GDT: WCQF GM04 | Vancouver Canucks @ Nashville Predators | Sun. Apr 28th | 2:00PM PST | SNP/CBC | Don’t Panic

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Canucks finding their legs toward the end of the period..Hopefully they can kick it up a notch

Or it will be an even slog of attrition..which could take us into OT..anybody’s game

 

[ziploc]

Preds don't even try to make a play on the puck when Quinn has it. If you send two guys at a guy with the only intent of hitting him then it would be hard for even Bobby Orr to elude that.

Canucks need to make some planned breakouts to take advantage of how aggressive the Preds are when Quinn has the puck. Should have odd man rushes if we scheme it properly.

Agreed. They know this is the strategy, so now you have to counterpunch it. Make them pay for it and they won't be as likely to do it. Otherwise we can kiss Hughes goodbye even if we get through this round.

 

[mriswith]

Classic overthinking. I saw it all the time with some of the kids I used to coach. If you start thinking too much while you should just be in automatic performance mode, everything you do slows down. It especially happens a lot when the stakes are the highest, and these types of players feel that they need to "think more" than usual, because their brain is usually their biggest asset and how they're used to winning. It's not like we have to speculate, either. Tocchet has said this is what Pettersson asks him for advice on, and this is what Pettersson says he is having problems with in interviews. He'll figure it out, it's just a matter of getting more mileage and experience.

The best solution to this is blind rage.

Hopefully they keep poking at him and he finally loses it. No better way to get out of your own head then pure anger.

 

[Orca Smash]

Canucks finding their legs toward the end of the period..Hopefully they can kick it up a notch

Or it will be an even slog of attrition..which could take us into OT..

Or the preds take over but let's hope not..I don't know if the team is trying to play more defensive since demko went down but they need to apply more offensive pressure.

Preds have more energy right now.

 

[Kryten]

Petey needs to lose bis shit. Take a penalty, go Alex Semin and play the bongos on someone, scream into the crowd like hes lost his mind, f***ing anything to get the blood flowing

He needs to be more Salming than the stereotypical soft Swede for sure. Or just crazy skill like we know hes shown before. What he is now is a nobody

 

[alternate]

It was not deflected

And yet they awarded the goal to the deflector?

 

[Petey O]

Literally one guy is struggling. And it isn't that he's struggling, it's that he looks like a complete zombie.

I have to admit: I'm getting very, very concerned. If he comes out of the gate looking like this next season, we're pretty much ****ed.

 

[Nomobo]

Petey needs to lose bis shit. Take a penalty, go Alex Semin and play the bongos on someone, scream into the crowd like hes lost his mind, f***ing anything to get the blood flowing

Yeah, f*** that calm Swedish demeanor, he needs to go crazy Canuck for a spell.

 

[StickShift]

Where did this Petey go

 

[kanucks25]

I have to admit: I'm getting very, very concerned. If he comes out of the gate looking like this next season, we're pretty much ****ed.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's fine in the regular season.

But if he doesn't shake out of it in these playoffs, it'll be really interesting to see how he looks in the next one.

 

[Jack Burton]

Man I hope Hughes is OK

 

[Angry Little Elf]

lol that shot of Silovs. Such an Eastern European hockey thing

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Tolopilo looks like he's not even functioning mentally.

 

[wonton15]

Lafferty has virtually been useless, too. I am 100% not re-signing this guy if he has one job and doesn’t really do much. Not seeing hits or any net drives.

 

[Petey O]

LOL at Silovs. That definitely has to be made into an avatar here.

 

[RobertKron]

lol that shot of Silovs. Such an Eastern European hockey thing

There's no bench there, too. He's just squatting.

 

[Jay26]

Silovs looking about as good as we could hope.

D-men took turns messing up. Cole missing on an aggressive attack on our blue line early was pretty idiotic by a smart veteran - unnecessary chance to give up when you're trying to get your young goalie comfortable and into it.

Zadorov continues to be noticeable in good ways.

Hughes has to be a concern. Slightly shaky play continuing from last game and he's obviously taking a beating. Bad turnover on the goal against but some blame may go to his bench or Petey for not hollering that he was being doubled.

Petey also should be taking majority of the blame on that goal as he decided to double the guy Hughes was already covering. If you're gonna double, you damn well make sure you break up the play otherwise there's going to be a guy wide open which is exactly what happened. And then Petey gets bullied in the Nashville cele scrum and he just mopes to the bench. Can only shake your head.

This is why don't have much hope for Pettersson. He's not in some funk - barring a major depressive episode that we're obviously not privy to. This is just who he is.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Tolopilo looks like he's not even functioning mentally.

Probably shitting his pants.

 

[Regal]

I believe there has been some speculation he’s got a shoulder issue dating back to late in the regular season.

Makes sense with some of the uncharacteristic puck handling miscues

 

[Svencouver]

I have to admit: I'm getting very, very concerned. If he comes out of the gate looking like this next season, we're pretty much ****ed.

Again, if the team doesn't set him up with a sports psychologist in the offseason I start to shift the blame on them. Managing your players and getting the best out of them is the teams responsibility.

 

[Kryten]

There's no bench there, too. He's just squatting.

Adidas jersey

 

[kanucks25]

TNT panel picking apart Pettersson for blown coverage on the 1-1 goal.

Deservedly so.

It's one thing to be close to useless offensively but he's been the culprit on several goals against and we're only 10 periods into this series.

It's completely unacceptable from any player let alone of your highest paid and highest played guys.

 

[Petey O]

This is why don't have much hope for Pettersson. He's not in some funk - barring a major depressive episode that we're obviously not privy to. This is just who he is.

He's been taping his wrist, but a wrist injury doesn't strike me as the type of injury that would have him playing scared. Very confusing player.

 

[MS]

Yep. This is great experience either way. I'd obviously love them to go far, but even if they lose this series, this season was a success.

You have to give a young core a free playoff run to learn and get used to playoff hockey. Then the expectations start to ramp up.

'Getting experience' was a 2020 thing.

This isn't a young core anymore. This is win-now time.

Miller/Boeser/Hughes/Demko before getting hurt are all playing well and doing what you'd expect. Pettersson looks like he's terrified to touch the puck. It can't be understated how bad he's been. He's making Mitch Marner's worst playoffs look like 1991 Mario Lemieux.

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

Where did this Petey go

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Just seems like a guy who doesn't really enjoy hockey. Wouldn't be the first or last player that views it as a job rather than a passion.