Post-Game Talk: WCQF GM5 | Canucks lose to Predators | 1-2 (Zadorov) | Back to Nashville

[Jay26]

Rick needs to make some f***in adjustments. Dump and chase ain’t working and the forwards need to generate more rush chances. I feel like I’m watching a Travis Green team

Worse, at least offensively (obviously far better defensively). I don't remember Travis Green teams struggling to put the puck on net to this degree. It's more like they would just pull this for every 3rd period.

 

[Canucks LB]

I agree with most of you guys, run the lotto line next game

 

[Donuts]

You just know the refs were just waiting to give the preds another powerplay with their season on the line after canucks scored

 

[DimitriL07]

You have to challenge that. Pk was on fire tonight, gotta roll with the gamble

 

[Orca Smash]

The team's is playing too cute in the o zone, why not keep things simple and just get shots in?

I have said this all year win or lose, its tocchets offensive system, it does not make sense in modern day hockey. Its basically throw it around the boards, then go crash the net, and then go for tips.

That type of hockey rarely works today, its so hard to score consistently on tips, and goalies are so good crashing the net in close and jamming pucks in is hard to.

 

[Slapshot_11]

Tocchet needs to walk to nashville

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Every game I look at the clock at the 7 minute mark of the 2nd period and we have 9 shots.

f*** sakes, you cannot win a series like this.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Stuck with this for at least another year as well

I'm dreading them keeping Mikheyev for another season and hoping he suddenly remembers how to score when he's never been a goal scorer

 

[TruKnyte]

Still not understanding at all why we haven't seen the Lotto Line for a more sustained period here to try to spark the offense (and specifically, Pettersson).

Because Tocchet is obsessed with his pairings and center matchups, which may be good defensively but neuters our offense

 

[just22]

I really just can't get on board with blaming the refs or even being mad about not challenging the goal.

Those are the type of things you get upset about in a hard fought, close series, where every inch matters.

This should be a 4-1 series win for the Canucks, the Predators are not a good team.

Miller, Pettersson, Hughes and Boeser should be lighting these guys up. Look at what the Avs did to the Jets.

The truth is, the Canucks will scrape by this round and get absolutely dumpstered in Round 2. And it has nothing to do with losing Demko to injury.

This is looking like a repeat of 2007 honestly.

 

[Hammer79]

I disagree he was screened and never saw it because Hughes did not block OReilly out.

He didn't know where his post was, undershot it with his leg stroke.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

We'll always have Game 4.

 

[DS7]

Petey Miller Boeser
Joshua Lindholm Garland
Hoglander - Suter - Mikheyev
Lafferty - Bleuger - Podkolzin

Enough dicking around. Mikheyev isn't converting and he's better off not getting the same matchups as Petey. Lindholm's line consistently generates chances. Suter and Mikheyev have had ample opportunity to finish their chances and they flub them. Let them play with each other and see if they can work on better matchups. I don't wanna see PDG with his soft clears anymore. Podkolzin's time to shine.

The amount of grade A quality chances Mikheyev has flubbed is painful. Even Petey in his current state could bury those.

 

[timw33]

How could it have been allowed? You can't spear a goalie into the net with the puck.

I finally saw a good replay of that goal and watched it over and over again and now I am realizing that we may have just blown the series by not challenging that call.

I thought Blueger's momentum is what knocked it in—no, he actually saw that puck was under Silovs and moving towards net and gets his stock behind the puck under Silovs albiet weakly, momentum of the puck is now stopped. It's not until the NSH player comes jackknifing into the net with his stick and shoves the whole pile forward just enough for the puck to go into the net.

Brutal non-challenge, but it's not like there isn't enough blame to go around for the completely anemic offence/PP for this one. Really needed to squeak that one out but a stupid hit in a close game gave the refs just the right opportunity to impact the game and now the momentum has swung.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

I like the way Blueger is playing put him back with Joshua and Garland and move Lindholm into the top six.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Does anyone actually think we're winning this series now? Game 6 is a gimmie for nashville and our top players are a f***ing joke

Yes we win in 6.

 

[Canucks LB]

I wouldn’t challenge that either, it was way way too close and it’s a one one game

 

[Flik]

Problem is people's expectations that this team can go far. This is a bubble team that got off to a lucky 1st half hot streak.

Coaching is not great and top end talent doesn't stack up to the Mackinnons and McDavids
Just be happy they're in the playoffs and got lucky they drew Nashville. Would've been annihilated by almost every other team in the west by now

Yep, it's all gravy.

We're definitely a step below the real contenders right now, and that's ok. I still think we can take this series though. It should be doable and a great learning experience.

 

[valkynax]

Overall, not a bad loss. These kinds of mistakes can be corrected. Silovs did very well, stayed calm and held the line, inexperience does show, however.

Our offense needs to figure things out, simply blaming Predators' solid defense is not gonna cut it.

 

[Canucks LB]

Yes we win in 6.

Yeah, I think we take it also, in six

 

[Petey O]

You just know the refs were just waiting to give the preds another powerplay with their season on the line after canucks scored

Honestly, what pissed me off more than them giving the Preds a PP on that borderline Joshua call where the Preds player turned, was the BLATANT missed hook on EP after the Predators scored. That pissed me off to no end.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

You have to challenge that. Pk was on fire tonight, gotta roll with the gamble

All series. They were 0/14, absolutely no reason to challenge it. Tocchet just fumbled the bag.

 

[TruKnyte]

I like the way Blueger is playing put him back with Joshua and Garland and move Lindholm into the top six.

I either want to see the lotto line with Lindholm cantering the second, or move Lindholm to play on the wing with Petey. Should have tried more of this during the regular season but Tocchet is a f***ing idiot

 

[AzNightmare]

I was hoping to feel relieved. Not only from just advancing, but getting away from this hockey. I don't know what's up with this series.
But it's just so boring. If I wasn't a fan, I wouldn't bother watching more than a few mins of any of this series.

It's just such dreadful hockey. I hope this isn't going to be the way for the rest of the playoffs. But that being said, Canucks haven't advanced yet and with how tight these games are, Preds can easily make a comeback. Every game feels like a 50/50.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Biggest mistake this game was not challenging that goal. At the very least I can defend Tocchet challenging and losing it. But to standby was a loser mentality.