After I thought we were done with hearing about all the Burrows/Auger stuff, HNIC on CBC last night manages lose credibility by bringing it up again.

First here is the Ron MacLean and Colin Campbell's conversation about the incident:

Wow. Now if someone could point out what taunting Khabibulin during the playoffs last year has ANYTHING to do with Burrows' history or the incident at hand, please enlighten me.

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Canucks win baby!!!!!!!!!!! Woooo!!!!!!

Recap will happen tomorrow. Tonight we break the losing streak, against the Pens' 3rd and 4th goalie. It was expected for the Canucks to win with Fleury being injured, but we the boys so often find a way to lose to teams that they should win over, so let's just enjoy the win because this past week sucked.

Alexander Pechurski got third star of the game.

**UPDATED**

The Pens have rolled into town, but the fanfare has been a little bit more subdued for Crosby than it was for Ovechkin, non? That's probably because Crosby is not a media whore like Ovechkin is...to each your own.

I remember watching the Stanley Cup final last year at a bar on Broadway, cheering with the whole place (well minus some old guys in Wings jerseys) when MAF made unbelievable save after unbelievable save....well tonight, there will be no cheering for Fleury.

Enemy Blog: Check out my two favorites The Pensblog and the Puck Huffers for all your Penguin commentary. Even if you don't care about the Pens, check them out anyways because their recaps (tPB) and awards (PH) are pretty epic.

The Penguins (30-18-1) have swept Alberta on their Western roadtrip and tonight's game in Vancouver is the last game in their (mostly) Canadian roadtrip. After getting pulled repeatedly, Fleury is back to looking like his normal self, stopping actual pucks. The last game the two teams met was in Pittsburgh in November last year, and it was on that fateful night afternoon that Luongo had his groin injury. The last time the Pens were in Vancouver was two years ago, and Luongo stopped Crosby on a penalty shot, but the Canucks lost the game in a shootout 2-1.

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After not playing hockey for 9 months, Pavol Demitra is expected to make his return to the Canucks line-up. He attributes his recovery to the physiotherapist from the Slovak national soccer team that he flew from Slovakia to Vancouver.

"He's unbelievable. I don't know, but it seems like he has magic in his hands," Demitra said. "He's amazing. Every time he sticks a needle in my shoulder I feel relief. It just feels good." -The Province

Um, if you say so. I don't know how good it feels to have needles stuck in your shoulder, but if he has magic hands, well then ok! These hands were so magic that Demitra flew to Slovakia to be treated by Pavel Purdek for two weeks in December. He liked him so much that he flew Purdek to Vancouver for 8 days, and according to The Province, Demitra paid for it himself! Gee, you might think "that's awfully sweet of him, paying for his own treatment"....but then again he has been getting paid $4 million dollars to recover, I'm sure 8 days of some physio's expenses were not that bad.

Purdek also relied on cupping during his eight-day stay in Vancouver. It's a traditional Chinese technique in which rounded glass cups are warmed and applied to an individuals bare skin to treat local problems and blood stagnation. The procedure left Demitra with bruises during Purdek's eight-day stay. -The Province

Cupping? Could they have not come up with a more professional name for this technique?

"You can see, I still have bruises everywhere," Demitra said. "All on back, my legs and of course on my shoulder. The Province

I don't know about the whole cupping thing, but hey if those hands can get an injured winger back playing for the Canucks, then I think I could buy into that whole magic hands thing.

Demitra expected to play against the Pens on Saturday

You will have noticed to the right of your screen, I now have the Bloguin Olympic penguin up and a list new posts on the Olympic Hockey Blog. Check out the site for all of your bloggy Olympic Hockey needs, it is ridiculously good and really will only get better.

For your Canucks fix, the player profile written by yours truly is up and can be found here, complete with suggestions on how to reduce the injury potential for delicate Finn.

Previous Olympic Canuck posts:

• Player Profile: Christian Ehrhoff - Team Germany

First up Alexandre Bolduc v. John Scott

Hordichuk and Glass's fight is after the jump...

Wow, the Canucks sucked. Luongo had started the last 17 games straight, maybe 18 was too much? It all started with the weird 1 game road trip in the schedule...

Please enjoy as I recap in pictures, c'mon it will be fuuuun....

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