GDT: [GM52] Vancouver Canucks vs Detroit Red Wings | Sun, Feb. 2nd | 5pm | SNP | New Faces, New Friends

[PavelBure10]

Pettersson, Boeser, and Demko should gather a bunch of great assets via trade.

 

[Big zZz]

Chytil has speed though. Petey is way slower. That's the difference.

Petey can skate when he wants. He just doesn't want to for some reason. He showed well in fastest skater comps.

 

[andora]

Are we there yet

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

I get that Petey is having a quiet game. But we have such an emotional fan base.

Part of it I understand. People were/are attached to J.T. and upset by their perception that he did nothing wrong and they think Petey is 'soft' or whatever.

But this is chess, not checkers. Petey has shown himself to be a top ten center in this league.

He's struggling, and his shot and skating pace have plummeted because he's struggling through injury and not handling it well.

All of this points to injury. This isn't Space Jam. He didn't suddenly, permanently, lose his skills.

But I don't think he's going to look like himself until next year. I think he'll figure it out like he did when Miller was out for 10 games and be productive but not dynamic until next year.

If you need him to dominate every shift or else you need to scream to the heavens about how bad he is and how cooked our team is then it's going to be a long and exhausting year for you.

 

[Lemmiwinks]

Team can’t score goals, even if they’re getting a lot of o-zone shifts this game. Need to put the puck in the net but they’re not even getting many high danger chances.

 

[supercanuck]

Put EP back with Sherwood. I have always maintained that he needs someone to help do the Tocc stuff for him. Let him do his thing instead of hitting, dump and chasing, etc.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

“If only we had the best dman in the league, we’d be winning”.

I like to see the boys playing decent but we really can’t be solely reliant on one player.

Team badly needs some scoring punch upfront.

Too much “All Swedish” atm.

 

[DimitriL07]

EP, Debones and Boeser the momentum killers

 

[Jyrki]

It's good that the team can actually gain the zone very consistently even without Hughes. But also kept to the perimeter just as often. Fair play to guys like Chytil and Sherwood trying to break through. The remaining star forwards who need to create something or pull the trigger failing as usual.

 

[andora]

I get that Petey is having a quiet game. But we have such an emotional fan base.

Part of it I understand. People were/are attached to J.T. and upset by their perception that he did nothing wrong and they think Petey is 'soft' or whatever.

But this is chess, not checkers. Petey has shown himself to be a top ten center in this league.

He's struggling, and his shot and skating pace have plummeted because he's struggling through injury and not handling it well.

All of this points to injury. This isn't Space Jam. He didn't suddenly, permanently, lose his skills.

But I don't think he's going to look like himself until next year. I think he'll figure it out like he did when Miller was out for 10 games and be productive but not dynamic until next year.

If you need him to dominate every shift or else you need to scream to the heavens about how bad he is and how cooked our team is then it's going to be a long and exhausting year for you.

How about just one game every once in awhile

 

[Lenny Levino]

Petey can skate when he wants. He just doesn't want to for some reason. He showed well in fastest skater comps.

Not this year. He's 50th percentile in terms of speed now (down from 94th two years ago).

 

[Russian_fanatic]

Canucks need to change things up, and get EP going. This team needs him.

Hoglander-EP-Boeser
Debrusk-Chytil-Garland
DOC-Blueger-Sherwood
Joshua-Suter-Karlsson

 

[credulous]

This feels like 2018-2019. We are a bad team but unfortunately not terrible enough to be a lottery team.

Also, Tocchet is a fool.

this team is so mediocre if ep40 isn't playing like a superstar. debrusk is probably the next best forward and he's a guy who should be like the 5th best forward on a contender

 

[Slapshot_11]

Can't go east west because it will make our bum coach mad

 

[notsocommonsense]

We had a really bad 9 minute stretch. Other than that I thought we played pretty well again.
The new guys are leading the way

Which says a lot about a couple of our “old” guys

 

[Hyzer]

How about just one game every once in awhile

Nooooo way bro, I wouldnt expect the top 5 paid player in the league to actually offensively contribute once in awhile!!

