*spring is in the air*
for those of you not from north america, one of the greatest things about spring is it's PLAYOFF TIME. and being a true maple leaf, i'm talking about the NHL playoffs. and being a true maple leaf from the west coast, i am currently on cloud 9 as the vancouver canucks beat the living daylights out of the most unworthy of opponents, the st.louis blues.

i think the monumentous significance of this win must be stressed: this will be the first time in 8 years that the canucks have moved past the first round. during the 2002/2003 season, vancouver exceeded all my expectations by coming in fourth in the western conference and narrowly missed being the northwest division champs, being only one point behind colorado. i have to mention, however, we still won more games than them, AND they just got their butts kicked by minnesota, who won the series 4-3. we were second during regular season in goal scoring, falling only 5 goals short of detroit. our captain, markus naslund, is second leading goal scorer in the league; and he and todd bertuzzi hold the top two spots in powerplay goals. we fought back from being down 3-1 in a best-of-7 series, and i'm so proud of my team.

vancouver will move on to play the underdogs, the minnesota wild. we were tied 2-2-1 in regular season, so this should be interesting. first game of semi-finals is friday. man, i wish i had cable...