Pre-Game Talk: [GM34] Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks | Mon. Dec 23rd | 6:00pm PST | SNP | Christmas Eve Eve

[Vector]

WHEN: Mon. Dec 23rd, 6:00pm
WHERE: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650

Canucks Line-Up:

TBD


Sharks Line-Up:

TBD

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[Vector]

 

[TruGr1t]

 

[valkynax]

Can't wait.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

It’ll be cool to see Celebrini on Vancouver ice for the first time. He’s been kind of electric this year.

If the Canucks come out sleeping again, this could get ugly. Hope they have their game faces on to get into the Christmas break.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

 

[rypper]

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That rickety cricket gif needs the sound lol.

 

[valkynax]

It’ll be cool to see Celebrini on Vancouver ice for the first time. He’s been kind of electric this year.

If the Canucks come out sleeping again, this could get ugly. Hope they have their game faces on to get into the Christmas break.

SJS is sneakily becoming a very dynamic team. Watching them feels very different from watching Chicago Bedards, even when Celebrini was out of the line up.

 

[Slapshot_11]

It's only December and we're in must win territory LOL

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

It's only December and we're in must win territory LOL

If the team hasn’t been approaching every game since Game 1 as a must win, that’s a big problem. It’s a new season and the playoffs have to be earned.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Sharks win.

EP and JT hold separate press conferences saying how everything is fine.

 

[rypper]

Sharks win.

EP and JT hold separate press conferences saying how everything is fine.

Followed by separate media availabilities with Tocchet and Hughes where they openly confirm things are in fact, not fine.

 

[DFAC]

Aside from Buffalo and NYR is there a more dysfunctional team right now?

Canucks PR team MIA. It's impossible to have handled this situation any worse, really.

 

[MS]

Canucks PR team MIA. It's impossible to have handled this situation any worse, really.

This is basically it. They've turned a 3 Mile Island into a Chernobyl by handling all of it in the worst way possible. And now the daily media stories just keep fanning the flames when if it had been handled better everything internally would probably have died down in a month.

 

[wonton15]

I know management thinks it’s not a big deal, but isn’t this literally Rutherford’s job to calm the waters in a situation like this? Agreed - this has been handled in the worst way possible.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Iirc this isn't the first PR nightmare to be handled like a grenade wrapped in a molotov cocktail ..

 

[MS]

Iirc this isn't the first PR nightmare to be handled like a grenade wrapped in a molotov cocktail ..

The Boudreau situation was basically intentionally blown up by the team because the owner wouldn't sign off on firing the bad coach and doing the things that management knew needed to happen to turn the team around. So they basically made the situation untenable.

This just feels like a bungling.

 

[Diogenes92]

Aside from Buffalo and NYR is there a more dysfunctional team right now?

Canucks PR team MIA. It's impossible to have handled this situation any worse, really.

Isnt CMac their head of Communications? He is a full on boot licking minion.

 

[wonton15]

Need a @Vector transcription on this

Miller still doesn’t look 100% right to me

 

[EpochLink]

A win would be nice but since this team is acting like they just came off a bumps binge from the Roxy, they’ll be hungover or just plain flat.

 

[TruGr1t]

Isnt CMac their head of Communications? He is a full on boot licking minion.

Nobody is in charge, they had some guy from the Vancouver Olympics in the spot for like a few months before he left:

 

[Vector]

Need a @Vector transcription on this

Miller still doesn’t look 100% right to me

Will have one later. Out and about today.