Wednesday, December 17, 2003
STARS 3, CANUCKS 1
What can you say? Like I said last night, even though Dallas has sucked, it's still Dallas, and they still have Marty Turco in net. The Canucks were also on the second night of a back-to-back.
Dallas drew first blood on a Jason Arnott goal less than five minutes into the game.
Markus Naslund scored the only Canuck goal of the night, his 17th of the year, assisted by linemates Brendan Morrison and Todd Bertuzzi.
I know I like to say sometimes that Dan Cloutier likes to give up goals in bunches. Tonight, the goals that gave the Stars a 3-1 lead were 3:17 apart (Bill Guerin and Rob DiMaio). Not quite sure if they're close enough to be considered a "bunch" like some of his 30-seconds-apart goals are, but they're relatively close.
Cloutier's first game back from his groin injury was just last night against Nashville. All the Vancouver print articles from this morning seemed to indicate that Manitoba Moose callup Alex Auld would get the start in net tonight. That was not to be the case. And for goodness' sake, Cloutier just came off a groin injury...surely starting him in back-to-back games in two consecutive nights isn't a good thing, right?
Vancouver travels to Edmonton on Saturday night. Since I'm in B-town for the holidays, Vancouver at Edmonton on a Saturday night means exactly one thing...Saturday night is Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. I have the chance to watch the Canucks for exactly the second time this year. Hope they can ratchet up the offense again.
Dallas drew first blood on a Jason Arnott goal less than five minutes into the game.
Markus Naslund scored the only Canuck goal of the night, his 17th of the year, assisted by linemates Brendan Morrison and Todd Bertuzzi.
I know I like to say sometimes that Dan Cloutier likes to give up goals in bunches. Tonight, the goals that gave the Stars a 3-1 lead were 3:17 apart (Bill Guerin and Rob DiMaio). Not quite sure if they're close enough to be considered a "bunch" like some of his 30-seconds-apart goals are, but they're relatively close.
Cloutier's first game back from his groin injury was just last night against Nashville. All the Vancouver print articles from this morning seemed to indicate that Manitoba Moose callup Alex Auld would get the start in net tonight. That was not to be the case. And for goodness' sake, Cloutier just came off a groin injury...surely starting him in back-to-back games in two consecutive nights isn't a good thing, right?
Vancouver travels to Edmonton on Saturday night. Since I'm in B-town for the holidays, Vancouver at Edmonton on a Saturday night means exactly one thing...Saturday night is Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. I have the chance to watch the Canucks for exactly the second time this year. Hope they can ratchet up the offense again.
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