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Aquaman

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Can Canucks clinch division title?

Associated Press
4/6/2003

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Ticker) -- The Vancouver Canucks try to win their first division title in 10 years on Sunday afternoon, when they host the Los Angeles Kings.

Vancouver, which has not won a division for the first time since 1992-93, is one point ahead of the Colorado Avalanche for the lead in the Northwest. The Avalanche host St. Louis on Sunday and need a vistory and a regulation loss by the Canucks to win the division.

If Colorado passes Vancouver, the Canucks will be the fourth seed in the Western Conference and open the playoffs at home against St. Louis. If Vancouver wins the Northwest, it will host either Anaheim or Minnesota.

The Canucks are 2-1-1 in their last four games. Vancouver blew a two-goal lead in the third period Wednesday and settled for a 3-3 tie with the Phoenix Coyotes. Markus Naslund scored his 48th goal, which is one behind Colorado's Milan Hejduk for the NHL lead. Naslund is first in the league with 104 points, one more than Colorado's Peter Forsberg. Naslund has six goals and five assists on a seven-game points streak.

Naslund also is tied with Calgary's Kent Nilsson (1982-83) for the sixth-highest point total by a Swedish-born player.

Vancouver goaltender Dan Cloutier is 2-2-1 since returning from a knee injury.

The Kings are coming off Friday's 2-1 overtime loss at Calgary where Ziggy Palffy scored the lone goal. Palffy has tallied 37 goals this season, the most in four seasons with Los Angeles. He has points in 23 of his last 30 games and 50 points in the last 41 contests.

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Can Avs catch Canucks?

Sports Ticker
4/6/2003

DENVER (Ticker) -- The Colorado Avalanche try to keep alive hopes of a ninth consecutive division title Sunday afternoon, when they host the St. Louis Blues at the Pepsi Center in the regular-season finale for both teams.

Colorado has won four of its last five games and is the fourth seed in the Western Conference. The Avalanche need a win and victory by the Los Angeles Kings over the Vancouver Canucks to win the Northwest Division and the third seed in the Western Conference. In any other case, the Avalanche will be the fourth seed and host the Blues in Game One of the quarterfinals later this week.

On Friday, Milan Hejduk put a deflection past Jean-Sebastien Giguere with 10 seconds left in overtime to take the NHL goal-scoring lead and lift the Avalanche to a 4-3 triumph over the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Hejduk is one goal ahead of Vancouver's Markus Naslund.

The Blues try to gain some momentum for the playoffs as they are just 0-2-2 in their last four games. On Friday, Dallas Drake and Pavol Demitra scored for St. Louis in a 2-2 tie at Chicago.

St. Louis defenseman Chris Pronger logged 22 1/2 minutes Friday in his fourth game back from wrist surgery.

The season series is tied, 1-1-1, and the Blues posted a 3-2 home win on December 26 in the most recent meeting.

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Aquaman

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Canucks vs Kings 1pm PST on Sports Net Pacific :D :D :D

Go Canucks GO!!!! :D :D :D

We can do it :D

I hope Stl. Blues win :D

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Hanpan

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This hurts.

Nazzy looses both the rocket RIchard, and Art Ross title, canucks now face st. louis, loose division, loose title as most offensive team, and worst of all were shut out in their final game. The only bright spot is at least they allowed no pp goals and cloutier looked very sharp. Still after this defeat I have to call Vancouver not making it past the first round. If there ever was a time when you could not choke this was it and they chocked.

Edit In some ways this is a bit of a blessing. We loose Home Ice in the second round and Vancouver is a better road team. Furthermore, St. Louis does have weak goaltending, however even If we come out against St. Louis it will be a batte, only to face dallas. Does not look good.
 

Aquaman

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Originally posted by: silverpig
OMG NO!!!

Don't worry :D We will win :D Actually St Louis maybe a better team to play in the first round. It will toughen use up :D Playing Anaheim & Minnesota would have been dicey I think. I just wish we won the div title :(

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Aquaman

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Originally posted by: Hanpan
This hurts.

Nazzy looses both rocket RIchard, and Scoring title, canucks now face st. louis, loose division, loose title as most offensive team, and worst of all were shut out in their final game. The only bright spot is at least they allowed no pp goals. Still after this defeat I have to call Vancouver not making it past the first round. If there ever was a time when you could not choke this was it and they chocked.

