Canucks Clinch Northwest, Play St Louis on Wednesday
Canucks playoffs start Wednesday
After defeating the Colorado Avalanche in a BORING and bad performance (after the first 10 minutes of the first period anyway) on Saturday afternoon, the Canucks sealed the Northwest Division title. It’s the Canucks’ second Northwest division title in 3 years. It looked like the Canucks would end up playing Columbus in the first round but with St Louis defeating the Avalanche they moved up and will now meet the Canucks. The St Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks playoff series ought to be a 7 game series, as the teams were 2-2 during the regular season series, and have a long time relationship of St Louis defeating the Canucks, especially during the regular season. They seem to be Canucks killers. The Blues are red hot lately, going 7-1-1 in their last 9 (if I remember correctly), and the Canucks will have to pressure the Blues to help out Roberto Luongo on the back end. I’m sure all Canucks fans remeber the Vancouver and St Louis match-up in the 03 playoffs, that went 7 games with the Canucks taking the series. Hopefully it goes the same way this year.
The Canucks play against the Blues Wednesday April 15th 2009, at GM Place to open the first round of the Western Conference Quarter-finals Stanley Cup Playoffs. The game will be on CBC at 7pm, and you can listen to the game live online via streaming internet radio at Team1040.ca.
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