GDT: WCSF | GM 3 | Vancouver Canucks @ Edmonton Oilers | Sunday, May 12th | 6:30PM PST | SPAC

[crazychimp]

No doubt, I don't blame you. I never seen this year Norris winner "If not corrupted" Quinn Hughes get so little respect. Getting called a diver, faker and what not by Oiler fans. It's absolute bullshit. You know if it were vise versa Hughes highsticking king McDavid, they'd be calling for heads.

It’s a joke even with blood running down his face.

 

[Kryten]

Karlsson in for Hoglander.
Aman for Di Giuseppe.

Tocchet wants chippy players that continually move their feet, hopefully the coaching decision pans out well

Karlsson is less chippy than Hoglander and Aman isnt chippy at all though

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Bringing in Karlsson and Aman is f***ing moronic.

How the f*** do you not put Pod in instead?

Pretty much giving up on tonight’s game.

 

[rypper]

Bringing in Karlsson and Aman is f***ing moronic.

How the f*** do you not put Pod in instead?

Pretty much giving up on tonight’s game.

Lol come on dude.

Untwist your ginch.

No lineups are confirmed. Pod isn't the savior or the game breaker you're making him out to be.

 

[sting101]

A little perplexed by Karlsson coming in. Not sure we want to get slower.

I do get wanting to have someone who can slow it down and make a good play with the puck and not get immediately dispossessed on that line.

How far has Podkolzin fallen if he can't be the next man up. Playoffs seems like his type of hockey

 

[credulous]

guys maybe the canucks can get kravtsov over for game four

 

[Vector]

 

[I am toxic]

No doubt, I don't blame you. I never seen this year Norris winner "If not corrupted" Quinn Hughes get so little respect. Getting called a diver, faker and what not by Oiler fans. It's absolute bullshit. You know if it were vise versa Hughes highsticking king McDavid, they'd be calling for heads.

I post in the mains, and it raises the level of discourse

Let that sink in . . .

 

[Zippgunn]

Bringing in Karlsson and Aman is f***ing moronic.

How the f*** do you not put Pod in instead?

Pretty much giving up on tonight’s game.

Because of a 4th line roster decision?

So the anti-Sutherland then? Hope so.

 

[I am toxic]

Because of a 4th line roster decision?

Don't make me like you.

Let's pretend someone hacked your account.

And never speak about this to anyone.

 

[Zippgunn]

Karlsson is less chippy than Hoglander and Aman isnt chippy at all though

Aman is kind of Suter lite it seems to me...

 

[EpochLink]

No doubt, I don't blame you. I never seen this year Norris winner "If not corrupted" Quinn Hughes get so little respect. Getting called a diver, faker and what not by Oiler fans. It's absolute bullshit. You know if it were vise versa Hughes highsticking king McDavid, they'd be calling for heads.

I try not to blast fools on replies but they let it go, without punishment.
Unless we don't go all the way, this team won't get the respect they deserve.

 

[bossram]

You would be 'punting' with a Lindholm match-up as well, only you would keep an existing line intact that might have a chance to counter. Suter-Blueger-Mikheyev is purely to kill time.

I would also make Hughes and Hronek the Dpair to Suter-Miller-Boeser, as before, and have that 5 man unit follow up Joshua-Lindholm-Garland. Putting Soucy-Myers with Suter-Miller-Boeser instead may be why the unit hasn't worked.

To sum, roll out Suter-Miller-Boeser-Hughes-Hronek as one 5 man unit and then interchange with Joshua-Lindholm-Garland-Soucy-Myers.

If that doesn't stop them, it's going to be short series regardless.

Any line matched up against McDavid/Drai/Hman is pretty much just there to kill time. The job is damage control. That unit is a terror.

Like I said before, if you allocate pretty much all their best players toward shutting the EDM top line down, you're going to limit what they can create offensively. And the knock-on effect is that the rest of the lineup is so ineffectual the best you can hope from them is really that they just kill time too.

I don't know if it's the best alignment or not, but the point of my "punt" line, again, is explicitly that you hope they can just kill time against the McDavid unit, which frees up much more favourable matchups and deployment for Miller and Pettersson.

 

[StickShift]

I really don’t mind swapping Karlsson in. Pettersson and Hoglander have not been on the same page all playoff. The play has died on a weird Hoglander read too often. Karlsson doesn’t need to be spectacular, he just needs to be reliable and predictable with the puck.

 

[Jovofan]

Love seeing long faces in Boston.

 

[bossram]

Karlsson in for Hoglander.
Aman for Di Giuseppe.

Tocchet wants chippy players that continually move their feet, hopefully the coaching decision pans out well

Karlsson will be like the slowest player on either team.

Obviously not confirmed if he's in yet, but seems strange they wouldn't give him the time of day during the season and now, in round 2, he's going to Pettersson's wing.

I'm half expecting him to not actually be in the lineup and it's more some kind of gamesmanship from Tocc. Drance reported that Hoglander was not "rinsed" after the morning skate with the rest of the projected scratches, so that indicates there is some possibility he will be in anyway.

 

[Vector]

PDG back to Vancouver to deal with a personal matter. Karlsson in for Hoglander.

 

[Vector]

 

[StickShift]

PDG back to Vancouver to deal with a personal matter. Karlsson in for Hoglander.

Hope everything is alright with PDG and family. Must be something serious to leave a playoff series.

 

[Slapshot_11]

Might as well chalk this up as a loss with these bums coming in

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Might as well chalk this up as a loss with these bums coming in

Man I love this optimism

 

[moiderer]

Hoglander hasn't been good but plugging in Karlsson doesn't inspire confidence either.

I think moving Aman up to at least keep tread water and putting Podkolzin to jump the 4th line would have been more interesting.

I guess we'll see how it goes. If Canucks win with refs as a factor, the whiplash out of EDM media would be for the ages.

 

[EpochLink]

Well, here we go for game 3.
Let's do this.

 

[Jovofan]

The pre-game jitters are real, but I think we take this one! LFG Canucks!!!

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

LET’S GO CANUCKS!!!

Be the road warriors, boys! Come on, let’s go!