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IcemanJer

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Looks like Colorado is gonna lose too. That makes all 7 of the top 4 seeds in both conferences have lost their opening game.
 

Aquaman

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It all started with Bert & his dumb penalty :(

Still one period to go but we are down by 4 :(

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

silverpig

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Originally posted by: Aquaman
It all started with Bert & his dumb penalty :(

Still one period to go but we are down by 4 :(

Cheers,
Aquaman

That hit by Bertuzzi didn't look too bad. I only caught a quick second glimpse of it, and yeah, the way this game is being refereed it probably should have been called, but it's the playoffs... They're making a lot of calls, but they're not consistently getting all of the infractions of that type.
 

silverpig

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That call on Jovo was pure BS. The STL player was holding his stick, and then fell himself. BAH!!!
 

de9ali

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Hurmp. Nothing to cheer about for us Nucks/Avs/Wings/Stars fans. Top 4 teams of the Western conference lost at home.
 

silverpig

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Anyone up for some golf? If things don't change, that's what we'll be talking about around here pretty soon...
 

Sealy

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Well I think it's lovely that the refs could show up and play for the Blues!

Unbelievable one sided game!! If you're gonna call every little thing you have to call it on both sides!

It's okay, we're gonna come out fighting next game!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!:D
 

etalns

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Originally posted by: Sealy
Well I think it's lovely that the refs could show up and play for the Blues!

Unbelievable one sided game!! If you're gonna call every little thing you have to call it on both sides!

It's okay, we're gonna come out fighting next game!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!:D

Hey, atleast we're trendy though (home teams losing).
 

Sealy

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Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: Sealy
Well I think it's lovely that the refs could show up and play for the Blues!

Unbelievable one sided game!! If you're gonna call every little thing you have to call it on both sides!

It's okay, we're gonna come out fighting next game!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!:D

Hey, atleast we're trendy though (home teams losing).

Good point!

Well we've psyched them out now...they think they'll be able to walk all over us next game....but we'll show them, yes, we'll show them!!
 

silverpig

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Originally posted by: Sealy
Well I think it's lovely that the refs could show up and play for the Blues!

Unbelievable one sided game!! If you're gonna call every little thing you have to call it on both sides!

It's okay, we're gonna come out fighting next game!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!:D

You tell them!!!
 

Aquaman

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Blues hammer Canucks in Game 1

Canadian Press
4/11/2003

VANCOUVER (CP) - The game was over in the first two minutes but the beating continued.

The St. Louis Blues put the Vancouver Canucks on their heels with goals 31 seconds apart early in the first period, then didn't pull their punches for the rest of the night in pounding out a 6-0 win to open their Western Conference quarter-final Thursday night.

Cory Stillman scored on a deflection during a power play 1:30 into the game and Tyson Nash knocked home his own rebound to make it 2-0 at 2:01.

"To get two goals in the first two minutes was huge for us," said Shijon Podein, who assists on Nash's goal.

"It made us play a little better."

Goaltender Chris Osgood, considered by some to be the Blues' sour note, made 20 saves for his 10th playoff shutout.

"I felt good about myself going into the playoffs and expected myself to play well," said Osgood, obtained by the Blues at the trade deadline from the New York Islanders.

"On the chalk board we are just one game up. We have to refocus ourselves and bring the same energy into the next game."

Alexander Khavanov, with a pair, Doug Weight and Keith Tkachuk also scored for the Blues, who went 3-for-9 on the power play.

"That's how you want to play," said Weight, who also had an assist.

"It's going to be a long series. We got some bounces early and some breaks. We're going to take everything we did well and snowball it into Game 2. We know this is a good team were playing and it's going to be tough."

Pavol Demitra, who left Vancouver on Wednesday for the birth of his son, returned in time for the game and collected two assists.

An angry Canuck Coach Marc Crawford didn't mince his words after the game.

"That team was awful," he said about his own club, which has gone seven periods without a goal and has been outscored 10-0.

"We didn't deserve to be in the same league let alone the same rink. I'm embarrassed by it. The team is embarrassed by it but we have to regroup and get better."

Game 2 is Saturday (CBC, 10 p.m. EDT) in Vancouver.

The Blues just didn't outscore the Canucks, they beat them in every aspect of the game. They outshot Vancouver 29-20, won battles for the puck, played stronger in front of the net, won faceoffs and were crisp in their passing.

A screaming, sellout crowd of 18,514 soon fell silent as the Blues took the game by the throat. The white towels the home-town fans were frantically waving during the national anthems hung limp most of the evening. By the third period there were boos.

