GDT: WCQF GM05 | Vancouver Canucks vs. Nashville Predators | Tue. Apr 30th | 7:00PM PST | SNP/CBC | Hey, hey, I wanna be a Brock Star

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Wasn’t that just one guy, and he kept doing it forever?

Was it? Who was it?

 

[LemonSauceD]

Was it? Who was it?

Virtanen was the fat f***. Came in at 239lbs or something? 229lbs?

He got so fat he had those fat pads around his elbows.

 

[Fairweather]

A quick search shows that many folks did in fact use the term Horfat even as recent as 2021.

 

[Frostage]

A quick search shows that many folks did in fact use the term Horfat even as recent as 2021.

I believe there was some photoshop of him breaking through the ice as well.

 

[Nuckles]

I vaguely remember the Horfat thing started when someone unironically called him fat or chubby, and then everyone joked about it when he was very clearly in good shape.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Anyway, onto Game 5 - I wonder if DeSmith has recovered from what was ailing him, or do we see Silovs again.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

See. @arttk never believes me but I'm always right

 

[arttk]

See. @arttk never believes me but I'm always right

A couple of people with bad taste making lame jokes that never caught on doesn’t mean it was a thing. Not surprised that you would remember it

 

[BWJM]

Start Silovs!

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Bo lol

Guy was mistaken for two way heart and soul leader cause he was Canadian and captain of a lost at sea Canadian franchise that nobody actually paid attention to cause irrelevant.

 

[WTG]

Bo lol

Guy was mistaken for two way heart and soul leader cause he was Canadian and captain of a lost at sea Canadian franchise that nobody actually paid attention to cause irrelevant.

Horvat led this team in 2020. I understand he had his issues with the locker room and being part of the whole Jim Benning fiasco. But Bo ALWAYS showed up when they needed him. He was clutch.

I would gladly welcome him back in Vancouver as will many.

If anything blame Benning for the 7 years of garbage he put around of Bo.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Horvat led this team in 2020. I understand he had his issues with the locker room and being part of the whole Jim Benning fiasco. But Bo ALWAYS showed up when they needed him. He was clutch.

I would gladly welcome him back in Vancouver as will many.

I'm happy for Bo and his nice life in NY.

 

[Slapshot_11]

I think you go with desmith if hes healthy

Preds had a lot of shots but not alot of hdc

 

[mriswith]

Bo was typecast wrong his entire career, but like everyone else in the lost era™ he got screwed really hard by coaching and management and it's a miracle he developed like he did despite that environment.

 

[kanucks25]

Bo was typecast wrong his entire career, but like everyone else in the lost era™ he got screwed really hard by coaching and management and it's a miracle he developed like he did despite that environment.

Gotta wonder if he'd be like 10-15% better if he had a better environment instead of minor league coaches and incompetent management.

At least when it comes to his defensive habits. His issues were not too dissimilar from Miller's (blowing the zone, bad coverage down low, etc.) before Tocchet fixed them.

 

[kanucks25]

Bains would defs have perfectly got miller the puck before boeser tied it

I've been hard on Petey and even I wouldn't scratch him for Bains but you expect most NHLers to make this pass.

Let's have some standards here.

 

[mriswith]

Gotta wonder if he'd be like 10-15% better if he had a better environment instead of minor league coaches and incompetent management.

At least when it comes to his defensive habits. His issues were not too dissimilar from Miller's (blowing the zone, bad coverage down low, etc.) before Tocchet fixed them.

I think he'd have become year in year out ppg and a legitimate two way center with average coaching and average linemates during his key development years instead of the worst coaches in the league and utter trash on his wings.

No one is developing playmaking skills with Loui, Leipsic, Virtanen and Roussel are stapled to their wings and he still somehow put up 60 points (40 ES) with that all while the entire team was getting "coached" into the ground by Green.

 

[kanucks25]

Curious whether Tocchet stays with Lindholm/Miller/Boeser since that was the one adjustment he made and holy hell did it work. Wouldn't mind giving it a shot and putting Petey between Garland and Joshua.

Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't that only for like one shift 5-on-5 shift?

Lindholm was on the ice with them for the 2 late goals but they were 6-on-5.

If they want to get Petey going they could between him between Joshua and Garland but might be better to keep Lindholm on his own line to simply check with like Mikheyev and Lafferty or something lol.

 

[Bgav]

I've been hard on Petey and even I wouldn't scratch him for Bains but you expect most NHLers to make this pass.

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Let's have some standards here.

He literally pulled two dmen towards him because he was looking at the net almost the entire time. Still put it perfectly to miller

 

[archangel2]

How thevhell are we up 3 to 1?

 

[lawrence]

A thousand times this. Don’t let this series keep going, especially with how hard the Preds are running our top guys. Hope we can show some killer instinct here.

We need to also run their top guys.

 

[DarrenX]

I like the avatar idea.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

I remember Horfat being a thing but mostly being a joke lolololol.

Would be huge if the guys can end it tonight and get a bit of a break. Lfg.

 

[ellja3]

Start Silovs!

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[SopelFanThe3rd]

A couple of people with bad taste making lame jokes that never caught on doesn’t mean it was a thing. Not surprised that you would remember it

I'll give you a bad taste all right.