Tale of the tape: Canucks vs. Wild

Tonight’s game is presented by the Mexico Tourism Board. For the Canucks… Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks are hoping to write a sequel and, no, we’re not talking about Forever Faithful 2. Last November, the Canuck netminder re-wrote the Canucks’ record books when he blanked the opposition in three consecutive games and set a new franchise record for longest sequence without allowing a goal at 210:34. Tonight, the Canucks’ captain has a chance to repeat history as he enters the game having not surrendered a goal in his last two consecutive games and a total sequence without a goal given up at 141:08. What Luongo and the Canucks won’t want to have repeated is the way their streak ended last season – at the hands of this same Minnesota Wild team. Last season, the Montreal-native appeared in seven of the eight games in... [read full story]