dats fuckin badass

thanks lol

Gotta say that trip by Bieksa was dumb and unnecessary. Don't know why he felt the need to intentionally trip him.

and win ten a nite of DRUNKEN FUN makes the playoffs even better
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LUONGO is a god ahahaha this is looking really good for the nucks STL has to win 4 of 5 i hope ana beats SJ to than we dont have to see DET till the conference finals and we get a crack at hopefully cgy to put them in there place but i think CHI is more like it

Blues blow a gasket

Canucks notebook: Brawl mars game's end

By Brad Ziemer, Vancouver SunApril 18, 2009 9:22 AM



The St. Louis Blues were mad as hell and decided they weren't going to take it any more.

So B.J. Crombeen went after Canuck defenceman Kevin Bieksa at the final buzzer Friday night and Barret Jackman jumped Vancouver winger Steve Bernier.

Clearly, Roberto Luongo and the rest of the Canucks are getting to the Blues, who find themselves heading home down 2-0 in their best-of-seven series.

"He kind of slew-footed me right at the end of the game," Crombeen said of Bieksa. "I'm not going to stand for that. I think that's a pretty gutless play. I just went after him to address it."

What the Blues need to address is how they can get a puck or two past Luongo, who recorded his first playoff shutout in Vancouver's 3-0 win Friday.

"He is obviously an elite goaltender and he's doing a good job, but he's seeing a lot of shots," said veteran Blues' forward Keith Tkachuk. "We have to be a little more committed.

"We have scored one goal in two games. . .we have to find a way to compete a little bit harder in front of the net."

The Blues haven't rallied from an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-seven series since 1972 and are 0-for-8 since then in series where they have dropped the first two games.

"We don't think we're out of this series at all," Crombeen said. "It's 2-0, but we're going home. We know we haven't played our best yet. We're confident we can get rolling here, get a couple of wins and see where this thing goes."

TRASH TALKING: Alex Burrows was a little surprised to hear Friday morning that he'd made YouTube.

"It is?" Burrows said when told a clip of he and Ryan Kesler trash-talking Blues' forward David Backes at the end of the first period of Wednesday night's game was available on-line. "Oh, that's not good."

Burrows and Kesler were heard baiting Backes about his wife. "Tell Kelly I said hi," Kesler said. "Hey, Kelly's a great gal," Burrows added.

Backes insisted he wasn't bothered by the remarks, although he did deliver a nasty elbow to Burrows' face after he scored Vancouver's second goal Friday.

"It's part of the game, get under the other guy's skin and get them off their game," Backes said.

Backes said his wife won't be bothered by the remarks, either.

"She's stronger than I am and she can take it if they want to give her any grief," he said. "If they want to keep giving it to me, she's pretty attractive and I'm pretty proud of what I landed. I'm over-achieving and I'm not going to deny that."

ICE CHIPS: Canuck coach Alain Vigneault has talked recently with winger Taylor Pyatt and expects him to rejoin the team soon. Pyatt left the team after his fiancee, Carly Bragnalo, was killed in an April 2 car accident while vacationing with family in Jamaica.

"He is doing as good as you can be doing in tough circumstances like that," Vigneault said.

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Canucks a better hockey club with Salo on the ice


By Cam Cole, Vancouver Sun columnistApril 17, 2009


VANCOUVER — If Game 1 of the Vancouver Canucks’ 2009 playoffs had been played under the air-suspended dome at B.C. Place Stadium, the collective intake of breath when Sami Salo went down in the closing moments — blood spilling from his left eye — might have collapsed the roof.

This was, after all, hockey’s Joe Btspflk, the human dark cloud, who had taken the deflected puck in the eyelid. It was the Finnish defenceman with the panic-inducing slapshot and an improbable list of (best estimate) 34 injuries that have cost him 202 games over his 10-year NHL career.

Sami Salo has not merely been referred to as snake-bitten in his career, he has actually been bitten by a snake while on a golf course in Finland. Although the other version of the story is that “snake bite” is just a players’ term for an infection caused by an overtight skate lace cutting into the ankle. So the inquiry light is flashing on the whole snake reference.

The thing is, if Canuck fans were fearing the worst Wednesday night, as time ran out on a 2-1 win over St. Louis, it wasn’t just one those here-we-go-again moments. It was their hockey team’s playoff prospects flashing before their eyes.

Salo isn’t the most important Canuck player. He would rank behind a goaltender and three forwards and maybe even his defence partner in the estimation of some.

But what has become ever clearer, since he returned from 15 games on the shelf with a broken rib, is that this a whole lot different, and better, hockey club with Salo in uniform than out. The Canucks lost 11 of those 15 Salo-less games in December and January. With him, they’ve only lost 11 of 36 since.

“He’s such a complete defenceman, really dependable offensively and defensively,” said head coach Alain Vigneault. “And this time, when he came back, it didn’t take him long to find his game — and when he’s on top of his game, he’s really useful to us.”

