GDT: WCSF GM 4 | Vancouver Canucks @ Edmonton Oilers | Tue, May 14 | 6:30PM PST | SPAC | Thunderdome!

[Brookbank]

Has Tocchet fixed his stupid line ideas yet ? Laff still on the top line with Mik ?

 

[rypper]

Is Drai and McDonald still on the same line?

Nope.

 

[thecupismine]

Cole has probably been responsible for as many goals against above expected as Skinner so far

Everyone starts needing to move their feet. The powerplay through the zone was so insanely slow, which made it super easy to just stand us up at the line.

 

[moiderer]

These D misplays are giving our forwards no momentum.Juulsen you might give a break for dodging 2 games in the crucible but that Cole sequence still haunts me.

 

[wonton15]

Why did Lafferty even get moved up? He’s closer to a scratch than any merit based promotions

 

[DiggerDan]

Credit to the Oilers for coming out strong. No surprise there. The boys need to push through this and start finishing more hits.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Ian Cole making me miss Luca Sbisa

That’s over exaggerating

 

[VanCanucks53]

We are sucking. No sustained offensive pressure at all in their zone.

 

[Orca Smash]

Cole is just brain dead lately, left draisatl so he could be the third man to attack mcdavid on that pp.

Were not winning this series if they cant stop this PP and it starts with players like cole thinking a little bit.

 

[Ninebreaker]

This would be a great game for Patterson to show up

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

DIdn't he have a decent playoffs for Toronto last year? He's been a complete nothing for 10 games.

He did. I was really happy we got him but yeah, he's done nothing so far.

 

[VanJack]

Another 'rope a dope' period mostly in the Canucks zone....all this blather about 'eliminating high-danger scoring chances' does mean squat if you never actually possess the puck.

 

[WiLBoY]

We are just getting outplayed and weathering the storm at the moment. It's not that we look lost out there but our compete level isn't the same

 

[NailsHoglander]

Bunch of chicken littles in this thread. Only legit thing to complain about is Cole being trash

 

[AzNightmare]

Nope.

Booo... Guess we can't rely on them burning out by 3rd period.

 

[ManVanFan]

It's the playoffs, it's getting pretty hard to watch them play like they are the San Jose Sharks.

 

[mossey3535]

This has been disputed on this board before. I can’t remember - maybe @mossey3535 was one of the people who was firmly in the camp that he didn’t look good in the last playoffs

He was actually decent last playoffs I thought but it's the Leafs so having a pulse is like being totally passionate and kickass in the playoffs.

 

[ForecheckBackcheck]

Bench Cole and Juulsen (10:00 or less)

Double-shift Hughes-Hronek (28:00) and Myers-Zadorov (22:00).

If the Oiler's can play Bouchard 31:00 every night we can afford a game or two of maxed out Top 4 ice-time.

 

[TruKnyte]

Has Tocchet fixed his stupid line ideas yet ? Laff still on the top line with Mik ?

Feel like he's become somewhat overrated in this market. We've won games that we had no business having, which just isn't sustainable.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Stay within 2 goals after 30

It’s Picard

 

[bbud]

Canucks are playing like trash

Hang on and get going oil know it's win or die will be bringing everything and can that keep up probably not

 

[Leif Rohlin]

Ugly icing from Juulsen. If he does that, the Canucks are going to go down to five-defensemen quickly

I would go with 5 defenseman now and Juulsen would still be one of them.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

McDavid dives more than Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

[PG Canuck]

That’s over exaggerating

….is it? This is one of the worst playoff series I’ve seen a dman play

 

[Donuts]

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