Canucks sharks game 4 2011

If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. Schedule Game Calendar Schedule Downloads. Canucks TV. Canucks News. Tale of the Tape: Canucks Sharks Game 4. Playoff Record: What You Need to Know The Canucks got one step closer towards packing it up for the season on Sunday dropping a decision in Game 3 to put them on the brink of elimination.

A win tonight would mean the Canucks have a chance to host at least one more game in front of their fans on Thursday at Rogers Arena. A loss would send the Canucks into their summer vacation. Vancouver has lost four straight playoff games dating back to last year and now have just one playoff win in their last 10 outings dating back to the Stanley Cup Final. They also have just one playoff win on the road in their last six outings. The Canucks have been swept three times in team history in best-of-seven playoff series.

The last time they failed to win even a single game in a best-of-seven series was back in their Western Conference quarterfinal series against the eventual Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. This is the fourth time in Sharks franchise history that they have built up a series lead but they have never managed complete a series sweep. The last time they had a series lead was in their Conference semi-final series against Detroit.

They nearly squandered that lead, however, as the Red Wings won three in a row to force a deciding Game 7 before the Sharks finally managed to secure the series victory with a win in seventh game. The Canucks held a sparsely attended optional practice yesterday with little in the way of lineup news emerging from the session, including which goaltender - Cory Schneider or Roberto Luongo - would be tapped to get the start in perhaps the final game of the year.

The Sharks chose not to skate yesterday but it's hard to imagine they make any significant lineup changes given how successful they've been in the first three games of this series. Injured F Martin Havlat will be a game-time decision. Sunday's game marked the third time this season that Canucks G Cory Schneider has surrendered five goals in a game.

The other two times he did so, he responded by posting victories in his next two consecutive outings. Sharks F Patrick Marleau continued his playoff hot streak against the Canucks in Game 3 by netting his third goal in three straight games on Sunday. That released one of the two-man advantage, but the Sharks got caught with too many men on the ice less than a minute and a half later and the Canucks were two men up again.

They converted again -- this time a booming one-timer from Sami Salo on a feed from Henrik Sedin , giving Vancouver a lead. Six seconds later, Douglas Murray got called for delay of game for shooting a puck over the glass, putting the Canucks two men up for a third time. Sixteen seconds after the second 5-on-3 goal, they got another — with the same combo as the second goal; same Henrik pass from just to the right of the crease, same Salo one-timer from the slot, same result.

That made it Vancouver. The three 5-on-3 goals set an NHL playoff record, and came on three of just four shots on goal in the second period, part of a franchise playoff-low Henrik pulled off some fancy stick work just outside the net and snuck the puck through Niemi's legs across the crease right onto Alex Burrows' stick to make it The Sharks finally converted later in the third on goals from Andrew Desjardins and Ryane Clowe , but were dealt a devastating blow at around the minute mark when Raffi Torres leveled captain Joe Thornton with a hit that knocked Thornton out of the game.

The win and Thornton's potential absence made a clincher in Vancouver a distinct possibility. Devin Setoguchi. Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Ian White. Andrew Desjardins. Ben Eager. Dany Heatley. Kent Huskins. Jamie McGinn. Benn Ferriero. Jamal Mayers. Torrey Mitchell. Douglas Murray. Scott Nichol. Niclas Wallin. Kyle Wellwood. Antti Niemi. Henrik Sedin. Alexandre Burrows. Daniel Sedin. Kevin Bieksa. Dan Hamhuis. Sami Salo. Ryan Kesler. Chris Higgins. Mason Raymond.

Alexander Edler. Jannik Hansen. Raffi Torres. Christian Ehrhoff. Aaron Rome. Maxim Lapierre. Keith Ballard. Alexandre Bolduc. Tanner Glass. Cody Hodgson. Victor Oreskovich. Jeff Tambellini.