Game 4 – Canucks vs Ducks (Round 2)

I think this is going to be a great game. The energy emiinnating from GM Place is great, and exciting. Bullis, Morrison, and/or Hansen are going to score tonight and may be the difference. Go Canucks Go!

PERIOD 1:

1:40 God dam, Morrison. He’s overdue; there’s no more dam excuse for him! He should have at least put that on net if not scored… dam him for playing so pathetically.

3:00 That overrated idiot Bieksa just iced the puck on the power play. And now Morrison turns over the puck on the power play. I’m sorry I like Mo, but enough is enough. Just bench him already.

5:30 Now Salo ices the puck. Perhaps I’m overzealous in my faith of this team. They look awful.

12:00 Bullis looks good, Hansen looks good. Green looks bad. Ohlund looks good. Most of the rest look invisible... Bieksa did lead one good rush

GOALLLLLL! Markus Naslund!!! Great screen by Smolinski, great work by Linden on the boards. Smoke picked a good time to make a good play.

Vancouver 1 – Anaheim 0.

15:00 Great shift by Naslund, Linden and Salo. Nice hustle.

15:30 Nice turnover by Naslund and then he made Giguere think long and hard about where he was going to shoot… right in the middle of the 5-hole and Giguere just got it which resulted in the big rebound.

18:30 Josh Green doesn’t look right. I think he could be hurt. I’m wondering about Morrison’s health too… he’s just invisible or bad.

19:00 Oh I love the hip check block Bullis put on Pronger at the point on the PK, and then he gets the puck and clears it. He is just playing superb. And I don’t’ say this lightly because I absolutely detested him during the regular season.

19:57 What a move by Perry in the dying seconds! Too bad he didn’t get the shot off.

End of period.

A very poor start for the Canucks. Thank god for Linden, Bullis and Naslund. Better in the past 10 minutes, but the game didn’t start with a team that looked like they were desperate to win.

An interesting statistic: heading into this game Smolinski was 36% in the face-off circle. Absolutely horrific. 1 for 10 in the last game! A better start tonight though for Smoke: 5 wins, 2 losses.

PERIOD 2:

Vigneault is trying to get Morrison going… he’s put him with Naslund again.

6:00 OMFG! 2 on 1 with Bullis short-handed, Giguere comes WAY out of the net, and Morrison instead of passing elects to shoot, with a SLAPSHOT – on a 2 on 1 with the goalie way out and a perfect passing lane to his winger! What the hell is going on in Morrison’s head?!?!

7:00 Great, Josh Green takes a double high-sticking minor for a careless stick to Selanne’s face. Now the Ducks get a 5 on 3. Great. Another player who continues to harm his team.

12:00 The power play is brutal. The Ducks are certainly doing a great job but really, this is brutal. Henrik Sedin looks bad tonight. I really wish they’d give Bullis a chance on the power play.

13:00 Oh yay! Morrison takes a stupid penalty!!! Nice work Mo!! You’re doing wonders for the team… please, please, please bench this guy.

13:37 Oh yay! Morrison takes a stupid penalty!!! Nice work Mo!! You’re doing wonders for the team… please, please, please bench this guy.

15:00 Another fine move by Bullis on the penalty kill.

16:00 The Ducks have the momentum now, finally. They’re controlling the play and the Canucks look like bumbling idiots. Where the hell are the Sedins?

15:00 Another fine move by Bullis on the penalty kill.

16:00 The Ducks have the momentum now, finally. They’re controlling the play and the Canucks look like bumbling idiots. Where the hell are the Sedins?

17:31 GOALLLL! OMFG!!! Brendan Morrison scores!! And he makes a great play!!! He got lucky as it bounced of Moen’s leg… very lucky because that wasn’t the greatest play on a 2-on-1 but he scored! Hey, despite his bad play he might make me look good in my prediction that Morrison had to come up big… and that was a big goal!!!! (Assists to Ohlund and D. Sedin).

Vancouver 2 - Anaheim 0.

End of Period. Not bad, but not great to be honest. We got a little lucky on the Anaheim goal
I’m a little worried. The Canucks appear to be lacking intensity. And again we’re having discipline problems again. This game is not out of Anaheim’s hands…

PERIOD 3:

3:00 Another missed shot by Smolinski… Naslund off to a good start. The team however looks way too tentative. They have to come out hitting and forechecking hard instead of protecting the lead… or we’ll lose the lead.

4:00 GOAL ANAHEIM. I hate to say I told you so… Pronger gets it from a shot through a lot of traffic.

Vancouver 2 – Anaheim 1.

6:40 Great move by Morrison to grab the puck behind the net and attempt the bank-in, and he got hammered by Getzlaf for it too. But he draws the penalty. Hey, Morrision is coming alive and making a difference!

Hughson reports that penner is riding the bench for the Ducks and that he could be injured.

Nice looking power play with Salo blasting away and Pyatt screening Giguere. That’s the way to do it! More Pyatt in front of the net providing screens for big blasts from Salo, please!

That idiot Bieksa gets burned and then takes a penalty to give the Ducks their 7th power play. We can’t keep this up…

9:00 Oh Selanne has come alive now… a good chance on the Bieksa gift power play.

12:00 Uh-oh Anaheim has really taken over now.

14:00 GOAL ANAHEIM. Uh yeah… I did tell you so. This reflects bad coaching by Vigneault. Vancouver has sat back on their ASSES instead of taking the game to the end and handy Anaheim their ass!!!! GOD DAMMIT!!!

Vancouver 2 - Anaheim 2.

16:30 Oh yay – another penalty! Giving Anaheim their 8th power play! Yay! What discipline! Let’s see a shitty power play + our incredible lack of discipline + poor coaching that allows a team on the ropes back in the game = a dubious outcome. The game is not lost, but I’d be amazed if Vancouver wins this. They don’t deserve to win and aren’t playing like it.

End of period. Heading to overtime.

Vancouver 2 – Anaheim 2.

Shots on goal: Anaheim 28 – Vancouver 26. This flatters the Canucks.

Vancouver deserves to lose. Vancouver will lose… unless they get lucky. Anaheim has taken charge and Vigneault isn’t capable of coaching his team to play the way it should. The only way we win this is if we get a lucky bounce.

Hrudey points out Smolinski to blame on his poor defence on the Pronger goal. Sopel didn’t look great either on the boards. Simpson pointed out that Daniel Sedin should have and didn’t give his stick to Salo on the 2nd goal which allowed Selanne the easy goal.

Hrudey and Simpson just cited Morrison and Bullis as the best Canucks tonight. Wow. How quickly they forget the first half of the game for Morrison.

I have to say, Bullis has been playing great. But you know what… it doesn’t mean a damn if it doesn’t lead to goals. And it hasn’t. I appreciate his fine play, but he isn’t leading to goals.

OVERTIME PERIOD 1:

Quick goal by Dallas.

Final score: Dallas 3 - Vancouver 2

I hate to say I told you so. Oh well, the better team won and will win the series. They could win the Stanely Cup, but San Jose will give them trouble.