GDT: GM10 | Vancouver Canucks @ San Jose Sharks | Sat. Nov 2nd | 7:00pm PST | HNIC/SNP | Another Road Trip Reset

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Vector

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WHEN: Sat. Nov 2nd, 7:00pm
WHERE: SAP Center, San Jose, CA, USA
TV: Hockey Night in Canada/Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650

Canucks Line-Up:

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

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Brannstrom-Juulsen

Lankinen

Sharks Line-Up:

TBD

Blackwood
 
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Coffee

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Canucks probably slap them around for 50-60 minutes
 

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Can someone explain why they didn't wait to start Silovs in this game?

Seems like an awful coaching decision to play him against a team that has had no problem scoring.

Tocchet was signalling that Lankinen was tired. That’s the only reason I can see why they didn’t start him. Maybe the coaching staff asked Lankinen if he could start or maybe he asked for a break?

I don’t know
 
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Can someone explain why they didn't wait to start Silovs in this game?

Seems like an awful coaching decision to play him against a team that has had no problem scoring.

I was thinking the same last night. My only guess is they wanted to give him a chance to prove himself against a good team instead of the token "we don't really care about this bottom feeder game."

Now I could get the logic... if Silovs was playing decent but he's been dreadful. The kid absolutely needed a gimme game to at least try getting his confidence back. Instead, he's now the worst goalie in the NHL
 
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Either way its on Tocchet to make sure his starting goalie doesnt get too tired. That game was likely a huge blow to Silovs psyche and now its a question mark if he can back up games, whereas if he got an easy win against SJ that would likely settle him down a bit. He could have gotten the game against Chicago as well
 
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I'm hoping for another "sometimes you go on a road trip and it resets you" narrative. Really need to take advantage of how weak this month is, schedule-wise.

Road Trip:
Sharks, Ducks, Kings

Home Stand:
Oilers, Flames, Islanders, Blackhawks & Predators (back-to-back), Rangers

Road Trips:
Bruins & Penguins (back-to-back), Sabres (then Red Wings, Wild to start December)

Lots of these teams are struggling, injured, or just plain bad.
 

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Can someone explain why they didn't wait to start Silovs in this game?

Seems like an awful coaching decision to play him against a team that has had no problem scoring.

I think it was the right call. Lankinen had started a bunch of games in a row and that Carolina game he was forced to stand on his head and it must have been exhausting both physically and mentally.

We still lose that NJ game with Lankinen in net, anyway.
 

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Can someone explain why they didn't wait to start Silovs in this game?

Seems like an awful coaching decision to play him against a team that has had no problem scoring.
With the way Silovs is playing he probably isn't even capable of beating Anaheim or SJ so giving Lankinen rest was probably reasonable.
 
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VanJack

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Seem to recall that last year's team laid and egg in San Jose. And they've been playing better recently.

Just not confident in this Canucks blueline right now. Too many breakdowns and coverage problems. On the other hand, they also waxed the Sharks with a 10-spot in another early visit last year. So who knows?

Would be a huge boon if they could fill the net again and some of the snake-bitten Canuck forwards could get the anvil off their backs.
 

mossey3535

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Actually it's hard to tell anything about SIlovs in that NJ game, the team in front of him was so bad. I think there's some unrealistic expectations about his development curve that came out of the playoffs, but remember that was the Oilers playing turtle vs us playing turtle. It's just way looser in the regular season and in some ways harder to both play to that high level and be consistent when the team is changing every night and is ready for you with a detailed pre-scout.

Lankinen's GP needs to be managed, I wish they had done this with Demko starting two seasons ago but hey better late than never.
 
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