GDT: [GM37] Vancouver Canucks @ Seattle Kraken | Thur. Jan 2nd | 7:00pm PST | SNP | New Year, New Team

[EpochLink]

This team plays tomorrow too, not sure how long this management team is gonna hold fort.
The media will eat this team alive if they slide now.

 

[DimitriL07]

Might as well go 5 forwards on the ice

 

[God]

Lol is Adam Foote making this decision to play Brisebois over Brannstrom, the only puck mover on our d corps? He needs to go. He's clearly asking for management to acquire trees. It's not working. Come on. Tocchet should also know better here.

 

[Tact]

Brisebois has been our best defencemen tonight so far

 

[EpochLink]

Lol is Adam Foote making this decision to play Brisebois over Brannstrom, the only puck mover on our d corps? He needs to go. He's clearly asking for management to acquire trees. It's not working. Come on. Tocchet should also know better here.

I still can't believe we have Juulsen, like for f*** sakes.

 

[Nucky]

Fire Foote

 

[dez]

1 shot btw, over/under 5 shots for the period?

 

[EpochLink]

1 SOG ain't gonna cut it either, where the f*** are our forwards.

 

[GranvilleIsland]

The Vancouver Hand Grenades has a nice ring to it.

 

[MS]

Lol is Adam Foote making this decision to play Brisebois over Brannstrom, the only puck mover on our d corps? He needs to go. He's clearly asking for management to acquire trees. It's not working. Come on. Tocchet should also know better here.

You simply can't play an NHL game with Derek Forbort as your 3rd best puck-moving defender. Carson Soucy as your 2nd best. Tyler Myers on PP1. It's absurd.

You have Wolanin and Kudryatsev in the AHL and Brannstrom on your NHL roster. I don't care how you fundamentally want guys to play, if you want to be competitive in this league you have to at least move the puck in a semi-competent fashion.

1 SOG ain't gonna cut it either, where the f*** are our forwards.

Forwards can't do much when you're basically dressing an AHL D in terms of getting the puck out of your zone.

 

[wonton15]

Nobody actually believes this will actually occur right?

It won’t for us, but it absolutely feels like a stretch where a coach gets canned as the scapegoat. Team isn’t playing well, but this D is so obviously god awful.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Coaching our players to not shoot from bad angles and to try to hit every shin pad or teammate instead of the net is a very interesting possibly revolutionary strategy

 

[brock hughes007]

Just can't generate anything..and we have all defenseman that should be in the AHL.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

This team plays tomorrow too, not sure how long this management team is gonna hold fort.
The media will eat this team alive if they slide now.

Oh no! Not the vaunted Vancouver media lol.

 

[drax0s]

Feels like the mindset is to just survive. Team has no faith with Hughes, Petey and Hronek out.

 

[Nucky]

Coaching our players to not shoot from bad angles and to try to hit every shin pad or teammate instead of the net is a very interesting possibly revolutionary strategy

Entire strategy is basically pinball on ice.

Dmen chip it off the baords and out or flip the puck in the air and pray it lands on a teammate's stick.

In the offensive zone pass the puck to the point and hope for a deflection off someone.

 

[Tables of Stats]

1 SOG ain't gonna cut it either, where the f*** are our forwards.

If you can't get a clean break out of your own zone then you can't generate anything in terms of scoring chances. Even when you do get setup, if you can't trust making a pass back to the point to open something up, you're going to get boxed in and run out of room to make a play.

 

[PavelBure10]

Myers end to end rush. Exciting.

 

[Bubbles]

Brisebois deserves a spot in the Ring of Honour.

 

[MS]

Feels like the mindset is to just survive. Team has no faith with Hughes, Petey and Hronek out.

As they shouldn't. The season is over if Hughes is out more than another couple games.

 

[Nucky]

This feels like a protect the 0-1 deficit type of game

 

[God]

Brisebois deserves a spot in the Ring of Honour.

yeah i should say, i like brisebois and it's not that he's being selected over brannstrom, it's that he should've been in the lineup over some other PK specialist

 

[dez]

Juulson skates it forward, loses the puck, then retreats back defensively forgetting the puck.The Juuls Experience.

 

[wonton15]

Now we see why good defensemen are so valuable. With an AHL d core mostly of trees, it completely sewers our play as a team. This feels like a bunch of beer leaguers playing together and not an NHL team.

 

[Kryten]

Might finish the period with 2 or 3 shots