theguardianII
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Winner vs LosersThese 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.
T$N;
CEO Charlie Jacobs said Wednesday that Neely and general manager Don Sweeney will have the chance to get the club back on track.
“We’ve been working together for, in Cam’s case, almost a couple decades now,” Jacobs said. “I have very good faith in it. This team, we’re all accountable for it. I am too, just as much as they are.
"If you look at Don Sweeney’s stewardship and Cam Neely’s stewardship since 2015, since Don took over, we’ve made the playoffs eight of the 10 years,” Jacobs said. “And listen, I’m not going to measure the success in making the Stanley Cup Playoffs, OK? Let’s be very clear about that. Our goal is to win the Stanley Cup. But you can’t win the Stanley Cup if you don’t make it to the playoffs, and our team has done that for the past eight years and I hope we do it again this year for our ninth. But it’s been some trying moments, for sure.”
“We’re aware of the expectations here,” Neely said. “We try to meet and exceed those every year. Right now, it’s a year that we’re not really accustomed to.”
Who? Deharnais? With all the hype he could be a game misconduct and worse. All Jennot has to do is turtle and he wins.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
Revenge game, might be for LA instead, the Canucks did win in their barn.
LA, without their Norris winning dman.
If they start their backup goalie that indicates their thoughts on the Canucks.
Every game is a must win for the Canucks now, if 98 pts are needed for a WC spot then the Nux need to win or get 50 pts of the 78 available. They need to be 30+% better than so far.
The Jeannot revenge thing might be all there is.
Has anyone noticed the TV crew is missing a bunch of plays or describing them totally wrong?
But again, another team that stats say they win but .... which Canuck team shows up?