Post-Game Talk: WCSF | Golden Knights def. Canucks - 5-3 - Lead Series 3-1

[Mr. Canucklehead]

We’re on the ropes, now. Continue here.

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This is NOT the Management thread. This discussion is for the game/series with the Golden Knights only.

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[Bgav]

Good night, sweet prince

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Honestly, beating the cup champs and losing to the Stanley Cup favourites is a pretty good experience for the young guys. Wait for Podkolzin and Hoglander to come here

 

[BB06]

Those 2 botched power plays cost us the game when it was handed to us on a platter. This loss is gonna hurt for awhile.

 

[Grub]

We were the Piglet that made their house out of hay to defend from vegas... in the end the big bad wolf ate us.

What a crushing loss after up 3-2.

 

[Saturated Fats]

Realistically, we did better than we thought we would this year. Obviously. We all said that Vegas was likely to win this series, and yet we act petulant when they prove us right?

That being said, I thought the Canucks could've won this game. We had our chances. Guys like Gaudette & Virtanen missed them. Put that on Miller or Pettersson's stick, that's in the net. It is what it is. Was glad to see Hughes have a better game, but still too many guys who did nothing tonight.

 

[Hit the post]

I wouldn’t pin all all the blame on Myers on that goal. But Sutter, yes. I am starting to seriously believe he needs ped’s (it was clearly a joke before) to even be a competent 4th liner. Since the Minny series he’s been this constantly gassed, exhausted player making dumb play after dumb play. First day of offseason he needs to be bought out...at like 12:01 am.

I've been REALLY hoping he could somehow revert back to when he was a solid defensive center *for us*. But that clearly isn't going to happen. As Tiger Williams said "he's done like dinner". It happens to *all* athletes.

 

[Flik]

It's been a fun ride.

 

[JiffyPB]

All of Canuck Nation RN:

 

[The Vasili Jerry]

Quality choke job. I’d take Fantenberg and Sutter out. Juolevi and MacEwen in. Give them experience.

 

[wonton15]

We can't defend and don't know how to play with the lead.. Had those two PP's to end the second period and we fumbled it.

Vegas isn't losing 3 in a row to us. Also, I would be surprised if Jake is on this team next season

 

[David71]

good game boys. we made the playoffs. exceeded expectations. some guys wont be returning to the same next year. time to trade deadweight players

 

[NoShowWilly]

going to take it a game at a time.

 

[CherryToke]

Just a poorly constructed team carried by a few elite players.. and the coach is a mental midget

 

[thekernel]

Too many blown opportunities and bad breaks

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Dats gonna be dat.

Bottom 6 needs to be near totally rebuilt.

Shame on Virtanen and Gaudette but ... yikes.... not NHL caliber.

Bad coach call on bringing Myers in for this one...

Sutter is some kind of brutal.

That's all i got.

 

[SillyRabbit]

In this series so far:

Canucks bottom six: 0 goals, 0 points
Vegas bottom six: 3 goals, 7 points

 

[tantalum]

Scoring chances yes. Enough scoring chances? No. You need many to put more than a few pucks behind NHL goaltenders. They didn’t actually generate enough and they generated so much less than the Knights.

the underlying stats show one team with 60% possession and 70% of the scoring chances at ES. Even in what appears to be a somewhat even game or bad one from the Knights...they dominated.

night all.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Hope we extend our season
It’s a success already regardless
Nice to see our young core are all gamers
Including Miller

 

[PG Canuck]

sutter sucks

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Honestly, beating the cup champs and losing to the Stanley Cup favourites is a pretty good experience for the young guys. Wait for Podkolzin and Hoglander to come here

At the end of the day, this - but this game specifically really had the feeling of one that we had in hand and allowed to get away.

Still hockey to be played, but man. It sucks that we had two pretty solid efforts by the boys in Games 3 and 4, and both games saw themselves undone by a few moments of bad breakdowns and their chances being capitalized on.

 

[Gurglesons]

sutter sucks

We tried to warn you.

 

[BB06]

Probably the only game this series where Vancouver was outright better. The hockey gods are laughing at us tonight.

 

[supercanuck]

I'm going to try something positive here. The last time we lost both back to back games, we came back to eliminate the defending Stanley Cup champions.

 

[Kryten]