Post-Game Talk: GM 53 | Canucks def. Avs 3-0 (DeBrusk, Boeser, O’Connor) | WE ARE SO F***ING BACK

[Chairman Maouth]

Several post-game show callers pointed out that Tocchet sounded like last year's Tocchet after the game tonight......definitely more update, positive and animated.

I guess all the dressing-room drama and the losses weighed on him. But after watching his team win a spirited, emotional win over a very good team like Av's, he has a lot to be positive about.

There's just a totally different vibe around the team right now.

 

[Pogotheclown]

Well played defensively. Fun to watch. Booth new petterson is looking great and D has really looked solid.

Chytil is really contributing and hoglander seems to have gotten his engine going,

Terrible 5-3.

 

[Indiana]

From Colorado fan before puck-drop: "I'm not staying up all night to watch the Hughesless Millerless Vancouver Petterssons beat our asses."

That guy should buy a lottery ticket. lol

 

[tantalum]

Call me crazy but that sequence from Demko looked like it flipped a switch in him. Like he realized that he can still do this. Obviously the team in front of him was also playing better than earlier in the game but he seemed to be moving and tracking things much better than we have seen from him since his return (and even compared to the first).

You can see the huge difference having a bonafide top 4 D-man added to a roster makes. Even when the #1 guy is out they have 3 guys to lean on (I'm including Chaos Giraffe who has found a stable game of late...not always the case with him). That is massive moving forward. Add in the lightning fast development of EP2 and you start to see the making of an excellent blueline long term (I'm assuming MP re-signs).

More on EP2...loved to see him jump in. Even better I loved to see the veterans jump in so the rookie didn't need to handle it. That has been missing from this team this year. I hope it's back for good.

And man was it great to not have to see Juulsen on the ice. Works hard. Good guy. Should be nowhere near NHL ice.

To me the trades re-balanced the roster and in a good way. Work to be done yet but it's a start.

 

[tantalum]

Man oh man wait till big willy comes
We have ourselves a great back end.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Man oh man wait till big willy comes
We have ourselves a great back end.

My big willy will c-... nm

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Y'know those chills that rip right down your spine when you are so sure of something?

God I love that when it's a positive thing.

EP25 looks like if he got his skating even faster, he'd be Mattias Ohlund's son.

 

[tyhee]

Lots of great things, but I have to wonder why we had D.Pettersson available and proceeded to play that crap blue line for so long. It may cost you a playoff spot.

While elements of what we're seeing now were available earlier, I think his reads and general positioning have improved rapidly this season, so that the EP25 we're seeing now isn't the same as the Canucks would have had in October and November.

It will be interesting to see how quickly the team increases the responsibility they give him. Tocchet appears to believe in slowly increasing responsibility with young players as they show they're ready. The increase in ice time from his first two games to his next two games is already pretty impressive given that he is a 20 year old who spent most of last season in the 2nd tier Swedish league.

 

[Quinning]

It's like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. Miller was addition by subtraction.

 

[arttk]

Sakic played it very safe for long term "compete" but when you have a special core like that you have to take risks and maximize the gains. Those players fit the team perfectly and Kadri played very well in the playoffs for Colorado despite his suspensions. He has 34 pts in 33 playoff games for them. His contract will suck at the end but he would have given them a solid 2nd line and excellent playoff production for another 3-4 years. He makes like 7 mil and that's nothing money in 2-3 years.

I don’t think they had the cap to keep both Landeskog and Kadri.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

It's like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. Miller was addition by subtraction.

93 ball, corner pocket.