There’s a few previews and predictions of tonight’s game floating around (Yankee Canuck and Waiting for Stanley) so I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail.  The Canucks will pay tribute to Luc Bourdon tonight, and I have a feeling that the emotion of that will do nothing but help them.

Mike predicts 3 – 2 for the Canucks, and Sean says 4 -3 in a shootout.  Me?  I’ll say 4 – 2 for the Canucks.

And, as we say at the start of every new NHL season (although it’s not really necessary this year, we’ll say it anyway) …

I was going to live blog tonight’s game between the Canucks and the Kings, and then I thought I’d check around and see if anyone else was doing the same, and, lo, it turns out that the Yankee Canuck has decided to do the same, so I think I’ll just hang out there for a bit and comment.   Stop by, eh?

And, BTW, I’m calling this a 3-2 win for the Canucks.  They have GOT to get this losing to LA thing out of their system.

Just as a thought to whomever is in charge of deciding which games are PPV, and which are not – could we maybe not have games against teams that are only in Vancouver every three or four years be PPV games, please?  Games against LA, or Phoenix?  Go nuts.  Make ‘em all PPV for all I care.  But games like the Rangers, Flyers, etc, why not let the unwashed view them?

Anyway, enough rant.

The Rangers come to town with a record of 20-16-4 after falling 4 -3 to the Flames last night, so it’ll be interesting to see how this goes.  Matt Cooke and Sean Avery could hardly be considered best friends as well, so this has the potential to be a very interesting game indeed.  The Canucks are also unbeaten at GM Place since November 1st, at least in regulation time (damn shootouts).

The Rangers haven’t been here in over 5 years, and it’s been a full decade since they last won in Vancouver.  They’re also below .500 on the road this year, so I wouldn’t have a problem calling this one a win for the Canucks.  Let’s go with….4-2 for the locals.

Zanstrom calls this one at 3-2 for the Canucks, and Mike the Yankee Canuck is planning a full on drunkblog (and includes a truly frightening picture with his post).  Come to think of it, the photo accompanying Zanstrom’s post is pretty sickening as well.