PHX VS VAN 3/18/11 - my thoughts.

     its gonna be okay because like the guys always say "you can't win them all" and besides who has the division title? we do, and who is 1st in the NHL? we are, and who has a playoff spot? we do! don't worry we'll get'em in Detroit and wipe the smile right off Burtuzzi's face :D


     don't get me wrong i totally thought that we could have gone on and won 8 in a row but a small part of my heart slightly doubted because we are missing one of our greatest players- Manny Malhotra who is out with an eye injury from Wednesday's game when he took a puck to the eye. (no set timeline for his return) AV: " Talked with Malhotra last night. No timeline set." 


    i admit that its gonna be tough with out Malhotra but we have a great team and I know that they'll step up to the plate just like they did when our D was hurting. 
    
    Last night's game well just like a few of our past games have been filled with a ton of bad reffing.
i'll use last night's game specifically. Alex Burrows' "hit" on Fiddler, i understand the new rules and that hits like that are not tolerable in the league anymore but the fact of the matter is- Burrows barely laid his hand on him! Fiddler skated into the boards on his own. Due to the rule i would understand a 2min minor for boarding but honestly a 5min major? And later that period Daniel Sedin was tripped deep in the Coyotes' end and low and behold NO CALL! During the game against Colorado no PP for the Canucks till the 3rd period and there were a few things that should have been called. 


Luongo did a decent job last night for a 3-1 loss, 1st goal he was scrambling 2nd goal a screen- not much you can do about it, the open net... well D could have done a little more but you really can't do much about it. We had a TON of chances last night but unfortunately LaBarbera did really well last night and its clear that they wanted it more than we did. 


All in all i think we did okay not great but okay. and life i said it's only one game and we are already have the division title a playoff spot and we're still #1 in the league. It's not the result that matters it the way they play (in my mind at least.)