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Fuck, got up this morning with the worst hangover ever....but I didn't drink lol.
The thing that stings for me is the fact that the Canucks were so good during the regular season that a complete meltdown like previous years didn't seem possible but they found a way to fuck everything up. I mean who in a million years would imagine Lu choking for the 3rd straight year against the Hawks after the third game of this series? Every playoff series in recent memory for the Canucks has come down to our goaltending going south.
Part of me feels bad for Lu, he's an emotional guy and he loses the mental battles. I hope AV does start him tomorrow night, give him a chance to redeem himself. Worst case scenario is if he lets in a bad goal or two, replace him. You don't hang your best player out to dry, you have to have faith and if the team sees Lu in net that might just be the spark they need to overcome what could be one of the biggest fails in recent years. You win as a team and you lose as a team.
Edit:
Diddy's "coming home" would be a prefect song for a CBC montage tomorrow night.
Calgary Canucks series back in 94 is probably what ppl are talking about
but the canucks were the ones down 3-1
Canucks won the final 3 games of that series. if i recall, it was Jeff Brown that sent Bure pass the blueline and popped in the winner in 2OT for game 7
Calgary Canucks series back in 94 is probably what ppl are talking about
but the canucks were the ones down 3-1
Canucks won the final 3 games of that series. if i recall, it was Jeff Brown that sent Bure pass the blueline and popped in the winner in 2OT for game 7
Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good!
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Originally Posted by http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6427149
Chicago Blackhawks winger Bryan Bickell underwent wrist surgery on Monday and will be out three weeks, according to multiple media reports.
The surgery reportedly was to repair two tendons. Bickell suffered a cut early in the series against the Vancouver Canucks.
Game 7 is Tuesday in Vancouver.
Tomas Kopecky, who hasn't played since suffering an upper body injury in Game 1, made the trip to Vancouver, according to the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald.
XM Radio Home Ice first reported the news, and it was confirmed by other outlets.
what difference does this make? how are people comparing this to the series against calgary? you can also say that the canucks came back from being down 3-1 against the blues a few years back too. if anything, this is a disadvantage for us... since teams that forced game 7 after down 3-0 has a 50% chance of winning.. meaning.. each game the canucks lost after being up 3-0 decreased their chances of closing the series substantially.
with the last change.. we should get oreo or torres to really key in on bolland.. run that fuckface into concussion number 2
someone also put some licks on seabrook.. this reminds me of the canucks vs wings... against a one legged yzerman.. they barely even hit him all series long.
One good thing about the game yesterday was that today at work our lunch was twice as long. We were talking about what happened in the game for about an hour haha.
Why should Schneider get the start? The guy was at 100% at fault for the Hawk's 2nd goal and at least 50% on their 1st.
Don't get me wrong, I like Schneider. But those are hardcore rookie goalie mistakes and you can't afford that shit game 7.
IMHO, Schneider is more mentally tough than Luongo. He has his whole career ahead of him, while Lu has 2 years of playoff failures and the pressure of Game 7. Excluding the goals, Schneids was technically sound throughout the game (can't fault him on the penalty shot either as it was a great move.) Puck handling is simply an issue of communication and you can work on that between now and tomorrow. Right now, it's all mental. This is why Schneids should play: he has none of the stigma associated with past years.
Canucks coach claims Luongo will get start in Game 7
VANCOUVER — There is no fooling the media a second time, is there?
Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault announced Monday that Roberto Luongo will start in goal for his team in Tuesday’s Game 7 showdown against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Of course, Vigneault said the same thing prior to Game 6 and then Cory Schneider started, so you can imagine the skeptical looks when the coach stated, without hesitation, that Luongo would be the man on Tuesday.
“Yes, Roberto is starting,” Vigneault said. “Positive. Wouldn’t lie to you. I’m not kidding. Does this look like the face of a kidder?”
Well, coach, kind of.
In any case, Vigneault went on to explain that goalie coach Rollie Melanson told Luongo he was going to start the next game, whether it was Game 7 against the Hawks or Game 1 of the next series.
“Roberto has handled the big stage before,” continued Vigneault. “He’ll be fine.”
Luongo may have handled the big Olympic stage but he hasn’t been able to handle the Blackhawks in any of the last three playoff years. His win-loss record against Chicago is 7-11. It is 13-9 against the rest of the league dating back to 2007.
Luongo met with reporters prior to Vigneault’s daily news conference, so he stickhandled around the question of whether he knew he was starting.
“I am getting ready as if I’m playing,” he said.
Asked if the coach had told him who’s starting but that he wasn’t allowed to say, Luongo replied: “I don’t even know, guys.”
Asked then if he meant he didn’t know if he was told, he replied: “I don’t know if he’s told me or not. What am I supposed to say?”
