Breakdown of the 4 Games this year between SJ and Nux

November 26- Blowout in favour of the canucks. Tambo had a goal back when Tambo still looked like he was capable of playing in the top 6. Nowadays, Tambo has been a healthy scratch 95 percent of these playoffs. Ballard had a goal too this game, unfortunately he has found himself out of the lineup this playoffs too. Hopefully the good play of these two players in the regular season against the sharks helps them draw into the canucks lineup this playoffs.

January 3. Cory Schneider played and helped backstop the canucks to a 4-3 win. The Canucks had an early lead but blew it in the second. sharks held the lead for 3:14 before hansen tied it up.

January 20. sharks win 2-1 in a shootout Canucks opened the scoring but couldn't do anything else. Joe Pavelski scored in the shootout. Luongo played but his performance was overshadowed by an even stronger game by Niemi. The Sharks never held lead once in the only game they won against the canucks all season.

March 11. Canucks win 5-4 in a SO and Schneider was in net. Cory made 44 saves and played strong but you have to assume that Luongo would have been even stronger. Niemi played for san jose. At no point in the game did san jose have a lead, but canucks blew three separate leads to keep San Jose hanging around.

In a total 250 minutes played against the canucks this season, the San Jose Sharks were only capable of holding the lead for a combined 3 minutes and 14 seconds.

-hark

Kevin Bieksa goes from Indespensable to Dead Man Walking

Earlier in the season there was no point in trading Bieksa. All the other GM's were unsure of his potential because of the injuries that have kept his game total and point total down. Also because of the videos on youtube of game six versus Chicago where Bieksa is laying on his ass for three of the chicago goals.

But now that he has been fluking out and playing good, other teams might be willing to pay a price to take him for a playoff run. Say another team in the league that needs a highpower defenceman and has extra forwards to spare.

A team that really needs defense is San Jose and they might be willing to depart with Devin Set-o-hands. Numerous possibilities abound. All Gillis has to do is make sure to sell at the right moment, when it actually seems to the other team that Bieksa might be useful. Unfortunately, if you blink, you can miss these opportunities.

-hark