Sunday, March 19, 2006
GAME 69: RED WINGS 7, CANUCKS 3
Red Wings 7, Canucks 3
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The Canucks snapped a five-game losing streak two nights earlier by winning a game they were supposed to win at Columbus. Unfortunately for Vancouver, the next team up on the schedule was the Detroit Red Wings. So many times this season the Canucks have come out of a slump with a decent win and failed to sustain momentum with the following game. The odds weren't on the Canucks' side.
1st period
»» 1, DETROIT, Tomas Holmstrom 23 (Mark Mowers) 6:03
»» 2, DETROIT, Jason Williams 15 (Steve Yzerman, Chris Chelios) 6:43
»» 3, DETROIT, powerplay, Nicklas Lidstrom 14 (Pavel Datsyuk, Mathieu Schneider) 10:55
2nd period
»» 4, DETROIT, Datsyuk 26 (Kris Draper) 1:30
»» 5, VANCOUVER, powerplay, Anson Carter 28 (Nolan Baumgartner, Henrik Sedin) 3:44
»» 6, VANCOUVER, powerplay, Markus Naslund 29 (Todd Bertuzzi, Ryan Kesler) 4:46
»» 7, DETROIT, Williams 16 (Niklas Kronvall, Robert Lang) 19:39
»» 8, VANCOUVER, Matt Cooke 8 (Brendan Morrison, Keith Carney) 19:58
3rd period
»» 9, DETROIT, Brendan Shanahan 31 (Datsyuk, Draper) 0:12
»» 10, DETROIT, Johan Franzen 9 (Kirk Maltby, Andreas Lilja) 3:42
Three stars -- (1) Detroit's Jason Williams, (2) Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk, (3) Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom
skater, goals-assists-points
Carter 1-0-1
Cooke 1-0-1
Naslund 1-0-1
Baumgartner 0-1-1
Bertuzzi 0-1-1
Carney 0-1-1
Kesler 0-1-1
Morrison 0-1-1
H Sedin 0-1-1
The Canucks' sixth loss in seven games and seventh in nine knocked them back to 36-27-6 (3-3 shootout, three overtime losses), good for 78 points and fourth place in the Northwest Division, one point behind Edmonton and two behind Colorado, with both teams having a game in hand. Calgary has a six-point lead on Vancouver as well as the division lead. Problem is, by virtue of having played one less game than Vancouver, Brian Burke's Anaheim Mighty Ducks now hold the eighth spot in the Western Conference (both teams have the same number of points), and they have three games in hand on Vancouver. The Canucks are one point back of the seventh-place Los Angeles Kings.
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