GDT: [GM74] Canucks vs Ducks | Sun. Mar 31st, 12:30pm | SNP | Meaningless Game in March

[Reverend Mayhem]

@SopelFanThe3rd

I’d say you’re lightly toasted. I get what you’re saying but for me I’m giving EP the benefit of doubt, considering what he did last time there were “playoffs”.

 

[David71]

why is this game an early start? rare time start too. 1230

 

[LemonSauceD]

God I hated Jovo for much of his time here.

 

[LordBacon]

Won’t be able to watch this one as it’s 03:30 in my timezone.
Hope the bois get the pp going and stay safe, don’t want anyone injured going into the playoffs.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Just win. Bonus points if Zegs has a spaz attack and smashes something.

 

[jd22]

Let's see if I can tune in from the Canaries. Walking across them and taking a rest day today. Nice start time for me, not that I've been able t o stay up past 2100 local anyway.

400k/5 islands down, 110/2 to go...

 

[Grip it N RYP it]

Let's feast on some duck.

 

[Vitto79]

Is Silovs confirmed?

Let me know lol

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

@SopelFanThe3rd

I’d say you’re lightly toasted. I get what you’re saying but for me I’m giving EP the benefit of doubt, considering what he did last time there were “playoffs”.

I just think sometimes his body language or performance in big games or for long stretches of games concerns me. I wasn't super comfortable giving him so much term. Hope he proves me wrong.

I always thought it was strange Naslund so quickly got the playoff underachiever while as you say Bert is this idealized image of a playoff performer, yet his playoff production was exponentially worse and yet no one talks about it to this day.

Easily the most dominant pure power forward and the biggest playoff no-show as well I’ve seen.

Also once they started calling his interference in front of the net a bunch of his offense was neutered. Guy also had zero defensive ability (Naslund too) and went off side constantly. Or took stupid f***ing penalties. He was so frustrating and sometimes sofa king good.

But he was going Downhill before the Moore thing. He was having an awful season.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

If we were hoping the run of crap officiating we have had was going to end, think again. Yay.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

I always thought it was strange Naslund so quickly got the playoff underachiever while as you say Bert is this idealized image of a playoff performer, yet his playoff production was exponentially worse and yet no one talks about it to this day.

Easily the most dominant pure power forward and the biggest playoff no-show as well I’ve seen.

They both were bums really.

It was guys like Morrison, Cooke, Linden, Klatt, Ohlund, Salo... who came through in the clutch.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

They both were bums really.

It was guys like Morrison, Cooke, Linden, Klatt, Ohlund, Salo... who came through in the clutch.

I saw a post in HOH that talked about Bertuzzi that I thought was quite accurate. In all his series’ with the Canucks, he started off dominant in Games 1-3. But then he would taper off, usually because he was engaged in battle with whichever gritty defensemen was matched up against him. The poster went on to say he got distracted with winning the battles rather than the war, and I think that sums him up pretty well.

Naslund and Morrison still managed to play their game, strike on the PP, and provide offense. But without the third piece of that line operating at full tilt, it was nowhere near as effective. Bertuzzi was the weakest link of those three, IMO, because he got too easily side tracked from the task at hand. Which sucks, because he could have dominated those series’ by controlling himself a bit more.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

God I hated Jovo for much of his time here.

That was my brothers favourite player while he was here.

My friends referred to him as “uncool brother”.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

I never understood why this got so much flak, he just called it what it is and took accountability of it. Isn’t that what you want a leader to do?

i wanted him, our captain and superstar at the absolute peak of his powers, to score a f***ing goal or two against a non-playoff team’s backup so we could win the division for the first time since before the colorado avalanche even existed.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I just think sometimes his body language or performance in big games or for long stretches of games concerns me. I wasn't super comfortable giving him so much term. Hope he proves me wrong.


Also once they started calling his interference in front of the net a bunch of his offense was neutered. Guy also had zero defensive ability (Naslund too) and went off side constantly. Or took stupid f***ing penalties. He was so frustrating and sometimes sofa king good.

