GDT: [GM 19] Vancouver Canucks vs. Vegas Golden Knights | Nov 21 | 7:30PM PST | SNET

[Just A Bit Outside]

New coach.

Bench Myers. Bench Brock.

Play Burroughs. Play Boner.

Send Stillman to Abby.

Play Martin for an extended period.

 

[dez]

Stillman played more than Bear.. that is all. Goodnight.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

The best part about Rutherford pacing and swearing is like......


BUDDY, have you not watched the on ice product ONCE THIS SEASON?
we get slaughtered at 5v5 pretty regularly

They doubled down on a shit d so it should come as no surprise.

New coach and a trade by the end of the month.

At the latest.

 

[wonton15]

Myers has to go.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Ottawa lost again. Dorian should be in panic mode.

Time to take advantage.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Firing Boudreau is entirely pointless. We're simply a poorly constructed team floundering. Even if a new coach did create some sort of resurgence like Boudreau did last year. All we accomplished is a nice 15th place finish.

Hell, let's say by some miracle we actually did somehow make the playoffs. Our reward? Getting absolutely slaughtered by the very team who just beat us today. Or we could get Colorado.

Let Boudreau command the rebuild and maybe we can actually become a good team again and not one praying and clinging to playoff miracles.

If they had a coach that had them defending as a unit around their net they would be far better off.

Not saying the personnel is perfect, but they are a freewheeling team that looks like they have no clue in their own end. The Forwards especially.

Stillman played more than Bear.. that is all. Goodnight.

Bear was the worst D tonight

 

[ViD]

Are you trading Horvat to Columbus yet ?

 

[Breakers]

That Pietrangelo-Martinez pairing and the top Line beat the living shyt of Vancouver

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Are you trading Horvat to Columbus yet ?

Let Jiricek know he's on his way to the West Coast & I'll start booking the flights.

 

[sting101]

Just watched on delay....Demko is laughably bad. Franchise player lol he's useless right now unless you want esy goals. Just dump it at him or shoot from distance and he'll reward...talk about fall from grace. Wow what a mess never seen anything like it

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Demko shitting the bed there at the end was unfortunate, but some of the people bitching about him didn’t watch the game I’m assuming lol because we had no business being in that game after 40.

 

[canuckking1]

Two times Demko flubs a clearing attempt and both times they end up in the goal. That’s pretty much the game.

 

[Isi]

it's probably pretty fortunate that our inflated scoring is being cancelled out by our deflated goaltending

 

[Orr4Norris]

Tonight was the perfect example of a team that doesn't understand team defense vs a team that does.

Seemingly every rebound Vegas had 4 guys boxing out, even Petterssons goal he had 2 guys draped on him. While we look like a house team around our net. Forwards allowing the D to be outnumbered, playing soft, in Horvats case abandoning his position. Pettersson is far and away the best defensive forward.

I'm tired of blaming the D personnel it's so lazy & tired. Aside from Bear I thought the rest were fine, the team just has no structure.

And because Bruce has them playing freewheeling hockey, our players are piling up the points - getting more expensive - while the team accomplishes nothing.

This is such a key point. And a reason why bad teams end up with WTF contracts.

 

[canuckking1]

Tonight was the perfect example of a team that doesn't understand team defense vs a team that does.

Seemingly every rebound Vegas had 4 guys boxing out, even Petterssons goal he had 2 guys draped on him. While we look like a house team around our net. Forwards allowing the D to be outnumbered, playing soft, in Horvats case abandoning his position. Pettersson is far and away the best defensive forward.

I'm tired of blaming the D personnel it's so lazy & tired. Aside from Bear I thought the rest were fine, the team just has no structure.

And because Bruce has them playing freewheeling hockey, our players are piling up the points - getting more expensive - while the team accomplishes nothing.

We saw this team try to play tight hockey in Green’s final season with the help of Shaw and they couldn’t score to save their lives.

 

[Peen]

This one was a big one to get in the micro.

Would have been two good (for this team's standards) b2b wins against the two early division leaders.

Now you go and play the two best teams in the conference on the road, and then follow it up with a game 22H later in SJ.

Optics will be pretty bad if they lose the next two games. They're six games out from the 25 game mark where they were 8-15-2 and fired Green and Benning, and they need to go 3-3 over the next stretch to be ahead of that pace.

 

[canuckking1]

This one was a big one to get in the micro.

Would have been two good (for this team's standards) b2b wins against the two early division leaders.

Now you go and play the two best teams in the conference on the road, and then follow it up with a game 22H later in SJ.

Optics will be pretty bad if they lose the next two games. They're six games out from the 25 game mark where they fired Green and Benning, and they need to go 3-3 over the next stretch to be ahead of that pace.

It’s so sad this teams season is once again over by the 25 game mark probably even earlier than that.

 

[gringo]

Firing Boudreau is entirely pointless. We're simply a poorly constructed team floundering. Even if a new coach did create some sort of resurgence like Boudreau did last year. All we accomplished is a nice 15th place finish.

Hell, let's say by some miracle we actually did somehow make the playoffs. Our reward? Getting absolutely slaughtered by the very team who just beat us today. Or we could get Colorado.

Let Boudreau command the rebuild and maybe we can actually become a good team again and not one praying and clinging to playoff miracles.

I tend to agree. Give the fans a couple more Bruce there it is and then hire my boy Tocchet so we have the best chance at OEL jumping ship.

 

[innitfam]

It’s so sad this teams season is once again over by the 25 game mark probably even earlier than that.

It's over now, if not 2 weeks ago.

Beat case scenario (in terms of standings) if the team has a run they had last year post Benning, they're looking at ~90 points...

With the way the team has been playing they may not crack 70.

 

[Breakers]

Days rest with travel to colorado in the altitude.


Wednesday is going to be even worse

 

[sting101]

Demko shitting the bed there at the end was unfortunate, but some of the people bitching about him didn’t watch the game I’m assuming lol because we had no business being in that game after 40.

Watched the whole game..He was terrible has been terrible. Don't win with pathetic AHL level goaltending.

Truth hurts but he sucks this year.

 

[rypper]

It's not enough to fire the coach. Big changes need to follow.

 

[timw33]

Was at the game tonight and it was very funny hearing everyone chant "bruce there it is" when there were 10 minutes left in the game like they hadn't just spent the entire season watching this team blow 90% of their third period leads.

Big time Icarus moment.

 

[LordBacon]

Play Boner.

Yes daddy

 

[quat]

You know what's impressive? How so many posters on this board were called out as non-fans because they wanted to lose to get better, and yet, almost to a person they're all trying to come up with solutions to improve the play of the team. The absolute best thing this team can do is keep losing until they get a high pick and yet so much of what you'll read here are comments about getting rid of Myers and Stillman so the team plays better. Get a new coach, have a better defensive structure, etc, etc.

This epic amount of fail is exactly what the team needs to galvanize the Blueberries and the management to do the right thing and build the team properly instead of trying to hobble into the playoffs by selling even more of the future.

I'm continually impressed by most of you posters.