I think we should be able to beat Colorado, Nashville, Dallas and Edmonton with ease, so long as we show up in the first two periods and continue to excel in the 3rd.
Winning against Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago and Anaheim will probably be tougher.
Blues:
Cons - Big team, bad travel, elite defense.
Pros - We have played them well this year, and Halak is out, I believe.
Sharks:
Cons - Big, can go on winning streaks, Niemi has been very good this year, they have beaten us pretty good.
Pros - Can go on losing streaks, defense isn't great, Niemi can be bad, best travel, we have beaten them in the playoffs before.
Wild:
Cons - Boring, bad travel, seem to own us in Minny, beat us the last two meetings, Pominville.
Pros - Defense is weak after Suter, we seem to own them in Vancouver, not that punishing a team.
Wings:
Cons - Have absolutely thumped us this year, bad travel, are the Red Wings, Datsyuk
Pros - Not that good a team, Kesler plays like a monster he-man against them, not that punishing.
All in all I still think I'd want the Sharks.
Lu looked pretty despondent in that interview considering the awesome game he just played. Hope the guy's okay upstairs.
Sharks!! a year or two ago, Joe Thornton looked all whacked out on crack in the opening faceoff. vibrating and head butting Henrik Sedin. crying to the ref after every play.
Brad Ziemer @BradZiemer 3m
"I wanted to really make sure that I showed the guys that I am here for the rest of the year and 100 per cent dedicated." #Canucks
I've seen guys like this go crazy.
Full out.
Brad Ziemer @BradZiemer 3m
"I wanted to really make sure that I showed the guys that I am here for the rest of the year and 100 per cent dedicated." #Canucks
He's not going to go crazy, and he certainly played well tonight, he just sounded unhappy in that interview considering he played a great game. Hopefully it was more exhaustion than disconsolation.
As for first round opponents, provided we have home ice I wouldn't mind seeing the Sharks.
I think the PP showed a lot of promise.Power play certianly isn't setting the world on fire, but it's coming around. Good sign heading into the playoffs if we can keep chipping away.
as much as we all love luo's emotion win and lose, it has come back to bite him hard in the playoffs.
I think the PP showed a lot of promise.
They actually had to respect the fact that Kesler will shot and the Canucks had about 3 different setups on the PP. 1 with Kesler in the slot, one with Kesler near the right post for a 1timer and one with him up high near the tops of the circle for a 1 timer.
Essentially Kesler is vital to this teams' success on the PP.
If they actually replace Edler with Garrisson, I think they're rolling.
Torres is on the Sharks though. That sucks. He'll take out Kesler.
I wish they had picked him up. I also wish Gillis had picked up one more depth d-man.
I guess Gilly was too busy dealing with Nonis' lies and waffling.
^Speaking of Weise that guy drove me nuts tonight. Was waiting for Roy to flip out on him because essentially every time it was on his stick the play ended immediately.
^Speaking of Weise, that guy drove me nuts tonight. Was waiting for Roy to flip out on him because every time the puck was on his stick the play ended immediately.
don't hate on weise, the guy has a limit of one good offensive move every 3 months, he can't help it
Actually I noticed after one of the playofs weise ****ed up on, the play stopped and the camera panned to roy and he had the look on his face of "**** off.. this guy..."
He's better than any of our 4th line wingers from last year.
He's better than any of our 4th line wingers from last year.
weise is just planning ahead by not wanting to use up all his moves, boy you guys are gonna look dumb when he scores on a sweet deke top shelf to win the stanley cup