Post-Game Talk: 12/30/17 | Kings 4 @ Canucks 3

[Yggdrasil]

edler not passing to wide open boeser on the pp strikes again.

please leave edler. just go.

 

[Jack Burton]

Agree with all of this. On Reddit people are torching Marky (as usual) but I struggle to see why. He may have allowed 4 and our G have been mediocre for a couple of weeks (having saved our bacon until then) and all of a sudden Miller is remembered as a Vezina-caliber hero and Marky is a sieve. I just don’t get it. He is to blame for zero of the goals and made a lot of saves he had no business making.

Also, Loui Eriksson? What happened? I thought he finally turned a corner here and since he hasn’t been seen..

Deflection pure and simple.

People can't accept the team Linden and Benning have built and are riding rainbows with lollipops.

Olé Jack Burton has been say'n for a while now that drafting is the easy part but player development is where it's at.

It's going to get a lot worse around here before it gets better.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Yah, this is fake news.

Proof of article ?

Yup.

The NHL tweeted that Caps goal against us that had too many men on the ice and celebrated it.

League is a ****ing joke. No way do I think they rig games, but no doubt they favorite the bigger market teams.

Pretty sure Kerry Fraser admitted refs do that in an article a few years back.

No way should that goal the Kings got have counted. You guys got ****ed there big time.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

TG


“I didn’t mind our game”

 

[Addison Rae]

vancouver is a considerably bigger hockey market than la too, so that just makes zero sense.

this isn't 2011 the canucks are irrelevant no one really gives a f*** about us.

 

[Melvin]

He didn't stand there 'like a dope', he was in proper position and tried, he just didn't clear the puck successfully. I would have to see the play again to see what Hutton was doing and where the forward help was.

You don't understand what I'm saying.

There is expected play and then above expected play. This is an area he is supposed to be good at, as in, better than average, as in does more than you would exoect of a player. He has to be because he is so poor at everything else. Merely doing the expected play is not enough.

 

[JuniorNelson]

Kings have guys that can cause mayhem. They worked hard. Canucks were clearly overpowered on a few shifts.

I watched on TV and Markstrom looked culpable twice but it's hard to tell with compressed perspective. I thought he played well in the face of King's attack. I'd like to see him in the playoffs.

Canucks did display some grit. Canucks have rarely confronted the Kings before. This is sort of an indicator game, for me. It makes me wonder what this squad would look like in the playoffs? They were very competitive in a tough contest. Damn!

 

[tantalum]

Been a long, long time since I almost completely disagree with Orcatown but today is another of those days. I’d guess the shots attempts against were nearly 2:1 and they allowed 36 on goal while only getting 25. This wasn’t a good game for the Canucks.

A couple nice individua, stories in Stecher getting a goal and Dowd scoring against his old team but for the most part it was another game they couldn’t keep pucks out of the net (not the goaltenders fault either) and couldn’t limit scoring chances. It was a poor game I thought. From the blueline struggling down low to controller disconnect backchecks (ahem Gagner). They were the second best team by a good amount and the regulation “L” is fitting.

 

[Horse McHindu]

The Sky is Falling.

Benning is the worst GM in human history.

Linden is horrid.

Canucks won't make the playoff until 2025.

Yada Yada Yada

 

[Songtao 88]

Benning is the worst GM in human history.

Seems like a reasonable point, Bovinder, although you might want to recall Mike Milbury.

 

[CanaFan]

TG


“I didn’t mind our game”

I think marketing just found their slogan for the 2018-19 campaign.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

<snip>Too weak in front of the net.

Too weak in front of both nets. I'm all for moving Gudbranson (depending on the return), but we really need a physical presence in our own end... especially playing these bigger, heavier teams. If only Biega was a bit larger.

 

[VanJack]

These are the kinds of games that teams not destined for any playoff hockey find a way to lose unfortunately. Sens and Canadians also lost last night, and they won't make it either. Canucks are up 3-2 early in the third, and legitimate playoff teams just find a way to lock it down and see it through to the end.

Markstrom played well, but sadly it's not the goals he lets in, it's 'when' he lets them in. They seem to always come at the worst time.....By contrast, watched the highlights of Demko holding the fort in Utica for an undermanned Comets team......the guy just seems to come up with a miraculous save at the time his team desperately needs it. Really hoping to see him get some games in VanCity this year.

 

[Toxic0n]

edler not passing to wide open boeser on the pp strikes again.

please leave edler. just go.

Ridiculous. Edler is our highest TOI logging D-man, 2nd highest scoring D-man and probably our 2nd best defensive D-man after Tanev. You think this team is bad with Edler?