So the Canucks, right up to their loser of a GM, rev themselves up over a non issue that unfortunately resulted in their goalie being injured. Next game they immediately begin taking reckless and dumb penalties, including 27 minutes from Sestito, who has to be the worst enforcer I've ever seen. They take exception to people bodychecking in a hockey game, so they then proceed to do ok in a couple fights, but the fights themselves only serve to wake up our catatonic captain. From that point on, the physical play only escalates, with the Canucks taking the worst of it. Ultimately Brown, whom they decided to awaken with a pointless fight (outstanding strategy, btw) scores the GWG.
Throughout all this, the Canucks supposedly get their moral victory on account of us failing to punish them with 15 minutes of PP time. In any reasonable game, the score is 2 or 3 zip heading into the 3rd.
And to continue the delusions, they think we have been sent a message.
What message?
1) The Canucks are our inferiors at both ends of the ice, and completely lack composure.
2) The Canucks can get tough but don't know how to harness their intent. Thus when the actual physicality picks up because of their prior antics(which typically result in dumb penalties), they can and will be left behind. Its like the fantasy jocks who think there is a direct correlation between "toughness" and PIMs. Which is profoundly Pejorative Slured. If they were routinely difficult to play against they'd realize last night they were doing it wrong.
3) Our PP is responsible for the Canucks even mistakenly thinking there were positives to be taken away from last night. It should have been a blowout, another candidate for game of the year, instead it was an embarrassment for us.
4) DL can't be happy after last night in spite of the win. This should have been over after 1 period. No way he isn't scrambling to fix what ails us. Even if it is just tearing a strip off our current roster behind closed doors. They need to know the time for ****ing around is rapidly coming to an end. We won't be able to play a team blinded by pointless revenge all the time.