Pre-Game Talk: GM05 | Vancouver Canucks @ Philadelphia Flyers | Sat. Oct 19th | 4pm PST | SNP | Back in the Saddle

[TruGr1t]

I wonder if Sprong gets back in the line up? The team scored 4 goals in the last 2 games and has very little production on the PP. We desperately need more finishers. Sprong might not be good defensively but I don't think Bains or Aman contribute much currently either.

He definitely should. He's been sitting, and his competition is Aman.

 

[credulous]

stop trying to make sprong happen. there's a reason he's on his 6th nhl team at age 27

 

[tyhee]

I wonder if Sprong gets back in the line up? The team scored 4 goals in the last 2 games and has very little production on the PP. We desperately need more finishers. Sprong might not be good defensively but I don't think Bains or Aman contribute much currently either.

I think that rather than thinking that the Canucks signed Sprong as a finished product (which imo given his background would make no sense at all) it is easier to think that they signed him as a project that needs to learn defensive play in more detail than just getting back in his end and trying to do something.

If the team thinks of him as a project then we're likely to see him in and out of the lineup until either he plays the system to Tocchet's minimum level of satisfaction, at which stage he mostly stays in the lineup, or they decide that it isn't worthwhile continuing to try, at which stage he'll be traded or waived.

As will be seen from that my expectation is that yes, he'll be in the lineup, but for the near future intermittently. I doubt that they've already given up on him.

 

[Canuckle1970]

Please take advantage of Philly being on the west coast for the last 2 weeks, and getting one travel day back home to the east coast to play us. That's the kind of cruel scheduling normally reserved for Pacific Division teams. Use it.

No excuses. Blueger bringing his game, Hughes and Hronek slapping bombs on any PP unit, and Lankinen holding the fort.

 

[MS]

I'm still angry about the absolutely insane penalty shot call given to Sean Couturier in the equivalent Philly away game last year.

 

[supercanuck]

Last year the team was 2-2 after 4 games, and then went on an 8-0-1 run. A bunch of winnable games in the next 10, Let's GO!

 

[LordBacon]

START THE PLAYOFFS ALREADY.

Oh wait we wouldn’t make it if it ended today.

Last year the team was 2-2 after 4 games, and then went on an 8-0-1 run. A bunch of winnable games in the next 10, Let's GO!

Don’t you dare spread positivity on this board.