GDT: WCSF GM05 | Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers | Thur. May 16th | 7pm PST | SNP/CBC | So Tight, Almost Like a Playoff Series

[Canucks LB]

Vancouver has played such a good game, but are only one shot from losing.

Feels bad man

 

[647Hockey]

Like Perry, Carrick and Henrique?

He’s only hit in his tenure was Ekholm

Over the years they added Kane, Hyman and Henrigue for secondary grit or scoring.

The problem is the team is so top heavy with McDavid/Draisaitl/Bouchard leading the offence, when those guys get shut down, the rest of the team still does jack shit. RNH does nothing by himself but can get pts tagging along McD/Drai getting a second assist on a PP. And the guys I listed in my first paragraph are either streaky or rely on the dynamic duo to set them up.

In his career, Henrique pro-rates to a 80 game/50 pt player no matter which team he's on. But on Oilers he's dried up.

And the rest of the forwards and dmen do basically zero no matter what.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Feels ill

The post and crossbar has done a better job than Picard tonight and he’s been good

 

[DiggerDan]

Vancouver has played such a good game, but are only one shot from losing.

I think that's been a theme this entire series, for both teams. It's tight!

 

[trilobyte]

I hit Trocheck in the OT earlier in R2 and it's funded all the close OT for fun bets since (not that anyone cares but I ended up putting $5 on both in OT )

That is amazing. I posted Trochek/Guentzel as GWG choices that game.
He was close all game, and I thought that sooner or later he would get through.
Good for you!

 

[Fraser28]

This feels like an Oilers win. Big goal against the flow of play.

 

[jackjohnson]

It would be a sweep without Skinner!!!! PDO Frauds!!!!

It would be a sweep with Demko in net. McDavid frauds

 

[Rowlet]

Vancouver has played such a good game, but are only one shot from losing.

Logically, they'd be one shot away from winning, then.

 

[Ezekial]

You can't lose.

They're both buzzin!

 

[DiggerDan]

It would be a sweep with Demko in net. McDavid frauds

You are both wrong.

 

[Summer Rose]

I got busy and missed everything until now. How's the game going?

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

I think that's been a theme this entire series, for both teams. It's tight!

yeah both sides calling each other frauds and awful teams when a hair has separated them the entire way lol

 

[TheUnusedCrayon]

I wanna see Kane and Zadorov fight

Big fan of the series: Faces of Death?

 

[HanSolo]

Been the best defenceman on the ice this series

I feel like he has it in him to be better though. Him and Makar have both been oddly neutered this round.

 

[Dirty Dan]

It would be a sweep with Demko in net. McDavid frauds

He can't score on a third string, did he forgot he's a 64 goal scorer?

 

[Brookbank]

This feels like an Oilers win. Big goal against the flow of play.

Yep. Happened a lot in his building too

 

[Three On Zero]

I feel like he has it in him to be better though. Him and Makar have both been oddly neutered this round.

He seems to be double clutching a lot, creates open space and then just doesn’t do anything fast enough

 

[WarriorofTime]

Why is the Vancouver crowd so quiet? It's like they expect the Canucks will blow it.

 

[Banjo Cat]

Logically, they'd be one shot away from winning, then.

Of course, just these ones suck to lose. I don't think Vancouver has had this many shots all playoffs.

 

[robertocarlos]

I got busy and missed everything until now. How's the game going?

It's a nail biter.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

Big fan of the series: Faces of Death?

Is Zadorov a good brawler? Honest question. I've never seen him fight

 

[HanSolo]

He seems to be double clutching a lot, creates open space and then just doesn’t do anything fast enough

Partially what I mean. I feel like he's playing overly cautious.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Why is the Vancouver crowd so quiet? It's like they expect the Canucks will blow it.

Is Vancouver like Toronto where playoff tickets are so expensive that only the corporations and mega-wealthy can actually afford to go to playoff games and the real fans are priced out?

 

[Brookbank]

Why is the Vancouver crowd so quiet? It's like they expect the Canucks will blow it.

Superstition. It always gets quiet toward the end

 

[GoldenSeal]

Why is the Vancouver crowd so quiet? It's like they expect the Canucks will blow it.

Calm before the storm of the Canucks next goal. I feel like they might pull this off. They're owed after all the crap in this game.