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

[lawrence]

We should have gotten guentzel

can he play goalie?

 

[biturbo19]

I'd rather listen to Kelly than Cassie Campbell on ESPN (no Sportsnet for us living in the US). She's been talking about Nashville like they've been playing infallible hockey all night long.

Addition by subtraction for what little scraps remain of HNIC i guess. lol.

 

[Nucker101]

Kelly Hrudey is actually fully irritating me tonight. Not to speak kindly of Forsberg...but he's one of the most elegant players in the league. I honestly don't know what the f*** he's been talking about for any of the segments tonight.

He’s a salty flames fan

 

[coastal_nuck]

DeSmith should not be held anywhere near the standard of Pettersson.

DeSmith is a 32-year-old career backup goaltender.

The second goal was just a sick shot by Forsberg. Very few goaltenders stop that.

I don't understand how we have 2 players back up to stop the pass and give him free reign to the front of the net. That is way worse than how DeSmith played it.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

DeSmith should not be held anywhere near the standard of Pettersson.

DeSmith is a 32-year-old career backup goaltender.

The second goal was just a sick shot by Forsberg. Very few goaltenders stop that.

Forabergs goal was horrid coverage. No one’s stopping that.

 

[Canucker]

It’s bad enough I have to watch this on-ice nonsense, have to watch Messier and PK Subban between periods.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

I know its an unpopular opinion but I wouldn't be upset if ep quietly asks for a trade this summer

Doesn't have an NMC next season. I think if they don't have a good 1st half, he gets dealt.

 

[Szechwan]

If preds are gonna block everything , we should just be feeding Hronek so they're limping into game 3

 

[logan5]

It's the body language right now. They look like they don't think they can win without Demko.

I mean DeSmith save % in almost every game is .750. That has to have a huge psychological affect on the team.

 

[Jay26]

We pick on Pettersson but honestly this entire team is way too mentally volatile. If something goes wrong they all get in their heads. Demko goes down to injury? Predictably they came out super tight and it ends with a weird goal in their net right off the hop.

But then on the flip side when one thing goes right you can see them absolutely turn it on and you're left wondering, where was that this whole time? As I said, volatile.

 

[Blue and Green]

I take back all my Juulsen praise from earlier, you can't get walked that bad. I didn't like Desmith's save selection either, RHS basically has to pass or shoot glove side in that situation.

I thought Lindholm screwed up on that goal more than Juulsen did.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

I hate my contract, it sucks.

But for reals, even worse version of Lu is not comparable to worst version of Petey.

The product of being around loser Swedes like OEL and Loui Eriksson.

 

[Flik]

Not cashing in on the PP, and quite frankly, not fixing it during the regular season whilst it was so obviously in need of tweaking, is gonna cost us bad.

To no one's surprise of course

 

[TruKnyte]

Not cashing in on the PP, and quite frankly, not fixing it during the regular season whilst it was so obviously in need of tweaking, is gonna cost us bad.

To no one's surprise of course

How they didn’t hire a PP coach just blows my mind. That’s like Benning level incompetence

 

[kanucks25]

Unacceptable soft play by Pettersson on two Preds goals so far.

Coupled with that empty net miss and he's pretty much single-handedly throwing this game for the Canucks.

Need something good to happen for his confidence. Seems like the crowd was getting a bit restless whenever he had the puck late in the period as well lol.

Cannot believe how such a skilled player can have such trouble handling every single pass that comes his way. It's horrible on the PP in particular where that extra split second he needs to settle the puck is enough for the PKers and goalie to shift over to him.

 

[biturbo19]

He’s a salty flames fan

It's not even that. I honestly don't mind him most of the time and his Flames thing is...whatever. It's that literally nothing he's said has made even the tiniest shred of sense. He's not even speaking about reality. It's just completely made up bullshit tonight. It's getting under my skin and making me actually kind of understand where most Canucks fans are coming from with him.

 

[Bobby9]

BUT BOBBY

IF HE HAD KUCH AND BRADY ON HIS WING HE WOULD SCORE. JUST NEED A 35M DOLLAR LINE.

 

[DS7]

I love my dad but idk why he made me a fan of this tewm

Gotta teach you some adversity

 

[SillyRabbit]

Not cashing in on the PP, and quite frankly, not fixing it during the regular season whilst it was so obviously in need of tweaking, is gonna cost us bad.

To no one's surprise of course

And this is where even our strong coaching staff needs to take the blame.

This forum was calling out the PP as a major problem back in February.

They've done absolutely nothing to fix it.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Nashville playing like the bubble Canucks.

 

[Red]

how much is a sports psychologist and do we have one for pettersson

 

[TruKnyte]

And this is where even our strong coaching staff needs to take the blame.

This forum was calling out the PP as a major problem back in February.

They've done absolutely nothing to fix it.

At least get the Sedins to work with them or something

 

[bbud]

I don't understand how we have 2 players back up to stop the pass and give him free reign to the front of the net. That is way worse than how DeSmith played it.

Ep blew his check on 3rd one

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

The 1st half of this season feels like 3 years ago at this point. They don't even look like the same team.

No confidence, no control, no heart. I have no idea what happened.

 

[Flik]

And this is where even our strong coaching staff needs to take the blame.

This forum was calling out the PP as a major problem back in February.

They've done absolutely nothing to fix it.

Yep, I agree. A lot of this is on the coaching staff for sure.

None of this is surprising, we all saw it, so did they. Why nothing was done..... confounds me.