GDT: GM13 | Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers | Sat. Nov 9th | 7:00pm PST | HNIC/SNP | Do It For Brocky

[Bertuzzzi44]

WHEN: Sat. Nov 9th, 7:00pm
WHERE: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
TV: HNIC/Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650

Canucks Line-Up:

Suter-Miller-Garland
DeBrusk-Pettersson-Hoglander
Heinen-Blueger-Sherwood
Aman-Raty-Bains

Hughes-Hronek
Soucy-Myers
Brannstrom-Desharnais

Lankinen

Oilers Line-Up:

TBD

Young 4th line, will see how much Tocchett trusts them.

Liked Pettersson’s game with Garland and Suter, none of them crunched anyone physically but they retrieved pucks with their awareness, quickness, and stick checking, they moved the puck quickly and made little nifty plays amongst each other and found ways through traffic into the slot area and used the D effectively too. DeBrusk & Hoglander are both fast north-south type skaters and that isn’t something Pettersson excels with as much.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Yeah for real lol.

DeBrusk - Miller - Garland
Suter - Pettersson - Hoglander

Or switch Garland and Hoglander - Tocchet probably doesn’t want to promote Hoglander to the first line though lol!

I don’t mind DeBrusk & Miller being split up, their games are too similar, both like to hang on to the puck and drive to the net. Both are fast power forwards. Need variety on a line to be successful

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Hope Boeser just misses 1 game for precautionary reasons, he looked okay after taking that dirty hit, seemed to shake it off like a champ, could’ve bee much worse.

 

[Wry n Ginger]

Coach T hoping streaky DeBrusk rubs his recent goal streak on to EP

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Louie DeBrusk the color guy on the broadcast tonight?

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

When’s Joshua playing? Was said to be close to returning last game

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

 

[JT Milker]

Aman Raty Bains going to play under 5 minutes.

 

[Vector]

 

[ManVanFan]

Aman Raty Bains going to play under 5 minutes.

Supposed depth in the AHL to start the season but that is an AHL line when you have to put the 3 of them together.

 

[Vector]

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Good god that D corps(e)

 

[MS]

Port Hardy has a McDonalds now lolololol

And an A&W, when we went through there earlier this year.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

And an A&W, when we went through there earlier this year.

Yeah I remember you said you were in McNeill and I asked you about the Willie Mitchell sign hahahahaha.

I miss the island.

 

[MS]

Yeah I remember you said you were in McNeill and I asked you about the Willie Mitchell sign hahahahaha.

I miss the island.

Ah, I remember that!

As an aside, the brewery in Port McNeill is fantastic - great views, huge patio, good food.

 

[Vector]

Oilers’ Struggles

• Had a bad start last year and got one goal away from winning a Stanley

Cup

• Very resilient team; they are dangerous
• Canucks don’t take them lightly
• Know how to handle adversity

Tonight’s Game

• Would be very surprised if the Canucks’ players aren’t ready for a Saturday night game against the Oilers after the playoff loss
• Excited to see some young guys play in these types of games; good for their development

Boeser

• Doesn’t feel great but wouldn’t say it’s horrible
• Would call his status “indefinite”

Desharnais

• Work-in-progress
• Got to keep working with him; when Gonchar was around, practiced with

him three days in a row

• Needs reps
• Has to really work on his game but has stuff that can really help the team

Joshua

• Hopefully back this home stand
• Took a couple of days off and needs 3 or 4 really hard skates before a decision can be made

Bains & Aman

• Can create an identity on the 4th line
• Be a fast line that can hold on to pucks, score occasionally, and be
• responsible
• Looking to see if they can be on the ice against McDavid and Draisaitl
• Don’t want a 4th line that you need to shelter
• Not there yet but getting close

Sprong

• Is a great kid
• Couldn’t get him in a top-6 role; a couple of guys ahead of him for the
• what they needed
• Wasn’t fair to him to play 4th line and 10 minutes
• Figured a couple of younger guys can play the role they want

Lineup Without Boeser

• A couple of match-up challenges
• Can get Pettersson and DeBrusk out there in favourable situations
• Looking for different match-ups

DeBrusk

• Playing confident
• Has really worked with video team the last two weeks
• Is good without the puck and can tell he’s building confidence

 

[Ernie]

I'm calling a Pettersson break out night.

Funny thing to say about a $12m player.

 

[wonton15]

Ah, I remember that!

As an aside, the brewery in Port McNeill is fantastic - great views, huge patio, good food.

I lived in Comox then Port McNeill for a year because the Mrs is a doctor and did some stints there. I was a regular at the brewery because I had nothing else to do lol (Devil’s Brewery?)

 

[David71]

I'm calling a Pettersson break out night.

Funny thing to say about a $12m player.

with that oilers defensive core. theres NO excuse for petty not to go off tonight. 5pt night incoming. 3 goals 2 apples. or reverse.

 

[David71]

Aman Raty Bains going to play under 5 minutes.

they should be alright as long as they dont go up against mcdavid/draistial line. apply pressure hold on to pucks longer and if they score its a bonus.

 

[Bobby9]

Today is my birthday, 39 years young.

Joined this forum when I was a young 20, great to be here with you guys.

Happy Birthday! I hope they win for you.

 

[Leif Rohlin]

Those lines are major oof.

If we win tonight it will be thanks to some combination of Lankinen and the Roxy, nothing else lol.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Boeser and Lekkermaki going down at the same time...and they just traded Sprong for nothing.

No bueno.

Nothing warms my heart like seeing that rat Hyman stuck at 3 goals after 14 games.

 

[bandwagonesque]

And an A&W, when we went through there earlier this year.

My garden shed might have an A&W the next time I'm back there looking for something

It's slowed down but they were putting them in every nook and cranny for a while

 

[bandwagonesque]

Oilers’ Struggles

• Had a bad start last year and got one goal away from winning a Stanley

Cup

• Very resilient team; they are dangerous
• Canucks don’t take them lightly
• Know how to handle adversity

Tonight’s Game

• Would be very surprised if the Canucks’ players aren’t ready for a Saturday night game against the Oilers after the playoff loss
• Excited to see some young guys play in these types of games; good for their development

Boeser

• Doesn’t feel great but wouldn’t say it’s horrible
• Would call his status “indefinite”

Desharnais

• Work-in-progress
• Got to keep working with him; when Gonchar was around, practiced with

him three days in a row

• Needs reps
• Has to really work on his game but has stuff that can really help the team

Joshua

• Hopefully back this home stand
• Took a couple of days off and needs 3 or 4 really hard skates before a decision can be made

Bains & Aman

• Can create an identity on the 4th line
• Be a fast line that can hold on to pucks, score occasionally, and be
• responsible
• Looking to see if they can be on the ice against McDavid and Draisaitl
• Don’t want a 4th line that you need to shelter
• Not there yet but getting close

Sprong

• Is a great kid
• Couldn’t get him in a top-6 role; a couple of guys ahead of him for the
• what they needed
• Wasn’t fair to him to play 4th line and 10 minutes
• Figured a couple of younger guys can play the role they want

Lineup Without Boeser

• A couple of match-up challenges
• Can get Pettersson and DeBrusk out there in favourable situations
• Looking for different match-ups

DeBrusk

• Playing confident
• Has really worked with video team the last two weeks
• Is good without the puck and can tell he’s building confidence

Tocchet and the word "juice" --