HAPPY BIRTHDAY! It was 10 years ago today, Burrows slayed the dragon!

[Bubbles]

Wow, it's been 10 years! Time to share some stories! I had just got a new job, the same one that I still have, and I was doing an afternoon shift so I missed most of the game. I got home just around the end of the 3rd.

What a tremendous monkey off the back to beat the Hawks. That was an intense series.

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[Hit the post]

Post reported to PETA. Dragons are people too & deserve to live.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

That game was electric from start to finish. One of greatest nights in franchise history.

 

[Bubbles]

That game was electric from start to finish. One of greatest nights in franchise history.

Burrows OT goal is top 2 in my book with the Bure goal.

 

[Hollywood Burrows]

definitely the best game I've ever seen a Canucks team play. every player gave everything they had on every shift.

I served Andrew Alberts coffee on his way to the rink. I told him I had no doubt they'd win it. My shift ended just in time for me to sprint over to my buddy's place to watch. After the game we ran around downtown yelling and screaming, running into friends and hugging them, high fiving strangers, etc etc. it'll never be like that again!

 

[moog35]

Alex Burrows looking like the Euron Greyjoy in that OT!

 

[Pure West]

Man you could cut the tension in the city with a knife that night, but in a good way since the game itself was really entertaining. That was probably the biggest cheer I had ever let out. Oddly what I might remember more is when my stomach sunk seeing Patrick Sharp with that OT chance at the side of the net. I vividly remember seeing that chance and thinking that was gonna be the game.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Man you could cut the tension in the city with a knife that night, but in a good way since the game itself was really entertaining. That was probably the biggest cheer I had ever let out. Oddly what I might remember more is when my stomach sunk seeing Patrick Sharp with that OT chance at the side of the net. I vividly remember seeing that chance and thinking that was gonna be the game.

Tension is right. Think my fingernails were gone less than five minutes into the game.

 

[LordBacon]

That one game that made me a Canucks fan for life.
Burrows you’re a f***ing legend

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Remember thinking the team would go to the finals if they finally beat Chicago. I think they would have extinguished them in Game 4 had they not developed whatever illness spread in that room - and it was evident by their play in Game 4 and 5.

Just imagine had Sharp connected on the OT winning goal minutes prior. That would have been the definition of a franchise killing goal...Burrows singlehandedly kept the core together and saved AV and Gillis' jobs with that one goal.

2009-2012 Canucks ran into a generational Blackhawks roster 3 times and one of the strongest 8th seeds to win a cup. Just unfortunate luck.

 

[M2Beezy]

I was there, first game. Been all downhill since then

 

[mathonwy]

It would be nice to have another Burr on this team to cheer for.

 

[mathonwy]

I was there, first game. Been all downhill since then

Umm..

Kesler's domination of the Preds was still on the uphill.

As was Bieksa's stanchion goal against the Sharks.

 

[EpochLink]

What a great moment, it was a ride up until game 3 of the Finals...........


Too soon?

 

[Tim Calhoun]

I actually missed the goal. After Toews scored and then we went shorthanded in OT, I stopped watching for my own cardiovascular health.

Pretty crazy day for Burrows. Scored in the first period, missed a penalty shot in the third, took a penalty in OT, and then scored the winner. Then his wife gave birth to their first born a few hours later. I will always love that guy.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

What a great moment, it was a ride up until game 3 of the Finals...........


Too soon?

It took 8-9 years but life, wife and kids made me really move on from sadness and anger from 2011. I still get mixed emotions when I see highlights from the SCF but it's no longer feelings of anger. Obviously want to see the team win something in our lifetimes but can accept that I would rather much have other things to which are in my control.

 

[canuckking1]

The Patrick sharp OT chance still gives me nightmares. What a game

 

[Bubbles]

Just watched some highlights, I forgot how physical that team was. A young Edler, Torres even Alberts and Ballard.

Also Lu was on that night. Kept a 1-0 score till the very end.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i still remember the five seconds of silence in my living room after that goal. we were just stunned and silent with relief.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i also remember everything about the schneids cramping up game. easter dinner at my friends' apartment and one of them, who is a fairly fairweather fan and hadn't really paid much attention since 1994, was so disgusted after the OT winner that he said he'd never watch a canucks game again. he didn't tune in again until game three of the finals.

love him to death but i feel like he got what his bandwagoning ass deserved.

 

[EpochLink]

It took 8-9 years but life, wife and kids made me really move on from sadness and anger from 2011. I still get mixed emotions when I see highlights from the SCF but it's no longer feelings of anger. Obviously want to see the team win something in our lifetimes but can accept that I would rather much have other things to which are in my control.

I don’t talk about that run as much anymore as I used too...that took the fun out of me for a couple of years. I’ve moved on and matured, can’t control the outcome of the game and years later it just happened.

Great memories for sure, wished for a better outcome in the end.

Such is life.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

i still remember the five seconds of silence in my living room after that goal. we were just stunned and silent with relief.

Man. Polar opposite in mine - I don't know if I've ever screamed so loud in my life.

Well, that's not true - I definitely screamed and cheered a lot during that run. Game 5 vs. San Jose, Game 2 vs. Boston were the other highlights.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Man. Polar opposite in mine - I don't know if I've ever screamed so loud in my life.

Well, that's not true - I definitely screamed and cheered a lot during that run. Game 5 vs. San Jose, Game 2 vs. Boston were the other highlights.

same two friends on my couch for game five against san jose and we screamed our fffffing lungs out when we realized bieksa had scored

...thinking about this again, my memory of that bieksa OT goal was that it happened in the early afternoon in toronto. did that game start at 9 or 10 AM in vancouver?

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

same two friends on my couch for game five against san jose and we screamed our fffffing lungs out when we realized bieksa had scored

...thinking about this again, my memory of that bieksa OT goal was that it happened in the early afternoon in toronto. did that game start at 9 or 10 AM in vancouver?

Pretty sure that game was played at the usual 7PM in Vancouver. Wasn't until the Cup Finals where all the games started around 5PM PST, I believe.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Pretty sure that game was played at the usual 7PM in Vancouver. Wasn't until the Cup Finals where all the games started around 5PM PST, I believe.

nevermind, i think i'm conflating memories. i think game 4, the game where the sedins and salo murdered them on the PP, was the early sunday game.

the bieksa goal must have happened super duper late for us actually.