Post-Game Talk: GM 07 | Canucks def. Penguins | 4-3 (Pettersson, Sherwood, Miller, Bains)

Mudshark50

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My biggest takeaway from that game is that it's visually really funny watching Brannstrom skate circles around a Descharnais that is constantly standing still. You'll straight up see him jump up into the play and then on the way back, skate past Descharnais to retrieve the puck from his own end.
Brannstrom's skating really stands out. Thought he had a strong game tonight.
 

Grip it N RYP it

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Stupid, Sexy Canucks

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It's science.
 
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Shareefruck

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Random thought, maybe unpopular-- I've been seeing a lot of people talk about putting Joshua on that Sherwood line when he gets back, and personally, I would try just about everything else before I try that. That Blueger line has been killing it, Heinen has actually been an underrated piece of it (while looking invisible on other lines), and you now have the opportunity/luxury to have three, maybe even four fully dominant/reliable/tireless lines by using Joshua somewhere else.

He could bring stability to the Miller line in a way that DeBrusk isn't currently, he could rekindle his magic with Garland and potentially really help Pettersson, or he could massively upgrade the Bains spot and bring stability to Sprong without losing any offense. He could even also potentially carry his own second line with Garland (like last season) to free up a Lotto line without turning them into a one-line team.

There are a ton of better options than laterally replacing Heinen with Joshua, IMO.

Last season, we kept thinking "wouldn't it be great if we could just clone Joshua/Garland and put them on each line?"-- Now we have an opportunity to have something to that effect and we're not going to do that?
 
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wonton15

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It was also very jarring to see Crosby (and Karlsson Letang Malkin) look so ineffective and old when they’ve usually torched us hard in the past.
 

Lemmiwinks

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Great second period, let their foot off the gas in the third, but the score still flattered the Pens. This shouldn’t have been a one-goal game
 

TruGr1t

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third sure

first? wha?

Hemmed in is probably the wrong word for the first, but they had a number of defensive breakdowns that allowed the Pens a number of high-danger changes and clean looks at the net. Including two clean 2-on-1s inside their own blue line in the last 5 minutes.
 

PavelBure10

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Happy to see Pettersson get his first of the year "which was an absolute beauty". Hopefully that goal gets the monkey off of his shoulders, gains confidence and starts ripping it up.
 
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TruGr1t

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Thought they had one good period in the second, were defensively poor in the first period (especially Soucy-Myers), and near totally collapsed in the third. They must have had just one shot for nearly 10 minutes of the third.
 

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