Pre-Game Talk: WCQF GM 1: Vancouver Canucks vs. Los Angeles Kings - Apr 11 - 7:30PM PST - CBC

[Wetcoaster]

Originally Posted by ubcsalmonslayer

game 1 at vancouver: Wednesday, april 11
game 2 at vancouver: Saturday, april 13
game 3 at los angeles: Sunday, april 15
game 4 at los angeles: Wednesday, april 18

source: Nhl.com

? Here is what NHL.com and Canucks.com has - no Saturday game with a back to back travel game as you have posted.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=6...id=DL|NHL|home
http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm...id=DL|VAN|home

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 7:30 P.M. LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER CBC, NBC SPORTS NETWORK
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 7 P.M. LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER CBC, NBC SPORTS NETWORK
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 7:30 P.M. VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES NBC SPORTS NETWORK, CBC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 7 P.M. VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES NBC SPORTS NETWORK, CBC
*SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 TBD LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER TBD
*TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 TBD VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES TBD
*THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 TBD LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER TBD

[Wetcoaster]

Originally Posted by y2kcanucks

Sadly AV focuses more on zone starts than actually matching up each line.

And yet it works.

[Wetcoaster]

Originally Posted by Goldrunner

I bet we will trial at some point in this series..

last year was too good to be true. This will be a stressful run. Im stocked up on valuim

Trial???

Well no problem Gillis and Gilman are lawyers.

[timw33]

Schedule better than expected.

[HankieDankie]

We should have a series thread and a separate gdt.

[Biggest Canuck Fan]

Originally Posted by Wetcoaster

? Here is what NHL.com and Canucks.com has - no Saturday game with a back to back travel game as you have posted.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=6...id=DL|NHL|home
http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm...id=DL|VAN|home

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 7:30 P.M. LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER CBC, NBC SPORTS NETWORK
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 7 P.M. LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER CBC, NBC SPORTS NETWORK
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 7:30 P.M. VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES NBC SPORTS NETWORK, CBC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 7 P.M. VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES NBC SPORTS NETWORK, CBC
*SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 TBD LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER TBD
*TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 TBD VANCOUVER AT LOS ANGELES TBD
*THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 TBD LOS ANGELES AT VANCOUVER TBD

I wonder what's going on in Vancouver to need a 3 day break from the 19th to the 22nd?

[Samzilla]

Originally Posted by Biggest Canuck Fan

I wonder what's going on in Vancouver to need a 3 day break from the 19th to the 22nd?

Coldplay.

[Wetcoaster]

Originally Posted by Samzilla

Ahh, the summit series. Wish I could've been alive for it, but dvd's will have to do.

Four of us watched Game 8 in a buddy's basement rec room (called a rumpus room in those days).

We were having a few wobbly pops (well more than a few) and when Henderson scored the winning goal one guy leapt in the air with his arms outstretched, hit the ceiling (low) and broke a couple of fingers. I do not think he initially felt it with the self administered pain deadening Molson's medication.

After awhile the pain was so bad we had to call his girlfriend to come and get him and take him to the emergency ward.

Good times.

[y2kcanucks]

Originally Posted by Samzilla

Coldplay.

Perfect timing too as I'll be in Vegas from the 20-23

[Wetcoaster]

Originally Posted by monster_bertuzzi

I'm sorry but Russia was superior to Canada in 1972. We thugged them into submission...kinda like how Boston got around last year.

Yeah but if we would have had Orr (knee injury) and Hull (WHA) it would not have been close.

[VanEric]

Originally Posted by Lucbourdon

At least the media is going to lighten off the canucks a bit, way to focused on the monster pens vs philly series, and boston/caps

It also doesn't hurt us that Sutter and Richards are two of the most media unfriendly people in the league.

[canuck4life16]

Special team will be the difference.....if our PP click and a perfect PK we will beat the kings....

[canuck4life16]

Friday the 13..........great

[SDK]

It all starts here.

[Samzilla]

Originally Posted by SDK

It all starts here.

Goonies never say die?

[BC Ben]

Originally Posted by SDK

It all starts here.

Chunk?

[Biggest Canuck Fan]

Originally Posted by Wetcoaster

Yeah but if we would have had Orr (knee injury) and Hull (WHA) it would not have been close.

Totally agree... Canada played that shorthanded.

[LetsBeReality]

Originally Posted by monster_bertuzzi

Make a super charged checking line of Malhotra-Pahlsson-Hansen against Kopitar's line. Re-unite the AMEX line to go head to head with Richards and Carter. Sedin-Sedin-Burrows (hopefully) can feast on whoever.

Yeah. I don't get why Higgins isn't a consistent 2nd liner based on effort alone.

I want to see Higgins, Booth and Kesler be RIGHT in Quick's crease.

I'm calling Vancouver in 5 and a melt down on special teams for LA. Primarily due to havoc in front of Quick that he can't overcome.

[LiquidSnake]

Originally Posted by Wetcoaster

Craig Button's most brilliant move as Calgary GM IMHO...

Releasing Martin St. Louis in 2000 who the signed as free agent with TBL - and the rest is history. Of course St. Louis was instrumental in defeating the Flames in the 2004 SCF.

He hired Don Hay as head coach who lasted 68 games.

He signed Roman Turek to along term deal and Turek proceed to play like Dan Cloutier in play-off form - and the Flames won only 19 of the remaining 63 games after the signing. The Flames finished 11th in the Western Conference, 15 points back of the 8th place Vancouver Canucks. This was the sixth consecutive season the Flames failed to qualify for the post-season.

That pattern seems to be repeating itself in Calgary.

[Wetcoaster]

Look for terrible ice at the Staples Centre with NBA games being played.

Staples Center much more crowded house. Clippers at home on Monday, April 16. Lakers April 15, April 17.
https://twitter.com/#!/reallisa/stat...71838254903296

[Taelin]

I hope it doesn't make it to game 6, because I'll be in Vegas watching Phantom of the Opera during game 6, and on a plane from Vegas to Vancouver during game 7...

[Jay Cee]

Originally Posted by monster_bertuzzi

I'm sorry but Russia was superior to Canada in 1972. We thugged them into submission...kinda like how Boston got around last year.

That's revisionist history at best. There are more than one set of skills that win hockey games.

In any case, all that matters is who wins at the end of the day.

[pahlsson]

****ing brutal, they should at least give the clippers their own stadium now that they've managed to pick up a few thousand bandwagon fans

[Wetcoaster]

As Lisa Dillman of the LA Times tweets Darryl Sutter is not happy.

"I didn't see any(playoff intensity) the last 2 games.Once they announced it the other nite,our team was satisified w/being aplayoff team."

"Now my responsibility is to make sure they're not satisfied any more."
https://twitter.com/#!/reallisa

[Anodyne]

Something about Darryl Sutter scares me. 2004, I guess.