And it’s definitely a good rivalry. Even the 2001 playoff series was great, aside from the third period collapse in game 4. Those first three games were some of the best hockey of those entire playoff, although no one would know it by looking at the stats that show a 4-0 series.

In the last two years I’ve been able to watch Sakic, Roy, Forsberg, Drury, Tanguay, Hasek, Hull, Shanahan, Fedorov, Yzerman, Lidstrom, Chelios and more do their thing in the playoffs right in front of me, not on the tv screen. It doesn’t get much better than that. Er wait, it could.. if the Canucks could find a way to win a damned game at home.

To say I have one favorite is impossible but I’ll try and give you a couple.

1) Bourque (who alot of people consider the best d-man to ever play) is skating as hard as he can back to his end and Mario (never considered to be a great skater) chasing him with the puck & about at center Mario slides the puck through Bourque’s legs catches up to it in front of Bourque goes in alone and scores a beauty.

2) Drury just look through the playoffs the guy is a highlight waiting to happen.

3) Bertuzzi, considering he is a big man he has scored some amazing goals the last 3-4 years. The one that sticks out in my mind is in a game 2 yrs. ago Bertuzzi comes out from behind the opposition net and grabs the puck heads towards the blueline then turns towards the right side boards all the time there is a defender chasing him. About 5 feet from the boards he starts going back into the zone and drops the puck to the d-man standing at the blueline the defender stops to go after the d-man but Bertuzzi actually fakes the drop and reaches back as far as possible and pulls the puck up to himself and feeds Naslund in the slot wide open for a goal.