Vancouver Canucks Hockey Stuff

Sami Salo will not suit up for tonight’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks.  It was speculated that Sami Salo might play.  He travelled to Chicago to be with the team, and skated in yesterdays team sakte.  However, he did not skate this morning, and will not play tonight.  His injury has not been disclosed, but it is speculated to be a lower body injury, possibly a groin injury.  This means that the team will remain the same for tonights game as it was in the last game, a 3-1 Canucks win.

The Vancouver Canucks play the Chicago Blackhawks tonight in Game 4 of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  The game is at 5pm PST and you can watch it on cbc, and listen to it via live streaming radio at The Team1040.ca/player

With a win tonight the Canucks can take a 3-1 series lead, and go home to possibly win the series on saturday night.

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Tonight the Canucks play the Blackhawks in Chicago at 5pm PST.  Sami Salo will not play tonight, however he has flown to Chicago and could possibly rejoin the team for game four in Chicago.  Ossi Vannanen will replace Salo on the Canucks blueline.  Pavol demitra is out with an undisclosed injury, and will be replaced in tonights game with Taylor Pyatt, who has not played a game since a personal leave late in the regular season. 

Tonight’s game will be live on CBC at 5pm, and you can listen to the game live streaming online on Team1040.ca/player  The canucks will try to come out and gain a 2-1 series lead, after losing to the Blackhawks 6-3 on saturday night, creating a series tie at a game apiece.  Game 3 is 30 minutes away!  GO Canucks GO

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Huge goal by Sami Salo with less than two minutes left in the third period stopped a rally by the Chicago Blackhawks in game one of the second round of  the Stanley cup Playoffs.  The Canuck win game one 5-3. 

The Vancouver Canucks looked a little slow out of the gate in tonights game against the Chicago Blackhawks, but the continous line-up by the blackhawk players to the penalty box ended up helping the Canucks beat the Blackhawks tonight.  Vancouver ended up ahead of the Blackhawks by a margin of 3-0 by the start of the third period.  The Sedin line looked amazing through the first two periods, making dazzling plays, finding each other and Burrows all over the ice.  Henrik potted the 2nd goal in for the Canucks after a nice feed from daniel on the sideboards.

Fast forward to the third and the Blackhawks score one only 2 minutes into the period, and the young guns in the Chicago line-up were set on fire.  Chicago dominated the third period, finishing their checks, getting pucks on Luongo, and tying up the game.  GM Place was dead.  You could hear a pin drop.  That was until 2 minutes left, when the Canucks broke out of their zone, with a  four on one.  Khabibulin made an initial save, and the rebound came out to Salo who popped it into the wide open net.  Mayhem was about again in GM Place. 

Three stars for tonight, third star was Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhakws, second star was Kyle Wellwood, and first star, Sami Salo, who had the game winner tonight.

The Canucks take a 1-0 lead in the series, and they will play again Saturday May 2nd 2009,  in Vancouver at GM Place, game time is 6pm and you can watch the game live on CBC, or listen live to streaming online radio at the Team1040.ca

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Just announced, Sami Salo will not play tonight against the St Louis Blues in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Quarterfinals.  He has a “lower body injury”.

Also for tonight, Mats Sundin will not play tonight either, and it’s also reported that Paul Kariya will not play again for the Blues either.  The Canucks are up 3-0 in games this series, and only twice in history has a team come back and won a series after being down 3-0.  Hopefully the Canucks can come up with a big win tonight and sweep the Blues.

Game time is 5pm, in St Louis, broadcast on CBC.  You can listen to the pre-game show and the game live online via streaming online radio at The Team1040.ca.  Go Canucks Go!

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Canucks Beat Wild 2-1

It was a long boring game, but the Canucks pulled through with an overtime goal by Henrik Sedin to take 1st place in the northwest division tonight with a battle against the Minnesota Wild.  Pavol Demitra was given credit for the Canucks lone goal in the 2nd period, after he banked it out in front from behind the net and the puck bounced off a Wild player and went in behind Wild netminder Niklas Backstrom.

Though killing off a late 3rd period penalty that stretched into OT from a puck that was cleared over the glass by Sami Salo, the Canucks battled through and finally got a couple shots on Backstrom (after not getting a single shot in the 3rd period, the 5th shot-less period in Canucks history),  and one of them counting, with a pass from Daniel to Henrik, and the puck was in the back of the net.

