Obviously the player that stood out was Juulsen. Truly awful. Had some moments at the end of last year, but that was in garbage time with most of the pressure off. Right now he must be near the worst player in the League. Just totally incompetent. Canucks have to try someone different - no one is going to be any worse than Juulsen.
Woo has been better than Juulsen in the AHL since the start of last year and it makes no sense not to be playing a better younger player to see what you have when the other option is this bad.
They are galaxy braining the D.
Hughes-Hronek
Cole-Friedman
Hirose-Myers
Switch Hronek and Friedman on the road. Problem solved.
It was Karlsson's birthday today, so it could have been something as simple as that...I hope somebody in Abbotsford took Arshdeep Bains aside and explained to him why they recalled Karlsson instead of him, or the three or four other forwards who're better than Karlsson has been this season.
For that matter, Hirose hasn't been close to the best blueliner in Abbotsford either. Still not sure the rationale for making him the first injury callup on the blueline.
That or he shoots right?It was Karlsson's birthday today, so it could have been something as simple as that...
team needs to score more 5 on 5 goals before hoglander potted one in. teams will always take penalties and the canucks will surely make them pay on the powerplay everytime. but sometimes games that are close or tight need someone on this team besides the top guns to provide secondary scoring. the last 5 on5 goal they scored before tonight was the game against montreal. that was about it.
I'm not upset about this scheduled loss. I'm upset that it came in Calgary, but meh, they aren't making the playoffs anyway so losing points to them doesn't hurt us.
If we make the SCF, guaranteed we'll be facing either NYR or Boston or NYI. You heard it here first. My Spidey senses are tingling on this team.
Reality of the schedule. I mean, they are used it but I think we all know how we feel in the spring when we spring forward. Not quite the same that Sunday morning. And they got on a plane and checked into a hotel room after midnight. We're just going to our own bed.It's funny that this was worse than an actual back-to-back situation because we lost an hour too lmfao
Boys looked bagged. Oh well, back home again at least
They got through it at 1-1. Secured the 2 points, Irrelevant that the Isles got a point since they are in the East. No impact on the Canucks. If you are going to play Quinn that much, at least they got the full benefit of doing that. Meant for Calgary game, you needed to dial him back.I worry about Hughes on back-to-backs, particularly when he played upwards of 30 minutes the night before against the Islanders.
I thought Tocchet made a couple of lame excuses for playing Hughes that much in his post-game presser--saying that all the PP's skewed Hughes' ice-time.
But I thought it definitely caught up with him in Calgary. Those are the type of games where 'fatigue injuries' can happen. I'm just relieved the Canucks got out of Dodge without any more injuries to their best players.
The loss is just the inevitable result of a bad schedule.