Daniel Sedin 4 – Detroit Red Wings 2

The Canucks really showed up for the game last night. The final tally had Daniel Sedin scoring all four of the team’s goals, but that dosn’t mean that the rest of the team was asleep. The ‘Nucks played with big time heart and probably a bit of desperation last night. The required passion had obviously returned to their game. The photo at left shows Daniel scoring his hat trick goal. You can see a larger version of that photo here. Daniel scored his fourth and final goal of the evening into an empty net as Detroit had pulled their goal tender to allow for an extra attacker on the ice in a desperate bid to tie the game.

I must admit, after the recent performance of the Canucks, especially at home, I was not too hopeful as to their chances last evening. Playing a team like Detroit, who is at the top of the conference and on a roll it could have been a really bad night. But it wasn’t. Detroit came out hard but ran out of gas and after that it was all Vancouver. The Sedins are finally producing and even out skating opponents in the process giving a well deserved ‘in your face’ to detractors (I admittedly have been one).

As an aside, Trevor Linden played his 900th game as a Canuck and is poised to break Stan Smyl’s all time points record as a Canuck of 673. He’s been in a bit of a drought but I’m sure we’ll see this clutch player and fan favourite pull it off and soon. No pressure Trevor (like he’ll ever read this…)!