Player Discussion Thatcher Demko

[RobertKron]

People ran Luongo out of town.

He was blamed for us losing to Boston in 2011.

He was THE whipping boy of that team after the finals loss.

No, I mean about this being the position that they have chosen to take.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

No, I mean about this being the position that they have chosen to take.

Maybe I am missing something here.

 

[MS]

Maybe I am missing something here.

That poster is the Patron Saint of Bad Canucks.

They can't seem to stand a huge number of good/popular Canucks but are huge supporters of Willie D, Messier, Holtby, Antoine Roussel, Sam Gagner, and others.

 

[Raistlin]

Demko needs to have one of those "reset" sessions that Clark does with Markstrom. haha, actually Markstrom sure needs one of those right now too.

give him OTT off, and play him against Montreal. thats 1 game in 7 days to work on whatever he needs with his coach.

 

[theguardianII]

Demko needs to have one of those "reset" sessions that Clark does with Markstrom. haha, actually Markstrom sure needs one of those right now too.

give him OTT off, and play him against Montreal. thats 1 game in 7 days to work on whatever he needs with his coach.

Demko needs new hips, look up surgery results

 

[Raistlin]

alright there couch doctor, please provide link to surgery results if you may.. if thats the case, please shut him down this season until it heals. its beneficial to the franchise in the long run in many many ways.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Demko needs new hips, look up surgery results

What in his play makes you think his dip in performance is related to his hips?

 

[Green Blank Stare]

Honestly.

Spencer was worse vs Ducks then Demko has been in any game he played...

You were saying?

 

[Gstank]

Literally playing at the level of a CHL goalie.

 

[EpochLink]

Bench Demko until he figures it out.
Christ almighty, he needs work.

It’s like watching Dan Cloutier all over again

 

[EpochLink]

Guys been dodging the post game interviews for awhile now.

 

[rypper]

Guys been dodging the post game interviews for awhile now.

He's an ugly crier and doesn't want people to see him like that.

 

[wonton15]

I want to say he rushed his surgery and isn’t 100% and doesn’t want to disclose this to the media

 

[EpochLink]

I want to say he rushed his surgery and isn’t 100% and doesn’t want to disclose this to the media

Hmm alright

 

[LordBacon]

This management group legit ruined an elite goalie on their first year.
What the f*** happened

 

[VanillaCoke]

Put him otb with everyone else

I very much doubt demko looks this bad on a team with even average Defense/effort in front of him.

 

[CanucksSayEh]

Unplayable right now. Give Martin like 20 games in a row IDGAF.

Worst PK goalie in the history of PK.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Now...my memory may be f***ed from watching this garbage shit but @mossey3535 has been critical of Demkos form for a while now. Kudos to him.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Someone has snatchered Thatcher.

 

[MS]

Put him otb with everyone else

I very much doubt demko looks this bad on a team with even average Defense/effort in front of him.

I'm sure he'd have better numbers on a better defensive team.

But the thing is this - even bad goalies on all-time bad teams can generally put up something in the .885-895 range. In Buffalo's entire decade of tank - and those were some terrible teams - they never had a team save % below .900.

To be at .874 means that you've been *really* bad or really unlucky, and probably both. You could drop the average ECHL goalie onto an NHL team and I'd expect better results than that.

This is obviously a flawed team, but if we had even OK-ish .900 goaltending we'd be right in the middle of the glut of teams from 5th-12th in the conference.

 

[MikeK]

There is more going on here besides what the numbers tell us. There is something seriously rotten on this team and in the room. That effects player moral like not many people truly understand and it does affect performance. Demko may not be an elite level goalie, but he is a good goalie and much better than we're seeing. Demko looks like a lot of Canuck players right now in that they would almost rather be playing anywhere else but here right now.

 

[VanJack]

Just goes to show how illusionary last season was for the Canucks.....let's face it, the 2021-22 Demko was only thing between the Canucks and double digit losses on a lot of nights. He flat out stole two points on more occasions than I can remember.

But this year he's landed with a thud, and the Canucks are nowhere when they get 'average' goaltending. They're now close to the bottom of the league In GA, and their PK is the worst in the NHL and it's not particularly close.

If Demko's not right physically they should shut him down until he is. They're not going anywhere anyway.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

If Demko's not right physically they should shut him down until he is. They're not going anywhere anyway.

unfortunately, as we all know, this isn’t allowed to be a thing in vancouver

 

[pitseleh]

I'm sure he'd have better numbers on a better defensive team.

But the thing is this - even bad goalies on all-time bad teams can generally put up something in the .885-895 range. In Buffalo's entire decade of tank - and those were some terrible teams - they never had a team save % below .900.

To be at .874 means that you've been *really* bad or really unlucky, and probably both. You could drop the average ECHL goalie onto an NHL team and I'd expect better results than that.

This is obviously a flawed team, but if we had even OK-ish .900 goaltending we'd be right in the middle of the glut of teams from 5th-12th in the conference.

That’s fair, but on the flip side Martin’s 5v5 SV% is basically the same as Demko’s last year and the team is running inflated SH% at both EV and on the PP.

If you normalize for all of the luck driven factors this team might have a few more goals in goal differential but I don’t think it looks much different than it does now.

 

[I Hart Conor Garland]

That’s fair, but on the flip side Martin’s 5v5 SV% is basically the same as Demko’s last year and the team is running inflated SH% at both EV and on the PP.

If you normalize for all of the luck driven factors this teams might have a few more goals in goal differential but I don’t think it looks much different than it does now.

sell demko