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My apologies for taking the bait again.

This might be a little difficult for Quinn as he visits his family and brother Jack. He might be out of sorts in the game.

The Devils are in the playoff picture right now but can still be over taken and they just lost their last two games.

Who plays for the Canucks, Quinn will get half an hour

Demko in his first game back after tweeking something that kept him out for a month, was Hogs just ill? Lankinen?

Is the bug going around the room?

All the remaining games are must wins just to stay close now, if St Louis and Calgary play .500 hockey the Canucks will have to win 8 of their remaining games to catch them. A very tall order.

Many of the Canuck players will have motivation to get better contracts still or not be traded or to be good enough other teams will want them if there are trades.

Suter, Boeser, Forbort and any of the AHL call ups will all have extra motivation, it is close to the last time other team's scouts or team officials make decisions on next years team. Which is a year long thing anyway.

The Devils have some really big injuries to their top player, Hughes, their top defencemen, Hamilton and Siegenthaler as well as Markstrom hasn't looked great in his last 8 games.

What game will the Canucks play? Tight or a more open game?
Both have very good PKs and NJD a better PP.

They circle the wagons and go for OT.
 
theguardianII said:
My apologies for taking the bait again.

This might be a little difficult for Quinn as he visits his family and brother Jack. He might be out of sorts in the game.

The Devils are in the playoff picture right now but can still be over taken and they just lost their last two games.

Who plays for the Canucks, Quinn will get half an hour

Demko in his first game back after tweeking something that kept him out for a month, was Hogs just ill? Lankinen?

Is the bug going around the room?

All the remaining games are must wins just to stay close now, if St Louis and Calgary play .500 hockey the Canucks will have to win 8 of their remaining games to catch them. A very tall order.

Many of the Canuck players will have motivation to get better contracts still or not be traded or to be good enough other teams will want them if there are trades.

Suter, Boeser, Forbort and any of the AHL call ups will all have extra motivation, it is close to the last time other team's scouts or team officials make decisions on next years team. Which is a year long thing anyway.

The Devils have some really big injuries to their top player, Hughes, their top defencemen, Hamilton and Siegenthaler as well as Markstrom hasn't looked great in his last 8 games.

What game will the Canucks play? Tight or a more open game?
Both have very good PKs and NJD a better PP.

They circle the wagons and go for OT.
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You didnt take the bait, you are the bait mate. If VanJack had a split personality who was a troll you would be it
 
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Nah I'm good.

No way this flies in Vancouver either.
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If the Canucks hired Joel Quenneville, I'd stop supporting the team entirely. I've a feeling I am NOT the only one either.

ANYWAYS, I think the season is effectively over for us unfortunately, it sucks, and its gonna be hard to even tune into our remaining games now.

What a shame, but I don't see how we finish out our remaining road trip with more than 1 win. :(
 
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Hopefully we get Markstrom and not Allen. Pretty interested to see Raty play but if he does we are probably going to lose with Suter, Blueger, Aman, and Raty as our centers.
 
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The Canucks death spiral in the last quarter of the season is the same one which afflicts a lot of non-playoff teams every year.

They can't score; the injuries to their best players start piling up, and they give up untimely goals in bunches. That explains losses in St. Louis and New York.

But the Devils have their own injury demons. Yet at least they're clinging to a playoff spot in the East, although if they don't get it in gear soon, they could be reeled in.

I have sad feeling that by the end of this six-game road-swing, the Canucks will be so far out of it, that the last eight games or so, aren't going to matter very much.

So time to give Lekkerimaki, Mancini, EP25 and even Raty, if he's called up, a ton of ice-time. They need to get a leg up on early auditions for next season.
 
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kanucks25 said:
Blues win again. They only have like 3 tough games and remaining and those teams might not be trying very hard / resting in those games.

Might just be running out of runway here.
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Canucks threw away so many points numerous times this season (starting with Game 1 against Calgary) that it's now out of their hands to make the playoffs. Self inflicted.

The Blues are playing great hockey right now and frankly should give the Jets a scare if they meet in Round 1.
 
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Blues win again. They only have like 3 tough games and remaining and those teams might not be trying very hard / resting in those games.

Might just be running out of runway here.
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It's absolutely curtains for the Vancouver Canucks. This isn't conventional wisdom but this is basic math.

I absolutely knew this year was going to be a shit show when Demko had a setback in the summer, JT Miller got injured in camp, and Joshua was sidelined with cancer. Now we finish off the season with Hughes clearly labouring and Pettersson and Demko being sidelined.

