Pre-Game Talk: GM13 | Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers | Sat. Nov 9th | 7:00pm PST | HNIC/SNP | Do It For Brocky
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Brookbank
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As some were suggesting among the cup predictions at the start of the season, the Edm Oilers are not a good hockey team
EpochLink
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Today is my birthday, 39 years young.
Joined this forum when I was a young 20, great to be here with you guys.
Joined this forum when I was a young 20, great to be here with you guys.
ChilliBilly
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8 months short of 30 years on you. Been living and dying Canucks for over 50 years .... if Petey gets going we are going to be a tough opponent for everyone.
Edit - without McDavid, we should be able to win this one handily ... which of course means ....
Re - edit - This home stand should go well. Cal 2 games over .500, Isles at .500 and the rest doing terrible, until the rangers. And by then I hope we are well ahead of them in the standings. No road game for over 2 weeks.
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Mr. Canucklehead
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Happy Birthday! And congratulations on such a long tenure on the boards!
I marked my 40th last month…been a member of these forums for 23 years. Always fun taking in the games and breaking everything down with you fine chaps.
Mr. Canucklehead
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In game news -
Man, how critical of an acquisition is Lankinen turning out to be? Would be great if we could carry the momentum of the LA game over and roll the Oilers.
Man, how critical of an acquisition is Lankinen turning out to be? Would be great if we could carry the momentum of the LA game over and roll the Oilers.
DimitriL07
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342 pts for Hughes in this one. Podz rips off the Coiler jersey midway and puts one below the bar on Stuart Little
You could make a crazy argument that Quinn Hughes is the Hart favourite after 12 games but that Kevin Lankinen is the Vancouver Canucks MVP.
It's absolutely terrifying to think about where we'd be without him.
We’re going to split starts 50/50 between Demko and Lankinen when he’s back, right? We’re not going to just run Demko into the ground? Right??
Mr. Canucklehead
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That should absolutely be the plan. Demko needs to be eased in, and then workload managed. Especially with Lankinen playing the way he is.
Not crazy. Lankinen is our MVP.
Edit: Ah, I see what you mean with Hughes and Lankinen being on the same team.
I'd argue that Lankinen's play gives the team a major boost just like Demko's does. The team plays a lot more aggressively and looser when they have confidence in their goalie, and I think that translates into Hughes feeling like he can go into full rover/god/robot/assassin mode.
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Well that, but also without him we go from one of the best goalies in the league so far to Silovs/Petera
The city would be in meltdown mode
Lemmiwinks
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Forget eased in, it’s sounding like Demko will need to split starts with a competent 1B for the rest of his career.
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Really hoping we carry the momentum from the past 3 wins and smoke this Oilers team. It's much more enjoyable to watch winning hockey. Doubly so when they are lighting up Skinner.
bandwagonesque
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4-2 Oilers, Sherwood forced to leave that juice behind by TSA while leaving Los Angeles
