GDT: [GM35] Canucks vs Sharks | Sat. Dec 23rd, 7pm | HNIC/SNP | 'Tis the Season...to be #1

[Vector]

WHEN: December 23rd, 7:00PM PST
WHERE: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
TV: HNIC/Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650

Canucks Line-Up:

Mikheyev-Pettersson-Kuzmenko
Höglander-Miller-Boeser
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Åman-Suter-Lafferty

Hughes-Hronek
Zadorov-Myers
Cole-Juulsen

Demko

Sharks Line-Up:

Eklund-Hertl-Zadina
Duclair-Granlund-Zetterlund
Labanc-Kunin-Hoffman
Bailey-Studnicka-MacDonald

Ferraro-Burroughs
Henrickson-Rutta
Okhotyuk-Addison/Thrun

Blackwood

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[Vector]

 

[StreetHawk]

Treating this like a road game is how they should approach this game. Trap game. Last game before the Xmas break.

 

[supercanuck]

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

San Jose are 26 points behind us. Too close for comfort. We badly need these 2 points.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Feels like this game is going to be closer than it should be.

 

[Vector]

Kind of need to win because otherwise you're going 2-2 against one of the worst teams in the league.

 

[valkynax]

Ever since the GM to the locker room visit the Sharks have been playing better right?

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Ever since the GM to the locker room visit the Sharks have been playing better right?

Yes,..they were a total doormat earlier in the year..After that meeting, the Sharks beat us in SJ, and the game here was close.

 

[Vector]

Ever since the GM to the locker room visit the Sharks have been playing better right?

If Mike Grier yelled at me to have some f***ing pride, I’d work a lot harder too.

 

[andora]

Is trap game like a new tiktok trend or something

 

[MS]

Ever since the GM to the locker room visit the Sharks have been playing better right?

They are 9-11-2 since so WAY better but they have lost 4 in a row again.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Is trap game like a new tiktok trend or something

This is a trap post.

 

[andora]

This is a trap post.

*subscribe*

 

[Flik]

Phew, yet another game, I am curious if this season is an anomaly or if we typically play 35 games before Christmas on the regular.

This has been brutal but if we can get through the next 6 weeks or so without any major injuries, we'd be setup NICELY for the final leg of the season.

Keep it simple tomorrow, sit Cole, bring Kuz back, and give the Garland line some extra time. I think we take this with authority and go into our break with the wind at our backs, and in Brock's hair.

 

[andora]

Phew, yet another game, I am curious if this season is an anomaly or if we typically play 35 games before Christmas on the regular.

This has been brutal but if we can get through the next 6 weeks or so without any major injuries, we'd be setup NICELY for the final leg of the season.

Keep it simple tomorrow, sit Cole, bring Kuz back, and give the Garland line some extra time. I think we take this with authority and go into our break with the wind at our backs, and in Brock's hair.

same thing

 

[valkynax]

They are 9-11-2 since so WAY better but they have lost 4 in a row again.

Low bar to begin with I guess, still this feels like...

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Feels like this game is going to be closer than it should be.

The Sharks have had some good games against some elite opponents. That, coupled with the very real fatigue factor facing the Canucks, mean this is going to be tough, IMO.

 

[VanillaCoke]

ez w

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

https://x.com/mikekellynhl/status/1738260699350991065?s=46&t=P7Xz4sPwXBmtknLxtkRYtA

Fits the eyes test too

They allow a lot of shots from perimeter but they also rarely allow odd men rushes

 

[MS]

https://x.com/mikekellynhl/status/1738260699350991065?s=46&t=P7Xz4sPwXBmtknLxtkRYtA

Fits the eyes test too

They allow a lot of shots from perimeter but they also rarely allow odd men rushes

Yup. I've been counting odd-man rushes for various games this year and ended up at 0 or 1 on several occasions, most recently the Nashville game.

 

[geebaan]

I think we’re blowing them out again.

 

[Tact]

I vote for starting DeSmith

 

[wonton15]

Mid January return maybe? Excellent timing to load manage Cole

 

[Binder]

Phew, yet another game, I am curious if this season is an anomaly or if we typically play 35 games before Christmas on the regular.

33 by xmas last year
31 in 2021-22
38 in 2019-20 but they also started on oct. 2 which is one of the earliest starts in awhile

oilers have by contrast played 31 including their 1st B2B today well we have already had 5 this year