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Sunday?was not 1 of them.
San Jose took a 2-1 lead into the third period due toPatrick Marleau?¡¥s goal on its only electrical power play, aswell as a gift goal for Joe Thornton off the stick of Canucksgoalie Roberto Luongo. But after failing to complete numerousexcellent odds late in the second, Vancouver lastly converted whilein the third.


Alex Burrows skated onto Henrik Sedin?¡¥s chip pass and powering DanBoyle on a left-wing rush prior to feeding a pass across thatBieksa wristed previous a sliding Antti Niemi.
Dany Heatley took an elbowing penalty 32 seconds later, and also theCanucks?¡¥ strength play, which appeared horrible its initiala few probabilities soon after major the NHL insidethe typical season, also woke up. A stage pass from formerSharks defenseman Christian Ehrhoff acquired Niemi shifting proper,and Sedin, whose only other goal in these playoffs was into an empty web,skated onto it the other way, waiting for Niemi to slide previousbefore tucking a backhand shot in to the empty net.
The twins get heading like that, they are almostunstoppable, Bieksa mentioned.
Game 2 is Wednesday in Vancouver.
I assumed our group appeared tired. I thought our teamappeared sluggish, Sharks coach Todd McLellan mentioned.There?¡¥s nights once we lose our legs, but our minds are evennow fairly sharp, and I didn?¡¥t think which was the circumstance tonight.It started among the ears and it worked all of theway by means of the body. We had been like dogschasing automobiles around the freeway. We just weren?¡¥tcatching anybody.
Maxim Lapierre scored his 1st objective from the playoffs, and Luongo created27 saves.
Niemi stopped 35 shots for that Sharks, including a handful of highlight-reel stops late withinthe second interval, robbing Ryan Kesler for the durationof a wild scramble and Hansen in by yourself.
We desired to get in to the locker area and recoversomewhat bit, McLellan stated. But we didn?¡¥t have it insidethe third.
Notes: San Jose D Jason Demers was a shock late scratch as aconsequence of an unidentified injury, and was changed by KentHuskins ... Vancouver LW Mikael Samuelsson, who plays the point aroundthe 1st power-play unit, hasn?¡¥t skated considering that gettinghurt in Sport 5 inthe conference semifinals.
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