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Was there any camera shots on Allvin? Wonder if he cracked a smile for once in that suite lol.
WCQF: Vancouver Canucks vs Nashville Predators (VAN Leads 3-2)
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It is premature to say the Canucks won the series. There's still a lot of games to be played.
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Imagine thinking series from years and years ago are relevant.
Don't think that really matters, how many players on the team this year have been apart of those series?
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It's 1 game bro. Settle down. I'm not sure why you are so salty. Case of the Mondays?
Not accepting congratulations yet, anything can happen in a 7 game series, but the Preds would have to somehow find a way to stick with the Canucks 5 on 5 play. I don't really care if you think the Canucks are cup contenders, you aren't the only doubter, but the way you are saying it just sounds like sour grapes from a losing fan. Canucks dominated 5 on 5, so I don't know what you are referring to as 'offense' unless you are ONLY counting goals that went in and not talking about play being in one end all night, because the Canucks were all over the Preds offensively despite trailing for much of the game.
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They were both screened and they both gave up the post.
Either way I’m not going to expend much energy on this.
Greasy goals are what wins in the playoffs
I agree with you that neither team looked all that impressive. Whether both were effectively stifling the other or just lackluster, it's hard to tell.
I don't agree with making too much of Game 1, though. In 2014, LA lost Game 1 by the score of 3-6 and even Game 2 by the score of 2-7. They certainly didn't look like a team that would go far, yet ended up winning the Cup that year.
As for the Preds' record of never winning a series after losing Game 1, it's an interesting bit of trivia, but doesn't mean much, IMO. In 2017, they had never won a series as an 8th seed and went on to win three that year.
zadarov was a beast. he bullied and pushed forsberg down in one scrum and the guy skated away.
Yeah, Zadorov was definitely a factor out there all game long. He used his size effectively. Nashville have nothing to answer Zadorov if that's the game he plays this series. At some point that guy is going to start wearing the Preds down with those punishing hits. You could already see some Preds players with eyes in the back of their heads looking for that monster. It was a great game 1 for that big man.
Maybe it is a homer take, but I thought the Canucks looked good. The game they were playing will win a 7 game series more often than not, and they were playing at a pace they can keep up over the course of a post-season. No one was giving too much of themselves, and everyone was contributing.
Whether or not they can continue to implement that game and strategy against Nashville remains to be seen. Nashville didn't look bad either, to my eye they didn't have the performance through the depth of their lineup to keep up over a seven game series. I could foresee a few of their key guys getting worn down as the series moves forward if their depth players don't get up to Vancouver's pace. But it is only game one and on the road for them no less; Nashville is more than just a hop and a skip from Vancouver. I expect more out of them Game 2 and at home.
They certainly weren't bad and were certainly better than the Preds. I imagine that they could play quite a bit better, but you're not going to play your best in every game and, to be successful in the playoffs, you need to be able to win games like that. So, I agree that that's a good thing for the Canucks. If the Preds had won, I would've said the same thing for them.
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Why do I have this feeling that the Canucks could literally save a kitten from a burning building and everyone will still shit on them because they took a job away from a firefighter...
GDT is up...
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GDT: - WCQF - Game 2 - Vancouver Canucks vs. Nashville Predators, 10pm ET, ESPN2
WHEN: April 23rd, 7:00PM PST WHERE: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC TV: CBC/Sportsnet Pacific RADIO: Sportsnet 650 Series Canucks Lead 1-0 Canucks Line-Up: TBD Predators Line-Up: TBD Pre & Post-Game Coverage Video The Province https://www.youtube.com/@TheProvince/videos Sekeres & Price...
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, onto game 3!
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A loss is a loss but man that game was 90% Canucks dominating. Zero puck luck and they didn’t make it hard enough on Saros.
Nashville is good at blocking shots but there isn’t much else going on there. Regardless they have to be happy at a tied series with the way they have played the last two games.
On to game 3.
Nashville is good at blocking shots but there isn’t much else going on there. Regardless they have to be happy at a tied series with the way they have played the last two games.
On to game 3.
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Nashvilles shot block is going to catch up with them eventually. Eerily similar to the 2020 bubble Canucks playoff run. They had 32 blocked shots in the game
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As coach Andrew Brunette has said, his team loves the underdog role and when people count them out.
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With DeSmith in net, that’s likely the 2nd round
We were told all year long that Tocchet coaches a system that causes for shooting percentages to be higher.
What system is that? Because it definitely wasn't tonights system where they were fine shooting perimeter shots just to miss or get blocked.
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