Canucks started game seven like they're afraid to lose

I'm watching the game between the Ducks and the Canucks (game 5) I'm so disapointed with how the Canucks offence is playing in this game. Although the defense is playing decent the only thing keeping them in so far is luongo. For a supposed team of Nhl calibur hockey players they are playing like they belong in pee-wee hockey. If they don't want to be eliminated tonight they had better pull there heads out of each others asses!!!

Don Cherry, I have a picture that was taken 23 years ago with my husband and son, my son was only a year old at the time, and yourself. This was in London at a Bridgestone tire dealership. A friend of the faimly owned the store. You were there to promote bridgestone. My son is getting married this year and I was hoping to be able to send this picture to you and have you autograph it for him. My son played hockey for many years and still plays hockey with his friends when ever he can.We now live in Collingwood, my son is living in Guelph. We lived in Kenora for 12 years and my son, his name is Michael, was the captain of one of the teams that Mike Richards played on. Would it be possible to let us know where I can mail this picture to have you sign it and mail it back to us. I would appreciate it if this is possible. My son does not remember this picture and we want to give it to him as a surprise. He is getting married in August. Thank you, Sincerely Theresa Pinder

I,am watching the Ottawa,Devils game right now.What a disgrace to see such a poor crowd there.Lets bring Hockey back to Canada and get a team in Winnipeg where they will pack the house ,shame on you NJ shame.

Hey Don,
My Grandfather, was with the The 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 146th Battalion, and fought at Vimy Ridge and at Passchendaele (where he lost a leg). He died when I was too young to appreciate what he and his buddies went through and accomplished over there. I don't want to get into whether it is a good or bad political decision to be sending our soldiers into Afghanistan today but I do appreciate the way you show support for them on Coach's Corner. Keep up the good work.

My comment has nothing to do with hockey, but everything with Don Cherry's "support the troops" propaganda. Could someone at Hockey Night in Canada please tell him to stick to what he knows i.e. hockey, and refrain from talking about what he considers to be "the most wonderful guys in the world", just because they're soldiers fighting in Afghanistan? If he wants to talk politics and justify the presence of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, ask him to get hired by the Globe and Mail or the National Post. I submit this comment knowing full well that it's to no avail, but I submit it nevertheless.

Thank you!

Don,
I was just wondering how to get ahold of you. My name is Michael Armstrong
(NORM 'RED' ARMSTRONG son). My mom (DAWN) and I havent talked to in a long time. Some of my family said they heard you talk about my dad around a month ago. Just wondering how you've been.
Michael D Armstrong

Can the Canucks beat the Ducks. My answer Yes! I believe they can it's whether they can get some offence going and score some goals no good if it's just an almost effort.

Can the Canucks beat the Ducks. My answer Yes! I believe they can it's whether they can get some offence going and score some goals no good if it's just an almost effort.

RE;Antony Ellis
Just to let you know that the game between the Ranger & Sarbes was broadcast on TSN. The CBC is carrying as always the Canadian based teams and TSN Broadcast all the other games.CBC will carry the third round and final round.
I guess you live in the northpole and maybe don't have a dish

Shirley, Vines is one of the best coaches the the NHL. He keeps changing lines to see who is hot and going to connect with each other. Where has Naslund, Morrisson, Sedin twins gone. If the Canucks have any chance at all these players have to show up and play there guts out. They didn't do anything last night. Great chance to start the game with the lead. The PP stinks. Naslund looks like he wants to go home. Hes no better than a 4th line center now. Vines will have them pumped for game 2. Lets Go Canucks.

Mr Cherry: I'm about your age (young) so have been watching hockey for many years. Has anyone besides me noticed that my team (Canucks) have no set lines? This poor excuse for a coach hasn't got a clue so keeps changing players every few minutes it seems and the players have no chemistry due to this stupidity. The Canucks are the only team in the NHL that don't have any lines to refer to in any play because he's always changing players in a hit & miss fashion. Vigneault is the worst "coach" I've ever seen and has been riding on Luongo's back too long. Thanks

Dear Ron and Don, I am still stunned that CBC did not air the first game between The Rangers and The Sabres. I know Ron that you will no doubt have some digestable excuse for us the fans. But the truth is there is no legitimate excuse for this travisty.
Do you guys really wanna what's wrong with hockey today? Well it's not the fighting, the calls by the referees, or the many number of things you talk about between periods... It's that your not giving Canadian kids a chance to watch and learn the game they love. Shame on The CBC.

