Post-Game Talk: [GM20] Canucks lose to Avalanche | 2-5 (Hoglander & Miller) | Ref Show

[JanBulisPiggyBack]

Welp

Was hoping for a win, didn’t get one……can we beat Colorado in a 7 game series…….yay it’s very possible and that’s gonna have to be good enough for me

Let’s move onto the next one and hopefully we can get ourselves another defenseman at some point

 

[BrendanGaunce4Selke]

Onto the next.

Played well until that last period

something something altitude

 

[rypper]

I think we need to temper expectations. This team isn’t going to go anywhere with the D core that we have. It’s barely serviceable when healthy.

...

I mean the team had one of its best starts in its history with the blueline.

Ebbs and flows.

 

[Zanon]

Pettersson looking like the Pettersson from two season’s ago before Green got fired.

 

[jd22]

Watched the Colorado stream for the third. Their play by play guys are pretty poor, I must say.

Kind of like the result.

 

[Regal]

Im not blaming demko but even his saves he makes have looked erratic at times.

Hasn’t looked dialed in since the Toronto game. With him playing average and Pettersson playing poorly, they’re not going to win more than half their games

 

[Bobby9]

If you think EP40 is signing for less than $8m, you are headed for some significant disappointment

Oh I’m well
Aware we’re about to make a Massive mistake paying him 10M +

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

I think we need to temper expectations. This team isn’t going to go anywhere with the D core that we have. It’s barely serviceable when healthy.

Most of us were hoping for a playoff birth as a wildcard team. Perhaps win a game or two in a playoff series.

This team was never going to contend unless more improvements were made. They can play well but the theme continues...they need elite goaltending to stay in games and don't have the horses on D to shut things down.

 

[Petey O]

Sure but I'd rather a month of Pettersson out and then healthy the rest of season than play out the season like this and risk a chronic issue.

Again, I ask, is he actually injured? I've seen no proof of this.

 

[kanucks25]

I am starting to wonder if I myself overrate our star players.

I don't know about that. Colorado is just a better team in general.

Both teams have a weak bottom half of the roster but Colorado's top third or so is about as good as it gets.

The only thing is, our two best forwards behave like petulant children when things aren't going their way. The coaching staff has mostly taken it out of Miller, now it's Pettersson's turn.

 

[Peen]

to be honest more players should do what hronek just did the last 30 seconds lol

 

[Hansen]

Horrendous body language.

Not a measuring stick game like I had hoped it might be though. On to the next

 

[PavelBure10]

Overall I am happy with the way the team played. I dont think the Canucks had too much puck luck in this one.

Pettersson, Kuzmenko and Boes need to find a way to bump their slumps.

 

[alternate]

Nothing from this game suggests we couldn't hang with the Avs in a 7 game series. Would have liked more from a couple of our best players, but a bounce or two goes our way we take this game. Satisfied with the effort, disappointed not to get a point.

 

[MS]

A notch?

We are a .500 team since the loss to Toronto.

Shut up.

 

[VanJack]

A disappointing result....but holes are starting to appear in the Canucks game.....sort of inevitable for team that's beaten expectations so far this season.

They needed more from Demko, who was clearly the second-best goalie on the night. And Pettersson has to be considered to be officially in a slump. He's overhandling the puck in danger areas and consistently getting stripped. Might be time to shake up that line with Kuzmenko and Mikheyev.

Fact is the Canucks are having real trouble five-on-five. And if their PP doesn't score they're in trouble.

 

[iceburg]

Pettersson isn’t getting $11M + playing like this.

 

[brock hughes007]

Mikheyev is the silent perpetrator on that line, he's not contributing like he should be either.

I actually think Kuz has been trying at both ends but he's been usurped by Brock in the bumper on the PP.

The need to take Mikheyev off that line.Hoglander should be on it.Starting to see Brock looking like crap again,streaky scorer that can't skate .

 

[Sedinery]

Not a horrible game.

Refs completely shafted the Canucks in the second

 

[MS]

Again, I ask, is he actually injured? I've seen no proof of this.

Tocchet has said that Pettersson is nursing something on two different occasions.

 

[wonton15]

I am starting to wonder if I myself overrate our star players.

Can’t agree with that when Petey/Kuz/Boeser are not playing to their abilities recently. We can hang with and beat Colorado in a series if healthy.

 

[ahmon]

watching this game is like watching what not to do in a playoff game.

Colorado is not the same team that won the cup.

They lost 2c Kadri and ones of the better 2 way wingers in the game in Landeskog.

They are essentially a 1 line team.

Both Drouin and Johansen has not really given them much.

First Avs are not a physical team, why would we try to play a no hitter style game and not be more physical?

Vegas basically bullied the Avs back in 2021 playoffs.

We get 5 min major and we don't even take advantage of it. Like how do you not make sure you don't take any penalties and pad goals?

Game was tied 2-2, and we start the 3rd period backed up in our zone and allow some one like Tufte to score on us, that's his 2nd career goal.

We continually pass it around the perimeter and aside maybe Miller, all our forwards are soft and pond hockey.

Any physical playoff team will run the canucks out of the building in 7 game series.

Soft, mistake prone, and no killer instinct is the identify of the canucks.

 

[Jay26]

Horrendous body language.

Not a measuring stick game like I had hoped it might be though. On to the next

For who? I just got back from seeing Napoleon and didn't watch. The whole team?

 

[Petey O]

Tocchet has said that Pettersson is nursing something on two different occasions.

Gotta sit him, then. Short term pain for long term gain.

 

[WTG]

Banked enough points so we don't have to win every game. But felt they were handily better than the Avs.