I remember that - think I mentioned it in a post on the game - good on the NHL for their decision and for showing they are not afraid to admit that mistakes are made.
How about them Canucks!
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I remember that - think I mentioned it in a post on the game - good on the NHL for their decision and for showing they are not afraid to admit that mistakes are made.
yeah, I know, I was kind of flaberghasted when I read that article, and good on them.
I posted my canuck post game stuff on the wrong thread, it is on the nhl thread,
anyway, canucks 3 avalanche 1, real good game.
lets see how those maple leafs do on saturday night in rogers arena.
they beat edmonton 4-3 in OT tonight.
helpful that st. louis lost to columbus tuesday night.
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Not bad game at all though I only caught in late in the 1rst period. The guys looked a bit more energized tonight.
Nice goal by Cole to tie the game - showed some patience.
Lu looked great in the net tonight and made some pretty saves in the 3rd, especially - love it when he charges out and grabs the puck in the air, he looks a real warrior. He has a more confident look in his eyes now.
Loved the goal and assist by Hansen and Hodgson - way cool guys!
Glad to see that Booth was not seriously injured - the air definitely left the building when he started limping off the ice - talk about dead silence!
And Burrows gets his 20th on any empty netter. Nice finish Canucks and thank you for not keeping me up half the night with OT and shoot-outs! :lol:
Bitz kept reminding me of someone and I finally figured it out tonight. With his helmet on, he reminds me of a young Robert De Niro.
Nice goal by Cole to tie the game - showed some patience.
Lu looked great in the net tonight and made some pretty saves in the 3rd, especially - love it when he charges out and grabs the puck in the air, he looks a real warrior. He has a more confident look in his eyes now.
Loved the goal and assist by Hansen and Hodgson - way cool guys!
Glad to see that Booth was not seriously injured - the air definitely left the building when he started limping off the ice - talk about dead silence!
And Burrows gets his 20th on any empty netter. Nice finish Canucks and thank you for not keeping me up half the night with OT and shoot-outs! :lol:
Bitz kept reminding me of someone and I finally figured it out tonight. With his helmet on, he reminds me of a young Robert De Niro.
bitz reminds me of 'brian brown' big australian actor, I think he married rachael 'whatever', can't remember,
maybe its 'ward', not sure, bitz and brian brown could be twins, although brown is a lot older now, i'm
remembering him at about the same age at bitz.
was he in thorn birds with her and richard chamberlain, again, not sure.
I know who you mean, Brian Brown is a babe! I will have to have another look at Byron next game. :smile: I think you mean Rachel Ward - and yeah it was the Thorn Birds where I first saw the two of them. The Aussies have given us some good actors/actresses.
Saturday - February 18 - vancouver/toronto - rogers arena- 4:00 p.m.
As the Toronto Maple Leafs try to end one major drought that dates to before the NHL lockout, they can address another run of futility that has lasted just as long.
It won't be easy, however, for the Leafs to enter a hostile atmosphere Saturday and snap a nine-game losing streak to the Vancouver Canucks, who haven't lost in regulation in more than a month.
Toronto (29-23-6) hasn't reached the playoffs since 2004, but coach Ron Wilson's club has a chance to finally bring postseason hockey back to Canada's largest city as it clings to eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
The hockey-crazed nation's most successful franchise lately has been Vancouver, which has showed in this matchup. The Canucks have outscored Toronto 38-19 while winning each meeting since a 2-1 road defeat Nov. 24, 2003.
"The Leafs have always been a team I hated as a kid," Vancouver's Alexandre Burrows said after scoring the game-winner in a 5-3 victory at Toronto on Dec. 17. "I know a lot of fans in Vancouver don't like this team. ... It just makes it extra special."
The Canucks (36-15-6) haven't discriminated - they've been tough on every opponent for the last several weeks, going 8-0-3 in their last 11. Seven of those games have gone to shootouts, but they finally escaped with a regulation win Wednesday over Colorado.
David Booth scored for the third straight game and Jannik Hansen broke a tie with a third-period tally before Burrows' empty-netter sealed the 3-1 victory.
"We get off a little earlier than normal," Hansen said. "It's nice to only have to play 60 (minutes)."
The Leafs needed more than that Wednesday in Edmonton, but they were simply happy to get a 4-3 victory and snap a four-game losing streak.
