8 Days to Go!
I have to stop neglecting this place for long periods for time. Lots of good stuff has happened since I last posted. The Canucks went on a 7 game winning streak with their patchwork defence and some less than stellar efforts all around but winning when you don’t play your best is what good teams do. It was too bad that they lost in Montreal because they were the better team for pretty much the entire game. Poor personnel on defence finally caught up to them at times as a few of the goals had some serious blown coverage. The real reason they lost though was their inability to figure out Halak. With forty plus saves he definitely stole the game. But that’s old news.
I’m really looking forward to tonight’s game against Ottawa. I really think that the Canucks have an excellent opportunity to be the ones that break up the Senators winning streak. The Sens played a hard fought game in Buffalo last time and are bound to be tired while the Canucks had the day off and are waiting there for them. The line-ups haven’t come out yet but I would hope Tanner Glass draws back in for Darcy Hordichuk now that they’ve lost a game. Glass brings so much more to the table than Hordichuk but we’ll see what Vigneault opts to do. Hopefully Henrik is on his game as well because Ovechkin has pulled within a point of him in the Art Ross race.
Now the big news is that I’ll be going into Olympic mode within a day or two. Since the Olympics are in my city it’s my goal to bring a firsthand account of all the happenings that might be going around Vancouver in the lead up to the game and of course the games themselves. The torch is being run through my neighborhood on Wednesday so that’s going to be exciting as well. I’ll be unveiling my hockey predictions during the next week or so and when the games officially start I’ll be discussing other sports other than hockey when relevant. Of course the Canucks are still playing through to next Sunday so they obviously won’t be forgotten.
