Canucks & Beyond
Game On—Storming the Garage for #3
by Alanah McGinley on 04/29/07 at 07:25 PM ET
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Pre-Game Notes: With a Pornstache
Canucks Goals Leader: Jeff Cowan
Liveblog: Yankee Canuck
Live Streaming Video: CBC Sports (*Canadian IPs only)
Puck drops at 5pm on a game with a whole different media spin on this day. Gone is the talk about how the Canucks were completely out of their league in this series, replaced by talk that “Of course the Ducks will still win, but at least now it might be fun to watch!”
It’s not exactly respect, but still an improvement over the panic and armageddon being declared last Wednesday and Thursday.
Lew-ongo first made his appearance on this blog on Friday night. Since that turned out pretty well, I’ve adopted him as a C&B mascot for a while. Can’t mess with what works—this little guy might have special powers, or something.
I’ve come down with the flu and will remain perfectly sober for this game. Ugh. Go Canucks!
Pre-Game Update— Sami Salo back! Fitzpatrick out, Bieksa still out.
End of First Period—
Canucks out shot the Ducks 13-2, carried the play completely and finally made a PP pay off. AND they bailed out Luongo from a Hasek-like moment. Tied 1-1, it would be nice to be up one or two, but I can’t say I have any complaints. (Except for Neale’s “hockey vasectomy” comment. Even I cringed at that one…)
note: a text message from Greg reliably informs me to mentioning BUBLA on the blog will be a good luck charm going into the 2nd. So… here’s to Bubla!!
End of Second Period—
Canucks came back to earth, as the Ducks woke up and played a much better period. And yet we STILL came out of it tied 2-2, so that’s all good. I think that Bubla Power might actually work. Bubla!
End of Third Period—
Canucks looked a lot more tired in the third period. The hits seemed to be wearing on them and they were falling all over the place with about 10 minutes left in the game. Tired? Not sure. Regardless, not finding a way to pick up at least one other PP goal was a critical failure. It also wasn’t Luongo’s best game either. Some nights he steals that game… just not tonight.
Sigh. The hockey “experts” will be happy for a couple days, but we’ll win #4, I expect.
Hopefully I won’t still have the flu that night. I can’t do this shit sober too often.
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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.
In addition to writing Canucks & Beyond and helping manage Kukla’s Korner, Alanah was one of the founders and co-hosts of The Crazy Canucks Podcast. She has contributed pieces to FoxSports.com and the New York Times Slapshot blog, as well as other stray destinations in cyberspace.
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