GDT: WCSF - Game 2: Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers | Fri. May 10th | 7pm PST | SNP/CBC | Don’t Change That Channel

[PaulD]

Winner of game two probably wins the series imo

I would agree

and Serious doubts on Oilers going all the way with Skinner.

 

[snipes]

Pretty disgusting play by the Oilers in the 2nd and especially 3rd period.

They better come out flying.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Canucks have to come out much better tonight to start. Pretty much everything that could go wrong did. Too many men penalty 40 seconds into the game, brain dead defensive plays by Ian Cole, missed grade A scoring chances and weak goaltending by Silovs.
Vancouver needs a much better start as I expect the Oilers to come out strong.
The team needs to bring their A game right from the start.

 

[VanOriginal]

Are both Drai and Henrique out this game? Without Leon the Oilers will be in a tough position to win, they have to hope that Skinner shows up to play like an NHLer. I fully expect the Canucks to come out flying and try to get to Skinner early. If Leon is out, they know this is their best chance to put the Oilers on their heels and not let this game get away. This will be a different beast in Edmonton.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Are both Drai and Henrique out this game? Without Leon the Oilers will be in a tough position to win, they have to hope that Skinner shows up to play like an NHLer. I fully expect the Canucks to come out flying and try to get to Skinner early. If Leon is out, they know this is their best chance to put the Oilers on their heels and not let this game get away. This will be a different beast in Edmonton.

Drai will most likely play. He’s a warrior but you have to wonder how banged up he will be

 

[Vector]

 

[olafsson]

Canucks will continue to dominate the 5v5 game and come out with another W. We’ve seen all season long Edmonton has no answers for that

 

[CycloneSweep]

If Edmonton has more than 4 shots in the final 2 periods, they can win. But can they shoot more than 4 times in the final 2 periods?

 

[TheLegend]

WOOOO! D Day 2.0

Really looking forward to @Summer Rose looking forward to this game

 

[WetcoastOrca]

All the hockey pundits frantically rewriting their columns to pick the Oilers in 5 now!

 

[Dust]

Curious when they'll release the lineups for tonight.

 

[DS7]

Kelly Sutherland tonight.

This one’s a write-off.

Well that one ruins my day. Congrats on the W oilers.

 

[Leonardo87]

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[Three On Zero]

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[End on a Hinote]

Canucks overcome the biased officials that favour every team that every other team is playing against.

5-3 Canucks W

 

[Vector]

Curious when they'll release the lineups for tonight.

I updated the OP with the Oilers lines from yesterday's practice. Draisaitl was absent and Gagner practiced in his spot but it's expected that Draisaitl plays. Henrique was at practice but didn't participate in line rushes and spent quite a bit of time on the bench talking to trainers. As of right now, he's not expected to play.

Canucks lines will probably be unchanged. Other than goaltending and one defensive swap due to sickness, there hasn't been a single change to the roster or lines throughout the entire playoffs. Goaltending is much more up in the air. Canucks have an optional practice today at 10:30 PST and we usually find out the starting goalie shortly afterwards. Specific lines won't be 100% known until the pre-game skate.

 

[canadianmagpie]

Guess the NHL saw the comments from Oiler fans thinking a BC ref in Kozari favoured the Canucks in Game 1. They want to show that being from BC makes no difference with Sutherland in charge. His record in Canuck games is well-documented.

 

[PuckG]

You’re up one. Leave the whining about the refs for later fellas.

 

[Navx94]

Canucks overcome the biased officials that favour every team that every other team is playing against.

5-3 Canucks W

You guys had 2 more powerplays?

 

[Cup or Bust]

The Oilers played awful, Skinner played awful, just an awful all around game one. At the very least I expect a more engaged Oiler team this game.

 

[Bobby9]

You’re up one. Leave the whining about the refs for later fellas.

Agreed.

As a Canucks fan the pre-emptive excuses need to stop.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Thought Pettersson and his line had a good game 1 against the Oilers. Obviously when you hold a team to 5 shots over the last 40 minutes every line is doing their job. If Mikheyev had any scoring ability EP probably has a couple of points that game.
With his line playing well that lets the third line of Lindholm, Garland and Joshua take advantage of the mismatch with the Oilers 3rd line and the Nurse-Ceci pairing.
The Pettersson line is going to be key going forward as you can’t expect the Miller line to completely shut down McDavid again. He’s going to have more impact as the series goes on.

 

[End on a Hinote]

You guys had 2 more powerplays?

I was being sarcastic.

 

[Brookbank]

Edm would be crazy not to start Picard

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Kelly Sutherland tonight.

This one’s a write-off.

Came here to post this. Ugh, talk about a dent in the excitement.

You just know there's going to be an ultra soft call 2 mins in, only for the 'standard' to disappear & reappear arbitrarily.