Daniel Sedin scored the game-winner off a broken play with 2:03 remaining, and the Vancouver Canucks advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 4-2 win in Game 6 to eliminate the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center.
Vancouver - Los Angeles Game Six Scoring Chances
With nothing else to watch in the post-season, The Copper & Blue have been tallying scoring chances in the playoffs. Scott Reynolds has been tracking the Canucks and Kings and points the finger of blame at one man in Los Angeles:
Puck in your crease? Maybe you should argue with your defender about whether or not to cover. Need to play the puck behind the net? May as well kick it. That didn’t work out? I guess passing it to the Canucks will be better. Shot from the point with no screen? I guess we’ll let the post handle that one. Three goals on fifteen chances isn’t necessarily bad, but Quick sure did look bad doing it and the tying goal was pretty weak. It broke my brain all series that Bernier wasn’t on the bench.And so it is every season, the importance of good goaltending is so much larger under the microscope of the playoffs, except this time it’s not Robert Luongo taking the blame.
Read Article >Canucks Score Three In Final Period, Eliminate Kings With 4-2 Win
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) – Daniel Sedin scored the game-winner off a broken play with 2:03 remaining, and the Vancouver Canucks advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 4-2 win in Game 6 to eliminate the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center.
With the game appearing destined for overtime, Mikael Samuelsson broke his stick on a shot from the inner left circle. It hit a sliding Kings defender, who had gone down to block the shot, and went right to Sedin sitting off the left post, where he lifted it past Quick’s blocker.
Read Article >9:00 P.M: Kings Hope Fend Off Canucks, Keep Season Alive In Game 6
The third-seeded Canucks enter this evening’s Game 6 matchup with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven conference quarterfinals. Vancouver, the Northwest Division champions, was behind two games to one in the set before using a high-powered offensive attack to take Games 4 and 5.
The Kings, meanwhile, will try to regain a defensive hold on this series after allowing 13 goals in the last two matchups. Vancouver scored four times in the third period en route to a 6-4 win in Game 4 at LA and notched an easy 7-2 home victory in the fifth contest.
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