2 months ago the Canucks were 13 points behind Calgary in the northwest, and tonight they are leading the northwest.  It’s been a great turn-around for the Canucks.  With the Canucks leading the divison, they are sitting at 3rd in the Western Conference.  They play again Thursday April 2 2009, at home against the Anaheim Ducks.  The game is available on Sportsnet Pacific and is available on live streaming online radio at team1040.ca

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Vancouver Canucks beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2

What a great comeback game for the Vancouver Canucks tonight, after a dissapointing loss Friday night to the Dallas Stars, the Canucks came out with a vengeance in the first period.  Up until 10 minutes left in the third, the Canucks were outpacing the Canadiens in shots by 2:1.  Halak was pulled in the third period in favour of Carey Price, who was looking forward to playing on “home ice”.  The Canucks had a great game out of the Sedin Twins and Alex Burrows, combining for 3 of Vancouver’s 4 goals.  Roberto Luongo made some huge 3rd period saves to seal the win, as the Canadiens were piling on pressure late to try to get the equalizer.  Montreal scored with just over 2 minutes left in regulation to bring the score to 4-2, but that is all they could muster up for offence.

On a strange note, the Canucks didn’t have a single penalty called against them this game, which is only the third time in club history that this has happened, and the only time in the last eight years.   Effectively the penalty kill was at 100% because they didnt have to kill one!  The Canucks offence didnt pour it on the powerplay though, going 0 for 2 i believe.  Ryan Kesler’s goal in the third was a beautiful goal, a sweet slick pass from Mats Sundin to Kesler for the goal.  The other really notable goal of the game was Henrik edin’s goal in the 1st period, I belive it was the first, that was a tic tac toe play.  Started from Sami Salo clearing the puck out of the Canucks zone, up the boards to Burrows, who cleared the Canadiens blue line along the boards, dished across ice to Daniel, and Danny passed it back again to Henrik Sedin, and Hank nailed it home for the goal.

The Canucks are back on the road Tuesday with a stop in Calgary to play the Flames at 6:30pm, broadcast on Sportsnet, and streamed via online radio at the team, team1040.ca.  The Canucks are now sitting at 5th place in the western conference with tonight’s win, and have won five of their last six games.

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Sami Salo out with the Flu

Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis announced this morning that Sami Salo will not play tonight in the game against the Minnesota Wild, however they have called up Nolan Baumgartner from the Manitoba Moose in the AHL to play in the absence of Salo.  The game is tonight at 5pm in Minnesota.

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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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Shoot-out loss to Islanders after lackluster game.

The Canucks came ot steaming in the first period, having Pavol Demitra back for his 2nd game since being out with an injury, and he scores 42 seconds into the 1st period after a beautiful set-up by Daniel and Henrik Sedin.  The Canucks kept the pressure up throughout the first period, coming close on a few plays, and even a fight with Davison involved.

Roll onto the 2nd period.  Not so nice.  Roberto Luongo singlehandedly kept the Canucks from being blown out, stopping shot after shot from the Islanders, with one goal getting by him that was deflecting in off the Canucks’ Shane O’Brien.  Unfortunate for the Canucks but Doug Weight and the Islanders will take the goal.

Move onto the third period, the Canucks showed up for a bit, even though they showed us how much they like the penalty box.  Not a good start for them and i’m not surprised.  One glowing light was again the play of Roberto Luongo, who stopped the Islanders close up with less than 4 minutes to play in the third.  Earlier in the third Sami Salo had a great opportunity to put the Canucks up by one but his shot ricocheted off the crossbar and out.

Off to Overtime and neither team could ge the job done.  The Canucks looked very inspired late in OT with a flurry of shots including a close one by Nycholat to be the game winner, but he couldn’t lift it over the pads.

The Shoot-out, saw the Islanders come out on top.  Rpberto let in the islanders first shot, and the Canucks couldn’t follow up, with the isle’s goalie Macdonald stopping Canucks’ third shooter Alex Burrows with a pokecheck.

Tonight’s goal was scored by Pavol Demitra, and assisted by Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin.

The Canucks finished the game 0 for 4 on the powerplay, with the Islanders getting the only power play goal, going 1 for 5.  Tonight’s three stars, as picked by Islanders Media, were 1- J Macdonald, 2- F Nielsen, 3- R Luongo.

The Vancouver Canucks play next on wednesday night in New York at Madison Square Garden against the New York Rangers.  It will be Markus Naslund’s first game against the Canucks as a NY ranger, and i’m sure it will be a game to remember for players on both teams.  The game starts at 4:30pm and is being brodcast in High Definition on TSN, and streaming live on online radio on Team1040.ca

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Bieksa out for 2 – 3 weeks.

Kevin Bieksa will be out of the line up because of an injury, it appears he suffered in the November 4th game against the Nashville Predators, in which he blocked a shot that hit him in the skate.  He has bone chips it is being reported, so he will be out of the line up for the next two to three weeks.  Also today the Canucks reported that Sami Salo will be out day to day because of a sore elbow, in which he injured during the last game against the Colorado Avalanche, while diving to try and block a shot that turned out to be Roberto Luongo’s shut-put ending goal against.

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