-Cory Schneider was phenomenal tonight, especially considering the difficulty Vancouver usually has with Colorado. Second shutout of his career, stopping 24 shots. Van's best player.

-Aaaron Rome took a puck off the wrist and left the game, adjust your rosters accordingly.

-Kesler got back on track with any empty net goal. Too bad it was an empty net. Look for Kesler to get back on track after the all-star break. He's going to need that extra rest. I'm counting on a solid second half, but don't expect last year's production.

-Hodgson was damn good once again. This kid is already making Vancouver a much better team, which was incredibly necessary with Malhotra's decline.

-AV earned his 247th win.

-Fantastic job shutting down Colorado's second ranked powerplay

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G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C: J. Carter, H Sedin, E. Staal
RW: P. Kane, Stewart
LW: Semin, Couture
D: Pietrangelo, Hamhuis, Subban, Carlson
G: Lundqvist, Price
UTIL: Plekanec, Ennis, Perron, D. Brown


Farm
D: B. Smith, Morrow
F: Brassard, Williams, Niederreiter, Little, Okposo, Whitney, Nyquist, Kesler
G: S. Mason, Ward

Prospect:
F - Z. Kassian, Spooner, Kuznetsov, Tatar, Teravainen, Stone, Connolly
D - Matt Dumba

So far this month Hodgson has outscored every Canuck forward not named Sedin... and he is getting a whopping 12-and-a-half minutes of ice time for his troubles.

Kid deserves to play more, beauty pass on the opener.

Loved the play of Schneider... one day that kid is gonna be a starter.

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Okay, so maybe nobody likes a cynic, but everybody f**king hates those perky optimists!

... and anyway, I make a damn good cynic.

I'd love to see Raymond/Hodgson/Kesler. We know Kes can be effective on the wing and there is a fantastical of smarts, grit and speed on that line. Then you have a third of Higgins and booth centered either by Malhotra or lapierre. It leaves Hansen a bit out of the lurch but a fourth of Hansen and Weise centered by Malhotra or lapierre screams depth. Wood be interesting to see of it works, at the very least.

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G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C: J. Carter, H Sedin, E. Staal
RW: P. Kane, Stewart
LW: Semin, Couture
D: Pietrangelo, Hamhuis, Subban, Carlson
G: Lundqvist, Price
UTIL: Plekanec, Ennis, Perron, D. Brown


Farm
D: B. Smith, Morrow
F: Brassard, Williams, Niederreiter, Little, Okposo, Whitney, Nyquist, Kesler
G: S. Mason, Ward

Prospect:
F - Z. Kassian, Spooner, Kuznetsov, Tatar, Teravainen, Stone, Connolly
D - Matt Dumba

Convincing win tonight.

Schneider is looking great, though he wasn't tested toouch tonight. 21 shots total. Two consecutive shutouts.

Kesler looked of old after promising a "vintage Kesler" tonight. Great goal on a mini breakaway, with a snipe to the top right corner. He made a great backhand pass on Booth's goal.

Five different goal scorer's tonight: Salo, Kesler, Booth, Lapierre and Burrows

Lappiere's intense forechecking caused a couple of turnovers on which he capitalized. Mike Smith was pissed.

Cody Hodgson is awesome. I would be trying to buy low on this kid. Owner's should still be sour on him.

The Canucks area going to have three good lines once Raymond is back. Each line will be able to score. Looking forward to it.

Now - question of the night...does Vancouver look to avoid what happened in LA and play Schneider tomorrow night against San Jose? If it was up to me I say hell yea. Can't go wrong in making sure Luongo is fully healthy, if ya know what I'm saying.

Short review tonight. I'm doing it from my phone.

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10tm Dynasty Lg - $70M CAP
G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C: J. Carter, H Sedin, E. Staal
RW: P. Kane, Stewart
LW: Semin, Couture
D: Pietrangelo, Hamhuis, Subban, Carlson
G: Lundqvist, Price
UTIL: Plekanec, Ennis, Perron, D. Brown


Farm
D: B. Smith, Morrow
F: Brassard, Williams, Niederreiter, Little, Okposo, Whitney, Nyquist, Kesler
G: S. Mason, Ward

Prospect:
F - Z. Kassian, Spooner, Kuznetsov, Tatar, Teravainen, Stone, Connolly
D - Matt Dumba

Geez I hate is when guys just 'phone it in'!

Just kidding!

Just think, we could end up with
Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Booth-Kesler-Raymond (fastest Canuck line ever)
Higgens-Hodgson-Hansen (they looked good together earlier this year... Triple H line, sorry WWE)
Malholtra-Lappy-whoever

That's some nice forward depth.

Maybe put Lappy on the 3rd line... in case Cody needs help on face-offs...

Screw fighting, let's just out-score everyone.

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... and anyway, I make a damn good cynic.

Schneider to start tomorrow vs. Columbus.

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Awese news and deserved. Sounds like Edler should play as well, but that could change ce game time.

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G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C: J. Carter, H Sedin, E. Staal
RW: P. Kane, Stewart
LW: Semin, Couture
D: Pietrangelo, Hamhuis, Subban, Carlson
G: Lundqvist, Price
UTIL: Plekanec, Ennis, Perron, D. Brown


Farm
D: B. Smith, Morrow
F: Brassard, Williams, Niederreiter, Little, Okposo, Whitney, Nyquist, Kesler
G: S. Mason, Ward

Prospect:
F - Z. Kassian, Spooner, Kuznetsov, Tatar, Teravainen, Stone, Connolly
D - Matt Dumba

Sounds good with Edler, hadn't heard much after he got knocked out of the game. By HNIC it sounded like Raymond was to play Tuesday as well. Who sits... and dare we ask what the lines are?

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F: Ovechkin, Datsyuk, Kessel, Benn, Couture, Heatley, Steen, Landeskog, Brouwer, Doan, Peverley, Bonino
D: Subban, Yandle, Edler, Goligoski, Brodie, A MacDonald, Cowen, Tanev
G: Lundqvist, Smith, Allen
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Prospects:
F: Etem, Bennett, Killorn, Spooner, Hartikainen, Gaunce, Mk. Granlund
D: Clendening, Donovan, Lindell, Schmaltz, Forbort, Burlon

Sami Salo will be in the lineup and Roberto Luongo will get the start against Calgary tomorrow.

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Goalies: If I'm pickin em you best be sittin em!

Canucks go up against the Flames tonight, as mentioned before Salo will return to the lineup and Luongo will get the start.

Raymond will also be making his long-awaited return since his back injury in the SC finals.

Lineup should look something like this:

D.Sedin-H.Sedin-Burrows
Higgins-Kesler-Booth
Raymond-Hodgson-Hansen
Malhotra-Lapierre-Weise

Bieksa-Hamhuis
Edler-Salo
Rome-Ballard

Unfortunate news yesterday as Aaron Volpatti is done for the season with a labrum tear, same injury suffered by Steve Pinizzotto in pre-season.

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