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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sami Salo scored twice and Ryan Kesler additional a content as the metropolis Canucks capitalized on threesome two-man advantages in the ordinal punctuation to vex the San Jose Sharks 4-2 Sun in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals to take a 3-1 program lead.

The Canucks scored the threesome goals in a movement of 1:55, needing exclusive 37 seconds on the threesome 5-on-3 situations to vex Antti Niemi threesome times.

Alexandre Burrows additional an even-strength content in the third punctuation as the Canucks touched to the brink of achievement the discoverer Cup finals for the prototypal instance since 1994. Henrik Sedin had a concern playoff-record quaternary assists, match brother justice had three, and Roberto Luongo prefabricated 33 saves.

Vancouver scored quaternary goals despite recording exclusive 13 shots in the mettlesome and meet seven after the prototypal period.

Andrew Desjardins and Ryane Clowe had third-period goals for the Sharks, who unsuccessful to cipher on fivesome primeval power-play chances and fell to 1-6 at bag in the conference finals in concern history. San Jose will need to win Game 5 in metropolis on weekday night to modify the program and intend added quantity in the Shark Tank.

In a program submissive by primary teams play, this mettlesome was no different with nearly 15 of the prototypal 33 transactions existence spent with a aggroup on the noesis play.

That's where the Canucks submissive in a deciding from their 4-3 loss in Game 3. They allowed threesome power-play goals in that mettlesome and unsuccessful to convert during 1:55 of 5-on-3 instance in the ordinal period.

The Canucks understandably resolved both of those issues before Game 4 despite existence without injured defensemen faith Ehrhoff and Aaron Rome. First, they killed soured fivesome straightforward secondary penalties to open the mettlesome as they spent 10:00 of the prototypal 24:06 short-handed.

The Sharks, who converted their prototypal fivesome power-play chances this series, struggled to ordered up in the offensive zone with the Negro plus on Sunday. When they did intend into the metropolis end, Luongo prefabricated octad saves on the fivesome noesis plays and gave San Jose some chances at rebounds.

The Canucks' frustration at the primeval spate of penalties overturned midway finished the ordinal punctuation when the Sharks were titled for quaternary in a movement of 2:46 to advance to the scoring outburst.

With Dany Heatley already in the incase for high-sticking, Torrey uranologist got titled for hooking justice Sedin to provide metropolis its prototypal two-man advantage. The Canucks took meet 10 seconds to cipher with Kesler beating Niemi with a one-timer from the lot soured a transfer from Salo.

Just 1:23 later, the Sharks got caught with too some men on the ice, gift metropolis its ordinal two-man advantage. This time, it took the Canucks 16 seconds to score when Salo took a transfer from Henrik Sedin and blamed it past Niemi from meet exclusive the blue line.

After the ensuing faceoff, San Jose defenseman politico Murray impact the disc over the glass for a retard of mettlesome call. Ten seconds later, Salo capped the occurrence with a big effort from between the circles as the Canucks ended up scoring on threesome of their quaternary shots in the ordinal period.

The rare salutation start did little to dampen the life from the ordinarily stormy Sharks fans or the sizable contingent of Canucks fans who prefabricated the trip to San Jose.

The Sharks were unable to provide their fans an primeval content to embolden about. The best scoring quantity during those 10 transactions of noesis play-filled state came for the Canucks, but Mason Raymond was obstructed in near twice by Niemi at the modify of a 2-on-1 with Jannik Hansen.

Notes: The threesome goals were the fastest in the playoffs for the Canucks, beating the preceding evaluation of 2:18 against Calgary in 1989. ... metropolis scored digit 5-on-3 content every regular season. ... Sharks officer Joe designer mitt in the third punctuation after existence impact into the boards by Raffi Torres.

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