Same Canucks Story.... Same Maple Leaf gong show.

The Canucks come into tonights game with a single goal in mind. Win to get to .500. Forget the circus that has been following Brian Burke and his Toronto Maple Leafs... Actually forget that. Its all about Burke. Brian Burke is doing what Brian Burke does best. Takes the spotlight off his struggling team and puts it on himself.

With Brian Burkes team spiraling into a 0-6-1 start and heading for a even worse season Brian Burke has spouted off on the Canucks again this week about the tampering charges (under a gag order no less) and on the fact Roberto Luongo does not sell tickets (mind you he did say that about Niklas Lidstrom as well but to do that in Vancouver is to say that Trevor Linden was just a player here).

He wants to take the heat, the fine and the spotlight and hopefully try to get his team out of this terrible funk, and its a bad funk.

The Leafs will probably be starting their third string goal Joey McDonald even though The Swedish rookie known as the "The Monster" was seen participating in his first full practice since injuring his groin.

The Canucks will be looking to start a roll in which they have played 3 straight solid games and are coming off a chippy affair and their first road win again the Chicago Blackhawks.

The Canucks always seem to be prepared to play against the Leafs and try to drown out any Maple Leaf Chants in GM Place as usual there will be a huge contigent of Maple Leaf fans at the game tonight (how the heck do they get tickets or do some Canucks fans switch jersies for one night? I bet the Canucks fans gouge the Leaf fans for high ticket prices)

This game should be chippy and nasty and a PP decided game and with the way the Canucks Power Play is producing Toronto may not want to be as scrappy as they normally are. Well they have to do something at 0-6-1

Go Canucks G0.....

This to me, feels like a typical let down game for the Canucks after their good victory in Chicago.

Hopefully the canucks do not fall into THE TRAP.

Nucks 4-1 is my prediction. I see them scoring 3 in the first and then fights the rest of the game including a bench clearing brawl.