Saturday, February 5, 2011

Canucks Rally With 2 in 3rd to Beat Blackhawks 4-3

Vancouver Canucks forward Daniel Sedin leads the NHL and the bragging rights for his twin brother Henrik. However, he was most struck by a rare home victory over rival Chicago.

Daniel Sedin of the goal with four minutes, moved atop the NHL scoring race with 69 points and lifted the Canucks to their fifth straight victory with a wild 4-3 victory in the Blackhawks Friday night.

More importantly, said Sedin, it ended a run of five defeats against Chicago, which included three games in the second last year lost the second round of the playoffs this season the Canucks were eliminated from right by Blackhawks.

"It's good for our confidence, I think, especially against this team," said Daniel, who also assisted on power-play goals Brother Henry to tie the game midway through the third period.

"We had some problems against him."

They are behind at the end of the second period and another eight minutes in the third when Dave Bolland, who was dismissed had a goal in the first period, his shot had beaten the network roaming Vancouver Canucks rookie defender Chris Tanev.

But Henry also on a power play just over two minutes later with a one-hour just over the goal line after Mikael Samuelsson is false point shot stranded goaltender Marty Turco top of his enclosure.