Don Cherry,

We need your help!
Council members are trying to
PERMANTLY CLOSE OUR HOCKEY ARENA.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for the kids, saying something about this on coaches corner. If this arena closes, the kids will lose there arena. Arena is call Archie Browning Arena. Our web site www.savearchiebrowningarena.com Please spread the word & sign our petition.
Thanks Andrew Holenchuk
Victoria Minor Hockey
VMHA Coach & Rep Governor

not a religious man but here you are GRAPES!!!
The Canuck's Prayer

Our Father, who art in GM Place

Hockey be thy name.

Thy will be done, the cup be won

On ice, as well as in the stands.

Give us this day, our hockey sticks,

And forgive us our penalties,

As we forgive those who cross-check against us,

Lead us not into elimination,

But deliver us to victory.

In the name of the fans, Lord Stanley,

In the name of the Canuck's,

Amen

Something needs to be said at least about the AWFUL officiating in Game 7 because it hurts the integrity of the game. And the calls went both ways, although Dallas was on the receiving end of more bad calls. In general, it was simply officiating incompentence. They should go to the NBA, where they belong.

Don, I have been a fan of your brand of hockey since I played 30 yrs. ago.If Bettman has everyone wearing figure skates & tutu's next year ,I may boycott watching his NHL.Mr. Bettman should have sent franchises into Canada instead of southern U.S.Officiating sucks in all games I have watched.Go Wings!!!

With regards to Don Cherry's opinion of the Canucks' choice of uniform in Game 7: since when has Don Cherry been a fashion consultant? It doesn't take a coutourier to see that his choice of suit is anything but fashionable. Please look in the mirror, Don, before you judge others' attire. And, are you trying to say that Bob Dailey, Jack Maclehargey, and Harold Snepts looked "weak" when they proudly donned these classic jerseys? Think Don! Think before you make ridiculous comments that further alienate you from non-Leaf fans!

DON,
JUST WANTED TO SAY KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
ON THE TV HOUNOURING OUR TROOPS IN AFGANISTAN
AND AROUND THE WORLD

Go 'Nucks!!! Bring back the cup to where it belongs. I want to see the skate vintage jersey when they went to the '94 finals.

Let's Go Canucks!!!

To John in Ausralia:
It stinks to be far away from Canada so you can't see Hockey Night In Canada, but how would you like to be 60 miles (Okay 120Km) south of Kingston and have your cable company pull the plug on CKWS (channel 11, Kingston, ON)?!?! Ever since Time Warner cable (aka The Evil Empire) took CKWS away, I am stuck watching Sabre games on their homer network, or the NYC area teams on their networks. At least I can catch Coach's Corner on-line--you rock , DON!!!

Like Mr. Sullivan (above) I think Dallas got jobbed by the officials in game 7, but I've always liked Vancouver so I'm not too upset. I'd like to see a Detroit and Vancouver match up in the Western Conf. Finals with Hasek (the older wizard) vs. Luongo (the young technician).

I like the vintage jerseys - but, please please, don't bring back the yellow ones with the rainbow vee on the front. Likely the worst hockey sweater of all time.

Shame on you, Don - for defending Tortilla. He's an idiot, and an embarrassment to the game.

I still might have a chance in the office hockey pool. If they will give me a point for every birdie or eagle that Flame makes, I'll still be in the running. Drain that putt IGGY !!

Don, why don't you retire and give the place
to younger, who understand hockey more than you
e.g. Kelly hrudey

Don Cherry rules!!! GO CANUCKS GO!!!

im so jealous of everyone back in canada being able to watch the playoffs. we get two games a week on cable here and its usually american teams they show

i wish i could comment on game 7 in Vancouver but i could only listen to it.

Go Canucks Go!

and Don, i love the classic Canucks jerseys. better than the real ones IMO

I am deeply disappointed in Grapes comments about the Wings/Flames game 6 on Saturday. The "few love-taps" as you put it, were in reality a lot of immature nonsense from a lesser skilled and lesser humane team. Calgary should take a hard look at themselves and in my opinion need anger management training. I know you'll think I'm some kinda softie but that is far from the truth; I played hockey, I love the game, and the physical aspects of the game is something I truely love. What went on that night was shameful, it once again gives the narrow-minded media something to jump all over about our quote "vicious game". Rabbit-punches are also intolerable (Langkow on Lebda), butt-ends WRONG (Iginla on Schneider) and the topper, coaches that send in junk pieces of MEAT to swing their goal stick like butchers and make blatent contact. I like your comments for thw most part Don, but you sir were wrong. Thank you Red Wings for putting those thugs on the shelf in '07. Go DETROIT!!

