Tuesday, January 13, 2004
CANUCKS 4, COYOTES 1
The Canucks have continued their torrid road ways. They are now 11-1-1 in their last 13 road games and have won eight road games in a row (franchise record). They are also 6-2-1 in their last nine games overall. Vancouver managed to hand shutout maestro Brian Boucher his first loss in 11 games (now 6-1-4) and the Coyotes their first loss in seven games (5-1-1).
The Canucks were 2-for-5 on the power play tonight, working their way back to getting the element of their game that was so strong last year.
With his two goals tonight, Markus Naslund tied Pavel Bure on the all-time Canuck goal scoring list with 254.
Goalie Dan Cloutier is 8-3-1 since coming back from his groin injury.
Goal scorers tonight for Vancouver: Markus Naslund twice (24), Ed Jovanovski (7), Daniel Sedin (6)
The top line of Bertuzzi/Morrison/Naslund had a total of seven points.
This post won't be very long tonight, and I'm not doing a Sonic post tonight because they're about to lose to the frigginng Cleveland Cavaliers. Game plan against the Sonics -- attack the rack; the Sonics can't play defense if you do that. The difference is that Cleveland has Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who is a formidable center when healthy, which is more than Miami had when they beat the Sonics. They just losrt to friggin CLEVELAND!!! That's Cleveland's THIRD ROAD WIN of the year!! They had just faced the Lakers the night before!! ARRRGGHH!!!
But I can't end a Canuck post on the note of a crappy Sonic loss. I'll leave it with this here article. It is about the Canucks power play futility this season, but also about the proficience of the penalty-killing unit. There's a cool little percentage-sum thing at the end of the article that's a cool little measuring stick for special teams play.
The Canucks visit the Shark Tank on Thursday. The corporate people call it the HP Pavilion, but the only HP Pavilion I will talk about is the one I'm working on right now, a heavily antiquated piece of crap (8370) that I got back in 11th grade. The Canucks will be trying to avenge the last-second loss the Sharks pinned on them when Pat Marleau was fed the game-winning goal after Trevor Linden coughed up the puck in his own zone.
The Canucks were 2-for-5 on the power play tonight, working their way back to getting the element of their game that was so strong last year.
With his two goals tonight, Markus Naslund tied Pavel Bure on the all-time Canuck goal scoring list with 254.
Goalie Dan Cloutier is 8-3-1 since coming back from his groin injury.
Goal scorers tonight for Vancouver: Markus Naslund twice (24), Ed Jovanovski (7), Daniel Sedin (6)
The top line of Bertuzzi/Morrison/Naslund had a total of seven points.
This post won't be very long tonight, and I'm not doing a Sonic post tonight because they're about to lose to the frigginng Cleveland Cavaliers. Game plan against the Sonics -- attack the rack; the Sonics can't play defense if you do that. The difference is that Cleveland has Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who is a formidable center when healthy, which is more than Miami had when they beat the Sonics. They just losrt to friggin CLEVELAND!!! That's Cleveland's THIRD ROAD WIN of the year!! They had just faced the Lakers the night before!! ARRRGGHH!!!
But I can't end a Canuck post on the note of a crappy Sonic loss. I'll leave it with this here article. It is about the Canucks power play futility this season, but also about the proficience of the penalty-killing unit. There's a cool little percentage-sum thing at the end of the article that's a cool little measuring stick for special teams play.
The Canucks visit the Shark Tank on Thursday. The corporate people call it the HP Pavilion, but the only HP Pavilion I will talk about is the one I'm working on right now, a heavily antiquated piece of crap (8370) that I got back in 11th grade. The Canucks will be trying to avenge the last-second loss the Sharks pinned on them when Pat Marleau was fed the game-winning goal after Trevor Linden coughed up the puck in his own zone.
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