How's that for a comeback?

For just the 2nd time this season, the Canucks went into the 3rd period trailing and came out with a victory. 3rd period goals from Daniel Sedin and Alex Burrows lifted the Canucks to a 2-1 victory over the Thrashers in Atlanta last night. Roberto Luongo was solid against Kovalchuk and Hossa, and the shutdown line really did a good job of neutralizing them, along with Burrows getting the winner from linemates Ryan Kesler and Taylor Pyatt. The win moves Vancouver into 9th, pushing them past Phoenix, and within 1 point of the Calgary Flames, who lost at home to Chicago. The set up for tomorrow night's game is huge. A win over Colorado puts us back in a playoff spot, and in a tie with the Avs, and just 1 point behind the division leaders Minnesota. There's a lot of work still to be done, but last night's win was a huge positive and something the team could really build on. Obviously having Mattias Ohlund back in the lineup helped, he was solid all night, as was Sami Salo who played one of his best games all season. The defense is slowly getting healthy, but with the way Alex Edler and Luc Bourdon have been playing, we are at least in contention every game. All we needed was a little puck luck and some help from other teams, and we got that in a big way last night. We will have a new podcast tomorrow morning with the pregame show as well as previews of CBC's big Hockey Day In Canada extravaganza from Winkler, Manitoba.