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NHLthe new year Playoffs

Game four with the Western ConferenceFinals was a unique teams battle that Vancouver dominated, each on the penaltykill and on the energy play. The final score was Canucks 4, Sharks 2.

San Jose obtained the very first 5 power plays,and with 10 full minutes of power-play time within the initial fifty percentwith the game, the Sharks didn't get on the score board.

Then the tides turned and Vancouver drewpenalty following penalty, utilizing numerous five-on-three possibilities toscore three energy objectives inside a mere 1:55 of elapsed time.

Henrik Sedin had a night worthy of thecaptain on the team with Stanley Cup aspirations. He assisted on all 4 goals,as well as pressured a five-on-three chance by putting a tape-to-tape passright onto Logan Couture's stick as San Jose was in the middle of a lazychange.

Oh, and Henrik now prospects the NHL inpoints with 19.

I wonder in the event the Sharks areregretting that trade yet?

If Heatley never plays another game forGroup Canada, he will not be missed, at least not by me. It may be a cliche,but actually because he signed that large agreement, he seems to have lost allmotivation.

It wasn't just the scorers getting itcarried out for Vancouver, the grinders and depth guys did their part also.

Following becoming a healthy scratch formuch of the playoffs, Keith Ballard proved that even the seventh defensemanaround the President's Trophy team continues to be pretty damn good compared tothe rest of the league.

Ballard arrived out of the press box toplay 10:34, recording two hits and contributing to the ideal Canucks penaltykill.

Apparently, Ballard was not within the moodto become thankful, as he threw this devastating hip check on Jamie McGinn.

McGinn, as you might keep in mind, was theman accountable for the injuries to Christian Ehrhoff and Aaron Rome in Gamethree that led to Ballard's opportunity to play in Game four. Still, Ballardshowed no mercy on that hit.

Ballard wasn't the only one throwing bighits.

Raffi Torres leaned into a clear shoulderto shoulder hit that threw Joe Thornton towards the ice in the third timeperiod. Thornton would depart the game with what's suspected to become aseparated shoulder.

Thornton has stated he will play in Game 5,even though his coach wasn't so certain in the post-game press conference.Thornton may play in Game five, but he'll hardly be one hundred percent. Andthat's a definite blow towards the Shark's hopes of extending the sequence.

Roberto Luongo was outstanding, stoppingevery thing early once the Sharks had all the power play time, and ending uphaving a 0.943 save percentage.

Antti Niemi on the other hand was notspectacular, finishing off the matinee having a horrible 0.692 conservepercentage. Nonetheless, hard to blame him for your reduction when his skaterscannot convert on their very own energy plays, yet give up numerous 5 on 3opportunities.

Game five is six p.m. PT at Rogers Arena inVancouver. Unless the Sharks find a way to uncover some pride along with asense of urgency, this series could be over far faster than anybody predictedper week ago.