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				<title><![CDATA[Bolland's late PP goal lifts Hawks over Canucks]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[VANCOUVER, British Columbia(AP) -- With Chicago on a power play
and the puck on Patrick Kane's stick, David Bolland found a soft
spot behind the Canucks defense and trusted the puck was coming.
The hardest part was waiting for it.

When the puck finally arrived, Bolland patiently gathered it and
then snapped a shot past the stick of a diving Roberto Luongo
and into an empty net. The goal with 5:05 left gave the Chicago
Blackhawks the lead they turned into a 4-2 victory over
Vancouver on Saturday night in Game 5 of the Western Conference
semifinal series.

"Kane just stepped off the boards and saw me open and threw a
little saucer, and I knew it was going to get to me. Roberto
couldn't get over that quick," Bolland said. "I didn't want to
mishandle it. I just wanted to make sure."

Martin Havlat added an empty-net goal with 62 seconds left, and
Chicago took a 3-2 edge over the Canucks in the series. The
Blackhawks can advance to the conference finals on Monday at
home.

After Canucks forward Ryan Johnson failed on a great chance to
clear the zone, and with defenseman Willie Mitchell missing his
stick, Kane walked off the right boards and looked off Luongo
before finding Bolland open on the backdoor.

"Kane is a tremendous passer, a tremendous player and he's going
to get you the puck," said Bolland, who has four goals in the
second-round series.

The Blackhawks trailed 2-1 midway through the second period, but
rallied to win for the third time in the series. Chicago hasn't
been to the conference finals since 1995, following a
second-round sweep of the Canucks.

If the Canucks stay alive, they would host Game 7 on Thursday.

"We don't want to come back," Bolland said. "We want to finish
it at home."

Defenseman Brian Campbell set up a pair of goals by Dustin
Byfuglien, including the tying tally during a power play with
1:38 left in the second period, for the Blackhawks.

Chicago was less than three minutes from being down 3-1 in the
series before rallying late and winning Game 4 in overtime at
home.

"I don't know what it is, it's crazy," Kane said of the
comebacks. "We have a young team and it's almost like we don't
know any better but to come back."

Mats Sundin had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Kesler also
scored for Vancouver, which has lost two straight at home,
matching its total there for the last three months of the
regular season.

"We're going to regroup," said Luongo, who finished with 26
saves. "We're going to come Monday and we're going to play the
hardest game we've played all year, make sure we play our best
game on the ice, and bring us back here."

Nikolai Khabibulin made 19 saves for Chicago, getting a break
when Kyle Wellwood hit the post midway through the third period,
but also getting a blocker on Kesler's short-handed 2-on-1
chance with seven minutes left.

After Chicago won what Canucks coach Alain Vigneault called a
"chess match" in Game 4 on Thursday, the teams played a
faster-paced, highly physical game Saturday with plenty of big
hits and scrums after the whistle.

The Canucks got top defenseman Sami Salo back after he missed
two games with an undisclosed lower-body injury, but Chicago
opened the scoring for the first time in the series with 4:33
left in the first period. Byfuglien beat Mattias Ohlund to a
rebound of Campbell's point shot through traffic and off
Luongo's pad.

"We had guys all over the puck and kept it in when we need to
and we found a way to sneak some by [Luongo]," Byfuglien said.

The Blackhawks controlled much of the play in the opening
period, pinning the Canucks in their own end for long stretches,
but Kesler tied it on a lucky power-play bounce with 2:06 left.
Sundin gave the Canucks the lead midway through the second, but
Byfuglien tied it again after Vancouver was whistled for an
extra penalty during a post-whistle scrum.

"A lot of people are going to write us off, but we believe in
this locker room that we can win," Luongo said. "We should have
won both games in Chicago, so we know we can go in there and win
a game."

Notes: Canucks D Shane O'Brien and Chicago D Matt Walker both
received misconducts late in the second period, but it was an
extra roughing penalty to O'Brien that gave the Blackhawks the
penalty that led to the tying goal.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 06:53:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Blackhawks-Canucks Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[Chicago At Vancouver, Game One, 10:30 p.m. EDT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) --  The Vancouver Canucks are
looking forward to Game 5 against the Chicago Blackhawks on
Saturday night.

And they insist they're over their Game 4 collapse in Chicago
that left the Western Conference semifinal series tied at 2.

"It's already behind us," forward Alex Burrows said.

On Thursday night in Chicago, the Blackhawks' Martin Havlat tied
it with 2:44 left, and Andrew Ladd scored early in overtime.

"We flew home last night and we're ready to go now," Burrows
said. "It's a best two out of three, and when we faced adversity
before we've responded well."

The Canucks say they also have to look forward on the ice,
spending more time pushing into the Chicago end and less backing
up into their own zone.

Vancouver has led in all four games, but blown leads three
times.

The Canucks sat back and watched the talented young Blackhawks
erase three- and two-goal leads while splitting the first two
games in Vancouver. They continued to press and build on an
early lead to win Game 3, but tried to nurse a one-goal cushion
in Game 4, doing so until a late breakdown allowed Havlat to
score.

"Losing that late was tough," Canucks forward Mats Sundin said.
"But that's what the playoffs are about, how you respond after a
loss, how your next performance is. Every time you are knocked
down you have to bounce back even higher."

They can't get much lower on the shot clock. The Canucks managed
15 shots Thursday, a franchise playoff record for futility, as
they retreated into the neutral zone to try to shut down
Chicago.

"As a team, 15 shots is not good enough," top-line forward
Daniel Sedin said. "It's a fine line and last game we played too
defensive. We've got to get better offensively, but at the same
time we were 2 1/2 minutes from being up 3-1, so it has worked."

Don't expect it to change.

Vancouver knows it can't go back to trading chances with the
speedy Blackhawks, which cost it leads in Games 1 and 2. The
Canucks' ability to slow Chicago, to take away time and space
through the neutral zone and limit long passes out of the
Blackhawks end, was key to winning Game 3 on the road, and
keeping them off the scoreboard for 57 minutes of Game 4.

"We want to extend the lead, keep pushing the pace," Burrows
said. "We can't sit back. We can't trade chances. But if we play
well defensively, keep pushing the pace and make their D turn,
that's how we're going to create offense."

The Canucks held meetings and a sparsely attended optional
practice on Friday, while the Blackhawks took the day off to
travel back to Vancouver. In a series filled with momentum
swings within each game, neither side expected the late
turnaround in Game 4 to mean much when they dropped the puck for
Game 5.

Chicago rallied from a three-goal third period deficit in Game 1
only to lose with 1:13 left, then rallied from an early two-goal
hole to win Game 2. About the only thing that hasn't happened is
the Blackhawks scoring first.

"I'd like to find out what we're going to be like playing with
the lead," coach Joel Quenneville said Thursday night. "The
momentum in this series has been pretty remarkable."

Notes: Canucks D Kevin Bieksa, who left early in overtime
Thursday and was spotted limping after the game, said he will
play Saturday, calling it a "lower-body injury, but "nothing
serious." D Sami Salo, who hasn't played since sustaining an
unidentified lower-body injury after scoring early in Game 2,
practiced Friday, but coach Alain Vigneault said he's still
day-to-day. Game 6 is in Chicago on Monday night, but Game 7, if
necessary, isn't until Thursday night.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:14:05 GMT</pubDate>
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