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

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WHEN: Sat. Oct 19th, 4pm
WHERE: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650

Canucks Line-Up:

TBD

Flyers Line-Up:

TBD

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[VanillaCoke]

Lankinen starts, silovs next game vs chicago.
Sopels lineup below.
W.
No brainers.

DeBrusk-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-Pettersson-Garland
Joshua-Blueger-Sherwood
Heinen-Suter-Sprong

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Brannstrom-Desharnais

Demko
Lankinen

 

[VanJack]

The Flyers first game back home after a grueling opening-season road swing through the West.....they finished up in Seattle tonight.

Canucks need to get on them early.....I guess they'll keep rotating goalies with Silovs between the pipes.

 

[TruGr1t]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1847098298491945372

Wtf is this even a question? It better not be a question.

 

[LordBacon]

Lankinen starts, silovs next game vs chicago.
Sopels lineup below.
W.
No brainers.

I was promised that I would be given 3rd line duty.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I feel like our trips to Philly don’t usually go super well for us. Hope we can change that fortune in this game.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Please call up PDG and send Bains/Aman down. Absolutely should start Lankinen.

 

[DimitriL07]

Games in Philly always remind me of Podz 1st career goal. Was a sniper

 

[LordBacon]

Games in Philly always remind me of Podz 1st career goal. Was a sniper

Unfortunately hes a coiler now.

 

[Flik]

Oh god, not these assholes again.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Career game number 1,000 for Tyler Myers.

Maximum chaos!

 

[thekernel]

Glad we're getting this team out of the way early. Win or lose (mostly lose) it's always a snoozer

 

[LordBacon]

Watch Myers score a Hatty just because he can.

 

[tantalum]

Unfortunately hes a coiler now.

I'm thinking he's going to be a Condor soon....

Only getting 10 minutes a night and in his last 63 NHL games has a whopping 9 points. That's lower end for talentless goons and no-offense defenders. He didn't even really plateau...he hit his peak at 20 years old and has been declining since. Europe next season I think.

 

[thecupismine]

One goalie has a 1.89 GAA and 93.2 save percentage. The other has a 4.5 GAA and 82.7 save percentage.

It’s pretty clear which one should be starting right now if the team is focused on winning. Silovs has a ton of fundamentals to work on in practice right now, which is totally fine as a 23 year old goalie.

Expecting the lines to look something like this:

Debrusk-Miller-Boeser
Hoglander-Petterson-Garland
Bains-Blueger-Sherwood
Aman-Suter-Heinen

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Brannstrom-Deshernais

Concerned about how many minutes Hughes/Hronek are playing already, but the second pairing has been getting absolutely caved in this season and the third can only handle soft ES minutes. Bit of a hold on and pray until the deadline moment.

 

[Bgav]

Please call up PDG and send Bains/Aman down. Absolutely should start Lankinen.

He's injured and hasn't played a game. Bains is fine in a 4th line role imo. Shouldn't touch the top 6 tho

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

It's a big middle figure to both Lankinen and the Team if Silovs starts.

 

[LadyJet26]

Missing this one. Wedding day tomorrow! Canucks seem to win when I can't watch

 

[JT Milker]

Must win.

 

[wonton15]

It's a big middle figure to both Lankinen and the Team if Silovs starts.

I wish I had a father figure

 

[LordBacon]

It's a big middle figure to both Lankinen and the Team if Silovs starts.

Would be a really bad decision honestly, let the team gather some momentum.
They obviously play better with Lank in net.

 

[TruGr1t]

Will be interesting to see if they move Suter back to C, or use Aman there. Top-six looks pretty much set, but could see either:

Suter-Blueger-Sherwood
Heinen-Aman-Bains

OR

Heinen-Blueger-Sherwood
Aman-Suter-Bains

Also whether Forbort re-enters the line-up if he's back with the team, he has seem to have priority over Desharnais thus far.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Lankinen performs at about 90% of what Demko provides on a nightly basis. He's at a .932 sv% and 1.82 GAA.

Silovs is about 70%. .832 sv% and 4.50 GAA.

It's a no-brainer to lean on Lankinen exclusively until Demko is ready to return. We should thank our lucky stars that he signed for so cheap, because he's worth about 3-4 times as much as we're paying him. Alternating back and forth with Silovs is asinine at this point. Only go back to Silovs if Lankinen falls off a cliff.

 

[Ernie]

Concerned about how many minutes Hughes/Hronek are playing already, but the second pairing has been getting absolutely caved in this season and the third can only handle soft ES minutes. Bit of a hold on and pray until the deadline moment.

If Soucy and Myers can't tread water, the team can't wait until the deadline.