Don Cherry is always right. He has video evidence to back up his opinions and he is always right. I think CBC doesn't give him enough air time. He's such an icon in Hockey and he should be able to tell us everything he can. We don't want commercials we want the Don.

Watching the Canucks last night in the first period was worrisome. They were playing like I saw them play against the Blues last Feb. 27th. I remember thinking "they'll never get by the Stars or anyone else in the playoffs playing this tentative"! Thank goodness they snapped out of it!!! You do have some fans down here in the states!!!GO CANUCKS!

Tortorella can say what he wants to say, when he wants to say it. That's the beauty of living in a free society. We get to see who the idiots are, quick-like, without having to suffer being there. Cool.

I also disagree. Where does Cherry get off saying that he hates the Canuck's "Powder Blue' sweaters? when there isn't alot of difference between the Canuck's blue sweaters and Cherry's beloved Leaf's blue sweaters. The Canuck's blue sweaters have definitely got more class and I also prefer the blue sweaters over the silly Orca sweaters. Especially since Orca Bay no longer owns the team.
GO CANUCKS!!

Not only do they protect us oversears, but here as well
Former Halifax woman dies trying to rescue drowning boy
KEMPTVILLE, Ont. — A former Halifax woman is being called a hero after she died trying to rescue a boy who drowned in the Rideau River in eastern Ontario.
Roxanne Lalonde, 32, a 12-year military member who worked in naval communications, drowned along with the 15-year-old boy who’d been swept away by strong currents near Merrickville on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Her rank was not immediately known.
Lalonde lived in Halifax for about five years and left for a new posting in Kingston, Ont., about six months ago.

"She was an extremely vibrant individual," she said. "She was always there to help people. For her to jump out there and help this young kid in need, it really doesn’t surprise me."

"She’s definitely a hero."

She remembers Lalonde as an athletic woman who liked Halifax and knew a lot of people.

"She was just one of those people that you meet and you remember."

According to a story on the Ottawa Sun website, Lalonde was driving with her common-law husband Mike Barr and saw the boy’s worried mother.

Barr told the Sun that Lalonde got in the water as soon as she heard the boy, Grant Gallipeau, was in trouble. She apparently slipped and was quickly swept away.

Firefighters arrived and used a canoe taken from a nearby house to find Lalonde. Barr later helped pull her from the water and he worked to revive her with CPR. He assisted others in pulling the boy from the water, too.

Lalonde was rushed to hospital but was declared brain-dead before midnight.

Her family chose to take her off life support.

Her uncle, Donald Bles, said his niece was in "very good physical shape" and it would have taken a "raging river to take her."

With Dan Arsenault, staff reporter

I don't know if the canucks has the ability to take the win. the DUCK still got the mighty and has two of the best defends (pronger & niedimayer), they also got Mcdonald, and Getzlav, and the veteran from the winnipeg jets Selanne........We got..Luongo...and the Brothers! .
I hope the canucks suprise us with the win, against the top western division champions.

Dear Don,

I hoped you watched the playoffs with the certainty that the leauge really needs someone to make sure the refs ar doing their job. There is way to much inconsistency in the playoffs from game to game and it seems that millions of fans would agree. Vancouver played a medium, lackluster performance to win the series, and i hope the Sundin twins realize there are more players on the ice than themselves.Round the boards and dasher aint gonna cut it next series against Anihiem.In spite of the matter theres more penalties called on the enemy than there is on the foe.Look closely at the next series Don, tell me if there needs to be a "Referee Accountabilty Panel", or at least admit that these seven game series of senseless debocatry from the officials basically means that there is more money to be made for sponsers and networks, as well as owners and G.Ms.and the entire league.It is time that I may have to set up a blog and take a poll myself, contact the leauge myself and make the staement made by myself because you dont have the balls to jepordize your paycheck!There will be accountabilty some day enforced by the N.H.L upon officials....PERIOD!!!!!

Jerome fayant

Regina Saskatchean

I missed your intermission show last night and I understand comments were made about the jerseys worn by Vancouver in game 7. I agree from what I was told of your comments made about those jerseys. What or who ever made the decision to wear such a joke of a jersey in a game 7 of a Stanley Cup quarter final.
I hope the Vancouver franchise wakes up and realizes that jersey should be buried with all the other bad memories of the early Vancouver hockey club. They certainly have no part in the teams success in 2007.
Ernie Aitchison - Sarnia Ontario

Fantastic game, Luongo saves the day once again. The Ref's didn't control this game, calls have to be made and yes sometimes the "phantom" call does happen but nobody is perfect!!! Looks like those on the East Coast won't have to stay up till OH MY GOSH 1am in the morning to watch a game 7????
Canucks played well and hopefully carry it on to the next round, they're going to have to with the likes of Selanne, Niedermayer and Pronger waiting in the wings!!!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!

