GDT: GM31 Vancouver Canucks @ Utah HC | Wed. Dec 18th | 7:00pm PST | SNP | A Brand-new Team

[Tact]

Hronek + top 4 + a legit top 6 winger, this team obviously looks completely different. Honestly amazing they’re still winning games with the current d set up. Most teams wouldn’t survive having Juulsen, Desharnais, Brannstrom and Myers in the line up at the same time

And you can definitely see the limitation of the team because of the defence.

Everyone’s trying to play a “safe” game and trying to squeeze out close games.

 

[Bgav]

Byram come home

He would be so perfect for this team. My number 1 target for sure

 

[quat]

It's always been like this though. Even in the 2011 season some people were like this

We are a panicky bunch

 

[Tables of Stats]

Yea but today isn’t that it’s just terrible play. Poor passing. Poor puck control. Poor puck management. Lazy skating

The complaints don't only happen when we're playing poorly. I get the sense that posters here would rather we look flashy and lose than play boring and win.

 

[bbud]

Hughes needs to scream during the intermission again.

He was not playing good enough to bi..h anyone else out best stfu get into gear in 2nd

 

[tantalum]

Friedman admitting he knows nothing and got caught by surprise was funny.

 

[Zombotron]

was that Dan Hamhuis in the archival footage with Aiden Celebrini lol

 

[Regal]

The complaints don't only happen when we're playing poorly. I get the sense that posters here would rather we look flashy and lose than play boring and win.

Fair enough. There’s certainly a bit of confirmation bias for the system haters when they run into poor play like this. But they do deserve to be criticized for that period after the Avs game.

 

[mriswith]

Hronek + top 4 + a legit top 6 winger, this team obviously looks completely different. Honestly amazing they’re still winning games with the current d set up. Most teams wouldn’t survive having Juulsen, Desharnais, Brannstrom and Myers in the line up at the same time

I honestly think just a 2LD that can move the puck and carry their pairing would be enough to drastically change the team. A lot of the forwards are slumping right now for various reasons but it's mostly a good group.

They just need someone who can move the puck and otherwise hold their own for the 35 minutes Hughes isn't on the ice each game.

 

[Wisp]

I didn't know SLC was an elevation city.

 

[Lawzy]

Pettersson back to bambi legs era.

 

[PavelBure10]

The Canucks need their own Sergachev trade of their own.

 

[Coffee]

If you guys ever won the lotto max, would you guys take HFCanucks out to one of the Canucks home games ? Maybe about 50 tickets

 

[Bleach Clean]

People are complete morons and don’t even bother trying to analyze the game.

I’m not surprised so many of the older posters left - I only came back last year when things were going well so I hadn’t seen how stupid people get when a couple things are going wrong.

They’re missing puck moving dmen, so when Hughes isn’t carrying or the forwards aren’t carrying it up all on their own things fall apart. It’s the worst group of puck movers in the league if you take out Hughes, and it’s not close - Alvin needs to address it.

Instead of accepting that, people would rather bitch about the coach who finally got rid of the loser mentality we had and wish we were losing 6-3 again, getting hemmed in just as much but with a few breakaway goals.

This is only half correct, imo. Management has put together a D Corps that is terrible at puck movement in part due to Tocchet's own preference. He likes the bigger, less skilled crease clearers and puck movement is clearly a secondary concern. Just take a look at Brannstrom's recent ice time for reference.

Tocchet's system has also resulted in record breaking shot totals (to the negative) in the playoffs.

You can definitely criticize the coach and the D Corps. What they're doing is unacceptable.

 

[Bgav]

Friedman admitting he knows nothing and got caught by surprise was funny.

wasnt watching the intermission, what did he say?

 

[calnuck]

If you guys ever won the lotto max, would you guys take HFCanucks out to one of the Canucks home games ? Maybe about 50 tickets

I’d do it just so I could meet bbud in real life

 

[Bgav]

how is that not a knee on knee penalty?

 

[logan5]

Sigh. Pot that one!!

 

[bbud]

2nd period effort better get a goal boys unlucky there keep pounding

how is that not a knee on knee penalty?

Not against buttmans hockey club

 

[ziploc]

I’d do it just so I could meet bbud in real life

We may have to physically restrain him from attacking the refs, but it would be worth it.

 

[calnuck]

how is that not a knee on knee penalty?

Buttman?

 

[Bgav]

Buttman?

Gary American.

 

[calnuck]

We may have to physically restrain him from attacking the refs, but it would be worth it.

I’d pay his bail and legal defense just so I could hear him testify in court hollering and screaming “BuTtMaN!!!!!!”

 

[bbud]

F.off stripes you call that against us every time gotta help buttmans welfare club you weasel as. F..kers

 

[Flik]

We may have to physically restrain him from attacking the refs, but it would be worth it.

Together, we can accomplish great things.

Terrible, but great things.