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Pre-Game Talk: [GM44] Vancouver Canucks vs Los Angeles Kings | Thur, Jan. 16th | 7pm | SNP | Running Down the Drain

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I really wish the 11.6M forward could put up more than 2 goals and 1 assist in his last 10 games...with the 2 goals against the 2nd worst team in the league. He has 1 shot in the last 3 games as well.
 
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They were having this inane discussion on Canucks Central (I think) about quality versus quantity shots, and how the Canucks were focused on quality. What a completely stupid discussion when you don't score goals, I mean who cares either way.

Anyway, the way LA plays they should run them out of the building.
 
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These 2 teams have flipped early expectations:

- LA lost Doughty to a serious ankle injury, Kopitar was turning 37, the team lost on failed bet Dubois, got trounced by EDM in the playoffs, and Blake + Robitaille were getting cooked publicly for their offseason. Fast forward to now and they're 7th in P%, 6th in the west, with a +21 goal differential. Set to get Doughty back as well.

Contrast with:

- VAN adds efficiency (via metrics) and kept their top4 D intact. Had re-signed Pettersson long-term, and stabilized the crease with Lankinen. Tocchet wins the Jack Adams and Hughes the Norris. Took EDM to the limit (nominally), lionizing Allvin/JR along the way. Fast forward to now and they're 15th in P%, have a -11 goal differential, a media circus with Pettersson/Miller, and are presently out of a playoff spot.

What a difference half a season makes.
 
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I think there's some merit to this. Tok preaches possession above anything else which means players are told to take only high percentage shots.
 
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Somehow Anze Kopitar is putting up the exact same season for the 19th straight year, like clockwork.
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We'd have at least 1 cup if Nonis did his job and took Kopitar. I'd say that this miss was even worse than Ken Holland refusing to draft Hughes due to size issues.
 
I know it's only Jan 16, but this feels like a HUGE game for me. Not just for the standings, but if the team does not come out with a really good effort here then I don't think that bodes well for the rest of the season. If nothing else, I think Hughes and Sherwood will have great games.
 
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I know it's only Jan 16, but this feels like a HUGE game for me. Not just for the standings, but if the team does not come out with a really good effort here then I don't think that bodes well for the rest of the season. If nothing else, I think Hughes and Sherwood will have great games.
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It's massive. There's no understating it. They have to start streaking to get themselves into a good spot. They've only had a handful of games with essentially full health (or max 1 guy missing) and they've not been good in those games.

It's different when you have 80 games of being relatively healthy last year so that you can better evaluate and then ignore or weight the worse performances less, but now that's all they have.

Also very curious about the attendance this next little bit. It's already been bad this year, but they've benefitted from early marquee matchups, the early season "haha they wont be shit on home ice for so long", and the holiday season.

But now they've just been bad on the road too, and the vibes are still bad
 
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supercanuck said:
I know it's only Jan 16, but this feels like a HUGE game for me. Not just for the standings, but if the team does not come out with a really good effort here then I don't think that bodes well for the rest of the season. If nothing else, I think Hughes and Sherwood will have great games.
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It definitely feels like a pivotal game because of our recent slide and the fact that we're chasing a divisional opponent. A few losses against teams like L.A. and our season might be lost sooner than later (not that I think a dream turnaround is realistic, but hope reigns eternal for me 😭)
 
First game back after an arduous and largely disappointing road-trip.....against a team that locks it down and gives up barely a couple of scoring chances every period

Not like the optics of this game for the Canucks--who've been mostly terrible on home ice.
 
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It's massive. There's no understating it. They have to start streaking to get themselves into a good spot. They've only had a handful of games with essentially full health (or max 1 guy missing) and they've not been good in those games.

It's different when you have 80 games of being relatively healthy last year so that you can better evaluate and then ignore or weight the worse performances less, but now that's all they have.

Also very curious about the attendance this next little bit. It's already been bad this year, but they've benefitted from early marquee matchups, the early season "haha they wont be shit on home ice for so long", and the holiday season.

But now they've just been bad on the road too, and the vibes are still bad
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This is what's gonna happen to the team for the next two games if not more:
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we're all mad about last night and nobody seems to remember that this is the boeser revenge game where someone needs to beat the snot out of tanner jeannot
 
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