Canucks makes some Sharks fin soup, 2-1
- Another 1 goal game that's won in overtime. I'm not complaining since we were on the winning side, but both teams played extremely well in terms of defense, offense and spectacular goaltending from both ends of the ice, so both deserved at least a point.
- I thought the Canucks were better in this game compared to their 3-1 win against the Sharks at GM Place. They had more scoring chances, and kept the Sharks' big line from walking all over our goaltender.
- Speaking of our goaltender, Roberto Luongo broke Kirk McLean's record of most wins in a season. Of course people would argue its validity, a win is a win and Luongo totally deserved it.
- Markus Naslund was on fire tonight, but I think he forget the memo where it stated that it was he who's supposed to be receiving passes from Bryan Smolinski, not the other way around. He must have set up Smoke at least 3 times in a game, and also set up Matt Cooke on something that would have been an easy tip in. He's flying, too! It's unfortunate that he wasn't able to score because he was doing so well.
- I knew Taylor Pyatt was going to score tonight, not because I had that gut feeling that he will, but more of him shooting the puck a lot more. Instead of waiting for chances to happen like in the first half of the season, Pyatt has been creating chances for himself by snapping those wristers and sooner or later, a puck will eventually go in.
- Henrik Sedin redeemed himself after taking that penalty where San Jose was able to tie the game. He scored the game winning goal after Bieksa sent him on a mini breakaway and he buried his own rebound.
- ... As for the negatives... I don't think there are any, really. All 4 lines played well and created chances and were responsible defensively. Luongo was pretty solid in net and the defense also helped him out a lot by keeping the Sharks to the outside.