The Canucks played in slow motion. They went four power plays without registering a shot and couldn't move the puck out of their own end, finishing the game 0-for-7 with the man advantage.

Markus Naslund, Vancouver's leading scorer in the regular season, was twice called for lazy penalties after giving away the puck. He finished the night with three shots on goal, while teammate Todd Bertuzzi didn't register a shot.

Counting a 2-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings to end the season, Vancouver has been shut out in back-to-back home games.

The Canucks, who set a franchise record with 104 points this season to finish fourth in the Western Conference - five ahead of the fifth-place Blues - last won a home playoff game April 22, 1996, a string of seven consecutive home playoff games.

Vancouver's last playoff series victory was in 1995 when they needed seven games to beat the Blues in the Western Conference quarter-final.

Notes: Defenceman Mattias Ohlund, out since Feb.27 with a knee injury, skated with the Canucks on Thursday but didn't dress for the game. ... Centre Mats Lindgren (back) also was a scratch. ... Crawford, who guided the Colorado Avalanche to the 1996 championship, is the only Canuck with a Stanley Cup ring.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

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MacInnis anxious to win another Cup

Canadian Press
4/11/2003

VANCOUVER (CP) - It was early on a May morning in 1989 when Al MacInnis stepped off a charter flight from Montreal with a bottle of champagne in one hand and the Conn Smythe Trophy the other.

Tears brimmed in the young defenceman's eyes when he talked about phoning his parents to tell them he and his Calgary Flames had defeated the Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup and how a fire truck in his home town of Inverness, N.S., celebrated the victory by driving up and down the street.

As the young often do, MacInnis believed it would be just the first of many celebrations for his family and friends, but in the 14 years since he hasn't taken another drink of champagne from Lord Stanley's mug.

"As a young player you take it for granted, you think you're going to get back there the next year," MacInnis, 39, said Thursday before his St. Louis Blues beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-0 in the opener of their best-of-seven NHL Western Conference quarter-final series.

"Years go by pretty quick and seasons go by. Right now time is running out. I've been here (in St. Louis) nine years. This is the best team I've ever played with, the most depth in every position."

MacInnis, who was traded to the Blues from Calgary in 1994, is regarded as one of the league's best all-time defencemen. His cannon of a slapshot still makes goaltenders cringe.

He won the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenceman in 1999. He's been selected to 13 all-star teams and was a member of Canada's gold medal hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Still, there's no hesitation when asked what the highlight of his career has been.

"I'd have to say the Stanley Cup," he said. "In my day and age, we grew up dreaming of winning the Stanley Cup. When it did happen there was no greater feeling. Winning the gold medal in Salt Lake was a close second. You don't get many chances to represent your country. Obviously it was my last chance to do it and I was grateful to get that opportunity."

The sands of time may be running out on MacInnis's career but he showed this season some grains remain in the hourglass.

He was the Blues second-leading scorer with 68 points over 80 games, including 16 goals and 52 assists.

He doesn't even mind that his defensive partner, rookie Barret Jackman, was only eight years old when he won the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP.

"It's guys like that that keep me going," said the man nicknamed Chopper. "When I look over to my left and see a young defenceman breaking into the league I hope to be part of his future, if only for a year or two. Hopefully he'll look back and say I helped him in some ways. It gives me motivation to help him our as much as I can."

With Chris Pronger sidelined most of the year due to a wrist injury, MacInnis was the team's captain. When Pronger returned he told MacInnis to keep wearing the C.

"You look at what he brings, the experience and the attitude," said Pronger. "It's something for the young guys and the veterans to look up and see how he prepares to play the game and brings that attitude."

Hockey was part of MacInnis' life from an early age. He was three when he put on his first pair of skates. As a kid he spent hours firing pucks at a net set up in front of his father's barn.

"He never was too happy," MacInnis laughed. "I was never too good at hitting the net. He had to do a lot of reshingling in the fall."

After playing for the OHL's Kitchener Rangers, the Flames made MacInnis the 15th pick in the first round of the NHL draft in 1981.

"Everybody comes into the league and thinks if they can play four or five years, they'd be happy," MacInnis said. "I've been lucky to play with some good teams with good players and had some great coaches help me over the years. I feel like the luckiest man alive."

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

Aquaman

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Kind of dissapointing but I know we were in for a long fight.

Lets hope the boys get it together and win one on Saturday :D

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

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
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