Post-Game Talk: Canucks def. Sharks - 4-3 (OT) (Burroughs, Mikheyev, Pettersson, Kuzmenko)

[RutherPlan]

Canucks will need to score 3-4 goals in the first 30 minutes of the game to win. The Sharks will push back after that point since Canucks will be fatigued from a back to back.

 

[Kevinsane]

WHEN: November 27th, 5:00PM PST
WHERE: SAP Center, San Jose, CA, USA
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650


Canucks Line-Up:

Miller-Horvat-Hoglander
Kuzmenko-Pettersson-Mikheyev
Garland-Dries-Boeser
Joshua-Åman-Lazar

Hughes-Schenn
OEL-Bear
Burroughs-Myers

Demko


Sharks Line-Up:

Meier-Hertl-Labanc
Nieto-Couture-Barabanov
Gregor-Bonino-Kunin
Lindblom-Lorentz-Svechnikov

Megna-Karlsson
Vlasic-Benning
Simek-Cicek

Reimer

Podkolzin sitting just boggles my mind. Send him to Abbotsford if he’s not going to play.
How is this “development”?

 

[mriswith]

I wonder how much of the teams perennial bad starts goes to poor offseason training.

 

[BWJM]

Podkolzin sitting just boggles my mind. Send him to Abbotsford if he’s not going to play.
How is this “development”?

I don't see who you sit out tonight for him, Dries has been good. The 4th line solid. Hoglander was playing good vs Vegas too.

 

[Kevinsane]

I don't see who you sit out tonight for him, Dries has been good. The 4th line solid. Hoglander was playing good vs Vegas too.

I liked what I saw of him with Kuz and Petey. That’s no slight on Mikheyev, but if Boudreau doesn’t trust him, send him to Abby.

And yeah, Dries has been good, but he’s 28. Wasn’t the idea to get younger and develop the kids?

 

[CherryToke]

How many years did they have bad starts under Travis Green? Every year... is it the coach or the players... All those bag skates didn't help either lol.

They were getting outshot 50-12 every game with Green though and needed Vezina level goaltending to have a chance. Bruce is clearly better, even with his bizarre roster decisions/motivation tactics.

 

[nucksflailtogether]

Must win if this team is still pretending not to be a pretender.

 

[Jay26]

Podkolzin sitting just boggles my mind. Send him to Abbotsford if he’s not going to play.
How is this “development”?

Same with Rathbone!

 

[logan5]

I'm surprised that Rathbone hasn't demanded a trade.

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

i think the pt, if you are jr looking at the players and team staff you inherited, is they all had a whole summer to look at what went wrong the last bunch of years and have a plan to correct it.

maybe bruce did come into camp with a plan to change the culture of slow starts and complete lack of preparation (an issue green shared with benning). but even if injuries to start the year played a part, the constant lineup noodling and not having roles (or even expectations) for hog, pod, bone, and burroughs sure make it look like he went along with the organizational flow of waiting and seeing and hoping that cliff-falling-off vets (OEL, myers, pearson) to magically turn back the clock.

Even when Bruce took over last year they were still having slow starts and trying to comeback, and they were able to because they were coached with more offensive style then before, still needed elite goaltending and still do because of the D. Again Bruce was asked this many times last year and it started slowly changing after a little while with the slow starts.

The difference I see this year is they're not having slow starts but having slow 3rd periods now. Before they would conserve their energy for the 3rd hence the slow starts and the comebacks, now they use their energy in the 1st and 2nd and die by the 3rd hence the blown leads.

 

[shottasasa]

I'm surprised that Rathbone hasn't demanded a trade.

Given how poor he's been this season I'm not sure he'd get on an NHL roster anywhere right away. I firmly believe he has the talent but needs the minutes to play through his learning curve. Either a really goof team that can have him play 15 mins a night in a sheltered role and not have it affect their overall results too much, or a basement dweller that doesn't care about the result and is happy to let him learn in the league. I'm not sure if the AHL is the answer as it's the pace of the NHL game and processing it at speed that he needs to work on. And I firmly believe he would get there with playing time.

 

[Peen]

The Rachel Doerrie thread should be reopened

 

[geebster]

Of all the stats so far this season, the one that shocks me the most is that Horvat is second in the league in goals to Robertson with a chance to tie or take the lead today. It’s like the one playoff run he had where he’s become a scoring machine.
Hopefully he keeps it rolling and has a Kreider like season that no one saw coming.

As a fan it's great to see, but I really wonder how management is going to make this work. I did not expect Bo to increase his value this much.

As for tonight's game...hope we don't have a let down and Demko can provide close to league average goaltending. If that happens it is certainly winnable.

 

[Normal Devil]

Anybody know who is in goal tonight?

 

[alternate]

Anybody know who is in goal tonight?

Expected to be Demko

 

[canuckking1]

All I ask for is a 3 Pt Petey game and a Canucks win.

 

[Coffee]

I'm surprised that Rathbone hasn't demanded a trade.

He said he’s retiring here

 

[platotld]

do not give a sh^t anymore, just win... if not lose 20 in a row choose your destiny

 

[bandwagonesque]

He said he’s retiring here

15 years from now or next Thursday?

 

[Vector]

 

[Canuckle1970]

GO CANUCKS GO !!!

 

[BWJM]

Come on Demko.. big game tonight buddy.

 

[wonton15]

This feels like a game where we might not follow up a strong effort with another one

 

[EpochLink]

I’m fresh off a Raiders victory, onto the Canucks

 

[Canuckle1970]

I like the Sharks uniforms.