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

[Grumbler]

Now the question remains can we play the next 40min like we have just now. Or it is a repeat of game 3 where we don’t have the lead.

 

[mriswith]

Refs suck but they didn't cause Hronek to turn himself into the invisible man instead of taking the shot or pass on the 2 on 1.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I have never seen a defenceman double clutch as hard on a pinch as Soucy did there

You could see every stage of his line of thought play out in real time

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Bullshit officiating aside -

Thought the team played a pretty good first period. Outshot them, killed 3 PPs, and generally carried the play.

Just two bad plays end up in our net.

Also - as good as he was against Nashville, Cole has been the opposite plus 1000 against Edmonton. This might be the worst I’ve seen a Canucks defender play in the post season. All I’ve really got to compare it with was Sbisa against Calgary in 2015, and I never thought I’d see a comparable. I haven’t advocated sitting him to this point, but I think it’s time.

 

[Canucks LB]

This game is an absolute tragedy so far

Just god awful officiating

Moments with the Oilers playing dreadful
Moments with the Canucks playing dreadful

Wake up

 

[SillyRabbit]

He made himself as small as possible and took neither the pass or shot.

Would've been more effective just laying down on the ice. At least you're forcing a 4th line player to make a perfect saucer pass then.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Still think that the puck crossed the line on what should have been out first goal.

 

[PG Canuck]

When the off-season starts and we hear what Hronek played through will make some sense but at the same time a lot of his errors are mental mistakes.

And he's been doing it for months now. I’d re-sign him but not even close to what he thinks he is worth. Hughes made you.

 

[NoShowWilly]

get those shots, high glove. pickard is shit.

 

[Tact]

Who was on the ice when they scored the second goal?

 

[Canucks LB]

get those shots, high glove. pickard is shit.

This

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Ballard and Albert’s in the final are underrated options Mr C

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

The hatred I feel for Edmonton now makes me realize how much everyone else hated us in 2011.

 

[Rotang]

There are some positives to build on here. 3-3 on the PK, Petey looking like he has the potential to leave his mark on this game, and had some sustained pressure towards the end.

Hopefully Miller can figure it out, would be nice to have him and Petey going at the same time.

 

[Jyrki]

Refs suck but they didn't cause Hronek to turn himself into the invisible man instead of taking the shot or pass on the 2 on 1.

Yeah that was brutal as f***, just kinda went down on one knee with no idea where Janmark was but then not really in position to block anything Brown did either so Silovs was forced to play the shot

 

[Kryten]

Second time this series a stupid pinch by Soucy gets scored on. Idiot

Meh, hes done more good than bad. The tally is Soucy2, Myers1 at least, Juulsen 1, Cole 8

 

[ahmon]

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,

 

[CanucksSayEh]

When a defenceman hesitates, the winger/C also hesitate to cover for them

Cole is a dumbass, and the coaches are even bigger dumbasses to keep playing him. When a guy is throwing a series, you pull the plug on that.

Getting beat by ONE player, ONE INJURED player.

 

[StickShift]

Whether it is Edmonton or Vancouver—I don’t see either team going far against Colorado or Dallas.

 

[SillyRabbit]

Who was on the ice when they scored the second goal?

Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Soucy-Hronek

 

[moiderer]

The thing that stands out to me is that they're abusing our defense a lot more than we're abusing theirs.

Oilers have a terrible D core.

Why does ours look so much worse?

They have higher intensity offensive pressure with McDrai, some of our guys are crumbling with weak clears and poor decision making against the rush. Really hampers our breakout and offensive zone time.

In spans where nothing happens, we build the momentum back fairly easily, e.g. leading up to the Soucy goal.

 

[GranvilleIsland]

Refs suck but they didn't cause Hronek to turn himself into the invisible man instead of taking the shot or pass on the 2 on 1.

-1.5m on the next deal for that alone.

 

[Nucker101]

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.

 

[dez]

Bieksa better be back for Saturdays game

 

[AzNightmare]

Who was on the ice when they scored the second goal?

Soucy. Literally, he was lying down on the ice.