 

[iFan]

The new guys are looking great! I think we need to seriously look at moving Pettersson, he’s become an anchor and we might be best to move him now before he continues to slump and other teams catch on.

 

[supercanuck]

Calgary up 2-0. Need to get at least a point here.

 

[Bougieman]

This team stinks dude.

Hey now... sure they're barely getting any looks or shots on net, but Wings are like one point out of a wild card spot.

 

[Slapshot_11]

Tochett has some blame for ep, coaching him to be what hes not

Guys throwing hits instead of stealing pucks and trying to do something offensively

 

[Kryten]

Nooooo way bro, I wouldnt expect the top 5 paid player in the league to actually offensively contribute once in awhile!!

Dont be hyperbole, hes top 5 C!

Edit, didnt see paid

 

[andora]

I get that Petey is having a quiet game. But we have such an emotional fan base.

Part of it I understand. People were/are attached to J.T. and upset by their perception that he did nothing wrong and they think Petey is 'soft' or whatever.

But this is chess, not checkers. Petey has shown himself to be a top ten center in this league.

He's struggling, and his shot and skating pace have plummeted because he's struggling through injury and not handling it well.

All of this points to injury. This isn't Space Jam. He didn't suddenly, permanently, lose his skills.

But I don't think he's going to look like himself until next year. I think he'll figure it out like he did when Miller was out for 10 games and be productive but not dynamic until next year.

If you need him to dominate every shift or else you need to scream to the heavens about how bad he is and how cooked our team is then it's going to be a long and exhausting year for you.

I said change my mind how about just start with a shift

 

[WiLBoY]

I get that Petey is having a quiet game. But we have such an emotional fan base.

Part of it I understand. People were/are attached to J.T. and upset by their perception that he did nothing wrong and they think Petey is 'soft' or whatever.

But this is chess, not checkers. Petey has shown himself to be a top ten center in this league.

He's struggling, and his shot and skating pace have plummeted because he's struggling through injury and not handling it well.

All of this points to injury. This isn't Space Jam. He didn't suddenly, permanently, lose his skills.

But I don't think he's going to look like himself until next year. I think he'll figure it out like he did when Miller was out for 10 games and be productive but not dynamic until next year.

If you need him to dominate every shift or else you need to scream to the heavens about how bad he is and how cooked our team is then it's going to be a long and exhausting year for you.

Too many excuses for Petey

He's just not that good. This sudden emergence of Pettersson ain't gonna happen and I stand by it. All this excuse about Miller affecting him makes no sense because he should want to perform especially during the playoffs last year but he disappeared.

He just doesn't have the drive that other 10 million + players have.

 

[Quinton Byfield]

How about just one game every once in awhile

I feel like Pete guys are about to move the goal posts more and more. The whole “15pts in 10 games!” argument immediately shifted to, guys “give him a year” is wild.

Honestly reminds me of a certain cult of orange that likes to do the same.

 

[Felix the Cat Potvin]

I get that Petey is having a quiet game. But we have such an emotional fan base.

Part of it I understand. People were/are attached to J.T. and upset by their perception that he did nothing wrong and they think Petey is 'soft' or whatever.

But this is chess, not checkers. Petey has shown himself to be a top ten center in this league.

He's struggling, and his shot and skating pace have plummeted because he's struggling through injury and not handling it well.

All of this points to injury. This isn't Space Jam. He didn't suddenly, permanently, lose his skills.

But I don't think he's going to look like himself until next year. I think he'll figure it out like he did when Miller was out for 10 games and be productive but not dynamic until next year.

If you need him to dominate every shift or else you need to scream to the heavens about how bad he is and how cooked our team is then it's going to be a long and exhausting year for you.

Cope.

He's not injured.