kanucks1 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 The San Jose Sharks are hoping to better their playoff chances by extending their longest winning streak since the opening month of the season. The Sharks take aim at a fifth straight victory on Monday night as they host the Vancouver Canucks, who aim to rebound after having their season high-tying winning streak halted. San Jose has won consecutive games for just the second time since it set a franchise record by winning its first seven games of the season. The Sharks current four-game run began with a home-and-home sweep of the Pacific Division-leading Anaheim Ducks and they took the home portion by a 4-0 margin. That victory also opened a seven-game homestand and San Jose notched its second straight shutout victory on Thursday with a 2-0 decision over the Detroit Red Wings, two days before besting the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 in a shootout. Antti Niemi, who was in net for the back-to-back blankings, saw his shutout streak end at 136 minutes, 23 seconds when he gave up a first-period goal at the 14:43 mark, but ended with 27 saves and stopped all three skaters faced in the shootout to defeat the Coyotes. Logan Couture had the lone tally of the tiebreaker, while Joe Pavelski scored in a fourth straight game to match a career high and had an assist. "When you're in a little stretch like this you're just trying to remind yourself to shoot the puck, and that's been a big part," said Pavelski. "It's been a simple game. We've gotten a lot of pucks in deep. We got some good looks tonight. We got some really good looks." Marc-Edouard Vlasic also lit the lamp for the Sharks, who stand sixth overall in the Western Conference with 40 points, one ahead of Detroit and three back of the Los Angeles Kings. San Jose will try to extend its winning streak by sweeping its three-game season series with Vancouver. That includes a 4-1 victory on Jan. 27 that snapped a four-game series home losing streak. The Canucks had a six-game winning streak halted on Saturday with a 4-0 setback to the Edmonton Oilers. That left them tied with the Minnesota Wild atop the Northwest Division, though the Canucks have two fewer wins and one more game played. The Wild are hosting the St. Louis Blues on Monday. Vancouver was tagged early and often versus Edmonton as Cory Schneider was pulled after giving up two goals on the only two shots he faced, including one just 16 seconds into the game. Schneider had given up just six goals with two shutouts over Vancouver's six- game winning streak. "You know, two shots, two goals. It's a terrible start to put your team in a hole like that," Schneider said. "We plan on being prepared and it starts with me in net and talk about making a big save or two to get you team in it, settle down a little bit and I didn't do that. It costs us, put us in a hole and we were never able to recover from it." Roberto Luongo finished the game in net and gave up two goals on 22 shots. Lineup Sedin- Sedin- Burrows Hansen-Schroeder-Raymond Jensen-Ebbett-Higgins Sestito-Lapierre-Pinnizotto Sweatt. Edler-Bieksa Hamhuis-Garisson Alberts-Tanev Schneider GO CANUCKS GO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonny_Bohonos_14 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Big bounce back game. 5-1 Canucks. Henrik, Raymond x2, Hansen, Garrison Clowe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Ummm, Garrison is double shifting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Canucks in OT!Jensen with a PP goal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Sunshine, day off for me, game that'll hopefully erase the last fiasco. Life is good.... Go Canucks....no predictions today, just win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nino Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Any news on who's starting? Looking forward to seeing our call ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenFan2011 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 is that the right line up? i heard Jensen with the sedins last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanucksFanMike Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Go Canucks Go! We need a bounceback effort 3-2 Canucks win Higgins Garrison Jensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ride the red Pony Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Back to the basics, rebound after a bad loss, heads up boys, short memory and all of that. 3-1 Nucks. Higger Dank Garrison on the PP Sharks: Pavelski Clowe in his last tilt as a Shark vs. Sestito, Draw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicky Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Garrison is a stud, he can play all game if need be. Always enjoy the SJ games, usually fast paced and big hits. Excited to see Jensen (1st line?). Just looking for the W. GCG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nino Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Ok now I'm getting a little concerned, they are playing Jensen on the first line with the twins right before the trade deadline. If MG screws up with another bad trade I'm going to flip out. Cody trade 2.0 anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck_trevor16 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Daniel and henrik is playing with jensen.......so burrow drop to third line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananas Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Oh man... first play-off bound opponent in a while. Let's hope Jensen thinks the Canucks are team Denmark :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 4-2 Canucks Jensen Garisson Burrows Hansen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Marchand Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Canucks give up 4 goals in the first minute. Nicklas Jensen responds by scoring four goals in his first shift. Canucks eventually win 29-28, with 19 goals from Tom Sestito. Ryane Clowe scores his first 28 goals of the year for the Sharks to take the NHL goalscoring lead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 hoping to see Lui get the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanucks1 Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Any news on who's starting? Looking forward to seeing our call ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Ummm, Garrison is double shifting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NP-4815162342 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Schneider is starting acccording to TSN. He isn't starting wih the Sedins but he will probably get a shift with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucksordie Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Come on Jensen, he's our man, if he can't do it, we're screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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