Game 1 vs Ducks!

So, who's ready for Game 1 with the "Mighty Ducks" sure on paper the Ducks out rank the Canucks, with their heavy hitters, big goal scorers and offensive lines special teams and experience but since when have we been a team that stays true to stats? They said that Dallas would beat us in 6 or 7 too they were wrong about that now weren't they.. VERY WRONG!

They make new stats up all the time who cares about the stats. Luongo is one of THE BEST GOALIES in the world right now. We're CANUCKS we've got HEART. We have to stand as one and BELIEVE that we will reign victorious. So Canuck fans all over the world, or those of you who read my blog anyways LETS HEAR IT FOR THE CANUCKS!!

Here are some things that we'll have to look out for; Penalties, needless trips to the Sin Bin. If we can play smart and draw penalties we'll have that much better of a chance in winning this series. I believe that this is going to be a hard fought battle for our team. But I know we can do it, in my heart I know the Canucks can win this series. I don't care about the pre-playoff match-ups. I care about the here and now! The Ducks have had a few days off to heal their bumps and bruises but WE are coming off a big high and a very well played Game 7. The teams aren't matched as equally as they were with Dallas. Hitting, the Canucks are going to have to bring an "A" game and start hitting more, and finishing their checks to eliminate plays being setup in front of Luo. With guys like Pronger, Niedermayer, and Beauchemin against him he's gonna have to play as equally good or better then he did with Dallas if the Defensive and Forward lines don't block more shots they they were. The Ducks led the League in penalty minuets and fighting majors this year. So look forward to alot of BIG hits and min's in the sin bin. Motivation: If I was Alain Vigneault I'd be telling the boyz the same thing I did in Game 7 of the first series "There's alot of other teams that wished they could be here" Especially now with 8 of the 16 teams that started this Playoff series are out. prove you deserve to be here, show them you want to stay.. Then I'd do something crazy like through the "predictions" from every sports commentator on the table that says "ducks in 6 or 7" and say PROVE them wrong too!

GO CANUCKS GO

LET'S BBQ SOME DUCK THIS SERIES

LOVE THIS TEAM LOVE THIS GAME!!

WOW WOW WOW I can't even begin to explain how happy and stoked I am tonight What an amazing game seriously! I have to admit I was a little worried after the first period, but then when I saw Willie Mitchell in the interview and quoting Alain Vigneaut "There are a lot of other teams that would kill to be in your shoes right now" I KNEW things were going to turn around and Turn around is EXACTLY what they did. Vancouver DOMINATED the rest of the game the whole 40 mins belonged to Van. Dallas had a total of 4 shots in the 2nd period and 7 in the 3rd. We finally scored on a Power Play and it was a GREAT GOAL beautifully setup by Daniel, Henrik was not going to miss and it FOUND the back of the net to tie the game.

Even Linden's goal was a power play goal was amazing I LOVE WHEN he scores (I've made up my mind I'm getting his jersey, there's one on E-bay SIGNED I'm taking donations) anyways to quote Canucks.com's recap "Linden played a monumental game that looked like he got a hold of the DeLorean from Back to the Future to travel back to his younger days.
“It might have been his best game of the whole year,” said Brendan Morrison." I completely agree the energy that he had was like watching him in his younger days. It's the game seven he shines in Game 7's :-DTaylor Pyatt and Brian Smolinski to get the Empty netters thats not something you see a lot of but Dallas didn't have much for choice at that point in the game. Sealed the deal ending the series 4-3 with score of 4-1 Vancouver stuck true to its stats with games that they scored at least one goal they won. My hat's off to Dallas and Turco you guys played a great game and showed spirit all the way through, never gave up and kept on pressing. Couple of great shots in the last game including Modano's cross bar wringer that bounced off the inside of the cross bar to ALMOST tie the game. Great job, great series. Probably THE BEST and most evenly matched series in the playoffs this year (so far) Thanks for the stress and the gray hairs.



My Vancouver Stars of the series: Roberto Luongo, was consistent throughout the entire series stood on his head, played his heart out! with his play off stats at: Record: 4-3
GAA: 1.41
Save %: .950
GA: 12
Great first playoff performance, feels good to have a goalie in net that you can count on as a Last Line of Defence MVP!!

My Second Star goes to Willie Mitchell he played incredibly made some AMAZING plays kept us alive on numerous occasions was the backbone along side Luongo great effort and again like Luo played his heart out!
My Final star is a no brainer! was a hard toss up between second and third but Trevor Linden you've captured our hearts once again, displaying incredible leadership qualities and grit like he always does. To quote The Insider; " But there is something about Linden fans know for certain: He’s as clutch as they come.
Need a crunching hit on the forecheck in a do or die game seven? Send number 16 over the boards and watch him pick his spot to rattle the glass and swing the momentum in the Canucks favor.
Need veteran leadership to rub off on two of your franchises’ players of the future? Put number 16 on the power-play with the Sedin Twins and watch him score the game winning goal with the man advantage.
Need someone who gets so nervous before huge playoff games that he can barely keep his lunch down? Trevor’s your guy. "

My favorite play by Trevor in the whole series was when he gave Brian Smolinski the puck for the empty netter, selflessly handing it over great great great play. Awesome!! True Leadership!