Asked if he would prefer to know earlier than later, he replied: “Can I take a timeout?”
He then marched over to communications vice-president T.C. Carling for a little advice, marched back to his scrum and triumphantly declared (to much laughter): “I’ll be ready either way!”
So it will be Luongo — and his messy 3.45 goals-against average and .888 save percentage — vs. Corey Crawford, the Blackhawk rookie with a 2.27 GAA and .922 save percentage.
At least we think it will be, unless Vigneault was kidding again.
I have a good feeling about game 7. I wasnt sure about game 6. If we play the same way we played for most of game 6, meaning not giving Chicago any room to skate around, not giving Toews or Kane or Hossa any time to make things happen, not let Keith fire at will, and forecheck hard and agressive, we're going to win.
We are on the eve of watching potentially the biggest choke in the history of the NHL playoffs. I've been a Canucks fan for quite a few years, but if they lose tomorrow I am never wasting my breath cheering for them again. I hope they man up and destroy Chicago like they should but the Hawks have ALL the momentum and nothing to lose. The Canucks will be the laughing stock of the league if they lose in this fashion.
I will add that the officiating in this series has BRUTAL and inconsistent. I haven't had a chance to listen to Gilles sound off yet but it is certainly justified. That being said, Canucks have been straight up outplayed in this series.
Why Gillis might have spoken his mind
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It's been nine years since a Vancouver general manager has made strong comments about officiating in a playoff series but really, after what everyone saw in game six, how could any man in Mike Gillis' situation could be expected to remain mute.
And this wasn't a performance like the one Brian Burke staged at a podium. This one came right from the heart.
The absurd string of non-calls doesn't need to be reviewed in any great detail other than to affirm that when Gillis said there were 'at least six or seven legitimate calls that could have been made that weren't' in game six, it's hard to argue. How they weren't called is nothing short of amazing, a real head scratcher. But the GM did his best to dodge whatever fine the NHL might have in mind by simply saying he had no explanation for what happened and that he was just presenting the facts when he talked about the enormous power play discrepancy in this series.
Why might this be happening other than the complete incompetence of the officiating staff, something the league insists is not a problem? That's another matter altogether. We would all like to believe it would happen just by chance or it's a run of bad luck, but after the way the vicious hits on Ryan Kesler and Rick Rypien were blithely ignored two years ago, the cumulative affect is getting to be more than obvious.
Clearly your agent will be called a homer for writing this but let's review a possible set of reasons. It's certainly in the league's best interest to have this series go as long as possible for financial reasons. For starters a one third portion of revenue sharing comes from first round games and nobody rolls the cash into the coffers more than Vancouver and Chicago except perhaps Montreal this season. Both clubs have to be near $3 million per gate in the playoffs.
Clearly the league did not want these two high revenue cities ending up in a sweep. Whether that had anything to do with the highly questionable 'too many men call' early in the second period of game four by a linesman is open to question. But that call was followed by the Chicago goal that made it 2-1 and got them on their way, a goal which series supervisor Rob Shick has already admitted was offside, the call blown by the on-ice staff. That mistake was made by the same linesman who called the too many men penalty.
Another reason could be Versus television in that they get solid ratings from games in which the Blackhawks appear and that shouldn't come as any surprise given the stars on that team. The Hawks going out rapid order would not be helpful and what captivates this league more than U.S. television revenue. Clearly the terrific job the Hawks new ownership-management group has done revitalizing that franchise is also capable of intimidating league officials.
But let's be clear, that revenue shoe would also have been on the other foot had it been the Hawks threatening to sweep.
There are also possible local influences. We've already chronicled how Scotty Bowman has been in to see the series supervisor Shick on at least two occasions, once in an attempt to get an instigator call on Kevin Bieksa when he smacked around Viktor Stalberg at the end of game four and earlier to complain about Henrik Sedin's private on ice conversations with the referee after game two. There may have been many more trips in to try to curry influence, and everyone has respect for Bowman and what he's accomplished..
Gillis also referenced somebody being sent into the dressing room as if on some spy mission and that is apparently Bowman's best friend Brian Heany who lives in Vancouver although he wasn't in the Canucks room for more than 30 seconds so he wasn't likely able to find out anything from that little adventure.
The Canucks did call the league office and inform Colin Campbell beforehand that they were going to address the officiating discrepancy in this series although there is no report of how that news was greeted by the NHL vice-president who has been under fire a lot this year both for his decisions on discipline and for a conflict of interest given his son plays with the Boston Bruins.
Why this big advantage in power play opportunities might be happening is a matter of speculation and certainly open to question. So also is the affect Gillis' speaking out might have on his team's performance.
We'll have one those answers tonight.
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