CBC breathes sigh of relief

Riding the great Ryan Kesler, who outplayed Mike Fisher something awful, Vancouver advances to the Western Conference final.

Chris Higgins and Maxim Lapierre played well, Sergei Kostitsyn was invisible the whole series.

As was the case a year ago, our national network has a Canadian team still alive in the third round.

The CBC will telecast all the games between the Canucks and either Detroit or San Jose, while TSN will have Games 2, 3 and 4 of Tampa Bay vs. Boston.

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Photo by M.J. Masotti Jr./Reuters

And the irrepressible Jeremy Roenick calls former teammate Patrick Marleau “gutless”