Post-Game Talk: Game #48: Ducks 9, Canucks 1 - Paul Devorski with 6 assists

[Free Edler]

Who cares about our whining image anymore. It doesn't matter what we do, we're stuck with it.

Yep. It's not going anywhere. Firing Vigneault didn't help. Jettisoning Lapierre and Torres didn't help. Clearly it's not a tag that can be removed. That said, there's no conspiracy and anyone who thinks there is, well.. they're a ****ing idiot.

 

[PG Canuck]

No ****, the Sedins will always be the "sisters" too no matter what they do. Hockey fans and media are a bunch of ****ing *******s.

Pretty much. Sedins will always, ALWAYS be soft. It's sad.

 

[PG Canuck]

Yep. It's not going anywhere. Firing Vigneault didn't help. Jettisoning Lapierre and Torres didn't help. Clearly it's not a tag that can be removed.

Once this core is gone, that's when I think the image leaves. Until then.....

 

[GPNuck]

Is Burrows playing tomorrow?

 

[donutz0r]

Is Burrows playing tomorrow?

As far as we know I think so. Never mind.

 

[GPNuck]

As far as we know I think so. Never mind.

so confused right now

 

[Free Edler]

I thought Burrows wasn't coming back until after the Calgary game?

 

[7thGuest]

Canucks finish their toughest six game stretch with a record of 1-3-2. I think that's more concerning than the score tonight. Shows the team is nowhere ready to be competitive in the playoff.

 

[PG Canuck]

Last I heard, Burrows won't be back until after Jan 16th.

 

[Cogburn]

Jumping people seems to be a no-no now the Canucks are doing it. If they won't fight just take a minor for a gloved jab, or a charge, nothing serious enough to hurt someone. No point doing anything dangerous or suspension worthy.

Thornton on Orpik is probably what started that, although, to be honest, the only victim who didn't know it was coming might have been Vatanen, and when Hansen realised this and backed off, he still got canned.

As someone who has been sucker punched a few times, there are far more dangerous plays in hockey that the league doesn't want to deal with, or is doing an awful, awful, awful job doing. Elbows to the head is one, it's a carousel, where some get nothing for a blatent intent to injure (Lupul on Henrik, and what ever his latest loss of temper was), and others have the book thrown at them for incidental contact (Hansen on Hossa), where as these "jumpings", where in the people being punched either knew it was coming, saw it was coming, or activated it. Orpik and Thornton being the obvious exception.

 

[donutz0r]

so confused right now

Me too.

 

[GPNuck]

Canucks finish their toughest six game stretch with a record of 1-3-2. I think that's more concerning than the score tonight. Shows the team is nowhere ready to be competitive in the playoff.

This actually makes me feel better considering we should have won at least 2 of those games that record could easily be 3-1-2. The Pittsburgh and Anaheim(the first game against Anaheim not tonight) gaffs...

1-3-2 is way better then 1-5 so I'll take it

 

[VanCanucks53]

Who cares about our whining image anymore. It doesn't matter what we do, we're stuck with it.

It's not the image I'm that concerned about but more so how we're living up to it tonight.

 

[stuffradio]

so confused right now

He's eligible to play against the Flames.

 

[PG Canuck]

It's not the image I'm that concerned about but more so how we're living up to it tonight.

We're always going to live up to it because no matter how we act, it'll be perceived as whining.

 

[Rotting Corpse*]

There doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be a bias.

 

[Free Edler]

It's not the image I'm that concerned about but more so how we're living up to it tonight.

Who gives a ****? After a 9-1 loss, is anyone, anywhere, ever going to take 'man, we really whined a lot about officiating' from that?

 

[Jimson Hogarth*]

Canucks finish their toughest six game stretch with a record of 1-3-2. I think that's more concerning than the score tonight. Shows the team is nowhere ready to be competitive in the playoff.

I don't know if they are playoff ready or not, those two shootout losses wouldn't exist if this were the playoffs.

 

[Cogburn]

It's not the image I'm that concerned about but more so how we're living up to it tonight.

Anyone saying the reffing lost us the game is a damn fool anyway.

I'm up in arms at how terrible Devorski is allowed to be. Suspensions get a review and told to us for players, but if nothing else, Devorski's comments merit some kind of action from the league.

It would be like a headshot happening and being pissed. Wrong is wrong. We don't fight back, we're soft and terrible, we fight back, we're goons, we pull back, we're soft and won't last, then we do what probably 2/3rds of the league do against us, and we're penalised so heavily that the other teams fans come by to say "damn, that sucked".

If people think we as a fan base are whiners for that, super, I for one could care less.

 

[Lady Scarlet]

Anyone got the Makaveli vid where it shows Devorski @ the 1:55 mark go over to the Ducks bench and have a laugh with Getzlaf right after assessing the 7 minute 5 on 3 and then getting chewed out by Tortorella? Some veteran referee, handing out TWO 7 minute penalties in back to back games against the same team and calling one of our players a ******g ******e....... real class in that one. How petty. If he can't handle the heat of the game and call an unbiased one, perhaps it's time he hangs up his skates.

 

[thepuckmonster]

It's not the image I'm that concerned about but more so how we're living up to it tonight.

Our "image" is diving and whining, I don't believe we really perpetrated it tonight.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Honestly, I am not overly upset with the lopsided score. This team, from on-ice personnel to management, has been clinging to the belief we are solid defensively and our penalty kill statistic is evident of that fact. Well, congratulations. In a single game you guys decimated it, to the extent we dipped from 1st for the only time this season - a necessity if you ask me. Everyone needs to wake the bloody hell up.

 

[GPNuck]

So realistically what would it take for us to get Kane from Winnipeg? Horvat +1st? wrong thread my bad

 

[TheWanderer]

Missed the game. Brief summary, anyone?

 

[donutz0r]

Anyone saying the reffing lost us the game is a damn fool anyway.

I'm up in arms at how terrible Devorski is allowed to be. Suspensions get a review and told to us for players, but if nothing else, Devorski's comments merit some kind of action from the league.

It would be like a headshot happening and being pissed. Wrong is wrong. We don't fight back, we're soft and terrible, we fight back, we're goons, we pull back, we're soft and won't last, then we do what probably 2/3rds of the league do against us, and we're penalised so heavily that the other teams fans come by to say "damn, that sucked".

If people think we as a fan base are whiners for that, super, I for one could care less.

Absolutely this. Especially your third paragraph. No matter what the team tries to do, it doesn't work. All I ask is for some consistency. It's all I've wanted for the past 3 years. NHL, please let us know how you want the game to be played so we can adapt and be on the same playing field as everyone else.