Schedule and 2010-11 Results
Regular Season Records: Vancouver 54-19-9=117pts, Nashville 44-27-11=99pts
Game 1 on Thursday, 28 April: Nashville loses at Vancouver, 1-goal-nil
Game 2 on Saturday, 30 April: Nashville wins at Vancouver, 2-goals-1 (2OT)
Game 3 on Tuesday, 03 May: Vancouver wins at Nashville, 3-goals-2 (OT)
Game 4 on Thursday, 05 May: Vancouver wins at Nashville, 4-goals-2
Game 5 on Saturday, 07 May: Nashville wins at Vancouver, 4-goals-3
Game 6 on Monday, 09 May: Vancouver wins at Nashville, 2-goals-1

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: The Vancouver Canucks defeated the Nashville Predators 4-games-2 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1132. With the series 1132 victory, the Vancouver Canucks improve their best-of-7 NHL playoff series record to 14-16 overall and 3-8 in the Quarterfinals. With the series 1132 loss, the Nashville Predators' best-of-7 NHL playoff series record falls to 1-6 overall and 0-1 in the Quarterfinals. The series 1132 win order for the victorious Vancouver Canucks was WLWWLW: Series 1132 thus becomes the fourth NHL Quarterfinals series, the 16th NHL series (all rounds), and the 41st MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion. In series 1132 Game 2, the visiting Nashville Predators scored to tie the Vancouver Canucks with but 67 seconds left in regulation. In the history of best-of-7 NHL playoff games, from 1939 through 2010, inclusive, road teams trailing by a goal with only 68 seconds left in regulation had a game record of 17-502 (.033). By the time that Nashville won the game with a goal 14:51 into the second overtime, the historical victory probabilities were decidedly in the visitors' favor: In the history of best-of-7 NHL playoff games, from 1939 through 2010, inclusive, road teams at 14:50 into the second overtime had a game record of 26-15 (.634).

Pre-series assessment: In the 2010-11 regular season, Vancouver finished 18 points ahead of Nashville. From 1939 through the 2011 NHL Preliminary round, when NHL teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by 18 regular-season points, they have posted a 10-6 (.625) best-of-7 NHL playoff series record in those series against those opponents (with an active five-series winning streak). MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1132 is the seventh best-of-7 playoff series for Nashville, and the 30th for Vancouver. In best-of-7 playoff series, Nashville has a 1-5 series record, a 0-0 Quarterfinals-round series record, and a 3-3 Game 1 record, while Vancouver has a 13-16 series record, a 2-8 Quarterfinals-round record with an active five Quarterfinals-series losing streak, and an 18-11 Game 1 record. Series 1132 is the first best-of-7 NHL playoff series meeting between Nashville and Vancouver.