GDT: WCQF GM02 | Vancouver Canucks vs. Nashville Predators | Tue. Apr 23rd | 7:00PM PST | SNP/CBC | Great State of Dakota

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

This is just unbelievable, I can’t believe it

I CAN

BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT

THE CANUCKS

ARE f***ING CURSED

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Maybe this has been posted about already - I'm not sure, but if Demko is backing up DeSmith tonight, that's a great sign.

Where you hearing this?

 

[Cancuks]

I see this game being 7-6 tonight.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Where you hearing this?

I haven't heard it anywhere. I'm speculating.

 

[wonton15]

I haven't heard it anywhere. I'm speculating.

Zero chance he backs up if he just had an MRI and hasn’t been seen on the ice or even in the room. I’d love to be wrong. It would also just make no sense to even have him as a possibility to play.

 

[Jay26]

Like I said above. His injury wasn't serious enough to the point where he took himself out of the game. In fact, I suspect he discussed it with the medical staff between periods and they didn't pull him from the game. He also skated yesterday. I'm thinking this isn't too serious.

Relax.

The same can be said of his last injury. He finished that last game.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Zero chance he backs up if he just had an MRI and hasn’t been seen on the ice or even in the room. I’d love to be wrong.

I read that he skated today.

edit: shit. I'm wrong. My dyslexia kicked in. He WASN't a participant in the morning skate.

 

[Wisp]

it's easy to be fatalist about this but I think the canucks will surprise everyone and we'll watch a motivated Canucks crush the preds with their defensive game 5-on-5. Shots will be limited to 20 or something.

 

[Nucker101]

I read that he skated today.

Demko wasn’t a participant for the morning skate, a day after he’d been absent from a team practice.

Updated: Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko out for Game 2 vs. Nashville

Vancouver's #1 goalie is missing from the team's morning skate and reports say he's out for tonight's game. Follow this story for updates.

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I mean if he's not ready to play, and he backs up, imagine if DeSmith gets injured.


He's definitely not backing up.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

The same can be said of his last injury. He finished that last game.

No. Desmith replaced him halfway through

 

[Chairman Maouth]

I mean if he's not ready to play, and he backs up, imagine if DeSmith gets injured.


He's definitely not backing up.

Yeah and I read that wrong. If he didn't skate this morning I don't see him backing up.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Pls

Just give us league average goaltending

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

it's easy to be fatalist about this but I think the canucks will surprise everyone and we'll watch a motivated Canucks crush the preds with their defensive game 5-on-5. Shots will be limited to 20 or something.

My concern is not the play infront of SeSmith.

Because I think they will consciously tighten up their game.

The issue is even with 20 shots or less, DeSmith has show an ability to let in 4 or 5.

Lets hope we get the good Casey to start and rode it out before he craters.

That means Demko is back, or Silovs goes in.

 

[StrictlyCommercial]

You never really know with injuries at this time of the year, but the likelihood is they are still waiting to determine whether the news is "bad" or "terrible". It would seem pretty unlikely, to me, that he's both injured enough to not play through a playoff game, but also not that injured and will be back this round, or even round two. But you never know.

Best case scenario is a sprain of some sort, which would be a 1-2 week recovery.

Worst case...

 

[Slapshot_11]

First playoffs in 9 years ruined because this guy can't f***ing stay healthy

Unbelievable

 

[Jay26]

No. Desmith replaced him halfway through

Really? I could have sworn he finished the game and the only reason we weren't surprised at him being out is we all saw him make the big stretch save (kind of like last game).

 

[Vector]

Really? I could have sworn he finished the game and the only reason we weren't surprised at him being out is we all saw him make the big stretch save (kind of like last game).

It was half-way through the game.

 

[Hoglander]

Sucks, but DeSmith will be solid. Tocchet will have the troops ready to go, and I feel pretty good about where their game is at. We got this.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Okay, first I said he skated yesterday because I thought I had read it.

Then I read that he didn't.

Now I find this:

"“It might have been in the game, but I'm not quite sure because he skated yesterday,” (Tocchet) said. “I don't know the exact timeline. That's why I don't want to speculate whether it's this time or whatever.”

He skated yesterday but did not participate in today's morning skate.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

So much fog of war stuff right now

 

[Vector]

Okay, first I said he skated yesterday because I thought I had read it.

Then I read that he didn't

Now I find this,

"“It might have been in the game, but I'm not quite sure because he skated yesterday,” (Tocchet) said. “I don't know the exact timeline. That's why I don't want to speculate whether it's this time or whatever.”

He skated yesterday but did not participate in today's morning skate.

Yeah the timeline is that he skated on his own yesterday. Still didn't feel right and went for an MRI. Reporters caught wind something was up when he didn't appear at practice today. Tocchet confirmed he's day-to-day, won't play today, and didn't skate.

That's all the concrete information we have.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Yeah the timeline is that he skated on his own yesterday. Still didn't feel right and went for an MRI. Reporters caught wind something was up when he didn't appear at practice today. Tocchet confirmed he's day-to-day, won't play today, and didn't skate.

That's all the concrete information we have.

“He will play. You know he’ll play! He’ll play on crutches! He will play! And he’ll play at Bridgestone Arena on Friday night!”

 

[sting101]

First playoffs in 9 years ruined because this guy can't f***ing stay healthy

Unbelievable

hopefully they send you an apology letter or more

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

The key to the game will be clearing the front of the net and making sure we clean up loose pucks around the front of the net. DeSmith is good a making the first save but his rebound control and covering pucks is where he struggles.

 

[Bgav]

Yeah the timeline is that he skated on his own yesterday. Still didn't feel right and went for an MRI. Reporters caught wind something was up when he didn't appear at practice today. Tocchet confirmed he's day-to-day, won't play today, and didn't skate.

That's all the concrete information we have.

Are we sure the MRI was after? If so, damn. Devastating