Metropolis Reality Forums - go canucks go!

Sponsored by: The Fans!

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register.
Nov 24^th, 2024, 6:01am

Upcoming Premiere Dates:
Survivor 23, Season premiere
Thursday, September 14 (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) on CBS

Metropolis Reality Forums Ť go canucks go! ť

   Metropolis Reality Forums
   Off-Topic Forums
   In the News (Moderators: lakelady, yesteach, MediaScribe, Bumper, Isle_be_back)
   go canucks go!

Previous topic | New Topic | Next topic »

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Notify of replies

Send Topic

Author

Topic: go canucks go! (Read 205 times)

east
ForumsNet Member

sigh

Gender:

Posts: 3487

go canucks go!
« on: Apr 20^th, 2003, 11:19pm »

Quote

Modify

...my local team... Wink

sorry to any st. louis fans...tuesday night will decide it for us... Cool

Canucks force a Game 7 back home

Canadian Press

Sunday, April 20, 2003

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Markus Naslund had a goal and two assists as the Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 on Sunday night to force a decisive seventh game in their first-round playoff series.

That contest will be played Tuesday in Vancouver. Mattias Ohlund had a goal and an assist for the Canucks, who scored two goals in each of the first two periods. Vancouver scored twice on the power play in the second as the Blues repeatedly hurt themselves with ill-advised penalties.

The Blues made it interesting with third-period goals by Eric Boguniecki and Doug Weight as St. Louis outshot Vancouver 13-2 in the period.

St. Louis has never lost a series in which it led 3-1 but the Canucks have come back twice from that deficit to win.

The Canucks were second in the NHL in goals scored in the regular season and their offence has come to life the last two games. After scoring four goals in the first four games, Vancouver has nine in its last two, putting constant pressure on goalie Chris Osgood.

Naslund, who finished second in the NHL in scoring with 104 points, had one assist in the first three games of the series. In the last three contests he has three goals and two assists.

Henrik Sedin and Ed Jovanovski both scored power-play goals in the second for Vancouver.

Doug Weight scored his fourth goal of the playoffs and added an assist for the Blues, who trailed 4-1 entering the third of the last two games with a chance to end the series.

The Canucks scored on their second shot at 3:49 of the first as Naslund tapped in the rebound of Brendan Morrison's shot.

Weight tied it on a shot from the point on a power play at 10:42 before the Canucks regained control. Ohlund beat a screened Osgood from the left circle during a 4-on-4 at 14:25 of the first.

Sedin made it 3-1 on the rebound of a shot by Ohlund at 8:52 of the second. Jovanovski's rebound shot on another power play made it 4-1 at 16:12.

The Blues finally answered at 6:21 of the third when Boguniecki scored with a backhand shot while on a rush. Weight scored off a cross-ice feed from Scott Mellanby at 10:13, again on a power play.

NOTES - The Blues have outscored the Canucks 10-1 in the third . . . Weight has 11 points in the series. His five goals have come on the power play . . . The Canucks led the NHL with a team-record 54 points on the road in the regular season . . . Blues centre Petr Cajanek made his playoff debut after missing the first five games with a facial laceration.

Š Copyright 2003 The Canadian Press

IP Logged

read, study, reflect, write, read, study, reflect, spell check, write

east
ForumsNet Member

sigh

Gender:

Posts: 3487

Re: go canucks go!
« Reply #1 on: Apr 23^rd, 2003, 11:08am »

Quote

Modify

Fans wild as Canucks eliminate Blues

David Reevely
Vancouver Sun

The first celebratory convoy -- two cars and an SUV -- roared west on Robson Street at 10:15 Tuesday night.

The three vehicles were packed with Vancouver Canuck fans ecstatic their team had climbed out of a deep 3-1 hole to win their first-round hockey playoff series in a do-or-die seventh game.

"Oh man, it's excellent," declared Dean Stewart, 31, the driver of the lead car, moments after the Canucks defeated the St. Louis Blues 4-1. "If they can come back like this, they can go all the way."

His passengers hollered and waved flags out the windows and an open sunroof. Around them, Vancouver was coming alive with the car horns of victory.

Before long, Robson Street was jammed with cars and pedestrians. Although police kept a watchful eye on the crowd, they gave up trying to keep intersections clear.

Inside GM Place throughout the game, the deafening sound of thousands of cheering people filled the air every time goalie Dan Cloutier made a routine save, defenceman Mattias Ohlund dumped the puck into the Blues' end of the rink or power forward Todd Bertuzzi slammed a Blues player into the glass.

"NOISE!" commanded the scoreboard above centre ice, and the fans were happy to oblige. "LOUDER!" it ordered, and the sound approached the pain threshold.

"Go, Canucks, go! Go, Canucks go!" chanted brothers Todd and Lee Rebalski from their seats, their delighted dad Michael looking on.

The two, aged 15 and 13, were at their first playoff game.

"It's so much louder than you think it would be on TV," Todd said.

"Yeah, and even more than a regular game," Lee added.

The game was tied 1-1 when they spoke, late in the first period, and a Vancouver goal had given the crowd its spirit back.

The fans didn't yet know what was coming.

By the time the game was salted away, the arena's concourse was a pandemonium of cheers and high-fives.

"One more goal and I'll feel good," said Garry Pondik when the Canucks led 3-1 at the end of the second period. "The third is always tough for Vancouver."

Pondik got his wish, and at last, the Vancouver fans could start to relax.

Outside the arena before the game, the cheers were loud but they sounded a note of bravado.

"Oh, it's going to be an exciting and fast-paced game, like most of the others in the series," said 26-year-old Christie Totten, a Sechelt resident who'd flown in from a trip to Edmonton earlier in the day. "It's going to be big. 6-1 for the Canucks."

"It's going to be a win, and we'll take it any way we can get it," said Dan McGarvie, his face painted, his hair covered with a fright wig, his torso in a jersey. He was at the game with his nephew, Robert, after seeing games one and two in person and the Canucks' near-miraculous comeback on television. "It doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be a 'W.'"

St. Louis, he said, was a team back on its heels. "They're sick, they're hurtin', they're travelling too much -- they've got all the excuses. This is going to be all Canucks tonight."

Lines formed at a face-painting table under the Georgia Viaduct and people hollering from the windows of their cars did turns around the outside of the arena brandishing Stanley Cup replicas covered with aluminum foil.

Scalpers circulated freely in the crowd. "Tickets? Anybody selling tickets? Who needs tickets?"

Illegal, maybe, but it wouldn't be the playoffs without guys hawking $500 rinkside tickets.

Police said earlier in the day they weren't expecting much trouble, whichever way the game went, recalling the riots that followed the Canucks' defeat in the final round of the 1994 playoffs. That, too, was a must-win game seven for the home team, but the Vancouver police said this is, after all, only the first round.

If outside was a carnival, inside GM Place was a bazaar. Killer-whale-logo ball caps for $22, a beer for $7.50. On the concourse, between boutiques and food counters, barkers sold towels to twirl and T-shirts to wear.

"It's the playoffs," said 22-year-old Janna Sandhu of Surrey, who was buying a couple of Canucks-logo shot glasses. "When they win, we want to be able to celebrate, you know?"

Š Copyright 2003 Vancouver Sun

IP Logged

read, study, reflect, write, read, study, reflect, spell check, write

Pages: 1

Add Poll

Notify of replies

Send Topic


Previous topic \| New Topic \| Next topic »