 | CANUCKS RETURN HOME AFTER RECORD 14-GAME ROAD TRIP |
THE CANADIAN PRESS
There were days when Alex Burrows woke up wondering about more than just what city he was in.
"(It was also) which day it is, what time it is, where am I really," the Vancouver Canuck winger said.
The Canucks are home after 14 consecutive games on the road, the longest stretch in NHL history. They last faced an opponent in Vancouver on Jan. 27, and finally play their first home game in 44 days Saturday against the Ottawa Senators.
But compiling an 8-5-1 record that included several comebacks while the 2010 Olympic Winter Games took over GM Place made the marathon easier, Burrows said after Friday's practice.
"We've got confidence we can score goals and come back in any game," said Burrows, who scored seven times on the trip but found himself dropped to the second line.
That's because Mikael Samuelsson, who scored 10 goals in the 14 games and has a career-high 28, is now playing on the top trio with Daniel and Henrik Sedin.
The twins said Samuelsson, who played with them at the 2006 Olympics but was left off Sweden's 2010 team, is a good fit for them.
"It's fun now reading the Swedish papers ... for us who believe in him and think he should have been on the team," Daniel said.
Added Henrik, second in the scoring race and leading the NHL with 63 assists: "Mike wants to be involved and he wants the puck and that's good for us."
The Canucks' homecoming follows a journey which saw them visit nearly half the NHL's franchises in a trip that extended to balmy Florida from frigid Montreal.
While they were logging more than 20,000 kilometres through three time zones, their rink was set up as Canada Hockey Place and restored to GM Place when the Olympics ended.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=313676
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