Post-Game Talk: GM 17 | Preds def. Canucks | 5-3 (Raty, Pettersson, Sherwood) | Pain.

[mossey3535]

Didn't know there was a game, just skimmed through the extended highlights.

Man, Myers and Soucy were terrible again.

Free Soucy (who hasn't been great) and give him literally anybody other than Myers. Myers should be on bottom pair.

Stop putting them out there on the PK honestly, they haven't good for awhile. At some point there has to be consequences for poor play. Why does Myers and/or Soucy never sit? Both should be in the pressbox even if they have to alternate taking them out of the lineup. They're not even willing to demote either to the bottom pair.

 

[Leif Rohlin]

Bluesky embeds don't show vids but if you click the link you can see why Miller might have been benched (assuming Tocchet isn't lying about it being injury related)

Trent Leith 🏳️‍🌈 (@trentleith.bsky.social)

I have a feeling that this abysmal penalty killing is a large part of why JT Miller got benched. #Canucks

bsky.app

Edit: found the twitter post

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858392664246263980

He's been dogging it going to the bench on line changes sometimes too. It's obvious he's been playing through some sort of injury but he's also giving some pretty bad vibes.

One thing I noticed tonight was the Hughes-Hronek pair on the ice with the 4th line quite a bit. I know it's not a typical 4th line and Heinen and Raty in particular were good tonight, but when you have a guy like Hughes and a team built the way ours is, you really need to make a point of getting him on the ice with the top 2 lines. They don't do that consistently and tonight it was particularly noticeable.

We need a top-4 defenseman, we need Boeser back, and we need an actual breakout strategy.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

The only thing that would make sense is Tocchet meant that his benching tonight was related to his play tonight. He openly stated last month he was hurt and that's why he wasn't taking faceoffs. Not nearly as concerned about it as some are in here, as much as I am about the team just looking like it's their first times playing together

 

[VanJack]

Lankinen was a nice story for awhile......but appears to be coming back down to earth in a hurry. Not too surprising, really. His MO is that he's a career backup. This run of games to start the year is the longest stretch he's played in his NHL career.

This team is really starting to miss Demko. Last year he was able to cover so many of the mistakes they were making in their own zone.....but this year, they're going into the net.

 

[the big nobody]

Lankinen was a nice story for awhile......but appears to be coming back down to earth in a hurry. Not too surprising, really. His MO is that he's a career backup. This run of games to start the year is the longest stretch he's played in his NHL career.

When I pointed this out in defense of Silovs, I got dumped on.

Anyways, when Demko and Boeser are back, this team will be better, provided Demko has been able to learn to play with the injury since there was no surgery possible on it.

 

[JT Milker]

Bluesky embeds don't show vids but if you click the link you can see why Miller might have been benched (assuming Tocchet isn't lying about it being injury related)

Trent Leith 🏳️‍🌈 (@trentleith.bsky.social)

I have a feeling that this abysmal penalty killing is a large part of why JT Miller got benched. #Canucks

bsky.app

Edit: found the twitter post

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858392664246263980

This is terrible lol.

 

[Flik]

Demko career is over

Sadly, I do worry that may be the case, and even if not..... he's certainly not reliable, which ends up being sort of the same thing.

 

[centipede2233]

Sadly, I do worry that may be the case, and even if not..... he's certainly not reliable, which ends up being sort of the same thing.

A goalie missing this much time is the red flag. I watch kyper and Bourne and Steve Valiquette who is well connected to the goalie world says ian clark who was the Canucks goaltending coach is well known for working goalies hard in practice (ie. having demko repeatedly dog down hard in practice). It’s likely why Canucks management forced him out of the position. Also Steve Valiquette said whatever is ailing demko it’s something that won’t be rectified and is something demko will have to play with. Demko is toast unfortunately. See price, bishop, Murray, Schneider, Crawford…

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

I don’t think that answer suggests that he’s not hurt, only that he was underperforming regardless of being hurt. Miller wasn’t really much better last year than he was in ‘22 or ‘20, so I can’t see it being a one year wonder. Though he seems to alternate his good and bad years.

One year wonder as in the one year where he wasn’t a lazy ass