Post-Game Talk: Canucks def. Ducks - 3-2 (Joshua x2, Boeser) | 100 Points! Unpucker!

[Just A Bit Outside]

What do you guys think would be the most realistic expectations in playoffs this year?

I'm thinking round 2 getting to maybe game 6?

They will be lucky to even make around 2 at this point.

 

[Jannik Hansen]

Hoglander - Pettersson - Boeser

Joshua - Miller- Garland

Mikheyev - Suter - Lindholm

Podkolzin - Blueger - Lafferty

Maybe roll with that when we're healthy?

 

[bandwagonesque]

Joshua simply must be re-signed. Can't let him walk. This is a different team with him in the lineup.

At this rate he'll be getting 3-4M on a contract that will take him into his 30s, it's hard to see how to fit him into this team's cap structure.

 

[Szechwan]

What do you guys think would be the most realistic expectations in playoffs this year?

I'm thinking round 2 getting to maybe game 6?

I personally have no expectations. LA is the only team I'd be surprised to see represent the West in the cup finals, everyone else looks like they have a legit shot at getting there.

It's gonna come down to hottest goalies, so I could easily see Van going out in rnd 1 to a Vegas/Nashville or getting hot and doing some damage

 

[82Ninety42011]

A wins a win but what really worries me is the PP. It bloody stinks lately they better figure it out soon. Dakota is really someone we need to bring back love this kid.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Hoglander - Pettersson - Boeser

Joshua - Miller- Garland

Mikheyev - Suter - Lindholm

Podkolzin - Blueger - Lafferty

Maybe roll with that when we're healthy?

I'd like to see it tried.

 

[AzNightmare]

At this point, not sure if I want Joshua fighting again.
Way too valuable to get injured from a fight.

One of the useless top 6 forwards can go fight instead.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

What do you guys think would be the most realistic expectations in playoffs this year?

I'm thinking round 2 getting to maybe game 6?

Depends who we face.

Vegas is getting hot. Would be a very tough out and would be pleased if we could win 2 games. You really hope we maintain 1st and just let Edmonton face them.

LA is another tough opponent and would be a boring series but I think a healthy Demko could give us the edge.

Jets or Preds are absolutely beatable.

 

[DFAC]

Hoglander - Pettersson - Boeser

Joshua - Miller- Garland

Mikheyev - Suter - Lindholm

Podkolzin - Blueger - Lafferty

Maybe roll with that when we're healthy?

Id go with

Hoglander - Pettersson - Boeser
Joshua - Miller - Garland
Mikheyev - Lindholm - Lafferty
Suter - Bleuger - Podkolzin

Im hoping that 3rd line can be used as a shutdown line

 

[David71]

Petey looks terrible - have not seen anyone as disinterested and disengaged as he is.

Have to wonder if its some nagging injury

has to be an injury he keeps falling. dakota joshua is good. give him what he wants 3x5 or 6. this game was boring af. ducks are the worst team besides chicago and they still couldnt score more than 2 goals against them. tocchett needs to figure out the line combos with 9 games left or else this tteam is in real trouble. why not rotate friedman/cole in. or maybe myers lol.

With the way Pettersson is playing, we won't make it out of round 1.

preds/jets/vgk l.a in that order.

Hoglander - Pettersson - Boeser

Joshua - Miller- Garland

Mikheyev - Suter - Lindholm

Podkolzin - Blueger - Lafferty

Maybe roll with that when we're healthy?

imagine had van gotten another top 6 forward.. example: toffoli/gunzetal lots of options. lotto line. toffoli/lindholm/garland.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

That was a stressful game.

My fantasy hockey season was hanging on us winning as my playoff opponent picked up Dostál to try to steal the week from me.

Also I accidently put a bet on Joshua scoring the last goal of the game when I intended to just put a bet on him scoring a goal.


Im worried about our form going in to the playoffs. We will get a fresh Demko who hopefully can just pick up right where he left off but he might also be way off rhythm with such a long layoff.

