Who showed up

I watched the Calgary Vancouver Hockey game last night. Actually I missed the first period. I was impressed with the effort by Markus Naslund. The Canucks lost this game but not for the play of their captain. The score was three nothing at the end of the second period. I do not know what happened in the first period. What I saw in the second and third was the Captain of the Canucks being the only player trying to win this game. Markus was making plays. Carrying the puck up the ice and getting shots on net. The rest of the team was sleeping through the second period. It was not until the Canucks scored their first goal in the third period when the rest of the team decided to join Markus with their effort level. I like the Sedin twins as players. They are not yet at that point in their play where they can win a game when they do not have their game going. When their game is not going, they really seem to struggle. Last night was one of those games. In the past Markus has had the ability to win games when he was not at his best. He almost did it by himself last night. That is the difference between good players and great players. Great players find ways to make it happen when they are having bad nights. It looks like Markus is getting ready for the playoffs. The last few weeks his effort level has been greater than most of the season. He is also getting better scoring chances. Eventually those chances will start to go in for him.
I really like Vigneault as a coach. Last night Markus was the best player on the ice and he moved Markus up to play with the Twins. I would like to see the Canucks put Naslund, Cooke and Morrison back together again leading up to the playoffs. This was tried earlier in the year and did not seem to work. A few things have changed since then Morrison has picked up his game. He seems to have his speed back. Cooke is playing Matt Cooke hockey again. He is hitting everything in sight creating a lot of turnovers. These two factors have changed since Markus played with Morrison and Cooke earlier in the year.
Go Markus go.
Puckhead