Game VS. The Oilers.

The Vancouver Canucks game out firing again tonight and it looked like it would be a long night for the Edmonton Oilers after Steve Bernier scored his second goal this season. But the Canucks let up a bit for the last couple minutes of the 1st period. Rick Rypien lay another beating on Zack Stortini. Late in the 3rd with the score tied 1-1 the oilers score on a weird luck bouncer of a goal. The Canucks then woke up angain and were pressuring for the last 7 minutes. There was a couple missed called by the refs. One when Alex Burrows dropped his stick and while attempting to pick it up Hemsky pushed it into the corner, a matter of seconds after that Henrik Sedin passed the puck right to where Burrows was standing. Had Burrows stick not been pushed away he might have had a great oppertunity to score. Henrik Sedin was slashed a minute or so later and he was in agony skating back to the bench. Lets hope that he doesn't have a broken finger or something. With the goaltender pulled Edmonton got a 2 on 1 which turned into a 1 on 0 but Alex Edler made an amazing poke check from behind to knock the puck away. Kyle Wellwood picked up the puck behind our goal with 9 seconds left and he began down the ice. With a set of great moves Kyle found himself in alone on the oilers goalie. Wellwood scored and the Canucks were celebrating as the ref waved the goal off. They went upstairs and it showed on the replay that the puck crossed the line just after the clock ran out of time. It is still good to see that we are getting close to 40 shots on goal most games. But our finishing needs to improve. Roberto Luongo looked alot better tonight, lets hope he can keep it up. Our powerplay was 0 for 5 and we are 0-4 on the road so far this season. We play on Wednesday in Chicago, this will be the first meeting of these 2 teams since the Canucks were eliminated in Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last season. GO CANUCKS GO!