GDT: [GM60] Vancouver Canucks @ Seattle Kraken | Sat, Mar. 1st | 7:00pm | HNIC | The Last Game For...

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I think you have to let these guys play through it, and that means giving them some zone starts. I don’t think giving them 0 O Zone starts / dropping them from the first PP is going to help in this case.

Also, think it’s kind of unfair that DeBrusk gets the same treatment as Petey here. He’s streaky, but he’s still leading the team in goals and largely living up to his contract.

 

[Soups On]

Petey 5 point game
Boeser hat trick
30+ shots
And a "we're so back, baby"
Maximum cope tonight

 

[theguardianII]

You'd think that Tocchet would have just unleashed the hounds and let the boys fly by the seat of their pants.

Last 45 games. .511 hockey, 8th worst in the league.
2.58 GPG good for 3rd last in the league. 18th best GAPG.
PP and PK both mid pack.
2nd last in Shots for. 8th best in Shots against.

Too little too late. They are still playing not to lose, for the OTL points, the safe play.
I have posted before that the loser points skew the standings.
It is easier to play for a tie than a win.
14 W's = 28pts, 66 L's can get a team into the playoffs 14W -0 -66 OTL = 92 pts with a losing win/loss record but a winning points percentage record. This happened to the Canucks in the past. The Naslund,"we choked" year. when Colorado had more points but fewer wins and won the division

Tocchet has played them too hard too long. How much weight they have lost who knows. Sherwood isn't hitting as much and later now. Playing the way Tocchet wants builds up a physical debt, that is why he has never been a winning coach in 9 years except for last year. Players just get burned out and recovery becomes spotty.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I expect the GDT will be the usual gong show. Probably going to be more entertaining than the hockey game, in the same way getting stabbed walking home is more interesting than not getting stabbed.

 

[TruGr1t]

You'd think that Tocchet would have just unleashed the hounds and let the boys fly by the seat of their pants.

Last 45 games. .511 hockey, 8th worst in the league.
2.58 GPG good for 3rd last in the league. 18th best GAPG.
PP and PK both mid pack.
2nd last in Shots for. 8th best in Shots against.

Doesn't really matter what he does ... if Pettersson continues to be a total drag on everyone the forward roster is completely broken. In fact, his best bet to actually win games given the defense and goaltending are decent (and Pettersson is playing at being a bottom-six shut-down centre) is probably exactly what he's doing.

 

[ManVanFan]

Doesn't really matter what he does ... if Pettersson continues to be a total drag on everyone the forward roster is completely broken. In fact, his best bet to actually win games given the defense and goaltending are decent (and Pettersson is playing at being a bottom-six shut-down centre) is probably exactly what he's doing.

I don't agree.

 

[TruGr1t]

I don't agree.

Whatever, they are a bad team. No matter how you ice it they'll be lucky to run .500.

 

[JanBulisPiggyBack]

Seattle isn’t a good team, they are middling and don’t have strong defense and a potent offence, their goaltending is average at best

We are either gonna squeeze out a Victory or lose in sad fashion and DAMN YOU VANCOUVER FOR MAKING ME WAKE UP ON A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY MORNING AND HAVE TO FEEL THESE FEELINGS

 

[ManVanFan]

Whatever, they are a bad team. No matter how you ice it they'll be lucky to run .500.

Same thing was said end of TG era and Bruce came in and ran them to a .649 win percentage by telling them to go score.

 

[TruGr1t]

Same thing was said end of TG era and Bruce came in and ran them to a .649 win percentage by telling them to go score.

You're missing all the ingredients for that, including JT Miller breaking out as a top-line centre, Pettersson actually being good, and Demko going into God mode. The roster overall is substantially worse.

 

[valkynax]

I know you guys mentioned this multiple times but somehow no one posted the actual video.