And the blu8e jerseys are sexy, good comment about the comparison to the Leafs, and where are they right now, oh yeah, Hole 14 Par 5 haha!!!

Rock on!!!

Vancouver will need even more help from the referees to be able to stay close to Anaheim. With Pronger playing 30 minutes a game, the Sedins might as well go back to Sweden now.

Let me start by saying Go 'Nucks and I am happy they won.

Don, we love ya and unlike Ron you will tell it the way it is instead of blowing kisses Bettmans way.

The Reffing was once again horrible. They miss a huge check from behind on Morrison, a bump on Turco, both refs aor getting it from both benches, so what do they do/
One ref calls a penalty, then the 2nd refs calls a penalty...the parade starts on both. It is embarrasing. I accually turned the Tv off for a little bit, cause the wife got worried about my Heart. Don. PLEASE challage Bettman and the league to start either making the refs Respondable instead of defending them just because Bettman put another cheif on the ice. He diluted the quality of the refs, and now we get "Blimd eye" Mcgough's refing instead of the experience of Fraser? Set them straight Don and we miss picures of your dogs.

hey Don you are always commenting on how good these little white boys are you should do some of this comments for our very own aborigional hockey players they are just as good as your little white boys you sit there hypeing up your white boys throw some of those hyping up our way.
it's sad to sit & hear you say how good your kind of people are we as aborigionals are better than you thnx

I wish that when Don Cherry is going to negatively comment on a player he could at least get the name correct. ie BIEKSA not Bieska !!!! Canucks played with their hearts on their sleeves and proved themselves the better team. Maybe now the Canucks will get the respect they deserve.

Mr. Cherry
No one knows Hockey like you do, I am writing this after seeing the WORST Game in the history of the NHL. PLEASE tell everyone the truth about this game! I REALLY believe after seeing this game the the NHL needs to invistigate the REAL threat that SOME of the refs are on the take. YES I said it, I never thought these words would come out of my mouth but I REALLY believe it is now true, I am a 53 year old Vetnam Veteran and have watched this game I TRULY love for over 40 years, and of course never miss you! I think you are the only one with the guts enough to bring about a MUCH needed look at SOME of the refs in the NHL. Your hockey friend Mark Schmidt

Hey N.B. Quit yer whining about the officiating. It goes both ways and anyone who believes the referees decide the outcome of the game hasn't ever blown a whistle on the ice. Yup, punish yourselves by not watching the rest of this "tournament". That'll show us!

Don - I agree with others. A pro coach, no matter how upset he is, should act like a pro on TV.

And the Canucks should always wear the retro jersies. Plain simple and good looking.

Have at 'er boys! More excitement to come!

Good to see them Nucks beat double M, JR Ewing & those Texans!
But boy, all D-Fence, dump & chase, and sloppy neutral-zone play sure does make ya snoooze... At least both goalies were solid, but we better pray for some more excitement in round two!! Don't even want to imagine what a Jersey vs. Van final would be like?!?!

First of all Go Canucks Go
Second I love Coach's Corner...
But Don you need to know your colours the Canucks vintage is electric blue not baby blue and if you ask me the Canucks were electric last night.I own one of those jerseys and it is number 16 thee Captian Canuck Trevor Linden

Don
Would like to hear your thoughts on the McLennan suspension. As far as I am concerned its to much. I have grown up watching more hockey in the "new" NHL. I turned on the TV the other day and watched a 1989 game between the oilers and flames. Now that was hockey. What McLennan did happened several times a game and there were not even penalties call, never mine suspensions. I am finding it hard to watch a NHL game now and would rather go down to the local rink and watch a Junior B game. Everyone playing the game should now that if you come within a stick length of the crease, you are going to get some wood laid on you, its part of the game.

i just wanna say to don that i thought it was a good idea for the vancouver's canucks to wear the old time shirt and i think you were wrong when you said they didn't look as tough as they look with the black shirt.
and by the way great goaltending game i'm a goaltender myself and boy, roberto luongo is unbeatable in the crease.

Every night Ron Mclean's puns seem to get progressively worse. The puns simply distract from the overall quality of Coach's Corner. I often find Mclean's comments insightful, and I feel for him having to work with Grapes every other night, but please give the puns a rest. The segment is after all Coach's Corner and one would think that the coach should be given the last word.

