Toilet bowl special. Question of which team was going to screw up worse. Thankfully we did.
Both defenses stank
Canucks put any pressure on their defense and they cough it up for great scoring chances. Some of the best passes the Canuck forwards got all game were delivered directly up by the Dallas defense. Hamhuis doesn't look like he can play anymore.
And our defense was worse.
Edler wandered around his end constantly backing into Miller. Again flagging at the puck and consistently behind the play. (off season trade isn't the worse idea)
Hutton again had people getting behind him for good chances (like Hemsky in the first). Total puck watcher and sliding back into form he showed early in the year.
Stecher was getting run down and made a terrible turnover on the 4th goal.
Sbisa was brutal. Worst of the lot. Skated like he was wading thru a swamp. There's no defense of him given efforts like this.
Beiga - maybe his worst game. Has to be skating well to survive and in this one he wasn't. Got caught standing still a lot.
Only defensemen who showed up was Tryamkin. When he starts moving up and pushing the play you can get a bit of Chara vibe. Like who is going to get in front of this train going to the net. Nice to see him handle Benn so well (although you got to hate it, tank wise, if Benn is out o their lineup moving ahead). Benn a legit tough guy and Tryamkin was able to toss him around.
Given what we saw tonight might be that we call up some players over the last part of the year and have a look. Put someone like Edler on the IR as everyone has got some sort on injury by this part of the season.
Didn't think Miller looked very sharp. Wonder if Backmann gets back in.
Of the forwards I thought some brought good pressure on the forcheck. Maybe the best was Baertschi who has become very decent in the area of forechecking (total difference from how he played in Junior and how he came into the League). Now looks like a bit of skilled grinder. Also Boucher showed well at times. Moves the puck quickly when play is there.
Also, Granlund got himself a lot of good chances. Went to the net hard and showed some touch. Certainly wasn't shying away from contact. Thought he was the best player on his line as the Sedins continued to regress. Play of Sedins is now bad in every zone. And is eerily strange how they can be similarly good at the same time then similarly bad at same time. Never seems to be an individual thing with them. Could say at this point, that every season they have gotten worse as the season has gone on, and that has been dramatically evident recently.
Fourth line had some good shifts and LaBate should have scored. Changed the momentum a couple of times in the game. In the first were the leaders in starting a number of good shifts that eventually led to the Baertschi goal. Still they mostly showed they were plumbers handling the puck and screwed up any scoring chances they did create.
Megna per usual got zero done. Same with Sutter. Maybe should shut him down. When ever he gets the chance to shoot the puck, lately, he doesn't indicating maybe he just can use the wrist well enough to get his shot off. All Sutter is doing is shadowing players and not really using his stick much at all.
Shore seems like a player of so little consequence it's a wonder why he was picked up at all. Probably be just as well off if they had called up someone from the Alaska Aces.
Anyhow, it's good news that the Canucks basically screwed up a home stand that had the potential of messing up their lottery hopes. Just hope they can carry this losing streak onto the road.
And you wonder when we can stop talking like this and get our sanity back. I'd say probably years.
Both defenses stank
Canucks put any pressure on their defense and they cough it up for great scoring chances. Some of the best passes the Canuck forwards got all game were delivered directly up by the Dallas defense. Hamhuis doesn't look like he can play anymore.
And our defense was worse.
Edler wandered around his end constantly backing into Miller. Again flagging at the puck and consistently behind the play. (off season trade isn't the worse idea)
Hutton again had people getting behind him for good chances (like Hemsky in the first). Total puck watcher and sliding back into form he showed early in the year.
Stecher was getting run down and made a terrible turnover on the 4th goal.
Sbisa was brutal. Worst of the lot. Skated like he was wading thru a swamp. There's no defense of him given efforts like this.
Beiga - maybe his worst game. Has to be skating well to survive and in this one he wasn't. Got caught standing still a lot.
Only defensemen who showed up was Tryamkin. When he starts moving up and pushing the play you can get a bit of Chara vibe. Like who is going to get in front of this train going to the net. Nice to see him handle Benn so well (although you got to hate it, tank wise, if Benn is out o their lineup moving ahead). Benn a legit tough guy and Tryamkin was able to toss him around.
Given what we saw tonight might be that we call up some players over the last part of the year and have a look. Put someone like Edler on the IR as everyone has got some sort on injury by this part of the season.
Didn't think Miller looked very sharp. Wonder if Backmann gets back in.
Of the forwards I thought some brought good pressure on the forcheck. Maybe the best was Baertschi who has become very decent in the area of forechecking (total difference from how he played in Junior and how he came into the League). Now looks like a bit of skilled grinder. Also Boucher showed well at times. Moves the puck quickly when play is there.
Also, Granlund got himself a lot of good chances. Went to the net hard and showed some touch. Certainly wasn't shying away from contact. Thought he was the best player on his line as the Sedins continued to regress. Play of Sedins is now bad in every zone. And is eerily strange how they can be similarly good at the same time then similarly bad at same time. Never seems to be an individual thing with them. Could say at this point, that every season they have gotten worse as the season has gone on, and that has been dramatically evident recently.
Fourth line had some good shifts and LaBate should have scored. Changed the momentum a couple of times in the game. In the first were the leaders in starting a number of good shifts that eventually led to the Baertschi goal. Still they mostly showed they were plumbers handling the puck and screwed up any scoring chances they did create.
Megna per usual got zero done. Same with Sutter. Maybe should shut him down. When ever he gets the chance to shoot the puck, lately, he doesn't indicating maybe he just can use the wrist well enough to get his shot off. All Sutter is doing is shadowing players and not really using his stick much at all.
Shore seems like a player of so little consequence it's a wonder why he was picked up at all. Probably be just as well off if they had called up someone from the Alaska Aces.
Anyhow, it's good news that the Canucks basically screwed up a home stand that had the potential of messing up their lottery hopes. Just hope they can carry this losing streak onto the road.
And you wonder when we can stop talking like this and get our sanity back. I'd say probably years.
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