So to wrap things up Anaheim, Vancouver is coming to BBQ some duck. Burke were coming for your team!







For a bonus picture!! CLICK ON THIS IMAGE TO SEE FULL SCREEN!!
Wish you guys were there with me and could've enjoyed it as much as I did!!! Keith hows it feel to get texts FROM THE GAME!


PS: just kidding I wish I was there but CRAZY how much it looks like me (with the jersey I want)

Vancouver's Critics = Too Many!!

I've come to the conclusion that Vancouver fans are the hardest to please. Don't get me wrong that loss last night was hard on me too. But with all the ranting that people do "The Canucks have only made it this far riding Luongo's back, Cooke Crumbles or Sedin Twins Can't Find the Net" What do you expect we have got to be one of the hardest City's to play for. With fans criticizing or worshiping your every move, its hard to get anything done. After all they're still just human.

Lets talk about Dallas, don't get me wrong they've been playing good hockey (for the most part) but Turco is doing his job. He's the last line of defense yet you don't hear people saying Dallas is riding a Turco train, or Modano (America's leading goal scorer) hasn't found the trick to beat Luongo. Even Morrow has only squeaked two goals past him. And yes I do say SQUEAKED last nights goal was a very lucky goal, thats what happens when you keep putting them to the net though. If only that rouge puck would've went in, if only the line change would have been done properly, terrible penalty to take :(... Sorry back on topic.

Last nights game was by far the best game of the series both teams came out fighting hard, Vancouver had 6 shots on goal to Dallas' 1 before the game was even 4mins in. They were finishing their checks (Devin would be proud :P) Diggin for the puck, you knew it was going to be a battle of the goalies right away. With Turco making some UNBELIEVABLE saves right off the bat. Luongo answered back both goalies getting a shut out in regular time, one of them was bound to make a mistake sooner or later. Dallas broke its curse of the OT and Vancouver sunk deeper into it's curse of the Clincher, not being able to finish them off :( They fought hard though. Game 5 is by far my fave game of the series, however I would've loved for the outcome to be different. The Hockey god's didn't agree with my call though.


Let's talk about Willie Mitchell "WOW" Kudos to him he's playing with heart and lots of it! Never gives up constantly diggin for the puck racing for it, as usual, was a force in the Canucks own end. He put his body on the line and had five of the Canucks 20 blocked shots. The entire Stars team combined for 9. When he wasn’t blocking shots, he was getting his 63 inch piece of lumber in the way of the Stars. He prevented three or four top quality scoring chances in a game that had very few. Mitchell finished with 26:13 of ice time.

Thanks Willie keep playing hard it will continue to pay off for you.

Sopel... Wow he made a straight pass... Trade him, get rid of him, why'd they bring him back I can't stand Sopel he's slow and clumsy, my sister was like "I hope he gets the winning goal" cause I was riding him so bad haha. TRADE HIM DROP HIM I don't care.

Well here's to game 6, One of the best road teams, and one of the worst at home teams (in play offs) GO CANUCKS GO. You guys can do it BELIEVE!!!

2-1 Win Reg time!!!

If there's one thing I love its when Trevor Linden scores! I hope and pray for his sake they win the cup this year, he's been faithful to Van for almost his whole career. If it were up to him I'm sure he would have stayed the whole time! Great goal anyways!

Few things though, Brent Sopel... Get rid of him, he's good for nothing. Well almost entirely. I've never liked him he's clumsy and slow, bring someone up from the minor's who knows, but get rid of him. Second, once in the lead they switched to a dump and protect style of hockey. I know Dallas is a good offensive team but they have to keep the pressure on them. We owned them out there when we put the pressure on, when we kept going to the net creating scoring chances. Thats the type of hockey we need to continue to play. Great game tonight though! I was a little bummed to see Van sorta "run outta gas" in the begining of the third period especially when they played great hockey all night long, but they quickly snapped out of it.

Game 4 on home ice with a 3-1 lead!! YAY thats AWESOME NEWS

Playoff central continues at my place. Make sure to wear Canucks gear!

Couple picks to leave you with

Turco making it look "dramatic"

oh and how could I forget this MITCHELL talk about Awesome play way to stick with the puck dude!!!

2-1 Win OT

I was quiet bummed I didn't get to watch the game last night. Tom and I had to head to work 3hrs early but rest assured we tuned in on the radio and were following the play-by-plays. Good game, few things I wasn't happy with Linden and Pyatt not playing that hot but they made up for it in OT to give us the win. I'm pretty stoked for sure, do you realize that we "technically" haven't been down at all in this series. We won the first game, Dallas tied the series on the second game and now were up on the 2-1. In order for Dallas to win they'd have to win 3 straight now.