Wednesday, Salo’s second-period point shot on the power play was the game-winner, even if Steve Bernier (though he didn’t get credit) actually deflected it past Blues’ goalie Chris Mason.

When Salo shoots, things happen, not many of them good for the opponent.

They used to say that about Al MacInnis, now the Blues’ VP of hockey operations. When he teed one up, not only did the seas tend to part between him and the net, but chaos invariably accompanied the puck’s arrival in the goal crease. Even if the goalie fought it off, the rebound could go anywhere.

“It’s always nice to have a big banger back there. I’m a big fan of that,” said Salo’s defence-mate Willie Mitchell. “When you have a guy that can shoot the puck like Sami, you have to respect him, and when they do that, it opens up things down low for the forwards to be creative.

“He takes it easy on us in practice, because everyone’s scared for their life, but he’s scary because he shoots it high and hard. When he’s on his game, he’s shooting it all the time, and if someone blocks it, it’s going to hurt him, and if it gets through, it’s going to cause some problems.”

Salo was in good spirits, if not exactly handsome, on Thursday. The titanium plates that were inserted to rebuild his nasal cavities when Alex Edler’s shot hit him in the face last season were undisturbed, but his black-and-blue left eyelid drooped downward — “They didn’t stitch it up this time. Just put some glue on it,” he said — so if an injury is going to get him, it will have to be something else.

Alas, there are many unexplored avenues. The Hockey News published a list a few years ago of weird hockey injuries, so we know that Salo’s uniform could yet catch fire when a pack of matches in his hockey pants is struck by a shot, which happened to one Abie Goldberry in 1930. He could be infected by a virus from wandering into a quarantined ward in a children’s hospital, like Andy Moog. He could lop off a digit in a corn-planting machine (Pat Verbeek).

“I don’t know how to explain all the freak injuries. My second year in the league, on an icing call, I just stepped on a guy’s stick and went into the boards and hurt my shoulder. Things like that,” said Salo. “And after a few of those, you just say: if it wasn’t for bad luck, I would have no luck at all.

“It’s not so much that you wonder whether you could have been better without the injuries, because sometimes you learn from the injuries. If anything they’ve made me work harder to come back in great shape. It’s just frustrating when you’re out, because there’s nothing you can do to help.”

He’s helping plenty, at the moment. The Canucks pray he remains upright.

ccole@vancouversun.com
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Yup! happened to us in someone's house... i think it was the last minute or so of the game...all HD channels went down so we had to switch to the standard def hahaha

Uh oh, Caps down 0-2 series..

YAY SHAW CABLE!! I DID THE SAME THING!

Murray's rant was awesome - you see Tkachuk asking the Canucks bench to not retaliate and say anything back..bascailly saying just leave it and being peacemaker..lol

Naslund is a monster! Assist in today's game..damn Ovie's gotta pick it uP!

Blargh.

Had to miss the game due to inventory. Wife PVR'd it and didn't record with extended time so I missed the last few minutes with all the excitement. Boo-urns.

Anyway, sweet to be up 2-0!

Since I'll be at game 5 the greedy side of me can't help but hope the Blues win one of the next two so I can watch us take the series at home :)

!!! GO CANUCKS !!!

The king is on fire.

At least your standard def channel worked, none of my channels worked.

i went to cbc's website to stream it and it took too fuckin long to figure out where to watch the game

Pussy move by Bieksa at the end of Game 2. There was no need to slew foot a player when the game was out of reach. His decision to NOT answer the bell with Crombeen after pulling that Sean Avery-like stunt loses major respect points. If that had been Sean Avery at the end of the game everybody would be giving him shit about it.

I agree he shouldn't have tripped the guy..then look away as if he didn't do it - but he would have answered the bell had he known the guy was coming at him...if he was facing the guy - he would have dropped them..Colin Campbell took a look - no suspension..Respect wise - this is the playoffs he didn't do anything stupid. Avery's an idiot but he has been really good the the Rangers thus far this playoffs.

Sending the message or not - the Blues aren't going to able to do anything - we got more toughness and more skill to score -

How about instead of talkng about a little stupid trip we talk about luongo and the win.

Yeah! Where do you think you are, CDC??

Yeah Detroit up 4 Zip

My respect for Tkachuk went up after seeing that.

Sorry guys I didn't know it was a crime to talk about a dirty play. There's at least two sides to every game. Take off the Canuck goggles for once. "Canuck fans" always let incidents slide when it's their team at fault. March 8, 2004 anybody?

Ok, we get it. Let's move on talk about game 3..........

So Boston is a fucking insane team. Set's up RIGHT after they win a draw on the PP. Such a sick dominating team.

Boston is good but Montreal is awful. Price is beyond awful and I doubt he'll get the start back in Montreal.