GDT: GM 29 | Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston Bruins | Dec 14 | 7:00PM PST | SNET

[LemonSauceD]

Debrusk especially benefits from having a point guy like Hughes. PP ran through Pastrnak in Boston and McAvoy doesnt exactly have the same shooting mentality from the point like Hughes does.

 

[Vector]

Absences at Practice

• Forbort and Lankinen have the flu
• Are staying away from the team and will not be in the line-up
• Desharnais had it a bit as well
• This is why yesterday was a day off

Line-Up Changes

• Demko is starting
• Brannstrom will take Forbort’s spot

Following-Up Last Game

• Need to have the same attitude
• Have talked about rushes and driving towards the middle
• Playing against a desperate team and need to have the same approach

Heinen

• Thought his best game was against the Panthers
• Heinen practiced grabbed a couple of coaches and practiced 20 minutes early the last couple of days
• Needs to work on his identity; what kind of player is he
• A smart guy
• Needs to keep building off the last game

Strategy

• Need to commit to their play without the puck
• Have great goaltending; stop putting them under duress
• If you’re trading chances, then you need to convert
• Canucks are not the type of team to trade chances, though
• Forecheck was very good last game

DeBrusk

• Is going downhill at the right time
• Knew he was very good at tipping pucks but didn’t realize he was that good
• DeBrusk wanted to concentrate on playing in the blue paint after his 1st month

Tocchet’s Time with the Bruins

• An Original Six team
• Got to hang out with Cam Neely at the end of Neely’s career
• Getting a chance to play with Adam Oates
• Incredible place to play

Sherwood

• Signed him because he’s a pain in the ass in the playoffs
• Brings an attitude
• Sometimes you need a guy to wake your team up when they are sleeping
• Has to be calculated with his hits
• Sometimes wants to hit so much he can pull himself out of position
• Rather he remains aggressive
• Hard to tell him to back-off; he’s wired that way; likes that about him

Hughes

• Has had a tough time eating
• Hasn’t missed a beat after getting high-sticked and wearing a mask

 

[rypper]

Jakey with a hatty tonight.

 

[Indiana]

Lindholm is having a miserable season in Beantown
Zadorov hasn't met expectations either

Canucks dodged a bullet with these guys

We sold them expensive queer giraffes & kept the cheap giraffe for ourselves.

Beantown can rot in hell.

 

[EpochLink]

Lindholm is having a miserable season in Beantown, and is now on the shelf with an injury. And Zadorov just hasn't met expectations either.

Canucks dodged a huge bullet with these guys. They got what they needed out of them in the playoffs last season--but that was 'then', this is 'now'.

Lindholm got paid and dipped, Zadorov was supposed to be the next great Bruins defensemen but he’s turned out to be a dud.

Lindholm can’t drive a line, he needs wingers who can produce. Pasternak is probably fed up with his bullshit.