Vancouverites.com » NHL Playoffs http://www.vancouverites.com stuff for us Vancouverites Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:02:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Canucks start the playoffs after their best season ever. http://www.vancouverites.com/2011/04/13/canucks-start-the-playoffs-after-their-best-season-ever/ http://www.vancouverites.com/2011/04/13/canucks-start-the-playoffs-after-their-best-season-ever/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:29:59 +0000 The Captain http://www.vancouverites.com/?p=278 Canucks had their best season ever, winning the President’s Trophy with 117 points and get rewarded by meeting their arch nemesis the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round. Win and they will be have overcome a huge psychological hurdle but lose and this team will be devastated. It might even have to be blown up. But this is the best team the Canucks have ever had, they don’t run around in their own end anymore, they have a great PP and despite the loss of Malholtra they have an exceptional PK. They also led the league in goal differential with 262 for and 185 against.

For the sake of my 88 year old grandmother, this better be the year.

Predictions for the first round:

  • Vancouver over Chicago in 5
  • San Jose over Los Angeles in 4
  • Detroit over Phoenix in 7
  • Anaheim over Nashville in 7
  • Washington over New York Rangers in 5
  • Buffalo over Philadelphia in 6
  • Boston over Montreal in 6
  • Pittsburgh over Tampa Bay in 7
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Yeah, Luongo wasn’t a difference maker, but I would really only fault him on one of those 7 goals. The power play, the Sedins and the rest of the offence did its job, they scored 5 goals in a playoff game, afterall. The weak link turned out to be the defense, they made mistakes and took lame penalties and the Chicago D-men did not do that, they were faster, made better transition passes, didn’t make defensive zone mistakes or take stupid penalties. Gillis needs to add some offensive players with speed but he also needs to hit a home run with an all-star defence man. Can you say Bouwmeester.

Anyway, I hate to say this, but go Blackhawks. It is always better to lose to the Stanley Cup champs, but that is little consolation at this point.

]]> http://www.vancouverites.com/2009/05/11/unbelievable/feed/ 0 Oh Yeah, Hard Work, Works http://www.vancouverites.com/2009/05/05/oh-yeah-hard-work-works/ http://www.vancouverites.com/2009/05/05/oh-yeah-hard-work-works/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 04:14:05 +0000 The Captain http://www.vancouverites.com/?p=102 The Canucks beat Chicago 3-1 in game 3 (one of those important odd-numbered games in a best-of-series). We got all concerned about the speed and talent of the Blackhawks after their two comeback efforts in the first two games, the second of which resulted in a thorough defeat of our Nucks. We even started talking about resorting to the trap just to nullify the speed of the Hawks. But what we forgot was that if we work as hard as our opponent chances are we will win because we are the better overall team. (At least for this year until Chicago has gained this playoff experience.)

After the long layoff that resulted from sweeping the Blues it wasn’t momentum or rhythm that was lost, it was our work ethic. This lack of work ethic was reinforced by early power play goals in each of the first two games that made the Canucks feel like they could easily win. The Blackhawks then cranked up their effort level and in the second game especially took the Canucks to town.

Luckily in game 3 the Canucks resumed working at least as hard as the Blackhawks and thus the better team won the game. Now let’s just get Luongo back in the zone and enjoy the ride.

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Canucks Finish Sweep

Canucks complete their first ever sweep in a 7 game series (they beat Calgary 3 buzz in a best-of-five in 1982) with an OT goal by Alex Burrows to give the Canucks a 3-2 victory over the Blues in St. Louis. Recap.

The whole team played amazingly well except for a few minutes of the second period, and as a Canucks fan you have to loooove having Roberto Luongo in goal, but how good is Alex Burrows. They guy scores clutch goal after clutch goal. I think maybe he should have signed for more than the $2 mill a year that he did a few weeks ago.

I don’t ever remember watching a Canucks team that is playing this well. Could this be our year???

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