Our top guys have all cooled down significantly. I dont think EP played as poor of a game as people here thought. He does turns over the puck ALOT on PP. Someone pointed this out earlier and was paying attention to it and its certainly true. Miller was unnoticeable most of the game, won a bunch of faceoffs was good early in the first.

Its weird. We are very high in the standings but our form is so off right now that it does not feel like the season has been an absolute homerun success already that it obviously has.

 

[quat]

It bothers me that I'm not confident with the team doing anything in the post season.

 

[David71]

It bothers me that I'm not confident with the team doing anything in the post season.

we are all. besides the dreadful powerplay.

 

[Wry n Ginger]

Was waiting* for this post.

Was not disappointed.

*yes, with bated** breath

**it's not baited breath, you maroons, I don't have dead fish breath, in fact my breath is . . . well, like me it's . . . well, you know . . . the point is it's bated, not baited, and you are all maroons; bate means to restrain, like an abatement, i'm like holding my breath waiting for sopel3rd's autoresponse, I could be dead now from asphyxiation and none of you even care

This was a very non-toxic reaction. It invited understanding and was seeking a common communication platform for both sides to understand the language needed achieve a unified comfort level with what the other party was trying to convey. Bravo.

Please do your best to not be dead from asphyxiation until a more appropriate time.

Kindest regards,

WryNGinger

 

[Wry n Ginger]

My concern regarding the roster going into next season (so far) is twofold.

Joshua needed a slap by Tocchet in training camp. It's a contract year. I have doubts trusting a player with no performance history in a contract year.

Canucks’ Joshua using wake-up call from Tocchet as learning experience

Joshua’s reality check came last week when Canucks coach Rick Tocchet bluntly told reporters that the 27-year-old needed to “pick it up” if he wanted to stay in Vancouver.

www.sportsnet.ca

Pettersson doesn't have trade control next year. I am not going to fret about how he closes out this season but I am as sure as shit (after coffee and eggs) going to judge how he performs after game one of the playoff begins.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

What do you guys think would be the most realistic expectations in playoffs this year?

I'm thinking round 2 getting to maybe game 6?

Sounds right. The one ace we have up our sleeves is Demko. If he is healthy and plays well we could go on a decent run. Not many teams in the West have a goalie of that caliber. Maybe Winnipeg and Nashville?

 

[PuckMunchkin]

What do you guys think would be the most realistic expectations in playoffs this year?

I'm thinking round 2 getting to maybe game 6?

That would be realistic.

But with how much chips we've pushed in for this year, is it enough..?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

joshuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[BoHorvat 53]

That would be realistic.

But with how much chips we've pushed in for this year, is it enough..?

It's why some of us were very heavily against any deadline acquisitions. The west is so insanely loaded with the Stars/Avs/Knights/Oilers/Jets all being teams that at best, we'd be a coin toss to win a series against any of them. I would not be upset with the boys if they lost to any of those teams

 

[PuckMunchkin]

It's why some of us were very heavily against any deadline acquisitions. The west is so insanely loaded with the Stars/Avs/Knights/Oilers/Jets all being teams that at best, we'd be a coin toss to win a series against any of them. I would not be upset with the boys if they lost to any of those teams

But there is also the fact that our cap situation is not getting easier.

AND the biggest chip of them all is the OEL buyout that already happened before the season started.

 

[DarrenX]

Pettersson doesn't have trade control next year.

I fear that contract will be untradeable.

 

[archangel2]

I do not understand why so many ride Joshua. He is a 3rd/4th liner anything beyond that is bonus.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

I do not understand why so many ride Joshua. He is a 3rd/4th liner anything beyond that is bonus.

Because with him on the ice good thing happen.

When him off the ice not so good thing happen.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Anyone in particular stand out from Anaheim?

 

[VanJack]

Anyone in particular stand out from Anaheim?

Totally spinning their wheels. At the start of the season, Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale were coming stars.....but one is gone and other is rumored to be gone without a new contract.

Leo Carlsson is a high pick and a promising young player.....but I'm amazed that John Gibson and Cam Fowler are still with this struggling franchise. Couldn't deal them, I guess.

But they've got a bunch of picks coming up in the next couple of drafts, so hope springs eternal.