GDT: WCSF GM05 | Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers | Thur. May 16th | 7pm PST | SNP/CBC | So Tight, Almost Like a Playoff Series

[Reverend Mayhem]

Tocchet will wear this game for putting Cole in yet again

The alternatives weren’t much better

 

[Rotang]

Cole completely forgetting how to play hockey was not on my bingo card for this series.

 

[JiffyPB]

His nickname needs to be Double Agent 82

 

[Grip it N RYP it]

PP's are 3-1 Oilers

Can prob expect some even up calls

Capitalizing on those would be huge, provided they actually do something with them.

 

[Petey O]

The alternatives weren’t much better

Friedman is a fine option. So underrated.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Not trading for Tanev was a big mistake. Canucks have zero depth to cover for their weak bottom 3, and Oilers are just feasting on defensive miscues.

 

[Vancouver_2010]

just come back from work, is this game worth our time to watch or are they not playing well overall again

 

[VanJack]

Makes you realize how meaningless a long regular season schedule really is in the NHL. Players that looked decent in the middle of the season, totally disappear in the playoffs.

But the reality is this Canuck roster is an unfinished product. It's hard to go from the outhouse to the penthouse in one season.....the playoffs give you a crash course on where you have holes.

 

[Jovofan]

BREAKING NEWS!!! They're discussing a Canuck!!

 

[bbud]

F..k hrudy and coilers fan panel

 

[moiderer]

Oilers have completely neutered the Canucks breakout. Only Hughes can really breakout cleanly or Zadorov when he skates it out.

The rest of them dmen just play it off the boards or try those flip passes and pray.

You gotta ride Hughes hard this game, if I’m going down I’m going down with him playing huge minutes.

I think Myers has been our best RD by a mile. With Hronek and Cole struggling on different pairs, it's hard to consistently generate exits up ice. I honestly think the rest of the D has generally been fine to decent.

 

[IslandBeast]

Pickard hasn't had to make an A+ save in 4 periods now. The best he's made is maybe a C+ or even a C. Come on

 

[StickShift]

TNT coverage calling-out that it was PDG going for a bad change that led to the Oilers entry that caused the rest of the Canucks to get hemmed in on the first goal against.

 

[heatedskates]

Cole putting in long shifts like that in the easy to change periods. Unacceptable play all around from him. Just brutal.

 

[bbud]

How do you miss that hold?

You ignore it as instructed

 

[Sedinery]

Wolanin? Anyone is better than cole

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

PP's are 3-1 Oilers

Can prob expect some even up calls

Capitalizing on those would be huge, provided they actually do something with them.

We won’t get shit unless the Oilers score a few more.

 

[aquaweenie]

TNT coverage calling-out that it was PDG going for a bad change that led to the Oilers entry that caused the rest of the Canucks get hemmed in on the first goal against.

Did they watch Ian cole on that shift?

 

[Kryten]

Love and miss you Dutchy

 

[ForecheckBackcheck]

I fear the Canucks will rue letting Game 4 get away from them.

6 minutes of powerplay time in the first, zip to show for it, and then immediately squandering their late comeback efforts. Instead of a game to close it out on home ice, we have a tied series and momentum resting with the Oilers.

 

[Flik]

Makes you realize how meaningless a long regular season schedule really is in the NHL. Players that looked decent in the middle of the season, totally disappear in the playoffs.

But the reality is this Canuck roster is an unfinished product. It's hard to go from the outhouse to the penthouse in one season.....the playoffs give you a crash course on where you have holes.

Absolutely, we've got a couple of huge off seasons ahead of us to see if Allvin can clean-up some of our roster and help us leap into the upper echelon of contenders.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Hughes, Soucy, Zadorov should be out there at all times.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Soucy has always been a #5 dman, what do we expect?

This defense is always going to make mistakes, all defensemen make mistakes.

A D corp of Soucy, Zadorov, Myers, Hronek is going to make a lot of mistakes. If anything we've gotten much better performances from a lot of them this playoffs,

We have no stay at home shutdown defenseman.

A guy like Tanev can be apart of the solution but the team needs another high IQ defenseman that can read in transition.

 

[mathonwy]

pour one out for dutch

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Cole putting in long shifts like that in the easy to change periods. Unacceptable play all around from him. Just brutal.

Harman pointed out Cole played against Draisaitl at 5v5 the most of all Canucks defenders in the first period. What are we even doing, there…?