and Morrison then scored power play goals to tie it. Markov of the Habs and Jovo traded the first two goals in the 3rd, then Jovo popped in a power play goal to get the Canucks a 4-3 lead which lasted exactly 51 seconds thanks to Michael Ryder (and Dan Cloutier). It went to overtime, then Ohlund scored the game-winner as noted above.
Goal scorers for the Canucks tonight: Jovanovski twice, Ohlund, Salo, Morrison
Top lines...
Bertuzzi (3 A)/Morrison (1 G)/Naslund (zip) = 4 pts
H Sedin (zip)/King (1 A)/D Sedin (zip) = 1 pt
defensemen: Jovanovski (2 G, 1 A), Ohlund (1 G), Salo (1 G) = 5 pts
Jovanovski got an insane 10 shots...unheard of for a defenseman. He also put a deathly hit on Richard Zednik, which got onto the ESPN highlights.
Various things tonight from hearing the Canucks postgame show...Bertuzzi apparently looked like crap tonight, but still got three assists; a testament to how good he is. Matt Cooke seems to be able to get away with anything at GM Place in the realm of rough stuff. The Canucks scored twice on 4-on-4 tonight, their first two tallies on 4-on-4 in the situation all year after being scored on 5 times. In a year so far in which the Canucks have been great 5-on-5 but sucked on the power play, they scored three times tonight on the power play. Callers think defenseman Brent Sopel makes too much mistakes and want his ice time reduced.
Game photos: one, two
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As for the Sonics, well, they lost to the damn Heat. There's not much more I can say about it, other than that sucks. That aside, here's some quickie stats.
Ron Murray is still nuts, scoring 31. Rashard Lewis scored 16, but went 6-for-17 from the field. Bad Vlad Rad was out tonight, scoring 10 on 4-of-11 shooting. Oh yeah, the Sonics were outrebounded 48-30.
What a stinker. That's why there's the Canucks.
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