Canucks Vs Penguins - Game Highlights - 01.16.10 - HD

After a slow start the Vancouver Canucks really took it to the Penguins and won by a considerable margine. ^ goals for the Canucks with 6 different scorers. Henrik Sedin had a 3 point night and Daniel had a 2 point night. GO CANUCKS GO!

Vancouver Canucks VS. Penguins.

Sidney Crosby has been in town for the last couple of days for what seems to be a good game. With the new NHL scheduel it only happens once a year or once every couple of years that players such as Crosby and Ovechkin find themselfs in Vancouver. I think this will be a very spirited game considering it is Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada and there is a big hype over crosby. The player that everyone loves to hate unless he plays for your team, Matt Cooke will be making a return to Vancouver but this time he wont be wearing our colours. Cooke had a great time here in Vancouver and the fans loved him over that period of time. But tonight you can bet he will be trying to get under everyone's skin and the Vancouver faithful will not enjoy that at all. Matt Cooke was traded for Matt Pettinger on the trade deadline a couple of years ago and so far Matt pettinger has not made much of a splash in the Canucks organization, finding himself playing for the Manitoba Moose most of the time. While Matt Cooke has moved on to win a Stanley Cup last season in Pittsburgh. Lets hope this game is as good as it is being predicted to be and lets hope Vancouver comes out with the 2 points in the end! GO CANUCKS GO!

AV

Now dont get me wrong, I like AV alot and I have not had to much against him but I have a huge problem with him just standing there and chewing gum when the referees are calling a bunch of bizarre and rediculious penalties. In my opinion he should have been angry and yelling at the ref to let him know that he is handing the game to Nasville. But when he just stands there then the refs feel comfortible and confident with the calls he is making. This may not effect the refs desision regarding the first call he made, but it might make him think twice before he try's pulling a "payback call."

What a Situation.

So after last nights frustrating loss to the Nashville Predetors which saw 2 horrible penalty calls against Burrows. Burrows then said in his post game interveiw that one of the Referees "Stephane Auger" told Burrows before the game that he was going to get Burrows back for making him look bad in a game earlyar this year. In that game on Dec.8 Burrows got charger and he went down and looked injured so the referee gave a 5 minute major to the player to charged Burrows. Then Burrows came out and played later in the power play. So in the 3rd period with under 5 minutes left the ref gave Burrows a diving call which was a little questionable but coul have been a holding the stick penelty to Burrows But then a few minutes later Burrows was handed a Phantom Goaltender interferance penalty which never appeared to happen. So if the ref was truley looking to get back at Burrows he definatly did so and in the mean time he managed to screw over the whole Canucks team, management and then the Vancouver Canucks fans. If this turns out to be true that the ref threatened and then carried out his threat, then he will most likely find himself out of work. The NHL has launched an investigation on this issue and in the mean time they fined 2,500 dollars for publically critizizing a referee. Lets hope the fine gets taken back when the referee is found guilty. Roberto Luongo also said in his post game interview that he has, "never seen anything like that in his career" regarding the referees. This really makes you wonder that if this is the first time this has come out publically how many other times this has happened when the refs havent threatened players and if referees acctually hold grudges against players. Anyways we will see how this ends up working out. Lets hope the NHL deals with this properly so that issues wont come up anymore. In my opinion if this happened in say Toronto then the NHL would have dealt with this alot quicker and would have probably suspended the referee until the investigation is over instead of just fineing the player.

Hat-Tricks

So before the season began this year I remember telling people that we have not had a Hat-Trick in a few years. Well Alex Burrows has just got 2 Hat Tricks in 2 games. This is our 5th Hat Trick of the season. Going into saturday nights game VS. the flames the Sedin Sedin Burrows line has been getting called the best line in the NHL. They have been getting compared to "The Westcoast Express" line of Vancouver Canucks past. Burrows could also have been the first player in NHL history to get 3 Hat Tricks in 3 games. Unfortunatly this did not happen and the Vancouver Canucks came up with a single point in an Overtime Shootout loss.

Canucks VS. Oilers

The Vancouver Canucks are hosting the Edmonton Oilers at GM Place tonight. The oilers have lost the most man games to injury's this season. News got even worse for edmonton on Friday when they announced that Ales Hemsky will miss the remainded of the season getting shoulder surgery. With the Vancouver Canucks now having close to a full line up they should come out of this game with a win. Lets hope that Daniel, Elder and Salo can get their first goals of the season, and maybe even Bieksa can score his first goal since the first game of the season. GO CANUCKS GO!

Mikka Kipprusoff

Calgary Flames netminded has said that if he is not starting goalie for Finland in the Olympics then he will not participate in Vancouver in February 2010. This is a little bit wierd because Mikka most likelt has the starting job for Finland when you compare him to the other goalies from Finland. Bit what does this show about Kipper? He is selfish and really does not care about the National team. Maybe he thinks he doesn't have the 1st spot so by saying this it will help him get the job. At least for Team Canada we have some healthy competition for spots players are acctually working to make the team, and players are not trying to squeeze there way on the team any way possible. On another note, on a recent Sportsnet.ca power poll the question was asked "Who do you think should be starting goalie for Team Canada? With options Roberto Luongo, Martin Brodeir, Mark Andre Fluery, and Ray Emery. 59% of the people voted for Roberto Luongo and Brodeir was in second with 29%. GO CANUCKS GO!