Tim Connolly scored 1:39 into overtime - his first goal in 18 games - as Toronto won despite squandering a 2-0 lead it had built 1:38 into the first period.
"We've been in a little bit of a rut," Connolly said, "and to come out and battle in a game like that where it's going back and forth, and really grind it out and get the win is a huge two points for us."
Wilson, however, is wary because the Leafs' previous win also came against the Oilers, 6-3 at home Feb. 6. The coach said Edmonton's uptempo style may have been partly responsible for getting Toronto, which was outscored 16-5 during its slide, out of whack.
"That's the way Edmonton plays. It actually set us off on this little losing skid, I think," Wilson said. "You get into a flow that's going back and forth, and sometimes when you get some free looks like we were getting, you forget about playing in your own end."
The Leafs will certainly have to be sharp defensively against one of the league's most prolific clubs, and their impressive run of success on the penalty kill might be tested.
Opponents have scored once in 34 power-play chances over 20 games since the start of 2012 after a dreadful start to the season for the unit. Vancouver, though, leads the league at 22.1 percent with the man advantage despite its current 2-for-23 stretch.
The Canucks had only one power-play chance - failing to convert - at Toronto earlier this season, but they're 12 for 50 (24.0 percent) during the winning streak in the series.
As the Toronto Maple Leafs try to end one major drought that dates to before the NHL lockout, they can address another run of futility that has lasted just as long.
It won't be easy, however, for the Leafs to enter a hostile atmosphere Saturday and snap a nine-game losing streak to the Vancouver Canucks, who haven't lost in regulation in more than a month.
Toronto (29-23-6) hasn't reached the playoffs since 2004, but coach Ron Wilson's club has a chance to finally bring postseason hockey back to Canada's largest city as it clings to eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
The hockey-crazed nation's most successful franchise lately has been Vancouver, which has showed in this matchup. The Canucks have outscored Toronto 38-19 while winning each meeting since a 2-1 road defeat Nov. 24, 2003.
"The Leafs have always been a team I hated as a kid," Vancouver's Alexandre Burrows said after scoring the game-winner in a 5-3 victory at Toronto on Dec. 17. "I know a lot of fans in Vancouver don't like this team. ... It just makes it extra special."
The Canucks (36-15-6) haven't discriminated - they've been tough on every opponent for the last several weeks, going 8-0-3 in their last 11. Seven of those games have gone to shootouts, but they finally escaped with a regulation win Wednesday over Colorado.
David Booth scored for the third straight game and Jannik Hansen broke a tie with a third-period tally before Burrows' empty-netter sealed the 3-1 victory.
"We get off a little earlier than normal," Hansen said. "It's nice to only have to play 60 (minutes)."
The Leafs needed more than that Wednesday in Edmonton, but they were simply happy to get a 4-3 victory and snap a four-game losing streak.
Tim Connolly scored 1:39 into overtime - his first goal in 18 games - as Toronto won despite squandering a 2-0 lead it had built 1:38 into the first period.
"We've been in a little bit of a rut," Connolly said, "and to come out and battle in a game like that where it's going back and forth, and really grind it out and get the win is a huge two points for us."
Wilson, however, is wary because the Leafs' previous win also came against the Oilers, 6-3 at home Feb. 6. The coach said Edmonton's uptempo style may have been partly responsible for getting Toronto, which was outscored 16-5 during its slide, out of whack.
"That's the way Edmonton plays. It actually set us off on this little losing skid, I think," Wilson said. "You get into a flow that's going back and forth, and sometimes when you get some free looks like we were getting, you forget about playing in your own end."
The Leafs will certainly have to be sharp defensively against one of the league's most prolific clubs, and their impressive run of success on the penalty kill might be tested.
Opponents have scored once in 34 power-play chances over 20 games since the start of 2012 after a dreadful start to the season for the unit. Vancouver, though, leads the league at 22.1 percent with the man advantage despite its current 2-for-23 stretch.
The Canucks had only one power-play chance - failing to convert - at Toronto earlier this season, but they're 12 for 50 (24.0 percent) during the winning streak in the series.
I get to watch the Canucks tonight as CBC is broadcasting the game.............will be cheering them on, talloola.
