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Penguins-Canucks: Game Preview

 
I am writing this preview because I am unfortunately not going to be able to watch the game due to the fact that I will be at other hockey games, and then spending Saturday evening and night flying down to the South. The Penguins pulled out a great game on Thursday night with a late powerplay goal by Petr Sykora off a Sidney Crosby shot on the powerplay to give the Penguins a 3-2 victory against the Atlanta Thrashers.  The Penguins have now made it eight straight games with at least one point and are 7-0-1 in this streak.  Saturday night the Penguins will take the ice against the Vancouver Canucks at Mellon arena. The Canucks are 12-6-2 and are in third place in the Western standings.  They are coming off a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild in their last game as well. Along with the Canucks team coming to town they are also bringing along an all-star goalie, or even the best goalie in the league, Roberto Luongo. Luongo so far has posted a 11-5-2 record with a 2.18 GAA ... (link)

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