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Post-Game Talk: GM 65 | Canucks def. Flames | 4-3 (SO) (Suter, DeBrusk, EP40 - Garland SO winner) | Don’t Touch Our Captain!

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3rd game in 4 nights on a back to back. They're probably playing on fumes right now.
D-Petey is gone, so we can't lose another d-man due to a fight. Just puts more burden on Hughes.
 
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The other night, Zadarov making Bennett shit himself so hard he was hiding behind any body he could find - that's the kind of energy we're missing. If we're just gonna be as soft as the Devils are, then Hughes has no reason to not go play with his bros.

Also, did Garland just decide to stop playing after Miller got traded? Never seen him string so many miserable shifts together.
 
Lose tonight, and the Canucks playoff chances plummet to less than 10 percent. If the weekend goes badly, they could basically be 'dead team skating' by Sunday night.

If that's case, they should shut Hughes down indefinitely. He's going to be physically abused in every game now, with little or no pushback from the Canucks.

Soon be time to seriously dust off the draft rankings.
 
PavelBure10 said:
First time I fully agreed with Gadzic. Hughes is untouchable and no one should be able to touch him. Flames are targeting him and it's BS. Do something to protect him.
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There’s something really odd about this team. It doesn’t feel like a close knit team. There’s no sense of fun, comradery.

I have no idea what happens behind closed doors, but what we’re seeing on the ice is enough to make certain assertions. Your captain is untouchable.

I don’t understand the lack of emotional investment.
 
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Lemmiwinks said:
Keeping draft picks is for teams that don’t have a top 5 player in the game in his prime, which will be us soon if we don’t go in win-now mode.
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Why put together good hockey team with good hockey player when we could just PACK OUR SHIT IN?

I don't get some of you people sometimes :laugh: but I love ya anyway
 
haven’t scored more than 3 in forever, only team in the league to not have a third period comeback, yaaa.
 
Lemmiwinks said:
They were getting trash offers for Boeser (because he’s not very good) and the only slightly better offer came 30 minutes before the deadline. They weren’t going to be able to flip that pick for any help up front.
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Why did they need to flip it. See this is what's wrong with this organization, no matter who is in the front office. Maybe they could have, ya know, just kept the pick and had a decent draft for once.
 
Bures Elbow said:
We’re not good enough. No offense, the top 6 is so poor.

Also, how are Calgary so fearlessly going after Hughes?!

Where’s standing up for our captain? Calgary is far too comfortable taking shots at him.

Team is flawed.
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Agreed. Hockey roster construction is part science part art.

Skill is obviously the highest value. Our top 6 is lacking. Unless you are stacked with speed and skill you need some snarl, size and grit from players that are ideally in your top 6/4.

Some of the players we have that do play with fire or tenacity are pipsqueaks.

We need a couple Florida Panther style psychos on our team- run through you on the forecheck, mug you in puck battles, fight you for any transgressions.

We sorely lack that bite.
 
Jay26 said:
Why did they need to flip it. See this is what's wrong with this organization, no matter who is in the front office. Maybe they could have, ya know, just kept the pick and had a decent draft for once.
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Aquilini wants immediate impact returns. He has zero patience for long-term development.
 
SeawaterOnIce said:
The difference is we saw guys like Burrows, Raymond, Kesler and Hansen take a leap forward that disaster season. I remember feeling good about out group and was ecstatic when we added Bernier (who flopped).

Every forward on our team looks like booty. We have no young forwards aside from Lekk knocking at the door.
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It’s easy to say that now, but Kesler/Burrows at the time looked more like excellent shut down third line players than the guys they ended up becoming.

Most 24 & 27 year olds don’t randomly explode into bonafide top line players like they did, or how the Sedins somehow leveled up into superstars from respectable first line guys before that.

Hansen wasn’t on the team yet either at that point, and people legitimately questioned whether the Sedins could lead a forward group as the teams best players (as did Gillis in his opening presser).

I’m not saying this team will do that, I just want to point out things are never as dire (now) or as good (last year) as they look.
 
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