Don't really agree. The roster had/has major flaws, particularly speed on the back end and decent penalty killers. I don't think they're quite as good as their record is under Boudreau. Their top players have regressed closer to norms but they've largely ridden hot goaltending. They look like a team that is around 12-17 in the league in terms of talent and have maxed the cap and mortgaged the future (in cap space AND assets) to be this. That is horrendous.
The players had maybe tuned out Green a bit, but I'm also pretty sure the players had lost confidence in the management and direction of the team and it showed. Like other professions that perhaps posters in this board have experience with, if the rank and file or key employees have lost faith in upper management and don't believe in them, it can affect motivation and performance across the board. They still put a shift in and work "hard", but results will inevitably suffer over the long term. I think that the change in management had as much to do with the turnaround as the change in coaching.
As for the AHL team, who cares if they're a top 10 team if it's almost all driven by a bunch of vets? There are maybe 6 young players (Klimovich, Lockwood, Rathbone, Woo, DiPietro, and Silovs) that have even a half-decent chance of being replacement level NHLers, and maybe only 2 that have a decent chance of having any sort of lasting impact. That's atrocious for a team that has been a perennial loser for 8 years.
Your entire diatribe is incorrect when you consider Canucks record under BB for past 34 games. Canucks have performed like a top 10 team for almost half the season.
The only fun thing I remember about playing the Wild in the last couple of years. Is in the bubble when Fiala shot the puck after the whistle. And Sutter smashed him into the boards and the Canucks dog pilled on him.All Minnesota games are a blur of bore
The only fun thing I remember about playing the Wild in the last couple of years. Is in the bubble when Fiala shot the puck after the whistle. And Sutter smashed him into the boards and the Canucks dog pilled on him.
I almost forgot about that foundational moment. And it was because he hit Markstrom too. What a goof. Myers hitting Keith blacked that out for meThe only fun thing I remember about playing the Wild in the last couple of years. Is in the bubble when Fiala shot the puck after the whistle. And Sutter smashed him into the boards and the Canucks dog pilled on him.
You can’t tell me that you watched this team over the last 34 games and thought they were a top 10 team in talent. The underlying numbers back up this blindingly obvious conclusion. They have had great goaltending and some great shooting percentages, but they do not control the game like top team.Your entire diatribe is incorrect when you consider Canucks record under BB for past 34 games. Canucks have performed like a top 10 team for almost half the season.
No. No I don't think I will.Delete
Hopefully they don't follow up one of their most impressive efforts of the season with a total dud.
Anyone remember when we had one of the best teams in franchise history, backed by Luongo in net, but any trip to Minnesota was almost guranteed to end in him getting the hook and the team getting its face caved in?
Hopefully we built up enough karmic slack there to knock off the Wild tonight! Let's go, boys!
lmao getting ahead of it, I came here to post the Krusty Komedy Klassic.
Damn I had forgotten all about that. Thanks a lot...
The Canucks had won three of the previous four games played in Minnesota before the one in 2020.I remember us winning a game at The Excel Center in the 2019-20 season...Marky was outstanding in the 3rd, and Miller played a dominating game...This broke years and years of losing in that building.
The Wild are a good team, and winning B2B is never easy...I'll be impressed if the Canucks can pull the rabbit out of the hat in this game.
Wasn’t just then too. Bertuzzi guaranteed we would beat them to make the WCF too but we got Gaborik’d and they made the wcf instead of us and got swept by the Ducks. Lol
While the ducks very well could have swept us too but I think if we were going to fluke out ala Boston or Carolina that was one of the years. But devils probably would have crushed us barring a Niedamayer and Brodeur injury in the finals though even if we got past the ducks.
Every game, from here on out, is a must win. Already has been since December anyway.
Will update with line combos and general Canucks miscellany later.
I think there is absolutely no chance we beat the Devils, and we would have been hard-pressed to beat even the Ducks that year. Everyone talks about "what if?" regarding that year, but I really don't see it. Both teams got much better goaltending than we did, which is a huge part why people even talk about it as a "what if?"
They had the best game of this team's last three years vs the Avalanche.tbf, other than Dermott, this is a 99% Benning Roster. The Abbotsford Canucks are a top 10 team in the AHL which is also a 100% Benning roster. The player personnel wasn't the problem, it was the coach.
Benning did fail in other aspects though which was investing into player morale, facilities, management hires which also indirectly affects team performance on the ice.
Even if they catch the Knights is won't matter. 4th in the division isn't a ticket to the playoffs. Dallas can still wipe the Canucks final 5% chanceIt looks good until I saw Dallas up at the bottom of the Central.
Does the chart mean that the only team we can really catch is the Knights?