3 posts tagged “franchise records”
Nazzy is now #1 for the Canucks All Time Scoring! ...At least until Trevor Linden scores a few and takes the lead back, then Nazzy takes it again.. and then rinse and repeat. :D
At the rate AV is benching Linden though, I won't be surprised if he would be unable to even tie the record.
Anyway, I just saw the highlights and it was a wicked assist by Naslund. I'm just glad it wasn't a garbage point or something.
Mattias Ohlund also tied the record for All Time Goals by a Defenseman!
In other news, Canucks win over the Blackhawks, 3-2. Both Brendan Morrison and Taylor Pyatt had 2 point nights (1 G 1 A for Mo, 2 A for Py). Glad to see Pyatt scoring, although I loved him in a defensive role and I actually preferred him in our shutdown line with Kes and Iz.
... Yes. I have a thing for defensive players. Which is why my favorite players list are usually dominated by defensemen.
The Canucks.com Forums had a bit of fun in the GDT turning several players into animals: Kesler and Edler = Moosler and Moodler aka MOOSE; Pyatt became a bunny. LOLz. A BUNNY. HOW FITTING. Too bad he'll always be a cute pink unicorn in my books. Then there's BLACKHAWKS and MIKE HUNT... aka say either of those 2 words really fast and you will see just how immature CDC can be. Yep.
Thanks, NHL for allowing Markus Naslund to celebrate this milestone with the fans by adding the assist half a day late.
Congratulations to Markus Naslund though. :D
Meh. A very disappointing game tonight. The type that leads that bad aftertaste in your mouth. It's a game the Canucks should have won, but most of the players, except the Sedins and Pyatt, were really just average or below average tonight.
It was a big game, and I expected the players to come out with a bit more jump and energy to win this thing and clinch a playoff spot, instead, after the first period, the Avalanche showed just how much desperate they are for that 8th playoff spot and controlled the tempo of the game. A lot of mistakes on the Canucks' part, such as nasty turnovers in our own zone, being unable to clear the puck, and not covering their designated Avs players. We blew two 2 goal leads, and sometimes such things can happen even if we are playing well (re: Dec 27 game against Calgary), but this time, we just weren't there and the Avs were, so they deserved this one.
On a positive note, Henrik Sedin broke the franchise record for most assist in a single season, that was set by Andre Boudrias (62) back in 1974-1975, by scoring his 63rd assist for this season. He assisted on both of Taylor Pyatt's goals and also on Daniel Sedin's powerplay goal.
Also, Taylor Pyatt recorded the first 20-goal season of his career. He played really well tonight, right from the get go. He and the Sedins were just generally good in tonight's game that at the beginning, I already had a feeling that he would score a goal. I just didn't expect that he would score 2. He actually made some nice plays that led to both his goals.
In his first one, he made a great cross-ice pass to Henrik Sedin from the defensive zone, and from there, Henrik passed to Daniel, and he just threw it towards the net as he saw Pyatt just skating his way to the net and the puck hit his stick.
For his second goal of the night, he did a nice job protecting the puck from the Avalanche player and again passed it to Henrik, who made a backhand pass to Daniel. Daniel showed patience and great passing as he stood behind the net and waited for Pyatt (or anyone) to go to the open slot for the easy shot, who then "wrists" it home.
Sadly, that was it for the Canucks. They did get a point for losing the game in the shootout, but we have to wait another day to clinch the playoffs.
Other goalscorers include Daniel Sedin and Jeff Cowan for the Canucks, while Joe Sakic and Brett McLean both had 2 goals each for the Avalanche.
- Pretty bad game for Markus Naslund tonight. He just wasn't there. I'm really disappointed, though I'm disappointed at a lot of other players tonight, but he was just lacking on the energy front tonight. I think after that one good shift in the first period, whatever was left of his energy fizzled out.
- Which brings me to the question: Does the Naslund-Smolinski-Bulis line work? We've already seen what they can do for the past 12 games and it just doesn't seem to click. The Naslund-Kesler-Green line, heck, even the Naslund-Moran-Reid line looked better. Whatever it is, this line isn't working the way we envisioned it to work. Nazzy and Smoke sometimes have flashes of brilliance, along with Jan Bulis, where we can see that they have some "chemistry" going, but that's just it. Flashes. You sometimes see it, but most of the time you don't.
- Roberto Luongo looked really average tonight. And his five hole really needs to be shut. Either way, if the Canucks were tighter defensively and made significantly less mistakes, the results would have been in favor of Vancouver. Hang in there Lui!
- Even though the Canucks didn't clinch a playoff spot, at least they gave Colorado a favor by keeping their playoffs dream alive.
I just want them to bounce back on their next game against the same team, Colorado Avalanche.