Have faith Brotha........ We Will Win :D

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silverpig

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And we haven't played so well against Minnesota this year anyways.

I tried to get tickets sooo badly for the playoffs, but right at 12 yesterday the tickemaster site was flooded.
 

LAUST

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YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title record is OURS!!!!!!

But I hope the Nucks do whoop up in the playoff's, they are my fav team from Canada.
 

sandorski

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Ah SNAP!!

A pox on LA! :|

Colorado wins the Conference, Hejduk the scoring race, Forsburg(sp) the Points race. BLARG.

On the bright side, the Pre-Season has ended and now the real Hockey begins!! :D

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oldfoof

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When is vancouvers first playoff game start? Anyone know or it has no date yet ?

Oh well , I sure wished Dammn , sople would have used his brain , or yeah i forgot he is a monkey :D
 

Aquaman

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Kings win pits Canucks against Blues

Canadian Press
4/6/2003

VANCOUVER (CP) - Mikko Eloranta scored on a backhand off a scramble in the third before Eric Belanger added an empty-net goal to give the Los Angeles Kings a 2-0 victory Sunday and erase the Vancouver Canucks' chances of clinching their first NHL division title in a decade.

The loss, combined with the Colorado Avalanche's 5-2 win over the St. Louis Blues, gives the Avs the Northwest Division crown. The Canucks slip into fourth place and face the Blues in the first round of the playoffs.

Canucks captain Markus Naslund went into the game as the NHL points leader but saw the crown fall into the hands of Colorado's Peter Forsberg, who had a goal and two assists in the Avs' win to give him 106 points on the season, two more than Naslund.

Milan Hejduk also picked up his 50th goal of the season, giving him two more than Naslund.

The Canucks went into the third period in control of their own destiny. They needed just a single point to clinch the division title and play Minnesota in the first round of the playoffs.

Had Vancouver and Colorado tied in points, the Canucks still would have won the division because of their 45 wins compared to Colorado's 42.

The Canucks last won a division title in 1992-93 when they led the Smythe Division with 46 wins and 101 points.

Vancouver finishes the year with a 45-23-13-1 record. It was a moral victory for the Kings who are out of the playoffs with a 33-37-6-6.

Kings goaltender Jamie Storr made 27 saves for his third shutout of the season.

The Canucks played like a team with too much starch in their jerseys. They went 0-6 on the power play and looked afraid to make a mistake against the Kings.

By the third period some in the sellout crowd of 18,514 began voicing their displeasure.

In the first period Todd Bertuzzi looked to have a good scoring chance but chose instead to attempt a pass to Naslund. The puck was intercepted.

Naslund's best scoring chance came in the second period when he rang a shot off the post.

The Canucks most effective line was the crash-and-bash unit of Trevor Letowski, Matt Cooke and Artem Chubarov. Chubarov had a great scoring chance in the first period, firing a shot over the open corner.

Canucks goaltender Dan Cloutier was forced to make a couple big saves, including dragging a leg in front of a shot from Belanger who was left alone in the slot.

Prior to the game the Canucks announced their team awards.

Naslund was named MVP for the third consecutive year, while Bertuzzi was selected most exciting player for the third time. Ed Jovanovski was won his third consecutive award as best defenceman while Cooke was selected unsung hero.

Notes: Bertuzzi finished the season with (97) points but would have earned bonuses worth $2 million had he reached 100 . . . It took less than two hours to sell the remaining 500 Canucks tickets per game put on sale Saturday for the first two rounds of the playoffs . . . Centre Mats Lindgren (back) and left-winger Brad May (concussion) returned to the lineup after missing nine games.

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Originally posted by: oldfoof
When is vancouvers first playoff game start? Anyone know or it has no date yet ?

Oh well , I sure wished Dammn , sople would have used his brain , or yeah i forgot he is a monkey :D

April 9th is the first game vs St Louis.

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Aquaman

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Originally posted by: LAUST
YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title record is OURS!!!!!!

But I hope the Nucks do whoop up in the playoff's, they are my fav team from Canada.

Gotta give credit where it's due.......... Colorado has been the best team in the second half of the season just like the canucks were last year.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
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