1994 – 95 Vancouver Canucks season The 1994 – 95 Vancouver Canucks season was the Canucks ' 25th NHL season . Goaltender Kirk McLean accounted for all of the Canucks ' 18 wins . Pavel Bure did not have the same power he did in 1992 - 93 and 1993 - 94 , the two seasons in which he reached the 60 - goal mark , but he still led the club in 1994 - 95 in goals ( 20 ) and shots ( 198 ) . A trade with the Dallas Stars on April 7 , 1995 saw the Russ Courtnall join his brother Geoff on the same team . The Canucks finished the season at . 500 for 6th place in the Western Conference and led the NHL with 12 ties . In the playoffs , Vancouver was the clear underdog against the 3rd - place St . Louis Blues , who had members from the 1994 Stanley - Cup champion Ranger team and former Rangers head coach Mike Keenan . After losing game 1 at the Kiel Center by a score of 2 - 1 , the Canucks won game 2 by a score of 5 - 3 behind Kirk McLean ' s 33 - save performance and Pavel Bure ' s shorthanded insurance goal in the third period . The shots on goal were 26 for Vancouver and 36 for St . Louis , as they had been in game 1 . The Canucks carried over their momentum from their win in game 2 to the Pacific Coliseum for game 3 , which they won 6 - 1 . Sergio Momesso scored twice . The Canucks were looking to win game 4 as well , leading 2 - 1 after Russ Courtnall ' s shorthanded goal ot 4 : 41 of the second period . But the Blues got their jump from Brendan Shanahan who scored a natural hat trick to give the Blues a 4 - 2 lead . Glenn Anderson would add another goal at 13 : 01 of the third period as St . Louis went on to win 5 - 2 to square the series at 2 games apiece . In game 5 at the Kiel Center , the Canucks scored 4 times on their first 19 shots , as Curtis Joseph would be pulled in favor of Jon Casey . Trailing Vancouver 5 - 4 with under 12 minutes to play , Murray Baron tied the game at 8 : 22 of the third period . The game would go into overtime where Cliff Ronning scored at 1 : 48 of the first overtime period to give the Canucks a 3 - 2 lead in the series . Looking to close out the series at home in game 6 , the Canucks were dominated by the Blues who won by a score of 8 - 2 . Esa Tikkanen picked up 4 points in the game ( 2 goals , 2 assists ) . Kirk McLean allowed 6 goals on just 17 shots . With the series tied at 3 - 3 , a crucial game 7 in St . Louis took place on Friday , May 19 . Although the Blues had twice as many shots as the Canucks ( 44 - 22 ) , Curtis Joseph allowed 4 goals on 21 shots while Kirk McLean made 41 saves . Pavel Bure added an empty - net goal with 22 seconds remaining to seal the game 5 - 3 and give the Canucks a 4 - 3 series win . It was Bure ' s 7th goal of the playoffs . It was a highly offensive series , as each team scored 27 goals over the 7 games . The Canucks ' soecial teams dominated throughout , as Vancouver scored 11 power - play goals and 6 shorthanded goals in the series . In the second round , the Canucks faced the Chicago Blackhawks . Both teams skated to a 1 - 1 tie before Joe Murphy scored the winner at 9 : 04 of the first overtime period . Blackhawks goaltender Ed Belfour stopped 26 of 27 Vancouver shots . Game 2 was also close , as Chicago edged Vancouver 2 - 0 on goals by Jim Cummins and Patrick Poulin . Down 2 games to none in the series , the Canucks battled desperately to get a win at home in game 3 but relinquished leads of 1 - 0 and 2 - 1 . Ironically it was ex - Canuck Murray Craven who tied the game at 2 - 2 with 45 seconds remaining in the third period to send the game to overtime . Chris Chelios scored at 6 : 22 of the first overtime period as the Hawks took a commanding 3 games to none series lead . In game 4 , Vancouver broke a 1 - 1 tie on two goals by Roman Oksiuta to lead 3 - 1 in the second period , but Chicago came back again on goals by Gerald Diduck and Jeremy Roenick , and so the score after 60 minutes was 3 - 3 . Once again , the overtime hero was Chris Chelios who scored 5 : 35 into the extra frame to give the Blackhawks a 4 - 0 sweep over the Canucks and advance to the third round for the first time in three years .