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Horvat loves playing the Oilers and it's a contract year. He'll score the first goal of the game.
Post-Game Talk: Oilers def. Canucks in season opener, 5-3 (Pettersson, Miller, Kuzmenko)
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I was musing to myself yesterday that Dries is the only logical option to take the 13th forward spot. No reason to scratch Karlsson.
Even without Mikheyev that’s the best group of forwards we’ve had in years.
Excited to watch them play this year.
Excited to watch them play this year.
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Vancouver media already creating shit storms with OEL not skating this morning, BB clarifies he will be 100% playing.
It's certainly the most balanced. Also nice that the entire 4th line makes slightly over 2.7m total.
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you add Mikheyev in there and thats the absolute best forward group Canucks have assembled. It's also positioned very well being the 6th youngest team in the NHL.
Everyone, myself included, is predicting a high scoring game. So it winds up 2-1.
First Canuck goal scored by Podkolzin.
First Canuck goal scored by Podkolzin.
I am really starting to loathe the media here. It is just nonsensical gibberish at this point aside from Sat Shah... he seems to be the only voice of reason lately.
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Downside to only having one team in the “big 4” leagues. So much airtime to fill everyday.
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The funny thing about the media is that they're generous with their praise other teams, Drance even gave Tanev a Norris vote for Calgary. It's a real weird abusive relationship with the Canucks that I haven't seen in other markets.
Just waiting for the moment when the team goes 'Wayne Simmonds' on Drance for all the bullshit he constantly spews
Horvat doesn't deserve wingers like Garland and Podkolzin.
He deserves Pearson and Hoglander.
Prove me wrong Bo.
He deserves Pearson and Hoglander.
Prove me wrong Bo.
Such a good post honestly!! It is incredible how negative the media is. I should say In Macintyre is still quite good and balanced. Drance made me laugh so hard this am on Marek's show when he said the Canucks North South game on defense is a concern. It was stellar under BB last season, so why would that change? Maybe they were very complacent in pre season, but the reality is, they have puck movers who can move the puck up the ice.
Just at this point Drance is a joke. I would not take anything he says as "expert" analysis.
Drance giving Tanev a Norris vote is indicative of the abuse the Canucks suffer from the media??
Would you prefer Toronto media where they overrate everyone and sugar coat everything before proving anything?
I wouldn't. I see it with the Blue Jays and it's sickening.
I prefer the old balanced reporting. The team has a lot of promise, but all they talk about are the negative takes. Always. When have they ever taken a positive take lately? It's always "The team needs everything to go right for them, so they're a bubble team... f*** man every team needs this. LA needed career years from their aging stars last season, including Jonathan Quick. Edmonton needed their D to over perform, CGY needed career years from JG and MT... every team needs everything to go right for them. Let's assume the Canucks get a more balanced year with BB, and not a >50% PK to start the season. They were absolutely destroyed by a bad coach, bad covid policies, a break at the absolute wrong time, and got one career year from JT Miller.
We should assume that there will be injuries, so what can we count on? 40-43-9-53-6-8-92-23-35 all playing to their level. Those players do that, this team can win the division, let alone make the playoffs. There is no way CGY sees career years from their aging stars, nor will Huberdeau put up 115 points, nor Kadri 87 when his norm is 43 avg.
The only 2 players you can count on in the division to consistently perform are 97 and 26 from Edm. The rest of the team? Do you really think the Oilers D is that much better than the Canucks? Not a chance.
I can't imagine how anyone could follow this team over the last seven years and conclude that Vancouver's media is "too hard" or "too critical" of the team when the exact opposite has been true.
We have a butter soft media that is very complimentary about the team. Drance is one of the few guys that is regularly critical and you spend a lot of time on here complaining about how he isn't a positive force. He doesn't spew any bullshit, just says things you don't like, and is about as non-confrontational as can be. To compare him to Steve Simmons trying to draw a racial divide between black players in hockey is gross.
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We have probably the softest major-market media in the NHL.
It's insanely tame here relative to Toronto/Montreal/Philly etc. Or even Edmonton, where Draisaitl ended up in a yelling match with an asshole reporter last season.
The last 8 years have basically been an ass-kissing fest from the media toward incompetent management and coaches, and toward players putting in piss-poor performances.
Yes, absolutely. And we only started to see the faintest critiques of management once they were in their final death throes.
Likewise we only saw media criticism of guys like Eriksson and Gudbranson right at the very end once management had finally given up on them.
The 'young core' here would have been absolutely eviscerated for their attitudes/play post-bubble if they were in an Eastern market but didn't hear a peep from our media.
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