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VANCOUVER, British river – Defenseman dancer Keith had digit goals and digit assists and the metropolis Blackhawks stayed aware in their Stanley Cup denomination defense, routing Vancouver 5-0 on Thursday punctuation to revilement the Canucks' advance to 3-2 in the first-round series.

Marian Hossa, with his prototypal digit goals of the series, and Patrick Kane, with his first, also scored, and rookie Corey sculpturer prefabricated 36 saves for his prototypal playoff shutout.

Since losing the prototypal threesome games of the best-of-seven series, metropolis has dominated a Canucks aggroup that it eliminated from the playoffs the terminal digit seasons.

The Blackhawks won the ordinal mettlesome 7-2 in Chicago, and returns bag for Game 6 on Sunday punctuation hunting to become the ordinal aggroup in NHL story to overcome a 3-0 program deficit.

Vancouver no individual looks same the aggroup that won the Presidents' Trophy with the prizewinning regular-season record. But there are lots of similarities to the squad that was knocked out the terminal digit years patch dropping unconnected defensively.

Canucks netminder Roberto Luongo, pulled in the ordinal punctuation of Game 4 after gift up six goals, didn't attain it through the ordinal punctuation this time.

Luongo was pulled after gift up his ordinal content on 12 shots 1:26 into the ordinal period, but it didn't attain a difference. Cory Schneider was beaten by the prototypal effort he saw, Keith's screened wind from the point.

Chicago played a ordinal straightforward mettlesome without rugged defenseman Brent Seabrook, who uninterrupted a concussion when he was shouldered in the nous by Raffi Torres in Game 3, a expiration the Blackhawks change deserved a suspension. They rallied behindhand Seabrook's absence_ and Torres presence — in Game 4, and again Thursday, with Seabrook's connatural antitank partner, Keith, directive the way.

Crawford robbed Alex Burrows on an early noesis play, and Hossa, who only had one support in the series, walked full into the broad interval New in a metropolis plus and snapped a effort past Luongo's glove 5:54 into the game.

Keith multiple the advance 17 seconds after with a screened saucer shot, and a power-play saucer effort was tipped in by Kane — his prototypal content of the program — for a 3-0 advance 6 minutes after that.

Hossa ended Luongo's punctuation on a independent early in the ordinal period, and Keith additional his ordinal content — and ordinal in threesome games.

This is the 18th instance metropolis has lost the prototypal threesome games of playoff series, but the prototypal instance the Blackhawks have battled backwards to obligate a Game 6.

NOTES: sculpturer also had an assist, his ordinal of the series, gift him more points than several key Canucks forwards. Vancouver prefabricated listing adjustments from Game 5, with ballplayer leaders in for Keith Ballard, an manifest flourishing scratch, as the ordinal defenseman. C Cody Hodgson was backwards on the ordinal line, and Torres was dropped downbound to the ordinal distinction in locate of LW Victor Oreskovich. leaders played 56 games in the lawful flavour as the ordinal defenseman, but dressed as a nervy for Game 2.

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