Canucks are looking forward to some peking Duck!
It's not very hard to explain my feelings right now. Happy, joyous, ecstatic, excited, and teary-eyed could probably sum it up as I heard the buzzer to indicate the game has finally ended.
It didn't start out to well for the Canucks. The Stars seem to have carried the momentum over from the previous game, and although Canucks weren't particularly abysmal in their play right out of the gate, an early Stars powerplay definitely sucked out a bit of life from the Canucks, and the eventual Lundqvist goal sucked a whole lot more.
There. Tense period was over.
After the 2nd period, the Canucks definitely looked renewed in their desire to win this thing. At one point in the game, they were outshooting the Stars 12-0 or something, and the Stars were lucky that Turco kept their team alive thus far, but the team did not help him a whole lot. A couple of penalties against the Stars eventually proved costly as the Canucks was finally able to put one in on Marty Turco, break their PP scoring slump, break the Sedin's goal/point scoring slump and, most importantly, tied the game and gave the Canucks a humongous momentum boost.
Mike Modano made a bad play on the neutral zone during that Stars PK. Instead of immediately dumping the puck on the other side, especially when one of his defense needed a new stick to replace the broken one, he tried to skate with it, but unfortunately gave the puck up to one of the Sedins. Daniel Sedin was able to work the boards, win the puck battles and distribute the puck for a scoring chance. Henrik Sedin benefitted from this as he practically had a gaping net to shoot at.
In the 3rd period, the Canucks continued to dominate the Stars, they got into more penalty trouble, and Trevor Linden got the game winning goal by tipping in Mattias Ohlund's shot.
After that, Roberto Luongo and the crossbar made the toughest saves of the night. Lui absolutely robbed Stu Barnes of that [possible] tying goal and Mike Modano hit the post and they still weren't able to generalte more scoring chances.
Both Taylor Pyatt and Bryan Smolinski put the puck in empty nets, both coming from unselfish plays of Brendan Morrison and Trevor Linden who could have potted those in the net themselves.
Anyway, it's sad to see such a great series end. Both Marty Turco and Roberto Luongo were absolutely lights out in this series, and anyone who dare blames this on Turco and think he "choked", I'll slap you.
Up next are the Not so Mighty Anymore Ducks of Anaheim, beginning 7:00 PM on Wednesday.
Wow, just congratulations to all our players. Everyone stepped up and just played a great game. I'm just too happy and extremely proud that they were able to pull through with a victory.
I'm starting to become incoherent again. :( BUT
YEEEEEEES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES AJDHFA GO CANUCKS GO!!
It didn't start out to well for the Canucks. The Stars seem to have carried the momentum over from the previous game, and although Canucks weren't particularly abysmal in their play right out of the gate, an early Stars powerplay definitely sucked out a bit of life from the Canucks, and the eventual Lundqvist goal sucked a whole lot more.
There. Tense period was over.
After the 2nd period, the Canucks definitely looked renewed in their desire to win this thing. At one point in the game, they were outshooting the Stars 12-0 or something, and the Stars were lucky that Turco kept their team alive thus far, but the team did not help him a whole lot. A couple of penalties against the Stars eventually proved costly as the Canucks was finally able to put one in on Marty Turco, break their PP scoring slump, break the Sedin's goal/point scoring slump and, most importantly, tied the game and gave the Canucks a humongous momentum boost.
In the 3rd period, the Canucks continued to dominate the Stars, they got into more penalty trouble, and Trevor Linden got the game winning goal by tipping in Mattias Ohlund's shot.
After that, Roberto Luongo and the crossbar made the toughest saves of the night. Lui absolutely robbed Stu Barnes of that [possible] tying goal and Mike Modano hit the post and they still weren't able to generalte more scoring chances.
Anyway, it's sad to see such a great series end. Both Marty Turco and Roberto Luongo were absolutely lights out in this series, and anyone who dare blames this on Turco and think he "choked", I'll slap you.
Up next are the Not so Mighty Anymore Ducks of Anaheim, beginning 7:00 PM on Wednesday.
Wow, just congratulations to all our players. Everyone stepped up and just played a great game. I'm just too happy and extremely proud that they were able to pull through with a victory.
I'm starting to become incoherent again. :( BUT
YEEEEEEES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES AJDHFA GO CANUCKS GO!!
