
Jamie Benn and Daniel Sedin doing some gameday research.
The closed room meeting and extra time spent on CPHL lead the Canucks to their first victory of the season!!!!
Both Benn and Sedin had a goal and an assist in leading Vancouver past the Lightning. A 2nd period injury to Ekman-Larsson resulted in Alec Martinez stepping up and logging over 23 minutes of ice time. After taking a 2 goal lead into the third the Canucks let off the gas and allowed Tampa to score 3 goals in 4 minutes. Responding with 2 goals in the final 5 minutes the Canucks avoided going to extra time again.
Goaltender Mike Smith was happy about the victory. "'Bout f*^king time we got a win. We are a better team than this start indicates. We have two days off to drink then the Dallas Stars come to town so that we can demolish them like KG on a dozen cheeseburgers! Beers on Danny! (Daniel Sedin)"
We swept the 3 stars too:
1 - Daniel Sedin - Extra time browsing the web helped Daniel tune his game
2 - Zack Kassian - responded to being demoted to the 2nd line with the GWG
3 - Ray Whitney - received a star because he is older then his General Manager (oh, he had a goal and an assist too.)
Hopefully with 2 days off The Canucks top D-man can recover from his upper body injury. "Oh this, it's nothing. I've hurt myself worse horsing around on a golf cart. I will be back before you know it."