Demko was awesome and dog shit.
2nd and 3rd goals were horrible.
I can't take this league seriously after watching that Myers call and then OT. It's just so mediocre of a product.
Exactly. A lot of people bitching about the call obviously don't understand hockey. Myers went out of his way to crosscheck another player squarely from behind two feet from the boards on a stagnant play with 40 players, 4 refs, and an entire arena watching that very moment.
What a moronic play and a penalty any day of the week. Just absolutely brain dead. Especially with 4 minutes left the microscope is on. You have to avoid stupidity like that as a player no matter how hard or soft it is. It's irrelevant, you simply don't do needless stupid shit like that unless you want to lose. What an oaf!
Wrong on this one Nick. That was a low shove with the stick that happens ten thousand times a game. Keller is tiny, Myers is huge, and Keller wasn't even close to going down. That was a HORRENDOUS call.
the canucks are leaning top centers are playing some very tough assignments and using them to shelter weaker parts of the lineups. it's skewing things.
this team's production isn't going to look normal until they address the defense.
This. A lot of people here have never played and it shows. D who can move the puck make forwards look good. Good forwards with bad D leads to teams getting stuck in their zone, or dumping it in with nobody chasing because the center is having to come back to support so deep in his own zone and often doing all of the work so it's a perpetually outnumbered situation for the forwards moving ahead.
The team has to focus on fixing its starts. The first period was horrendous.
Johnny Canucker should find a hobby that brings him joy.
People blaming Demko don't get it at all. 2nd goal was a bizarre bounce. Looks slow on the replay, but it hit Blueger or Juulsen and the puck went unpredictable.
The OT goal was unfortunate in that, if you look closely, Soucy got Sergachev's stick right as he was shooting which made the puck behave randomly and so it diverted back towards Demko's 5-hole. Nobody's fault, just the bounce.
Hold on, not nobody's fault. Miller looked horrendous tonight and has been bad since he got back. He's stupendously talented, so he's made some great plays. But his body language, how casually and disengaged he goes to the bench for changes, and the long shifts today were terrible.
Hopefully he gets through whatever is ailing him mentally, and yes I can't help but think that if Petey had played the game Miller did tonight some of the mouth breathers on here would be having a conniption.
Hughes is a superstar, Soucy is very serviceable, Myers is better than he gets credit for. The rest of the D is not NHL caliber. We need more D when Hronek is here, without him this isn't tenable for long and it will be interesting to see what the braintrust does.
I think even if Hronek comes back and starts well, and Willander comes in and makes an immediate impact, we still need a competent puck moving LD. Wonder what they will do.
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People ranting about trading Petey are the same people who would have wanted to trade Cam Neely.
Are the same people who wanted to trade Hughes in 2021.
Are the same people who wanted to trade Petey in 2021/2022.
Are the same people who were apoplectic when we acquired Hronek.
Are the same people who hated the DeBrusk signing, and wish we had spent his and Petey's money on Zadorov and Lindholm (lol).