So something has been chappin my butt, I'm getting sick of everyone riding the Canucks saying they're on a Luongo train. He's not putting points on the board, sure he's a great goalie but do you hear them saying Turrco is keeping Dallas in the game? or Kipper or Brod? no you don't people need to stop saying that. If anything Turc is keepin Dallas alive and thats it, sure they've had plenty of scoring chances but SO HAS VAN. Grrr I hate critics :P

Thats my vent :P

So the game is on Tuesday at 5pm make sure your wearin your Canucks gear, and let me say it again for the record. IF YOUR NOT A FAN and only come to Dis the Canucks with NEGATIVE ATTITUDE... DON'T COME!!

GO CANUCKS GO

2-0 loss very disappointing!

Two early goals, Turco standing on his head. Its not that there wasn't enough chances we had plenty. Series is tied at 1 a piece.

Let's go Canucks show'em your serious!!!

I'll edit the post when I find out what time the game starts, however I'll be heading out to work around 7:15pm I'm sure it will be cool if you all hang out anyways (let me clear it with my lovely wife first haha)

Good News/Bad News

Good news is that I've got the potential of making some pretty decent coin upwards of $300/day possibly $400 or more. For 6 days work 8pm-8am. Bad news is if this gig does go through Playoff Central will be on hold until the gig is up! I can't turn it down though cause that would be dumb. So I'll be counting on ALL of you guys to keep the party going. As soon as I'm done though Playoff Central will continue at my house!

I'm sorry for those of you that were counting on the game being here but they will commence when I'm done

GO CANUCKS GO

Canucks win 5-4 in Fourth OT CRAZY GAME

WOW intense crazy game 72 saves Frigin insane. My only disappointment in the game was blowing a 2 goal lead and not playing hard for 2 periods. But WOW WOW WOW when they turned it up they owned it out there! Great game. I was on the edge of my seat all night long hoot'n and hollerin after every goal/hit/save. Or getting mad that they weren't playing hard hockey. I hope and pray the rest of the series doesn't go like that. 5.75hrs is along time you can bet they're gonna be tired after that game.
Had a good time glad you guys all came over ~ you know who you are. 6pm Friday is the next game show up early if you want.


On a side note I made dinner tonight :P It was REALLY Good, a few lucky people got to sample it other then my family. Gwen, I had to bring some to her cause she was helpin me out with some tips, things I was unsure of. Rossburger cause she didn't get to eat dinner seeing as she came from work to Playoff Central.

I've been craving Thai Sweet Chili sauce and today my wife was like what do you want for dinner. I always say the same two things Steak and Lobster or I dunno. She's been getting frustrated cause she wants to cook Yummy delights for me and I don't know what to cook. My excuse is that I don't know what we have for food so "you pick" Well today she went out for the day so I had the house to myself and thought why don't I do dinner for her.

Here's the recipe I used:
1/2 Onion ~ diced (could've used more but I thought it was to much, when it wasn't)
couple of garlic cloves crushed
some oil in the pan to saute the garlic and onion
fresh mushrooms sliced and sauted then added to the onions and garlic
4 boneless chicken breasts. (First I bbq'd them with sweet chilli sauce, seasoning salt, garlic salt and coarse pepper.) Then I cut them into bite sized pieces.
Red and Yellow peppers diced up. Then I added the chicken and peppers to the pan and 2 cups of cream (I actually used 3.5 on accident but it worked) then I used 1 cup of a dry white wine, I actually would've preferred to use more but I didn't (next time though)
Then I added some more of the sweet chili sauce to the mix about 3/4 cup and stirred in and let simmer for about 15 mins or more (needed the alcohol to be gone for my wife as she's still feeding the baby)

Then by my wife's choosing I used some angel hair spaghetti noodles and walla there you have it. Dinner ala Chris style. I've always loved cooking just hated the clean up part. So I don't do it a lot. But I might just have to get back into it.

Here's one of the dishes!

Front Window Painted Ready for the Game!!

Puck drops at 7pm show up early!

If your not a Canuck fan don't bother coming.
(that is if your only coming to dis the Canucks)

"YOU HAVE TO BE WEARING CANUCKS GEAR TO GET IN!" For those of you that care there's a Pre-game show to honor the Heroes of '82 that should be good! I'll have some goodies out but if you want to bring something that'd be cool too!

LET'S GO CANUCKS BRING IT HOME!!!

Canuck Central!!!

OK guys here's the deal Playoff central at my place, BYOB I'll try to have some snacks and drinks but seeing as Vancouver is going to go ALL THE WAY that'll get crazy expensive for me so if you bring an appy and some drinks or whatever that'll help out!!.

Here's the catch, if you want to come you HAVE HAVE HAVE to be wearing something Canuck anything I don't care if its old school or new school, or if you have to paint your face. IF your not wearing Canucks gear your not getting in the door!!! Sorry no exceptions!!!

GO CANUCKS GO

Ok Guys Need your input!

We're pretty much sold on the design but please give your input.
Tom and I are finally going to go gun-ho on our business we've talked about it for years and each done it solo, he started it and I continued it when he moved to Vancouver. Now he's back from Australia and Van and were ready and roaring to go.

Here's the card tell me what you think!
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(Front)


(Back)Anyways please comment and let me know what you think!