Yeah we probably shouldn't pile on RK anymore.

I just feel bad that Backes' wife had to put up with him for those 30 seconds or however long he took. Hopefully he didn't wear his cream coloured Rick Pitino suit that night to pick her up, the bedroom imitation was probably bad enough.

lol, Kesler's a mega douche. As a Blues fan, I really wish I could go to tomorrow's game and cheer hard for Nashville. The Canucks are right behind Detroit in terms of who I want to see win it all.

eww.

wait, hockey gossip? cliffs plz.

legit lol'd

meh, i think it's a reference to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1angy_kjuk

pretty sure they don't know his wife/gf, they just did enough research to get her name so that they could try to throw Backes off his game by chirping him about it.

don't think there's anything more to it than that, but i could be wrong.

Puck drop in about an hour! Before every game this series I see lots of "Sedins WILL show up to play tonight" tweets. Screw the Sedins, gimme KES! Dude is going to take 'em to the promised land, one celebration at a time.

I think that Kesler had "relations" with Backes' wife/gf while they were both at Ohio State. #lolgossipcouldbewrong though.

Edit: Further research indicates that my lolgossip may indeed be wrong. I think 27off is right...just good detective work.

yeah, was gonna say i'd find that hard to believe bc Backes signed that offer sheet here. don't know if i see that happening if Kesler boned his girl, even if it was before they met or whatever. would just be weird and awkward to be teammates with a guy after that, lol.

- Tambellini in for Samuelsson on the 4th line, with Hodgson & Glass (hopefully Edler back on PP1 again)
- Higgins left the morning skate early, but says he'll play (with Kesler & Raymond)
- which means that the 3rd should be Torres/Lapierre/Hansen again
- Smithson back in for Nashville, haven't heard who dropped out, but maybe Dumont who came in for Smithson last game?
- apparently the ice is **** down there, so expect a gritty, low-scoring game...hope the Canucks just keep it simple tonight in their own end

new D pairings for Vancouver:

Hamhuis - Bieksa
Edler - Salo
Rome - Ehrhoff

Nashville Predators centre Mike Fisher knew it was coming, but he still couldn't stop himself from laughing at a cardboard cutout of his wife, Carrie Underwood, wearing a Canucks jersey during Game 5 on Saturday. Holding the prop, of course, was Vancouver's Green Men, who sit right beside the visitors' penalty box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL1CxO0AbeI

"It gave me a good chuckle - I probably would have leaned over and kissed it, if it was regular-season game," said Fisher, who was serving a roughing penalty at the time. "But Game 5 of the playoffs was too serious of a moment."

Fisher even went so far as to take his hat off to the Green Men for their originality.

"I usually don't notice things like that that fans do, but they were respectful and just doing their thing," he said. "Obviously, they're huge fans and some people find them entertaining. As long as they don't go too far, it's all in good fun."

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Speaking of Kesler, the Canucks centre took offence when it was suggested that he may be the only Vancouver player showing any emotion publicly through the first two rounds of the playoffs.

"I don't really agree, I think internally, the way people see it on the outside maybe they see it as we're not emotional, but everyone cares in this locker room, everyone wants to do well and everyone wants to win," he said. "We care about each other in here. We're a big family and I know every single guy in this room wants it as bad as I do."

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While lots have been made of the play of the twins of late, one person who has a front row seat to their Sedinery doesn't get what all the fuss is all about.

"They haven't been scoring goals, but they are still very dangerous on the ice," said Nashville's Pekka Rinne. "Being a goalie, you always notice when top guys are on the ice and those guys are still creating scoring chances, make good plays and make those around them better. I think the bigger story is how well we've played them more than what they're doing wrong."

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hopefully the canucks can end this series today, can't bear to watch another predators game..

I'm almost thankful I will only be able to sit down and watch period 1 during my lunch break. Period 2+3, on computer across the room ='(

i feel like this one is definitely going to OT. if the ice is as bad as everyone was saying in the morning skate (guess it was like 30 degrees down there today or something), then it's not gonna get any better during the game with all those people packed in. i'm feeling a 2-1 triple OT game here.

and Saturday i was confident about a win for Vancouver tonight, but now i'm kinda feeling Game 7 as being necessary. i mean the Sex Preds have to win at least one home game in this series, right?

if they can only contain the legend known as Joel Ward...

prediction: the sedins show up and hank pots two and DANIEL assists on both

nucks 4:1

I see an epic gif in the making with the hot girl punching the kesler punching stand

Lol celsius

lol Canada

wow game got outta hand pretty quick

whoa wtf

canucks took a while to get involved, they had to figure out how to dive their way in

Kesler's such a ****ing dousche piece of ****.

As a former goalie, **** Kesler. What a POS.

hahaha the canucks are unreal

Kesler is closer to Datsyuk than Thornton

lol oh wow