But he was going Downhill before the Moore thing. He was having an awful season.

Agreed on all. Really hating his body language as well, but benefit of the doubt for now.

Hahahaha I had an English teacher, who once called him Markus “I put my teammates offside” Naslund. Wherever you are, Mr. Hackett, I always thought you were great.

They both were bums really.

It was guys like Morrison, Cooke, Linden, Klatt, Ohlund, Salo... who came through in the clutch.

Other than 2003, Sedins did quite well.

Vadim,

I get it. But hockey is one of the most luck based sports there is. As much as we don’t want to admit. I didn’t watch the game for greater context, but I thought the criticism was unfair.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Edmonton hasn't had injuries all year. They have basically been allowed to ice the same roster every game without needing to make any adjustments. Must be nice.

Didnt they start the year with McDavid playing through an obvious injury and it almost tanked their season?

No. It was just pathetic sounding. I qas there live and it just felt so lame and soft. And then he promised the playoffs would be better and they choked away a 3-1 lead to the freaking Wild.

Naslund was okay as a player but he was an awful captain imo. Never showed up in the playoffs and folded under pressure.

Bertuzzi was much of the same and he was the prototype of a Neanderthal so it wasn't just that Canadian vs Euro thing. That team just didn't have it mentally. Jovo, Cloutier, Bertuzzi... let their emotions get the best of them. Needed more Ohlunds.

Who are your top 3 favourite european captains?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

while as you say Bert is this idealized image of a playoff performer

literally nobody idealizes bert as a playoff performer

every single person old enough to have watched that team acknowledges himas being quite possibly the worst playoff performer of any superstar ever

 

[EpochLink]

God I hated Jovo for much of his time here.

Big, gritty, nasty, gnarly good old Canadian defensemen who brought toughness.

....and was a big defensive liability, pretty much the 4th forward who threw he big husky hits to give the team morale but didn't do shit.

 

[geebster]

If we lose this game I'm going to take it out on my family with pure passive aggression. And it won't be my fault, it'll be Tocchets (and probably Myers')

 

[timw33]

why is this game an early start? rare time start too. 1230

Easter Sunday, family friendly start.

Also very friendly to us Islanders who can make it back after the game. It's good to have a few programmed into your schedule for marketing/accessibility of fans. For example, I'm coming over from Victoria to take my two nephews to their first game and it would have been a major pain logistically to take them to any normal start time.

 

[EpochLink]

literally nobody idealizes bert as a playoff performer

every single person old enough to have watched that team acknowledges himas being quite possibly the worst playoff performer of any superstar ever

A guy, who was supposed to be some bruising power forward come playoff time and be the big dawg, the baddest mother f***er there is turned out to be the toilet paper than dangles when you wipe too much.

Chelios, Jackman, Foote, Mitchell pretty much made Bertuzzi another nothing burger cause Bertuzzi's ego was too much focused on being the 'gritty Canadian' than actually doing something come playoff time.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Big, gritty, nasty, gnarly good old Canadian defensemen who brought toughness.

....and was a big defensive liability, pretty much the 4th forward who threw he big husky hits to give the team morale but didn't do shit.

The thing about Jovo was it was one or the other. He could be a defensive stalwart, like he was for Team Canada in 2002 - but that meant no offense. Or, he could be a huge offensive driver from the back end - but that meant complete defensive liability. He never did find the balance between the two.

He could be the most entertaining player on the team, and its most frustrating. I do think he tends to get a bit underrated, though.

 

[ManVanFan]

 

[I am toxic]

Easter Sunday, family friendly start.

Also very friendly to us Islanders who can make it back after the game. It's good to have a few programmed into your schedule for marketing/accessibility of fans. For example, I'm coming over from Victoria to take my two nephews to their first game and it would have been a major pain logistically to take them to any normal start time.

My brother is sailing over from Nanaimo right now, says boat is crawling with Canucks jerseys

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

The more i scrolled through social media
The more Im convinced that 99% of the ungrateful dumb ass tweets and posts are from casuals who only just jump back on the bandwagon.

They obviously did not suffer through the last 9 years