Canucks Win vs Rangers
Big win in the Big Apple
After a great first period, the canucks scored 2 more to make it 4 nothing before the rangers poured on the offense, however it wasn’t enough to beat the Canucks. The Canucks beat the Rangers 6-3. This was Markus Naslund’s first game playing against the Canucks, and he was largely ineffective, a few nifty plays but finishes with just one assist.
The first period saw Alex Burrows with a short-handed goal to make it 2-0 for the canucks, after Kyle Wellwood scored just over 4 minutes in to open the game’s scoring. The Canucks dominated the first period play, spending alot of time in the Rangers defensive zone. The Canucks left the 1st leading 2-0.
In the second, the Canucks should have had the game with a score of 7 or 8-0. This is just how many chances they had, especially with a long 5 on 3 five minutes into the second period. The Canucks had what appeared to be a goal on a slap by Sami Salo (you could clearly see the puck cross the goal line in the overhead camera view and the TSN announcers also called it a clear cut goal) however it was called a no goal, keeping the score at 4-1. Shortly after the play resumed the Canucks were still on a 5 on 3 powerplay, and Demitra buried it behind Lundqvist, who pulled himself from the net without any orders from NY coach Tom Renney. Something I have never seen during NHL play.
The third period was dominated by the NY Rangers, who came out hard against the Canucks trying to catch up on the scoreboard. NYR scored a goal at the 7:45 mark of the third to make it 5 – 3. Shane o’brien had a very poor night for the canucks, ammassing 5 minor penalties, costing the canucks a goal in the 2nd, and stressing the team out late in the second who had to have a great penalty kill after he got a double-minor for boarding and unsportsmanlike conduct. Roberto Luongo was sharp throughout the third period, stopping everything NY shot at him. Daniel Sedin put the icing on the cake with an empty net goal with 6 seconds left in the third period.
Tonights goals were scored by Kyle Wellwood (Mattias Ohlund, Taylor Pyatt), Alex Burrows Shorthanded (Jannik Hansen), Alex Burrows (Jannik Hansen), Ryan Johnson (Taylor Pyatt, Mattias Ohlund), Pavol Demitra (Henrik Sedin, Sami Salo), and Daniel Sedin (Ryan Kesler, Mattias Ohlund). The three stars for tonights games were 1- Alex Burrows, 2- Kyle Wellwood, and 3- Jannik Hansen, as picked by the Hockey Writers Association.
Th Canucks play again tomorrow night against the Minnesota Wild, in Minnesota, and the game starts at 5:00pm and is broadcast live on Sportsnet Pacific, and streaming live on online radio on Team1040.ca
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