With the cold weather in the morning and all the way in the afternoon, I spend the whole day at my house, waiting to watch game 5 between the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings.
I woke up around 8:30 am, because I couldn't sleep anymore. The house was literally cold. I decided to go on the computer for a while and was on for about an hour, before I started my house chorus.
I vacuumed the house for about an hour before I ate breakfast. I had sushi and spaghetti. I know it is a weird combination, but I didn't care. I ate whatever my mom makes.
I ate breakfast and watched Suspect In Love, aka a Hong Kong drama.
Afterwards, I didn't really do much except that I watched videos on youtube and talked to my friends on MSN, about coming to my place to watch the playoff game. I also spend some time reading the Canucks forum. One of the threads I read was about a Canucks fan ranting how poorly his group was treated by the Kings fans. Though I believed he kind of exaggerated a bit, when he mentioned that a gorgeous female L.A Kings fan, called him a pussy, because he and his group of four didn't want to fight a group of 30 L.A Kings fan. I was surprised that someone getting outnumbered by this much, got called a pussy. This shows how low Kings fan can get. I later waited for my buddies to show up.
They did came at 5 pm, and we played some NHL 10 and then we played Super Smash Brawl on Wii, for the last hour. I ended up outperforming all of my other friends. However, I would of played better if I was using a gamecube controller instead. Anyways, we stopped at 7, because that was when the game started
The first period, was pretty solid. Vancouver opened the scoring when Steve Bernier buried a rebound, when Kyle Wellwood miss the net with the one timer shot, and Vancouver took a 1-0 lead. Minutes later, Vancouver was penalized and the Kings, as usual scored, when Michael Hanzus banked a pass off Canuck defencemen Christian Ehrhoff to tie the game 1-1. Even though the Kings scored on this powerplay, I did not blame Vancouver for this, because L.A was 1/2 on the powerplay after this goal. Also, Vancouver was just unlucky on that play. Later in the first period, Vancouver was on the offense again, and Alexander Edler scored from a pass by Jannick Hansen, that trickled past netminder Jonathan Quick, to take a 2-1.
The second period was better than the first period. Vancouver, 5 on 5 again went on the attack, and Daniel Sedin scored off his own rebound, giving the Canucks a 3-1 lead. Later in the period, the Sedins were on the attack again, 5 on 5. With some teamwork passing, they set up Mikael Samuelsson as he rifled a slapshot past Jonathan Quick, and Vancouver leads 4-1. Jonathan Quick was then replaced by backup goalender, Erik Ersberg I was high fiving every single one of my friends, for each goals Vancouver scored. Near the end of the period, Vancouver was called for 2 penalties. Although the second penalty was terribly called, Vancouver still managed to kill it off without surrendering any powerplay goals. My friends and I were amazed what we actually saw. Vancouver killed off 2 straight penalties! That is unbelievable! The second period ending with Vancouver up 4-1. I went out with one of my other friend, and bought Mcdonalds back, just when the 3rd period started a while ago.
Vancouver took over the game in the 3rd, started off when Pavol Demitra blasted a slapshot, shortside on the blocker side of Erik Ersberg and Vancouver takes a 5-1 lead. The largest lead of the series. Not even one minute later, the Kings responded with a goal by Freddy Modin and the leads back to 3, 5-2 Vancouver lead. As time progressed in the game, L.A was penalized and Vancouver went on the powerplay. Mikael Samuelsson would snipe a shot past Erik Ersberg and Vancouver is up 6-2. Can you believe this guy? 2 Goals in game 1, 1 goal in game 2, 1 goal in game 3, 1 goal in game 4 and 2 goals tonight. I was surprised, along with my friends that Erik Ersberg was pulled and Jonathan Quick was back in. We didn't really care, and kept watching. Minutes later, Steve Bernier pounded on the rebound right after the draw, and Vancouver up 7-2. That is the most number of goals scored in this series and so far in the playoffs.
The game became more entertaining, when Shane O'Brien and Wayne Simmonds dropped the gloves. First time in this series that a fight between two opposing players happened. I am a Canucks fan, but I believed that this fight was pretty even. Though O'Brien may have done better, with the last tackle.
Another fight broke out seven seconds later, this time Rick Rypien and Richard Clune were involved. This time, Rick Rypien totally owned Richard Clune, as Clune went down on the ice, and had to grab on to his shoulder and headed to the dressing room.
No goals were scored for the remaining of the game, and Vancouver won 7-2, and leads 3-2 in the best of seven.
There were few things I was proud of the Canucks with. Many people before the game criticized about Andrew Albert's return. However, he proved to everybody that he still belongs in this team, finishing with an assist and a +2 rating. He also didn't take any penalties, which was fucking unbelievable. Considering that he has over 20 minutes of penalty, during the first two games of the playoffs! Well done tonight Andrew!
The second thing is that Vancouver continued to do what they did best all series long. That was dominating 5 on 5. Six of their seven goals tonight scored were 5 on 5, versus the Kings' one 5 on 5 goal.
The third thing is that Vancouver was able to kill penalties tonight. Los Angeles was 1/5 tonight with the man advantage. The only thing they were better than us all series long was the powerplays. Now that they couldn't score every single time, their offence production has really dried out. Even though tonight, L.A took 2 quick penalties that took them off the powerplay, Vancouver didn't surrender a goal without being unlucky. The 5 on 3 disadvantage for Vancouver was a great example, they killed it off without L.A taking any penalties.
Vancouver officially needs to win one more game, and Los Angeles will be eliminated! Just one more!!! Finish this off boys! LETS GO CANUCKS!!!!!
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