Not To Be Trusted With Knives

Like pretty much everyone else in Vancouver today, I’m a walking zombie. Why, you ask? It’s very simple – because I stayed up until almost 1 in the morning waiting for the Canucks to finally beat the Stars in game one of their playoff series!! Since I was at a free movie last night, I didn’t get to watch (or listen to the radio broadcast of) the regulation-time portion game* – but it’s OK, because I got home in time to listen to the almost 4 periods of overtime! For those of you who aren’t hockey fans**, a normal hockey game is 3 periods. So the Canucks played more than 2 full hockey games!

A few numbers for you:

• 138:06 – length of the game (whereas a normal game is 60 minutes)
• 6th longest game in NHL playoff history***
• 72 saves by Roberto Luongo – “one short of Kelly Hrudey’s playoff record. Luongo did set the record for saves in a playoff debut and shattered Kirk McLean’s franchise postseason record of 52 saves“
• 12:32 am – the time at which number 33, Henrik Sedin, scored the sweet, sweet goal that let us finally go to bed, happy that we won game #1 on the road to Stanley!

And speaking of bed, I’m heading there now! So tired! But I would be remiss if I didn’t first inform y’all that the Detroit Red Wings beat the Calgary Flames in the first game of their playoff series. Go Detroit****!

*although I did get to ride on the bus with tonnes of people who were going to the game, since the movie was at a theatre next to GM Place.