(Sports Network) - The Chicago Blackhawks have won three straight tests to force tonights decisive Game 7 in Vancouver. Moss Jersey . The defending Stanley Cup champions will try to complete the amazing comeback when they visit the top- seeded Canucks at Rogers Arena for the finale of Western Conference quarterfinals. When the eighth-seeded Blackhawks lost the first three games of this series it appeared that the clubs title defense was going to be short-lived. However, Chicago posted blowout victories in Games 4 and 5 and then made this evenings showdown a necessity by recording an overtime win Sunday in the Windy City. Of course, only three teams in NHL history have ever come back from a three- games-to-none deficit to win a series, but it happened last spring when the Philadelphia Flyers rallied to defeat Boston in seven games during the Eastern Conference semifinals. The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New York Islanders are the only other clubs to win a series after trailing 3-0. The Canucks have never lost a series that they have led three-games-to-none. Vancouvers only series defeat with a 3-1 lead came in the 2003 conference semifinals against Minnesota. Vancouver has been eliminated from the postseason by the Blackhawks in each of the last two springs. Both times Chicago ousted the Canucks in six games during the conference semifinals. The Blackhawks and Canucks both have 5-4 records all-time in Game 7 situations. The Canucks are also trying to avoid becoming the third straight Presidents Trophy winner to lose in the first round. Washington was bounced out by Montreal in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals after having the leagues best record last spring and San Jose was ousted two years ago by eighth-seeded Anaheim. The Blackhawks earned their latest victory in 4-3 fashion thanks to Ben Smiths game-winner at 15:30 of overtime. With time winding down in the first OT, Niklas Hjalmarsson fired a shot on net from the point. Smith, who played in just six regular season games, used his backhand to jam home the rebound for the thrilling victory at the 15:30 mark. I really just wanted to get to the front of the net, Smith said. Hjalmarsson made a great hard shot and the rebound was right there for me. However, the story of the game was Vancouvers decision to start Cory Schneider over Roberto Luongo, who was pulled from the previous two contests. Making his first career playoff start, Schneider stopped 17-of-20 shots before leaving early in the third period with an injury. Luongo, who started 60 games during the regular season and was named as one of three finalists for this years Vezina Trophy, played the rest of the game and turned aside 12-of-13 shots. All year long weve used both goaltenders and Ill tell you the truth, I went with a gut, I thought Cory could give us a good game tonight, Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault said. Of course, Vigneaults decision to start Schneider over his supposed franchise goaltender has been criticized extensively, and its no surprise he is going back to Luongo as the starter tonight. However, Schneiders injury was apparently just a cramping issue so he will be available for tonights test, if needed. Vancouver took a 3-2 lead Sunday on Kevin Bieksas goal just 58 seconds into the third period, but Bieksa made a big mistake at the 2:31 mark, tripping Chicagos Michael Frolik on a breakaway to give the Blackhawks a penalty shot. Frolik scored on Schneider to tie things up and that was the last play of the game for Vancouvers starting goaltender. Schneider did a split trying to stop Froliks attempt, and after favoring his right leg, he was replaced by Luongo. It was the first successful penalty shot in Chicago playoff history. Dave Bolland had a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks and Bryan Bickell also scored. Rookie goaltender Corey Crawford made 32 saves to post the win for Chicago. The Canucks played most of Game 6 without defenseman Sami Salo and he is questionable for tonights game with an undisclosed injury. Chicago, meanwhile, is expected to be without forward Tomas Kopecky again. Kopecky hasnt played since suffering an upper body injury in Game 1. Vancouver is 2-1 on home ice in this series, taking the opener by a 2-0 score and notching a 4-3 win in Game 2 before getting slammed, 5-0, in Game 5. The Canucks had a 27-9-5 record as the host during the regular season, while Chicago struggled to a 20-12-9 mark as the guest. Chicago and Vancouver have met two other times in the postseason in addition to their 2009 and 2010 semifinal bouts, and the Blackhawks own a 3-1 edge all- time against the Canucks in the playoffs. 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Ninety-one percent of the days in the first six months recorded air quality reaching or exceeding the national standard of Grade II in 113 major cities, a drop of 0.3 percentage points compared with the same period last year, an environmental quality report released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection showed. The amount of inhalable particles, a major air pollution index, was also 0.091 milligrams per cubic meter in these cities, rising from 0.002 milligrams per cubic meter over the same period last year, the ministry reported. It was the first time for these cities to record a fall in the number of days with good air quality and a rise in the concentration of inhalable particles since 2005, ministry spokesman Tao Detian said. Related readings:Pollution puts brakes on pedal powerRegions to jointly combat?pollutionMonth-long check targeting pollutionPollution may help trigger cardiac arrest That means the country is still facing a grave situation in fighting pollution, he said. The worsening urban air pollution was mainly caused by sandstorms that occurred frequently in spring, said Chai Fahe, vice-president of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. More construction and industrial projects that started this year due to economic recovery, as well as the rapid increase in automobiles, should also be blamed, he said. Its no surprise that the statistics are negative. I cant count on the environment improving significantly in a short time and I have to get used to it, Beijinger Li Zhixin said. The ministrys report also warned that China is still faced with severe challenges in pollution control, as a nationwide sampling on water supply found that more than one-quarter of the countrys surface water was contaminated. The countrys surface water is suffering moderate pollution in general, it reported. Environmental monitoring authorities found 26. Seahawks Houshmandzadeh Jersey. 4 percent of the countrys surface water samples at levels IV and V, good for only industrial use and farm irrigation, the ministry reported. China classifies water quality into six levels, ranging from level I, which is good for drinking, to level VI, which is too polluted for any purpose. Levels I to III means the water can be used for drinking, swimming and fish farming. The ministry did not provide details on how the water quality was tested. Last year, it sampled water quality in 409 monitoring stations set up along 200 rivers, including the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. Last year, 24.2 percent of the samples were recorded at levels IV and V, slightly down from 26.5 percent in 2007. Severe pollution has hit some of the countrys major water systems, including the main stream of the Liaohe River in Northeast China, the tributary of the Yellow River and Haihe River in East China, as well as Taihu Lake in the Yangtze River Delta and Dianchi Lake in Yunnan province. The statistics suggest that more than half of the water in China now is below the national water quality standard of Grade I to Grade III, which means the supplies cannot be used as drinking water, said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a nongovernmental group based in Beijing. The situation is mainly caused by the excessive amount of nitrogen in the water, with the current massive increase of animal waste coming from the livestock industry and the improper disposal of wastewater in urban areas into waterways, Ma said. Water quality off the Bohai Sea and East China Sea is also suffering serious pollution, the ministry reported. As more oil and chemical enterprises set up their factories in coastal areas, it would seem convenient for them to drain off wastewater and the pollution will increase, Ma said. China needs to consider more its control of water pollution from the very start. Other areas, such as heavy metal pollution, also need to be monitored in future, Ma said. The ministrys latest report said 189 cities out of the 443 cities monitored also suffered from acid rain in the first half of this year. Guangan of Sichuan province, Lishui of Jiangsu province, Nanhui district of Shanghai, Yingtan and Ruijin of Jiangxi province, Taizhou and Wenzhou of Zhejiang province and Xiamen of Fujian province were the eight cities most frequently hit by acid rain, it said. ' ' '