Post-Series Talk: Vancouver Canucks defeat the Nashville Predators 4-2

[Oliewud]

Game management at its finest there at the end. If they’d called the rest all night, sure, but to do that in the last minute annoyed me greatly.

Unlucky Nashville. Weird series. We were better tonight.

edit* friendly fire

 

[DFAC]

Props to Nashville for a hard fought series. They fought tooth and nail and made it a close series. A bounce here and there and it could be a totally different series.

 

[Javaman]

I know from an outsider's perspective this series was godawful to watch, but as a Canucks fan, it was intensely exciting and stressful to watch.

Kudos to the Preds. They played a hell of a series and it's not difficult to imagine an entirely different outcome with a slightly different bounce of the puck here and there.

I remember being nearly despondent when Demko went down. Now, I love that the Canucks have 3 goalies who are good enough to win a playoff game.

Go Canucks Go!

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Congratulations, Deranged Oreo Dolphins!

 

[innitfam]

Great series. Had me on my toes for every game. Wild.

 

[LTIR]

Spoken like a person who didn't watch every game. If it wasn't for Saros Vancouver would have won in 4.

I didn't see all the games but Saros was likely the 2nd best goalie on ice each game I watched. Tonight he was a bit better than the goalie who got the SO.

 

[Incognito]

I don't even particularly care for the Canucks, but considering the fact that they were down to their third string goalie, they clearly outclassed Nashville by some distance in this series.

 

[RebuildinVan]

The series was a fight for every inch of ice, the ending was stressfull.

 

[Terry Yake]

wow, really didn't think the canucks had it in them

congrats to the great fans of vancouver

 

[LTIR]

LOL you had 3 powerplays and we had 0

powerplays were 22-13 for the series. You got beat with the refs help. Pathetic.

Pretty sure there were plenty of 'refs you suck' chants from Preds fans. Pp chances doesn't need to equal if one side is more deciplined. The last cross check was a cross check.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Well a shutout by Arturs Silovs to win the series sure wasn’t on my bingo card before the series started. Kid went head to head with Saros. He’s got ice water in his veins.
Heck of a series Preds! A number of games could have gone either way.

 

[Leonardo87]

Congrats to the Deranged Oreo Dolphins….er um Vancouver Canucks.

 

[Breakers]

Penalties were twice as many for the losing team in this series

Sure as hell can’t bring that argument into this series

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Nashville with nothing to hang their heads about in a year that was supposed to be a rebuild. Well done to the Canucks for not just overcoming losing Demko, but DeSmith as well.

Too be honest, I think DeSmith was good to go for game 6: Tocchet just made the call to go with Silovs.

 

[BCNate]

Kudos to Nashville, I hated that series. Hard fought on both sides, they were a tough matchup for us.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

I didn't see all the games but Saros was likely the 2nd best goalie on ice each game I watched. Tonight he was a bit better than the goalie who got the SO.

He was far better than Silovs. Nashville never had a scoring chance.

The series was a fight for every inch of ice, the ending was stressfull.

May have been a fight but Nashville lost every battle. A very weak team.

 

[ChuckFanForever]

Preds deserved the L after scratching Barrie. He would've gotten the puck in the net at the end.

This! Everyone knows, the Canucks' kryptonite is BC-born players playing against them! Load up a team of BC-born players against the Nucks, and it's almost a sure win!

 

[trellaine201]

Hate the Canuck bandwagoners but congrats to the team. They were certainly better in the third period tonight and arguable the second as well. The first was a sleeper.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Well a shutout by Arturs Silovs to win the series sure wasn’t on my bingo card before the series started. Kid went head to head with Saros. He’s got ice water in his veins.
Heck of a series Preds! A number of games could have gone either way.

He did very little. Nashville rarley got a shot on net harder than a pass.

 

[BelovedIsles]

NSH is a nice story, much like this Sivos kid. NSH is in great hands with Trotz and Brunette. Trotz has one of the best hockey minds in the game (witnessed it firsthand); if he can add some talent, they could win a round or two.

 

[BB79]

So we're guaranteed 1 Canadian team in the WCF, while the other is eliminated. Kind of a meh situation.

 

[Grifter3511]

NSH is a nice story, much like this Sivos kid. NSH is in great hands with Trotz and Brunette. Trotz has one of the best hockey minds in the game (witnessed it firsthand); if he can add some talent, they could win a round or two.

Story of Nashville's existence. And as a coach, Trotz knows all about it.

 

[Gnashville]

Nashville with nothing to hang their heads about in a year that was supposed to be a rebuild. Well done to the Canucks for not just overcoming losing Demko, but DeSmith as well.

Not just a Rebuild year they were expecting a top 5 pick at one point this season. Team is never going to be anything but Playoff fodder given their inability to tank. More proud of this team than most of the first round losers

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Man the Preds were stifling defensively. Just no passing lanes and they blocked so many shots and stuck to their systems. Frustrating as hell to play against and watch. Just nothing much going for them offensively.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Preds played extremely hard. Coming into this series I believe it was the 1st (nsh) & 2nd most physical teams during the regular season, and this series lived up to that.

Every inch was a war, great goaltending on both sides, that was truely big boy playoff hockey from both teams.

I thought Nashville played great around their crease tonight, Canucks came out in the third & found another gear but it might've been the best game of the series for both teams. Just a hard fought game & hard fought series overall.

Good series Nashville. Brunette is a deserving Jack Adams finalist.