How Ya Drouin
12/08/13 GM GamesRIP
GDT will either be posted early (let's say 8PM PST) or late (4am PST) as I live in the GOAT eastern time zone.
GDT will either be posted early (let's say 8PM PST) or late (4am PST) as I live in the GOAT eastern time zone.
is this the first time we played the jets since they left Atlanta and return to Winnipeg?
We've played them twice -- both times in Vancouver.
March 8, 2012. 3-2 VAN.
December 22, 2013. 2-1 VAN.
Can we bring mogilny out of retirement ?
Hunter plays hero: [Final C Edition]
Jamieson, Jim. The Province [Vancouver, B.C] 22 Feb 1996: A54.
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It was like the remake of Risky Business, but the Vancouver Canucks came out on top in their last regular-season game at Winnipeg Arena.
Sparked by captain Trevor Linden, who had another dominant game in this rink, the Canucks outgunned the Winnipeg Jets for a 5-3 win before 8,592 fans. Linden led a Canucks comeback in the second period, scoring one goal and setting up another as Vancouver rallied from a 2-1 deficit.
Tim Hunter was the unlikely hero, scoring the winner -- his second goal of the season -- at 4:53 of the third period. Hunter swept in Jim Dowd's rebound from the edge of the crease after the Jets' coverage broke down.
"I was kind of surprised (the rebound) was just laying there," said Hunter, who got double his usual ice-time.
"I'll have to check the archives to see when my last winning goal was."
Alex Mogilny scored his second of the game and 48th of the season into an empty net with 4.3 seconds left to complete the scoring... The Canucks matched the Jets in attempting dangerous plays in the first period and paid for it, coming out down 2-1. An ejection to Gino Odjick for instigating a fight with Kris King and a thunderous hit on Alek Stojanov's chin by Denis Chasse's elbow when Stojanov was stickhandling with his head down left the Canucks short two forwards, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Vancouver cut down on the fancy plays in the final 40 minutes.
"We lost two players pretty early and I think our players sucked it up," said Canucks coach Rick Ley. "That's what you expect to come from your character players when that kind of thing happens and it did."
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"They really came out at us hard in the first period," said Linden, who had his first goal in eight games along with two assists. "But we got some great efforts from Jim Dowd, Tim Hunter, Jim Sandlak. We got some great chances when their line was out there and we started to feed off it. It took a while but we turned the tide."
"The last two games we got outworked," added defenceman Jyrki Lumme, who opened the scoring in the first period on the power play.
"We talked about it after the first period. We just said we can't let it happen again and we've got to work smarter."
Vancouver goaltender Kirk McLean was sharp in his first action after missing six weeks with minor knee surgery. He made several big saves, but the most timely was on Alexei Zhamnov midway through the third period with with Canucks up 4-3.
Works Cited
Jamieson, Jim. "Hunter Plays Hero." The Province: 0. Feb 22 1996. ProQuest. Web. 30 Jan. 2014 .
Switch Hansen and Kassian. We need to see Kassian get time on the "top line" after his great play lately, just to see how he handles the pressure.I'm not going to pretend for a second I'm a coach but personally I'd like to see the lines go:
Chris Higgins - Ryan Kesler - Jannik Hansen
Daniel Sedin - Zac Dalpe - Alex Burrows
David Booth - Jordan Schroeder - Zack Kassian
Tom Sestito - Brad Richardson - Dale Weise
And just have them role 4 lines all night, 15 minutes each.
I'd like to see Richardson with some real linemates. Free him from Booth, honestly. He's a feisty player. Hopefully they don't stick him with Burrows and Booth. It's sad they're underperforming so much. Both former 30g scorers.I'm not going to pretend for a second I'm a coach but personally I'd like to see the lines go:
Chris Higgins - Ryan Kesler - Jannik Hansen
Daniel Sedin - Zac Dalpe - Alex Burrows
David Booth - Jordan Schroeder - Zack Kassian
Tom Sestito - Brad Richardson - Dale Weise
And just have them role 4 lines all night, 15 minutes each.
I don't care if we lose all the games on this trip, just ****ing beat Boston.
I'd like to see Richardson with some real linemates. Free him from Booth, honestly. He's a feisty player. Hopefully they don't stick him with Burrows and Booth. It's sad they're underperforming so much. Both former 30g scorers.
GDT will either be posted early (let's say 8PM PST) or late (4am PST) as I live in the GOAT eastern time zone.
If you miss it by even one second, we're thread-banning you from that nonexistent thread.
Higgins - Kesler - Kassian
Daniel - Schroeder - Burrows
Sestito - Richardson - Hansen
Booth - Dalpe - Weise
i know but we never had a chance to play in Winnipeg only in Vancouver