I've been meaning to ask what you think about all the talk around Rick Nash possibly being picked up by Vancouver? From what the talking heads and Team 1040 has to say so far, it seems that the Canucks would have to give up too much to acquire him. What are you're thoughts?
I don't know if 'ordinary' is the term I would use, Kreskin...........but I know what you mean. I keep thinking about the pressure on players as the season winds down and play-off spots become harder to attain. I don't think hockey is any different than other sports where players and teams 'peak' at certain times and level off at others. It must be unbelievably hard to maintain a high level of play game after game especially considering the long season in hockey.
Though the Canucks have not been overly stellar in their last few games, they have somehow managed to win and stay in a play-off position, so if they are simply gliding through these games and preserving themselves for the play-offs, all is still well. I would rather see them healthy and mostly injury free this late in the regular season.
I've been meaning to ask what you think about all the talk around Rick Nash possibly being picked up by Vancouver? From what the talking heads and Team 1040 has to say so far, it seems that the Canucks would have to give up too much to acquire him. What are you're thoughts?
I don't know if 'ordinary' is the term I would use, Kreskin...........but I know what you mean. I keep thinking about the pressure on players as the season winds down and play-off spots become harder to attain. I don't think hockey is any different than other sports where players and teams 'peak' at certain times and level off at others. It must be unbelievably hard to maintain a high level of play game after game especially considering the long season in hockey.
Though the Canucks have not been overly stellar in their last few games, they have somehow managed to win and stay in a play-off position, so if they are simply gliding through these games and preserving themselves for the play-offs, all is still well. I would rather see them healthy and mostly injury free this late in the regular season.
canucks will do what they will do, if they don't become the most exciting team in the NHL, or the highest
scoring, or the winner of the presidents' cup, or win the stanley cup, It doesn't matter that much to
me.
I'm enjoying the games, irrespective of style. I admire how they have managed to get so many points without
playing that well.
I have come to the end of all the hype of expectations, and trashing and wimpering and band wagon jumpers,
and I just go on any enjoy each game, for the game itself, doesn't really matter who is playing, but
always hoping for my canucks most of all.
I just smile now listening to callers on the radio, for they don't change, and never will, the team
must do what 'they' want, and do it every game, and as soon as they faulter, (even for one game) all
of the critics come out of the woodwork and all seem to know how to fix something that really isn't
even broken.
The players they want traded is frightening, and the players they want brought into the mix is ridiculous,
as they want players that no team is going to part with, they pay no attention to the cap number, and
seem to think, (as my mother use to say) that money grows on trees, just pick it off, and its yours. lol
I am hoping for canucks to battle for the presidents' cup. as they are in a position to win it, and this
road trip coming up will make a big difference, as they are playing lots of games, and should they
win most of them, or all, they will sit out in front of everyone at least for a little while, as I imagine
detroit won't have that many games this week, or rangers, so we'll see how it goes.
While many are just putting up with the regular season, waiting for playoffs, I am having a good time
watching hockey games, enjoying all of them, and keeping track of how the 'league' is doing, its fun.
Canucks aren't playing like they did last year, but what team could match that performance, they were
magnificent last season, I will never forget.
Tanev is up again, as ballard is still out with the neck/headache problem, so we get to see this young
guy again who has a very bright future with the canucks.
Don't have a clue what canucks will do at trade deadline, they don't have much cap room, so if they want
a 'name' player they will have to give up salary, so that means good players leaving the team, so I
don't really want them to do that, but gillis could pick up a couple of players that are not highly
paid, but useful, and helpful, similar to higgins and lapierre last year, they turned out to be very
valuable to the team.
They do have reinprecht in chicago, a veteran, a stanley cup winner with colorado, so when playoffs
start, they can bring him up without losing him on the waiver wire, which is what would happen now.
scoring, or the winner of the presidents' cup, or win the stanley cup, It doesn't matter that much to
me.
I'm enjoying the games, irrespective of style. I admire how they have managed to get so many points without
playing that well.
I have come to the end of all the hype of expectations, and trashing and wimpering and band wagon jumpers,
and I just go on any enjoy each game, for the game itself, doesn't really matter who is playing, but
always hoping for my canucks most of all.
I just smile now listening to callers on the radio, for they don't change, and never will, the team
must do what 'they' want, and do it every game, and as soon as they faulter, (even for one game) all
of the critics come out of the woodwork and all seem to know how to fix something that really isn't
even broken.
