GDT: GM 21 | Vancouver Canucks @ Pittsburgh Penguins | Wed. Nov 27th | 4:30pm PST | SNP | No Plus, Only Minus

[canadianmagpie]

Missed call on the pick by Pittsburgh before the goal really

 

[Dolemite]

We're a quarter of the way into the season already?

Pretty much

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

That was another iffy call. Both guys had their hands and sticks up.

 

[Bobby9]

The rat gives. The rat takes.

 

[bbud]

Wtf refs is there a nonus from buttman for canucks pk and losses f off
Don't call pens on worse useless f..ks

 

[LemonSauceD]

I love Blueger’s pornstache.

 

[Slapshot_11]

We have a 1D, 4D and four 6Ds

Team will be treading .500 until they fix this

 

[ziploc]

The rat gives. The rat takes.

Blessed be the name of the rat.

 

[thecupismine]

Two teams are dealing with different sets of standards from the refs today.

 

[logan5]

The players are now back on their heels worrying about Silovs. Can't wait to have a Demko/Lankinen duo.

 

[ziploc]

We have a 1D, 4D and four 6Ds

Team will be treading .500 until they fix this

Hronek is a 2/3.

But yes to the rest.

 

[wonton15]

Soucy is unplayable

 

[Slapshot_11]

Embarrassing

 

[Bgav]

wtf is Soucy doing dude

 

[EpochLink]

Silovs is total shit

 

[VanillaCoke]

Soucy Juulsen yet again ........... Pens would have zero goals on an NHL caliber goalie

 

[thecupismine]

67% woooo!

 

[strattonius]

What a waste of an opportunity.

 

[EpochLink]

3 goals on 7 shots, Silovs ain't worth shit.

 

[dez]

That’s what happens when you give a MID guy like Soucy a NMC.

 

[Nucker101]

Silovs costing us Crosby

He’s never gonna join now

 

[VanJack]

Juulsen, uh covered nobody again. As good as he was last night, tonight is a nightmare. What happened to Desharnais? Is he still injured?

 

[SillyRabbit]

Two goals in a row where the puck goes right past Soucy and Juulsen in the literal crease to a wide open Penguin.

 

[GranvilleIsland]

Silovs letting in 4 was given.

 

[mossey3535]

Brutal coverage on that goal, Juulsen covering his weak side tells Soucy to cover the puck carrier, Soucy chases Rust all the way around the rink, shocking lack of discipline that is endemic to this d-corps. Shockingly Juulsen stops covering the net front and surprise, surprise no forward switches to Soucy's position and there's a wide open man.

This keeps happening, stop chasing guys above the hash marks to the blueline, this is an intentional tactic to push our defencemen out of position and then put the puck to the empty space that they would normally be covering. No idea why we keep doing this, and when I watch other teams almost nobody does it.

The "pressure" narrative is idiotic because that high forward is not in a dangerous position and hardly any opposing d-men are going to pinch in and leave that forward as the last man on half the blueline. It's pressure that doesn't close off shooting or passing lanes and can only put guys out of position or force switches that we don't want.