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schnei View related video: Hockey Talk Canucks Post-game analysis: no spark, no life, awful.VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks failed again Wednesday night to score first.They went one better. They didn #39;t score at all.The Canucks #39; early-season struggles continued as they dropped a 3-0 decision to the St. Louis Blues at Rogers Arena.Roberto Luongo(notes) can #39;t be blamed for this one. football pictures He didn #39;t play.The Canucks have now been shut out three times in their first 10 games this season and twice at home. They were only shut out once at home all last season. -We have to start scoring goals here, get some dirty ones,- said Vancouver captain Henrik Sedin(notes). -We are getting enough shots to score some goals, but we are putting our goalies in a bad spot when they need to ma football pictures ke every save in a game to keep us in it.-It #39;s up to us in here to get a little grittier in front of their net and get some dirty ones.-The Canucks seem like they have been battling from behind all season. Wednesday night #39;s game marked the eighth time in 10 games Vancouver has allowed the opposition to score first and the seventh time the Canucks have trailed entering the third period.Thos football pictures e are definitely not the recipes for winning hockey.-It feels like right now we are hoping to get the first goal and this is not a league where you can hope to get goals,- said Daniel Sedin(notes). -You have to work extremely hard to get them and you have to work for each other. That #39;s the bottom line. Right now, we #39;re not doing that.--It #39;s tough to come back,- added Henrik. - When you football pictures are down early and the way we aren #39;t scoring right now, it wears on you, for sure.-The Canucks got most of their shots in the third period, when they had a 17-6 edge. But the Blues had a 25-15 advantage through two periods and the Sedin twins didn #39;t have one of them. Daniel finished the game without a shot and Henrik had two in the third period, when the desperate Canucks played their bes football pictures t hockey.-Early on it #39;s a lot of reacting instead of taking the game to the other team,- Henrk said. -We are staying back a little bit too much and thinking we can #39;t give up 2-on-1s or 3-on-2s. It #39;s a lot of reacting out there. Guys are thinking too much instead of going out there and playing hcokey. That #39;s what we need right now.-Cory Schneider(notes) got the start n goal and was football pictures beaten twice by Alexander Steen and once by Patrick Berglund.The Blues were full value for the win and got a 32-save shutout performance by backup goalie Brian Elliott(notes).Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault is struggling to figure out why a team that led the NHL in scoring last season is having so much difficulty putting the puck in the net this season.-I think we could be better in a lot of areas football pictures , but I think our biggest obstacle right now is our execution and basically our execution offensively,- Vigneault said. -We are making some mistakes, not finding ways to find the back of the net. We are not generating the type of chances I think this group is capable of generating and that has a lot more to do with execution than anything else.-Steen was able to grab his own rebound to open scorin football pictures g at 8:29 of the second after his knuckle-ball from the right circle caught Schneider in the chest area.-In the second period we do what we always do, a four-man attack that we don #39;t connect on and they come right back on a 4-on-2 and are able to jump on a rebound opportunity that gives them a 1-0 lead,- Vigneault said.Steen got his second of the night, and fifth of the season, at 6:17 of the football pictures third when his long shot from above the left circle beat Schneider short side.Berglund beat Schneider at 17:09 of the third when he took a pass from Kevin Shattenkirk(notes) and scored from the slot.The struggles for defenceman Kevin Bieksa(notes) continued. He was minus-two on the night and is now minus-nine on the season, which would be great if he was playing golf, not hockey.-It #39;s frustrat football pictures ing, for sure,- Vancouver defenceman Keith Ballard(notes) said of the team #39;s struggles. -We understand the position we are in and we also understand we have a lot better hockey in us and we are going to get there. Everyone in that room believes we can get out of this thing and put something good together.-The Canucks forced the Blues to take only two penalties and after each one nullified thei football pictures r power play by taking a penalty of their own.-That says where we are right now,- Vigneault said with a shrug after the game.The Canucks, who have dropped two straight, are now 4-5-1. The Blues improved to 5-4-0.ICE CHIPS: Defenceman Alexander Sulzer(notes) played his first game as a Canuck. He replaced Andrew Alberts(notes) and was paired with Ballard #8230;Stephane Auger refereed his first game football pictures in Vancouver since the Alexander Burrows incident #8230;The Canucks play host to the Washington Capitals on Saturday night.bziemer@vancouversun.com; twitter.com/bradziemer Play Fantasy Hockey, now with Pro Leagues! Updated 11 hours, 37 minutes ago football pictures
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