Two-man advantages in the last two minutes of the game...
Mick Magoo was the referee again for the game tonight: it was the fifth Canucks game so far that he's officiated. Our opponent was also familiar: it was the fourth time this season that we've played the Minnesota Wild. Magoo games are always.. interesting, shall we say. We've played the Wild four times, and Marian Gaborik has had an injury every single time... they were on the losing end of a shutout last night, too!
Since Dan Cloutier was injured with a concussion, Auld had to start the game. This led to some speculation about what would happen if Auld got injured while Cloutier was recovering: let's just say Richard Park would NOT make a good emergency goalie since he's a little small for that position!
There was a power surge at GM Place just before the game was due to start (maybe the same one that caused Surrey to lose a bunch of power tonight), so the game was delayed for fifteen minutes. Ed Jovanovski scored the first goal of the game, and you know what that means: Vancouver's won all their games so far this season where they have the first goal, yay!
Ruutu scored another goal in the second period, and then we dropped our guard. Against the Minnesota Wild, that is a VERY BAD THING... 35 seconds later, they scored a goal to cut our lead in half. Thank goodness it stayed 2-1, but there was a very suspenseful 2:46 at the end of the game when Bertuzzi took a stupid slashing penalty... then Ryan Kesler took a delay of game penalty. Salo got another delay of game penalty, but Kesler was out before Bertuzzi and Salo never came out because of some rule about penalty expiration and whistles. Bertuzzi's penalty came at 17:14, Kesler's came at 17:34, and Salo's came at 18:59... Salo's penalty wouldn't come into effect until after Bertuzzi's expired. It was basically a 6-on-3 situation since the Wild goalie Roloson went to the bench for another attacker... we had some brilliant penalty killing!
The three stars: Ed Jovanovski, Filip Kuba, and Alex Auld. (he's now won four straight starts for us) Next game: Friday night, against the Columbus Blue Jackets. We're done with the five-game stretch of only seeing Minnesota and Colorado! (but we'll see the Avs next week...)
In other news around the league, Daniel Alfredsson and Martin Havlat scored four goals EACH to power the Ottawa Senators to a 10-4 win over Buffalo. I hear that Dany Heatley had four goals in their 8-0 win over Toronto on Saturday, too! Oh, and apparently Pavel Bure is the general manager of the Russian hockey team: he played excellently while he was here, but his #10 sweater will never be retired here because of how he left. (two consecutive 60-goal seasons?)
Now, Corey is bugging me about certain Wikipedia article edits he's made: "In ice hockey, a power play is an award given to a team when a player on the opposing team commits a foul. The offending player is temporarily removed from the game, giving his team a penalty. A power play can last two, four, or five minutes depending on the severity of the foul. The power play ends if the attacking team scores with a good looking member of the opposite sex from the audience." I deleted that, and now he's claiming HE did... maybe we did it at the same time. I dunno about this Wikipedia thing of allowing anyone to edit articles... *is confused* (now I want to edit articles there for spelling, hahaha)
Oh, you've got to be kidding me: there's some idiot caller on Sportstalk who wants Dan Cloutier on the trading block because he suffered a concussion and some people aren't happy with his play ANYHOW. *rolleyes* Maybe we should trade Matt Cooke because he got injured, and Trevor Linden because his offensive production is down and his defensive capabilities need to be highlighted?! Some people are idiots, like that woman caller a few games ago.....
Auld is maybe one of those goalies who over-competes. He was on the bench on Manitoba for the farm team playoffs last year, but maybe he'll improve even more. I'm not sure about Dan Cloutier being accepted in this town in April and May since he can't really win in the playoffs. I guess we'll find out later.
Useful Sites: NHL on Yahoo Sports
Recap of Game
Since Dan Cloutier was injured with a concussion, Auld had to start the game. This led to some speculation about what would happen if Auld got injured while Cloutier was recovering: let's just say Richard Park would NOT make a good emergency goalie since he's a little small for that position!
There was a power surge at GM Place just before the game was due to start (maybe the same one that caused Surrey to lose a bunch of power tonight), so the game was delayed for fifteen minutes. Ed Jovanovski scored the first goal of the game, and you know what that means: Vancouver's won all their games so far this season where they have the first goal, yay!
Ruutu scored another goal in the second period, and then we dropped our guard. Against the Minnesota Wild, that is a VERY BAD THING... 35 seconds later, they scored a goal to cut our lead in half. Thank goodness it stayed 2-1, but there was a very suspenseful 2:46 at the end of the game when Bertuzzi took a stupid slashing penalty... then Ryan Kesler took a delay of game penalty. Salo got another delay of game penalty, but Kesler was out before Bertuzzi and Salo never came out because of some rule about penalty expiration and whistles. Bertuzzi's penalty came at 17:14, Kesler's came at 17:34, and Salo's came at 18:59... Salo's penalty wouldn't come into effect until after Bertuzzi's expired. It was basically a 6-on-3 situation since the Wild goalie Roloson went to the bench for another attacker... we had some brilliant penalty killing!
The three stars: Ed Jovanovski, Filip Kuba, and Alex Auld. (he's now won four straight starts for us) Next game: Friday night, against the Columbus Blue Jackets. We're done with the five-game stretch of only seeing Minnesota and Colorado! (but we'll see the Avs next week...)
In other news around the league, Daniel Alfredsson and Martin Havlat scored four goals EACH to power the Ottawa Senators to a 10-4 win over Buffalo. I hear that Dany Heatley had four goals in their 8-0 win over Toronto on Saturday, too! Oh, and apparently Pavel Bure is the general manager of the Russian hockey team: he played excellently while he was here, but his #10 sweater will never be retired here because of how he left. (two consecutive 60-goal seasons?)
Now, Corey is bugging me about certain Wikipedia article edits he's made: "In ice hockey, a power play is an award given to a team when a player on the opposing team commits a foul. The offending player is temporarily removed from the game, giving his team a penalty. A power play can last two, four, or five minutes depending on the severity of the foul. The power play ends if the attacking team scores with a good looking member of the opposite sex from the audience." I deleted that, and now he's claiming HE did... maybe we did it at the same time. I dunno about this Wikipedia thing of allowing anyone to edit articles... *is confused* (now I want to edit articles there for spelling, hahaha)
Oh, you've got to be kidding me: there's some idiot caller on Sportstalk who wants Dan Cloutier on the trading block because he suffered a concussion and some people aren't happy with his play ANYHOW. *rolleyes* Maybe we should trade Matt Cooke because he got injured, and Trevor Linden because his offensive production is down and his defensive capabilities need to be highlighted?! Some people are idiots, like that woman caller a few games ago.....
Auld is maybe one of those goalies who over-competes. He was on the bench on Manitoba for the farm team playoffs last year, but maybe he'll improve even more. I'm not sure about Dan Cloutier being accepted in this town in April and May since he can't really win in the playoffs. I guess we'll find out later.
Useful Sites: NHL on Yahoo Sports
Recap of Game
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