A f***ing awful season that rivals 2013-2014.
 
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Blues win again. They only have like 3 tough games and remaining and those teams might not be trying very hard / resting in those games.

Might just be running out of runway here.
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I figured the Canucks would get in over Calgary, but the Blues running hot really threw a wrench in things. The team doesn’t have enough to actually stay with a team that’s rolling.
 
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I figured the Canucks would get in over Calgary, but the Blues running hot really threw a wrench in things. The team doesn’t have enough to actually stay with a team that’s rolling.
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Blues are now five points clear of the Canucks. The likelihood of this team overtaking that deficit with 12 games remaining is basically 'zero'. They might even be officially done by the end of this six-game road-swing.

I'm not really that bummed out about it......because I really figured that since the calendar year changed, this team was unlikely to really get into the playoffs. Just not good enough in so many areas.

The important thing now is to finish behind Utah and Calgary and get a better draft position. They need to start cutting back on Hughes' ice-time; and if Hoglander or EP40 are nicked--no need to rush them back into the lineup.

They need to get Demko into a lot of the last 10 games': and see what they have with Raty, Karlsson, Lekkerimaki and EP25. Lots of ice time in all situations.

As for most of the fans---this season can't be flushed fast enough.
 
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NO, but this market is embracing a criminal that plead guilty.
Quennville was one of maybe 20 people that did knew and did nothing and he wasn't the first to know and he followed the team's rules and NHL policies that didn't cover these issues, probably he wold have thought upper management would take care of it as would be their jobs and it isn't like he was a participant in any act beyond following instructions from the top, 20+ people did that.

IMO it was way worse to not say anything for that guy's next hire, that was a bigger cover up than what he did. Look how long it took before what happened in junior before anything was revealed even from the players, that was horrendous.


Quennville is morally bankrupt?

Can not a person, Quennville, ever redeem himself?
You cheer for Tocchet and accept him, he who plead guilty to actually doing the crime?

Trainers, assistant coaches, coaches, assistant GMs, VP's, Presidents, mentors, owners.
They all share in this stuff. Once out everyone in the organization knows.

Whoever is without sin cast the first rock.
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I think it's best to forgive Quennville (hating people is unhealthy), but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be held accountable for his choices. Never coaching again seems a very reasonable punishment for what he hid from the public and forced Beech to endure.
 
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We are cooked.

-Joshua news + diagnosis
-Demko injury
-Petey underperforming
-Miller drama and being traded away
-Chytil concussion
-Hughes hurt
-Underwhelming TDL

What a terrible year. Aside from a few bright spots (Hughes, Lankinen, D-Petey and Sherwood) this season has mostly been one to forget. If we miss the playoffs this year it'll be 3 playoff appearances (counting the Covid year) in the last 12 seasons. Simply not good enough. Not really sure where to go from here - but big changes are needed.
 
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We are cooked.

-Joshua news + diagnosis
-Demko injury
-Petey underperforming
-Miller drama and being traded away
-Chytil concussion
-Hughes hurt
-Underwhelming TDL

What a terrible year. Aside from a few bright spots (Hughes, Lankinen, D-Petey and Sherwood) this season has mostly been one to forget. If we miss the playoffs this year it'll be 3 playoff appearances (counting the Covid year) in the last 12 seasons. Simply not good enough. Not really sure where to go from here - but big changes are needed.
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Also forgetting Hronek missing about 2 months.
 
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Also forgetting Hronek missing about 2 months.
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Oh yes - although I've been impressed with his play down the stretch especially with Hughes out. I wasn't a fan of the contract he signed but it's looking like it's going to be solid value.

Also forgot Silovs forgetting how to play goalie - had such high hopes for him after last year but it seems like he has regressed big time.
 
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Man Sherwood puts himself in a position to throw so many hits by relentlessly attacking the puck, and he's tied for 2nd on the team in takeaways because he does a good job of it.

Tocchet talks so much about being hard to play against, does he think Sherwood backing off the hit to be in a passing lane and *maybe* taking the puck away so he can (under Tocchet's system) glass and out is really harder to play against? I get the angle that you can only throw hits when you don't have the puck, but that's also on the system and coaching; coach the team to have the puck more than being dismissive of the guy working to get the puck back.

This is a guy who has put his body on the line for a team in a way unlike anyone in NHL history, he's going to obliterate the record. I really don't like Tocchet's remarks here.
 
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