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[GDT] VAN Canucks vs DET Red Wings - 04/20/13


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  • Canucks can clinch playoff berth by beating Red Wings.

  • It's the last of three and the final chance for the Vancouver Canucks to avoid a season sweep at the hands of the Detroit Red Wings, who came up with dominant 8-2 and 5-2 wins in their first two matchups, both with Roberto Luongoin net. The Red Wings are 17-7-4 against the Canucks in their last 28 meetings.

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  • Vancouver might want to avoid the sweep and nail down a Stanley Cup Playoff spot, but the Wings need the win more in their effort to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time since the 1989-90 season. A 3-5-2 slump has dropped them from fifth to 10th in the Western Conference, tied with the Dallas Stars and two points behind the red-hot Columbus Blue Jackets in eighth. The Canucks have dropped off a bit themselves, losing three of four after a 10-2-0 run, but maintain a four-point lead over the Minnesota Wild in the Northwest Division.

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  • The Wings have teed off on Luongo, who is 1-2-1 with a 4.57 goals-against average in his last four starts against them. Henrik Zetterberg has three goals and two assists against Vancouver this season, while Justin Abdelkader, Joakim Andersson, Damien Brunner and Dan Cleary have each scored two goals. Brunner can also kick in three assists to go withPavel Datsyuk's five. … Both Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel, had four-game point streaks snapped Thursday.

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  • Detroit 3-5-2, Vancouver 5-4-1

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  • 24-3-7, 55 pts

  • Henrik Sedin: 42 Points

  • Alexandre Burrows: 13 Goals

  • Henrik Sedin: 31 Assists

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  • 20-16-7, 47 pts

  • Pavel Datsyuk: 41 Points

  • Pavel Datsyuk: 13 Goals

  • Henrik Zetterberg: 29 Assists

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  • At least they can clinch at home. The Canucks could have wrapped up a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Thursday night, but they ran into a desperate Dallas Stars team in the final game of their five-stop road trip and left with a 5-1 loss. They come home to Rogers Arena after going 2-2-1 on the trip -- they play three of their final four at home, where they've outscored opponents 18-5 while winning six straight. That should give them some time to get into proper playoff form.

  • "We're 44 games into the season," goalie Cory Schneider said. "Playoffs start in a week and a half. I think we're past the point of learning lessons. I think we need to go out and do it, execute and be the team that we know we can be because I don't think we're showing it for a full 60 minutes."

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  • It's crunch time for Detroit, which is trying to extend its streak of playoff appearances to 22 but will have to come up with a late-season surge to do to. The Red Wings have been off since Wednesday, when a couple of bizarre third-period goals sent them to a 3-2 road loss against the Calgary Flames despite a 38-17 advantage in shots on goal. Goaltender Jimmy Howard tried to take the blame for the fluke goals, but coach Mike Babcock wasn't buying.

  • "After the other night in Calgary someone told me that Howard said, 'That's on me,' '' Babcock said after Friday's practice. "That's not on him, but that's what leadership is. It's on us, that's on coaches, that's on the D, that's on forwards, that's on everybody.''

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Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Alexandre Burrows

Derek Roy - Ryan Kesler - Jannik Hansen

Mason Raymond - Andrew Ebbett - Zack Kassian

Dale Weise - Maxim Lapierre - Steve Pinizzotto


Alexander Edler - Cam Barker

Dan Hamhuis - Jason Garrison

Keith Ballard - Andrew Alberts

Cory Schneider

Roberto Luongo

Injured: Manny Malhotra, David Booth, Kevin Bieksa, Christopher Tanev, Chris Higgins

Scratched:

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Johan Franzen – Pavel Datsyuk – Justin Abdelkader

Valtteri Filppula – Henrik Zetterberg – Danny Cleary

Gustav Nyquist – Joakim Andersson – Damien Brunner

Drew Miller – Cory Emmerton – Patrick Eaves

Niklas Kronwall – Jonathan Ericsson

Kyle Quincey – Brendan Smith

Danny Dekeyser – Jakub Kindl

Jimmy Howard

Jonas Gustavsson

Injured: Darren Helm (IR, back), Todd Bertuzzi (IR, back)

Scratched: Ian White, Jordin Tootoo, Brian Lashoff, Carlo Colaiacovo, Mikael Samuelsson, Jared Coreau

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Sweet GDT! Let's play a full 60 minutes. Finish off the season-series with Red Wings on a good note. Take the 2 points (1 to clinch) with authority. No more lacklustre games en-route to the playoffs.

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