Monday, January 23, 2006
Canucks 0 Blues 4
Cue the trade rumors again, the Jeckyl-and-Hyde Canucks have lost a game. After a four-game winning streak, the Canucks were shut out by the last-place St. Louis Blues, their second loss to the Blues this month. Almost one-fifth of the Blues total wins and fully one-third of the Blues' home wins this season have come at the expense of the Canucks. I'm sure they have February 8th marked on their calendar, the next time they play Vancouver again.
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Game Recaps: canucks.com . ESPNMy notes from the game:
Statistics: Score Sheet . Stat Sheet
- Funny how stats work. Sure the Canucks scored six goals in a convincing 6-2 win over the Habs on Saturday night; however, they scored all six goals in the first 13 minutes of the first period. Stats will now show that the Canucks haven't scored a goal in more than five periods of hockey.
- It's hard to fault the goalie for a loss when the team in front of him doesn't score a goal and doesn't skate for two periods. That said, I wasn't impressed with Maxime Ouellet's performance at all. Too many bad rebounds and an unncessary penalty for playing the puck outside the trapezoid zone. After three starts, Ouellet has allowed 12 goals and is still waiting for his first win as a Vancouver Canuck.
- If only the Canucks played the whole game like they played the third period. They outskated and outhustled the Blues in the third period, enjoyed four powerplays (one carried over from the end of the second period) and outshot the Blues 21-5.
- Full credit to Curtis Sanford for saving the Blues' bacon in the third period.
- One indicator of how much the Blues outworked the Canucks in the first two periods - they had seven powerplays, four of them coming from lazy, interference-type penalties to the Canucks.
- Kevin Bieksa was a healthy scratch as Ed Jovanovski returned after missing 11 games due to a groin pull (or was it an injured hip?). Probably as could be expected, Jovocop was rusty - early in the first period, he gave up the puck in front of Maxime Ouellet and gave the Blues a scoring chance. He did get a bit better towards the end of the game especially when the Canucks enjoyed some extended powerplay time.
- I thought for most of the game that the Keslers, Burrows and Greens were again the best players on the team. Except on special-teams, Burrows played a regular, energetic shift; in the third period, Kesler was rewarded and centered Naslund and Bertuzzi.
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2 Comments:
Is it complacency? The team sleep walked through the first two periods with the exception of the twins. Carter took a 4 minute penalty but when he was on the ice he also provided his usual role as the other brother for the triplets. The rest of the team and especially Nasland and Bert were still checking their luggage back at YVR. A Blue nailed Bert with a good hit and the look on his face was more one of ‘how dare you disturb my snooze’ rather than ‘ok now I’m going to score my third hat trick of the year.’ But not these two Canucks. I think Bert and Nassy are already in Torino sipping cappuccinos.
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