Go Canucks, I love the Vintage blue uniforms. I hope the Canucks keep wearing them. Start Wednesday's game with the vintage whites.

thanks to the lousy refereeing we wont know who the better team was , dallas or vancouver. thank you brian sullivan,after reading your comments I know I wasnt the only one fed up with this crap. One referee is the way the game was meant to be called, and Ive never seen such a terrible job as in this years playoffs. to have a game that close decided by a stick on a glove that did not impede h sedins progress in any way, is b.s. games are not being decided by the teams playing, but by officials. shame on the nhl for allowing this to happen. maybe we need another riot (the rocket richard incident) to wake up the idiots that run the so-called n.h.l. signed... disgusted.

I'd like to take ya all back to the 2006 NHL
playoffs. You remember the one that was more or less decided before it even started; as in if a Yankee team didn't win the league would
suffer unrepairable losses. Since BB has taken the reins of our national passtime,
things have been kind of hinky eh Don?
I just finished watching your wrap up of
tonights joke and I can only hope the Ducks
and Devils have their blinders off, and pay
heed to the wise old Wizard of hockey. If they
don't, they'll find themselves watching an
Ottawa Vancouver Stanley Cup Final. If they
get there the same way they've got this far,
I'll have broken all My TV's and checked into O.H.
Respectfully Yours,
moesdarkcorner.

I never watched the whole game through,I thought the Canuck's were going to blow it again..I am a huge Canuck's fan and Dallas's too,The Canuck's were playing like loser's and Dallas was playing a very agressive game,The luck just wasn't their's..I hope the Canuck's bring their game up to par and not rely on Luongo for the rest of their run..Well I hope they play better in the next serie's..Do not like it when they play like they are lost and giving the puck away all the time..but I will watch thtem just like the rest of B.C. and Canada..Can't wait for the drama..ooh my nerve's

When you have great goaltending Luongo, Bodeur, Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden you need not score alot of goals! You just need to not to make alot of mistakes! This was proven by great Montreal teams, New Jersey teams. If you got a team that can put the points up like Edmonton of the Eighties, Gretzky, Messier, Coffey, Kurri then you can outpoint your opponent! Rick Wilson

Watching a game seven WAS exciting, now it's no better than wrestling or a comedy act.

These guys work too hard for this, and the fans have officialy been insulted.
Players can no longer be proud of their sport.

Way to Go 'nucks! I had my doubts, and Turco definitely didn't deserve to lose this series, but the penalties in the 3rd killed Dallas. I'm a Leafs fan, I'll be cheering for Vancouver over Ottawa any day of the week!

That was the most intense game that I have seen in this series then the first game that went to 4 overtime periods. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WILLIE MITCHELL

I can't believe Don Cherry was defending coach Torterella on coaches corner tonight for
using terrible language the other night.Come on Don,this is a family show.Don't put yourself in the same class as turtle head.We love you in Calgary Don but don't stand up for that idiot.Kids watch hockey too.

Yeaaaah!!! Go Vancouver! I'm gunning for an Ottawa - Vancouver semifinal. Ohhhh wouldn't that be sweet? And as for Don's comment on the nucks vintage uniform, I couldn't agree more with Gib.....

As a huge hockey fan on the eastern coast of NB I must say i'm very disappointed with tonights game 7. These guys fought all season to get to this. Dallas fought back from a 3-1 deficit only to have the entire game, the entire series and the entire season decided by a referee duo. This is a complete farce. There was phantom calls (high stick on dallas), five on threes and the second dallas would get a powerplay the referee duo would cancel it out with a dallas penalty resulting in a 4 on 4. This was such a farce that myself and my 60 year old father who stayed up till 1am to watch this huge game have both said this is the last straw. We will never watch another game until the NHL gets their heads together and stops having referee's decide games, especially game sevens! Monstrous officiating.

Grapes,

I think something should be mentioned about the play of Brent Sopel from Vancouver. THe play he made with less than 5 mins to go in game 7 to move just enough to give Luongo a clear view of what could have been a tough screened shot. Keeping in mind the same type of goal beat Kiprusoff and knocked out the Flames lastnight.

I think someone should have made more mention of just how smart of a hockey play that really was.

CBC Hockey Pool Round 2 Here We Come!!!!

Don,

I have to disagree - I LOVE the classic blue Canucks uniforms. Simple, standard stripes,beats the busy new mosaic with too many colours. Everybody and there brother wears black. And, maybe it's the TV, but I don't see a whole lot of difference between the Canucks blue and the Maple Laughs blue - if anything the Canucks is darker as opposed to the royal blue of Toronto.

I'm pulling for a Sabres(in their classic blue)/Rangers final in the East, and a Redwings/Canucks final in the West.

Enjoy!