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Game #3 Anaheim vs Vancouver
by Alanah McGinley on 04/29/07 at 01:22 PM ET
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Anaheim vs Vancouver
5pm CBC
California is the land where both Canadian dreams and nightmares are made, from Jim Carrey’s early film career to… Jim Carrey’s recent film career? (Yeah, sorry; that was weak. But I believe Disney was involved in both The Mask and The Cable Guy (?) so the evil runs deep with the Carrey example.)
Anyway, journeying from Vancouver, these latest Canucks transplants ventured to that promised land and into last Wednesday’s nightmare, only to be reborn to last Friday’s dream. Now the team has returned to Hollywood North, where the seats are jam packed, twice the price and a whole lot noisier.
And nobody ever, ever quacks, thank christ.
Roberto Luongo‘s agents (i.e. the entire fan base of Vancouver, plus Alain Vigneault and Dave Nonis) are appealing to the NHL today for more consideration for their oft-crashed goalie. The result is likely to be more penalties for Anaheim, but I’m not sure that’ll help much. The effectiveness of the Vancouver powerplay runs at a horrific 3-for-50 this post-season thus far. Let’s just hope practice makes perfect.
The defense is just as decimated as last week, though there continue to be optimistic words about the possible return of Sami Salo. Meanwhile, Yannick Tremblay is in town and others are ready to go. They proved they could do it Friday. Tonight they’ll just have to prove it again.
Honestly, I don’t think things have changed much since my problems/solutions post before Game #2. Much of what I mentioned that day was improved upon for the winner on Friday, and tonight will just be a matter of following the same fundamentals. Plus the preparation to know that Anaheim will have regrouped and have upped their competitive level accordingly.
The playoffs have been relatively easy for the Ducks so far. They had gone 5-1 up until Friday night, and never had to deal with even a whiff of fear that they could trail a series, Minnesota’s winning game occurring once the Ducks already held a comfortable 3-0 lead. So while they continue to be the overwhelming favorites, being 1-1 is a different ball game than Anaheim has been in thus far, and I suppose we’ll see how they respond.
Unfortunately, I’m guessing that response will be near-deadly. They’ll use their speed and they’ll be hungry to take control of this game in the way they did in Game #1. And then how does Vancouver respond to this renewed assault? Frankly, I don’t think this series swings on the momentum of game-to-game… it swings on the momentum of shift-to-shift.
It’s stressful just thinking about it—but exciting, too. BRING IT ON!
Note: Incidentally, a story in the LA Times today commented that one of Anaheim’s problems was that they can roll only three lines, their fourth not getting nearly as much ice time as Vancouver’s fourth line. Perhaps they’re hoping that George Parros will become the next Jeff Cowan?! God, if women started throwing their bras at Parros, it really WOULD be a porn movie…
HockeyFights.com put together the opening sequence for that movie a few months ago. It remains one of my favorites.
Go Canucks!
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Hmmm. I’m sort of consoled that I spelled his name wrong. However, I’ll fix it anyway. Thanks! 
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 04/29/07 at 02:48 PM ET
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Alanah McGinley has been blogging hockey since 2003 (with a notable gap in time through 2010, kicking it with new baby Lucy while living knee-deep in chaos while reading “parenting for complete idiots” during every spare minute) sharing opinions, rants and not-so-deep thoughts with anyone who will listen.
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Jim Carey was the Net Detective, a goalie who won the Vezina with Washington. He was a one-season wonder.
Jim Carrey was the Pet Detective. He has starred in such movies as Ace Ventura, The Mask, The Truman Show, The Cable Guy, etc.
Just to clarify… for those of us who remember Jim Carey. :o)
Posted by Teebz from Canada, eh! on 04/29/07 at 02:45 PM ET