Cats cursed by Tjutin-khamun

Florida -- With the Florida Panthers up 2-0 in the NsHL Cup Finals the scene shifted to their home in Sunrise Florida.

Fedor Tjutin wrist shot found the back of the net and the Vancouver Canucks found themselves back in the series.

Tjutin scored twice and Doug Weight and Milan Hejduk each added a goal as the Canucks beat the Panthers 4-3 to take game three of the NsHL Final.

Florida still leads the best-of-seven series 2-1, winning 4-1 and 5-2 in the first two games.

The Canucks were full value for the win tonight as they came back from 2-1 and 3-2 deficits.

"Nobody quit," Doug Weight said. "Everybody was confident and it showed tonight. We played a solid road game tonight."

Game notes: The Cup Final is a definite road show with the road team winning all three games ...... Evgeni Malkin and Justin Williams scored in game three and have scored in back-to-back games ....... Nathan Norton added an assist and now leads the Panthers with 6 points in the series ..... the power-play was terrific in game three ..... the Canucks were a perfect one-for-one and the Panthers were 2 for 3 ...... the Panthers suffered another injury in game three when Antti Miettinen left the game with bruised shoulder and he will not play in game four ....... Patrick Eaves will get his first taste of action in the Cup Final.

Florida

EVEN STRENGTH

    CENTER                LEFT WING             RIGHT WING            DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Jason Spezza          Antti Miettinen       Evgeni Malkin         Sergei Zubov          Ivan Majesky
2  Marc Savard           Kyle Calder           Juraj Kolnik          Ed Jovanovski         Paul Ranger
3  Mike Sillinger        Justin Williams       Nathan Horton         Jason York            Branislav Mezei
4  Alyn Mccauley         Jay Pandolfo          Evgeni Malkin         Jason Strudwick       Ed Jovanovski


POWER PLAY

    CENTER                LEFT WING             RIGHT WING            DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Marc Savard           Kyle Calder           Evgeni Malkin         Sergei Zubov          Ed Jovanovski
2  Mike Sillinger        Justin Williams       Nathan Horton         Ivan Majesky          Paul Ranger


PENALTY KILL

    CENTER                WINGER                DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Alyn Mccauley         Jay Pandolfo          Sergei Zubov          Ivan Majesky
2  Mike Sillinger        Kyle Calder           Paul Ranger           Ed Jovanovski


STARTING GOALIE

  Patrick Lalime


SCRATCHES

  Patrick Eaves (Healthy)
  Joel Bouchard (Healthy)
  Petr Taticek (Healthy)

Vancouver

EVEN STRENGTH

    CENTER                LEFT WING             RIGHT WING            DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Brendan Morrison      Fredrik Modin         Milan Hejduk          Paul Martin           Martin Skoula
2  Doug Weight           Brenden Morrow        Shane Doan            Brad Stuart           Fedor Tjutin
3  Henrik Sedin          Daniel Sedin          Kirk Maltby           Mathieu Dandenault    Daniel Mcgillis
4  Doug Weight           Brenden Morrow        Milan Hejduk          Brad Stuart           Martin Skoula


POWER PLAY

    CENTER                LEFT WING             RIGHT WING            DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Brendan Morrison      Fredrik Modin         Milan Hejduk          Paul Martin           Brad Stuart
2  Doug Weight           Brenden Morrow        Shane Doan            Martin Skoula         Fedor Tjutin


PENALTY KILL

    CENTER                WINGER                DEFENCE               DEFENCE
1  Jason Arnott          Kirk Maltby           Martin Skoula         Fedor Tjutin
2  Henrik Sedin          Chuck Kobasew         Paul Martin           Daniel Mcgillis


STARTING GOALIE

  Rick DiPietro


SCRATCHES

  Ron Hainsey (Healthy)
  Brooks Orpik (Healthy)
  Trevor Letowski (Healthy)