Pre Season Game #1 Canucks @ Oilers

Well tonight's game was pretty much what you'd expect for your first game of the season except that there was some great goals and fantastic saves on both ends. Cory Schneider was in net for us tonight he's our JR goalie, I felt like his performance was pretty solid, he's young and has a way's to go to being our number 2 but potential is definitely there. It was tough following the game tonight because all the new face's, numbers and names to pick up. But it was a good game for sure! It was nice to see some of the familiars putting up numbers Jeff Cowan tied up the game in the first with a great goal off of a nice pass from Labrie, then later in the second period D.Sedin made a nice pass to Ohlund to tie up the game. Then late in the third Gendur tied it up after the Oilers took the lead in the second off of Gagnon's beautiful breakaway on Schneider...

A couple of the guys were over and we were thinking it would be nice to see the Canucks win the first game we are watching and although I did agree I said I'd like to see it in the shootout just to see what kinda magic we could make happen there and it was nice to see that there was some, the choices were tough in fact I don't think any of us made picks for who it would be, again new roster hard to know... but Wellwood, Raymond and Krog were the picks. Wellwood started things off with opening the SO scoreboard nice little snap into the back of the net, Raymond tried to make a play but Garon cut the angle coming way out of his net and Raymond was beat. Krog came in after Gagnon barried one. He put it away with pretty little snap that beat Garon hit the cross bar and went into the back of the net.

All in all it was a good performance, it's tough to say what this year's going to be like a lot of and I mean A LOT of new faces..

Few questions would be can they GEL that fast? do they have what it takes? how familiar can you be with 60+% new members on your team... Let's hope the coaching staff can work some magic on a young team.

GO CANUCKS GO!!