Reminder About Stanley Cup Finals

Just wanted to inform everyone that since Vancouver defeated the San Jose Sharks in six games in their Western Conference Finals, they will now face off against the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals. The series starts off tomorrow night in Vancouver at 9 PM and can be seen on CBC as will ALL the games in the series. Until then, have a good one!

Vancouver Survives Shark Attack in San Jose

Yesterday, the Canucks played game 4 of their series vs the San Jose Sharks, but the action was slow until the end of the 2nd period. The Canucks killed off 5 STRAIGHT penalties, and then scored 3 STRAIGHT power-play goals (some on 5-on-3 situations) to take a commanding 3-0 lead. Ryan Kesler and Sami Salo scored those goals and the Canucks headed into the locker room up by three goals after the 2nd period ended. In the 3rd, San Jose outshot Vancouver 17-3 and outshot the Canucks for the game by a count of 35-13. Goaltender Roberto Luongo was great in net, stopping 33 of 35 shots and allowing the Canucks to get into the game. Alex Burrows would score the final goal for Vancouver in the 3rd period to seal the deal. San Jose's goals were scored by Andrew Desjardins and Ryan Clowe. Now, Vancouver has a chance to go to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1994. First off however, they must win one more game in the series. Game 5 goes tomorrow night back in Vancouver at 9 PM. The game can be seen on CBC. Canucks Win Crucial Game 4 vs Sharks (recap)

Well, that's it. Until tomorrow night's game, stay cool.

Jays Crush Twins, Canucks Bite Off Sharks

Yesterday afternoon, the Toronto Blue Jays played against the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis, MN. This game was no contest, as the Jays won 11-3 with Jose Bautista slamming 3 home runs during the game and driving in 4 runs. With this win, the Jays have now won 5 in a row and have the leading home run hitter in the entire major leagues. Bautista already has SIXTEEN homers! At this point last year he didn't. Also too, they swept the Twins in the series. It's getting fun watching these guys again. Here's the recap.

Also too, the Vancouver Canucks defeated the San Jose Sharks last night in Game 1 of the NHL Western Conference final by a score of 3-2 with Vancouver scoring twice in the third period to win. The goal scorers for San Jose were Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. Vancouver's scorers were Maxim Lapierre, Kevin Bieska and Henrik Sedin. Bieska and Sedin scored the winners in the 3rd period. Shots on goal favoured Vancover 38-29. It looks as though things are off to a great start for the Canucks. Here's the boxscore.

For now, that's it. The Jays play tonight at Comerica Park in Detroit to take on the Detroit Tigers at 7 PM. The game is on Rogers Sportsnet. Have a nice day! 

Reminder of tonight's big game

This is just a short post, reminding everyone that the Vancouver Canucks can FINALLY resume their chase for the Stanley Cup tonight in Game 1 of the Western Conference final vs the San Jose Sharks, who just recently took out the Detroit Red Wings in Game 7 of their conference semi-final series. The score of that game was 5-2. The game starts at 9 PM and it can be seen on TSN. Let's hope Vancouver can take out the Sharks and get off to a great start. That's all for now.

Some Leftovers

Just wanted to post about the Wings victory last night in Game 6. They won 3-1 to tie the series vs the San Jose Sharks at 3 apiece. Henrik Zetterberg, Valtteri Flippula, and Darren Helm scored for Detroit while Logan Couture scored the Sharks only goal. All of the goals were scored in the 3rd period. Shots on goal for the game were 45-25 for Detroit. Jimmy Howard played great for Detroit, stopping 24 of the 25 shots that he faced, while his opponent Antti Niemi stopped 42 of 44 shots. The final Detroit goal was an empty-netter by Darren Helm. Here's the boxscore. Also too, Vancouver recently finished off the Nashville Predators in Game 6 at Nashville. The final was 2-1. Here's the recap. All Vancouver has to do now is wait until Detroit and San Jose finish off their series which will happen tomorrow night in San Jose. The teams will play Game 7 in the series and it will start at 9 PM. It should be a good one! Meanwhile, you all take care.

Vancouver: Winners in OT vs Nashville, Jays lose Another Close One

With the start of a new month, it's time to blog once again. This post will focus on the title subjects - Vancouver winning Game 3 of their 2nd round vs the Nashville Predators and the Toronto Blue Jays losing another baseball game, this time to the Tampa Bay Rays. The game started out bad for Vancouver, with Nashville striking first on a goal by David Legwand in the first period to go up 1-0. That of course is how the period would end. However, the Canucks wouldn't go down easily. In the 2nd period, Vancouver went on a power-play that had started at the end of the 1st and Ryan Kesler scored on a tip-in play that tied it up at 1-1. Thus, the 2nd intermission saw the game tied at that score. Now, during the 3rd period we saw Chris Higgins score early on for Vancouver to make it a 2-1 score. However, Nashville kept pressing and trying to give their sellout crowd something to cheer about. Eventually, the Predators responded and scored on a late goal by Joel Ward late with around 6 minutes left in regulation time. This tied the game up at 2-2 and set the stage for a great finish. Both teams skated hard after that goal and tried to get that final winning goal. Both Roberto Luongo (Vancouver) and Pekka Rinne (Nashville) had to stand tall for their teams and make great saves. However, the game went to overtime. In that overtime, Kesler again scored for Vancouver to give them a 3-2 victory and a 2-1 series lead. Vancouver also won easily on the shots on goal category: 47-30. Game 4 is Thursday at 8:30 PM in Nashville. Here's the recap.

Last night, the Jays took to the ball diamond in their first game of this current series vs the Tama Bay Rays. It started well enough, with a good performance by struggling starter Jo-Jo Reyes who went 6 innings and only gave up 1 run and 4 hits to Tampa while striking out 4 himself. He was actually looking to be the winner until the 9th inning when the bullpen crashed again for Toronto. Jon Rauch, the closer for Toronto blew the save by giving up a 2-run walk-off home run to B.J. Upton for a 3-2 Tama victory. The Rays have now won 3 straight games while the Jays have lost 3 straight. Here's the recap.

That's all for now. The Jays will try for a win in Tampa Bay tonight at 6:40 PM and will put Brendan Morrow on the mound to face off against Jeff Niemann. Take care!