Canucks Lose to Buffalo
Canucks Lose in Buffalo to go 3-2 on Season
After a disastrous first period, the Canucks couldn’t seem to crawl out of the negative column to beat the Sabres in tonight’s game at Buffalo. The Sabres came out fast and quick with three goals in the first 13:10 of the first period, after the Canucks had some serious troubles with penalties, including a double-minor for roughing against Shane O’Brien that cost the Canucks one of Buffalo’s early goals.
Penalties haunted the Canucks all night, with Buffalo going 2 for 5 and the Canucks being ousted with a miserable 0 for 3 on the power play. Thomas Vanek buried the Canucks with the Sabres 5th goal of the night mid way through the 3rd period, on a beautiful goal with NO defence anywhere around to help Curtis Sanford out. Sanford played his first start of the season, without a W to show for it. The night contained a bucketful of defence errors, with Willie Mitchell playing a mediocre game, and several other mistakes all around. A bright spot again was the Kesler Burrows Hansen line, however they couldn’t pull anything together in the third after Burrows was given a 10 min misconduct half way through the third period. One bright light on Defence was the play of Alex Edler, who looked good all game long while he was on the ice. The Sedins were broken up this game half way through, and didn’t play as linemates through the end. Will Vigneault pair them up again? We will have to see in Chicago on Sunday.
Tonight’s goal scorers included Ryan Kesler (Alexander Burrows, Willie Mitchell), Steve Bernier (Henrik Sedin, Mason Raymond).
The Canucks continue the road trip, flying into Chicago to play the Blackhawks at 4pm on Sunday. The game will be broadcast on TV on Canucks PPV ( Pay Per View ) and if you don’t want to pay, you can always listen to the game streaming live on the internet at team1040.ca
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