Post-Game Talk: Ducks 3, Canucks 1

[CherryToke]

Stecher led all Canucks in ice time.

Kind of bizarre that Willie instantly trusts this player but can't bring himself to show Horvat any love.

Willie is a bizarre dude.

 

[geebaan]

If this is anything other than a lame cheap move to sign Bo to a deal...

Man, oh man...

its quite frankly, embarrassing, and clearly a ploy to prop up Benning assests.

 

[Beansy*]

If this is anything other than a lame cheap move to sign Bo to a deal...

Man, oh man...

I honestly think it is time to switch the deployment of the Sedin's and Horvat.

 

[arttk]

Uhh no, the biggest reason this team isn't 30th is because Horvat is so good.
If the twins still play like real 1st liners, with amount of ice times they get this team will be in top 3 of division.

Look at how many goals Miller have been giving up, the twins can play like gods and still won't be able to make it up if Miller lets in that many goals per game.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Well, what can we say about the night:

We played reactive and showed far to much respect to a team that, this year, does not deserve it. I blame it eighty percent on the coach, and the rest on the vets.

Nice to see a bit of life, and confidence, in the third. To little too late.

Meh, we were just the worse team.
Certainly not good enough for the Ducks to go full out.
This is not Anaheim's full effort.

 

[NoShowWilly]

look at the bright side, we played against a starter tonight.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Willie is a bizarre dude.

Actually it make sense, there are no no long veteran on the D

 

[kanucks25]

That was torture for the eyes.

 

[arttk]

Meh, we were just the worse team.
Certainly not good enough for the Ducks to go full out.
This is not Anaheim's full effort.

We are the kind of team where you take it easy and play the backup.

 

[Nucker101]

Uhh no, the biggest reason this team isn't 30th is because Horvat is so good.
If the twins still play like real 1st liners, with amount of ice times they get this team will be in top 3 of division.

Everyone on this team is playing in bigger roles than they're supposed to.

Sedins are expected to carry this offense at their age and make chicken soup out of chicken **** with their supporting cast.

Horvat is our saviour, but man that's a lot to ask out of him. On WPG/TOR/EDM, he'd just be another young gun. But here, he is the franchise. He's doing a hell of a job and being used horribly by WD but man he's our knight in shining armour and pegged to be this team's franchise player so let's hope he's up to it. You could argue that he had less pressure on the London Knights lol.

Edler/Tanev are a great shutdown pair expected to shutdown top lines and put up points, even though both of them aren't really offensive players.

Eriksson seems to still be adjusting, doesn't really have a playmaking center to play with outside of Hank.

And then you have a bunch of role players and kids playing bigger roles than they all should be.

 

[krutovsdonut]

Meh, we were just the worse team.
Certainly not good enough for the Ducks to go full out.
This is not Anaheim's full effort.

yep. anaheim just owns the canucks right now. it might have something to do with how well bieksa and kesler know the sedins as well as how motivated they are to beat the canucks. whatever it is, a good chunk of that domination seemed effortless for anaheim.

 

[mathonwy]

 

[Beansy*]

yep. anaheim just owns the canucks right now. it might have something to do with how well bieksa and kesler know the sedins as well as how motivated they are to beat the canucks. whatever it is, a good chunk of that domination seemed effortless for anaheim.

I think it has more to do with Anaheim good, Canuck bad.

 

[Knight53]

No, they were terrible. Henrik on his own killed the team on multiple power plays trying to finesse passes through traffic that were not there. He was horrible.

I remember Henrik making a great pass to daniel who was robbed and then sutter somehow whiffing his shot.

Loui Eriksson is someone who I would call horrible, was completely invisible.

 

[VibinCanuck]

Sometimes I question if Willie watches the games based on how he manages this roster.

Mind blowingly bad decision making.

 

[Nucker101]

I think it has more to do with Anaheim good, Canuck bad.

This.

 

[CherryToke]

Sutter got crushed in the faceoff circle.

 

[Nucker101]

Sutter got crushed in the faceoff circle.

Kesler was his daddy tonight

 

[Ozone]

I honestly think it is time to switch the deployment of the Sedin's and Horvat.

Of course I agree bud. I'll tell ya, after the coaching tonight..the 'scared defensive', horrible coaching tonight...it's time to move now.

I realize management want's to bring Green or someone in at the end of the season..but man oh man..

 

[ahmon]

just saw the 2nd/3rd:


- Gudbranson pulled an Edler special by trying to play goalie, fell right in the crease instead of taking a man. Right now he is nowhere close to Willie Mitchell. Had a stretch of solid play but has struggled in the last few games.

- That 5-on-3 powerplay was a game changer. Its almost like the canucks didn't know how to take advantage of the extra man and Henrik had to force passes to the slot.

- Stecher continues to impress. You start to see other canucks defer to him more now. A lot of plays run through him. Pretty amazing that an undrafted player straight from college can have this kind of impact.

- Even though canucks didn't play that well, we were still very much in it. The emergence of Stecher/Tryamkin has really strengthened the backend.

 

[geebaan]

Sutter got crushed in the faceoff circle.

well he's more of a winger anyway, foundational to boot.

 

[Rotting Corpse*]

Sutter and Bo had the same number of shifts. Sutter just had a few with the Sedins that were really long.

 

[krutovsdonut]

i cannot see a rationale for burrows, horvat and baertschi's minutes being so low but i also notice that megna had the same ice time as chaput. going by ice time distribution there's 2 fifth liners, 2 fourth liners, 3 third liners, 1 second liner and 4 first liners. one of the fourth liners plays second line part of the time. it's confusing.

i'd like to see a shift breakdown to understand when it happened.

 

[krutovsdonut]

Sutter and Bo had the same number of shifts. Sutter just had a few with the Sedins that were really long.

that helps a little. thanks

 

[krutovsdonut]

I think it has more to do with Anaheim good, Canuck bad.

canucks have been beaten less badly by better teams.