WCSF | Vancouver Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers | Round 2 - FIGHT!

[Mr. Canucklehead]

It’s official, bring on the Oilers!

Oiler Killers:
Quinn Hughes - 25GP, 3G, 19A, 22Pts
JT Miller - 32GP, 11G, 23A, 34Pts
Brock Boeser - 31GP, 16G, 11A, 27Pts

Season Series:
October 11, 2023
Vancouver def. Edmonton - 8-1


October 14, 2023
Vancouver def. Edmonton - 4-3


November 6, 2023
Vancouver def. Edmonton - 6-2


April 13, 2024
Vancouver def. Edmonton 3-1

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[lawrence]

Who is Arturs Silovs? How a rookie goalie has steadied the Canucks' playoff run

The 23-year-old Latvia native has stepped in and gone from unknown to leading Vancouver into the second round. How did he do it and can he keep it up?

www.espn.com

a great article by none other than ryan Clarke. non biased, he focuses on Silov and how people in his country if following him.

 

[Kryten]

If your gonna do that why breakup a perfectly good line and another that has shown magic before.

EP Miller Boeser
Joshua Lindholm Garland

Im good with that as well. Lastnight Lindholm was doing great with Miller and Boeser though.

 

[Nuckles]

To no one's surprise, game 5 confirmed to "start" at 7pm

 

[VanJack]

These Oilers are still a confident bunch......in today's post-practice scrums, they steadfastly maintain that if they play way they did in the second and third periods of last night's game, they'll inevitably come out on top.

I guess they have a point though. How long can the Canucks keep being badly out-shot and giving up oodles of d-zone time, before the worm turns in this series? Can they win two more games playing this way?

I suppose it's possible, if Silovs stands on his head. But the Canucks are going to have to come up with their best game of these playoffs tomorrow night to emerge with a result.

 

[lawrence]

There is some insane numerously shit going on right now! here me out.

The last time the won their first 7 playoff games was in 1994.
The last time the came back down by 3 goals to win a game was in 1994

When the won their cup in 1994, if was after a 54-year drought.

If the win a cup this year, if will be after 54 years of their existence





ok getting ahead of myself.



we have sean Avery on our side. wtf. lol!!!!!

 

[LordBacon]

I got banned in the game thread *sad noise.

Guess I'll have to see you folks in game 5 thread when we take the series.

 

[beckstreaker07]

 

[Britton]

Miller's face describing the Canucks when he got here lmao. He was so confused about what they were doing just like we all were.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

If your gonna do that why breakup a perfectly good line and another that has shown magic before.

EP Miller Boeser
Joshua Lindholm Garland

This does not work. I don’t get why everyone wants to see it. We might see it for a shift or two. They haven’t played well all year except for that east coast road trip where they went on that PDO bender.

 

[Nuckles]

Just a heads up, the game 6 viewing party tickets will probably go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday) based on when they sold them for games 3 and 4.

 

[VanJack]

That Johnny Bower poke-check by Silovs on Kane is trending both on social media and the network highlight packages.

And I mean why not?.....the kid had to race 30 feet out of his net to reach the puck and then whipped it off the glass and out....Just about every other goalie, including Demko, would have been stapled to their crease hoping that somehow to make a save.

This kid has balls of steel to pull off that play in such a huge game. No hesitation or lack of confidence. Just a brilliant hockey play from a guy who's in a zone right now.

 

[Bobby9]

So it's a best of 3 now. All hands on deck and no passengers has to be the approach from the boys. As a whole we still have a lot more depth than them but the depth needs to chip in at least goal a game - Teddy, Laff, EP, Hog, Hronek and Mik.

Unrealistic for BB, JT, Dak, Garland and Lindholm to do all the lifting. Gut check time for a lot of players.

EDIT: I am assuming the same convo is being had by the Oilers coaching staff. The 'depth' players are causing massive strain on the top players. Both teams are suffering from the same scoring issue.

The team with the players who step up win. Its as simple as that.

 

[strattonius]

I'm having a ton of fun with this series.

I mean we are giving the Oilers all they can handle here and there's a good chance we win this series with their hopes on Pickard; and us having a 2 home game advantage.

I know it will be insanely stressful but would be a bit of a shame if this series doesn't go 7.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

The media, and one of them sounds like Elliotte Friedman, are just brutal towards Petey, and he's clearly not happy about it and I don't blame him one bit. He's hit a rough patch and he knows that better than anyone.

Does that sound like Friedman to anyone else? I really feel for Peetey here and I want to smack Friedman upside the head.

 

[Vector]

The media, and one of them sounds like Elliotte Friedman, are just brutal towards Petey, and he's clearly not happy about it and I don't blame him one bit. He's hit a rough patch and he knows that better than anyone.

Does that sound like Friedman to anyone else? I really feel for Peetey here and I want to smack Friedman upside the head.

That's Farhan Lalji.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

That's Farhan Lalji.

The first one? Yeah I guess. They sound alike.

Damn. I wanted another reason to dislike Friedman. Now I'm all messed up because I like Lalji. He's messed with my program.

 

[credulous]

The first one?

the first is dhaliwal. farhan is 3rd

edit: maybe the first is farhan too

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

The media, and one of them sounds like Elliotte Friedman, are just brutal towards Petey, and he's clearly not happy about it and I don't blame him one bit. He's hit a rough patch and he knows that better than anyone.

Does that sound like Friedman to anyone else? I really feel for Peetey here and I want to smack Friedman upside the head.

I'm starting to think that it's a mental health issue for him. Dude just sounded defeated. Voice and body language.

Like, this is bad even when considering the typical ennui that Scandinavians are born with.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

the first is dhaliwal. farhan is 3rd

edit: maybe the first is farhan too

Thanks, guys. No matter who, it doesn't change the fact that I really feel for Petey.

 

[Vector]

the first is dhaliwal. farhan is 3rd

edit: maybe the first is farhan too

That is 100% Farhan. Dhaliwal doesn't have press access anymore.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

I'm starting to think that it's a mental health issue for him. Dude just sounded defeated. Voice and body language.

Like, this is bad even when considering the typical ennui that Scandinavians are born with.

I don't think that's an unreasonable assertion. I used to get a similar impression from Naslund.

 

[credulous]

That is 100% Farhan. Dhaliwal doesn't have press access anymore.

yeah you're right. i was thrown off by farhan referring to an earlier question 'rick' asked and assumed the first question was dhaliwal

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

I don't think that's an unreasonable assertion. I used to get a similar impression from Naslund.

Naslund always just came off more as reserved or taciturn. Or robotic.

I've never wondered if Naslund was doing okay after seeing him give an interview. Not the case here with EP.

 

[MS]

I'm starting to think that it's a mental health issue for him. Dude just sounded defeated. Voice and body language.

Like, this is bad even when considering the typical ennui that Scandinavians are born with.

I've wondered this too at times but it's a dangerous thing to speculate on.

Plus I think we've all probably worked with people who don't really love their jobs that much and kind of mail it in at work and aren't necessarily 'mentally ill'. I think it's probably more likely that Pettersson wasn't really happy in Vancouver and wanted to leave and that he felt pressured to re-sign and is now just kind of miserable and wishing he was somewhere else. And you don't have to have clinical depression or be bipolar for that to be the case.

That the absolute death spiral in his play seems to time from the contract extension seems significant.

 

[SillyRabbit]

That's Farhan Lalji.

And he's doing his job very well.

Pettersson needs to be asked these types of questions.

And his answers here were terrible.