The players they want traded is frightening, and the players they want brought into the mix is ridiculous,
as they want players that no team is going to part with, they pay no attention to the cap number, and
seem to think, (as my mother use to say) that money grows on trees, just pick it off, and its yours. lol
I am hoping for canucks to battle for the presidents' cup. as they are in a position to win it, and this
road trip coming up will make a big difference, as they are playing lots of games, and should they
win most of them, or all, they will sit out in front of everyone at least for a little while, as I imagine
detroit won't have that many games this week, or rangers, so we'll see how it goes.
While many are just putting up with the regular season, waiting for playoffs, I am having a good time
watching hockey games, enjoying all of them, and keeping track of how the 'league' is doing, its fun.
Canucks aren't playing like they did last year, but what team could match that performance, they were
magnificent last season, I will never forget.
Tanev is up again, as ballard is still out with the neck/headache problem, so we get to see this young
guy again who has a very bright future with the canucks.
Don't have a clue what canucks will do at trade deadline, they don't have much cap room, so if they want
a 'name' player they will have to give up salary, so that means good players leaving the team, so I
don't really want them to do that, but gillis could pick up a couple of players that are not highly
paid, but useful, and helpful, similar to higgins and lapierre last year, they turned out to be very
valuable to the team.
They do have reinprecht in chicago, a veteran, a stanley cup winner with colorado, so when playoffs
start, they can bring him up without losing him on the waiver wire, which is what would happen now.
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And I have to add that the obvious tightening up in games now, the more defensive posture is normal for
this time of year, teams are all trying to stay as high in the standings as then can, and some teams
are trying to get into that last playoff spot, so defensive play shows up, and the teams and coaches
don't care how it looks to the fans, they care about winning, and winning in whatever way they can,
that is how they keep their jobs, and that is first and formost to them.
I know many want canucks to open it up more, play more offensive, but that is very hard to do, when the
other team is checking them so close a stick is on your stick as soon as you touch the puck.
Well it's 6-1 for the Canucks now and it looks good on Ron 'Sourpuss' Wilson-that idiot doesn't have a clue how to match lines.
Yet another loss also looks good on Brian The Giant Ego Burke.
The Toronto Homers on the CBC crew are a nauseating bunch of brown nosers-I can't believe people get paid for spewing that crap.
Yet another loss also looks good on Brian The Giant Ego Burke.
The Toronto Homers on the CBC crew are a nauseating bunch of brown nosers-I can't believe people get paid for spewing that crap.
Yep, them ordinary looking Canucks trounced Toronto in their ordinary fashion. Four points each for Hank & Danny. Canucks just badly outplayed them for about 55/60 minutes.
there is just no way I ever want canucks to lose to the leafs, then have to listen to the constant
drone of 'how' they matched their team up to the canucks, and now they know they have a contender.
that media would milk it to death, the thought of it makes me feel ill.
i'm glad the game also wasn't even close, or they would have thrown in lots of doubt, and spouted
how the leafs actually should have won the game, if it wasn't for for for for-------------
I like the leaf team, the players, they are an energetic young team,and they have lots of desire, when
I talk like I did above, it isn't the players I am referring to at all.
big road trip now, starting tomorrow in edmonton, now there is a team canucks
better make sure they come to play, or they will come out on the losing end.
if their goalkeeping is hot, they can beat any team.
i'm afraid their goalkeeping was actually their worst showing tonight, didn't help when they changed it.
the canucks needed a game like this one, its nice once in a while to get away from the tight tight
checking and great goalkeeping, they will be snapped back to reality shortly, maybe not tomorrow in
edmonton, but definitely in nashville.
The Canucks did a lot of things right last night........They came out seemingly well rested after a couple days off and
began by blasting a few pucks past a Leaf goaltender who never did get ready. The twins were about as good as I've
ever seen them. I wasn't happy about that last goal the Leafs scored.....The Canucks were running around a bit and
sprawling around the crease getting in Luongo's way. In any case, it was a good win that should give them a bit of
confidence going into the game with the Oilers.
I agree about the goal tending talloola, but I also watched as T.O. players, close to the net with a chance to put one in, chose instead to pass the puck - left me scratching my head time and again. Not that I was cheering for them but one has to wonder why they didn't put more pucks on the net when given the chance.