Pre-Game Talk: 2019-20 Pro-Team Tank Thread - To Infinity and Beyond!

[mathonwy]

If the Sens come back this game I will laugh my ass off...and possibly cry at the same time.

A 5-4 loss on Alex Burrows night would be quite the kick in the nutsack.

 

[timw33]

We gave up 42 shots and 3 goals (1 lucky call back) against the Senators....

 

[valkynax]

We gave up 42 shots and 3 goals (1 lucky call back) against the Senators....

This kind of play is not sustainable, if by some miracle we make it into playoffs, this team gonna get eaten alive.

 

[Jack Burton]

December.

They better make hay

 

[The Flow]

We gave up 42 shots and 3 goals (1 lucky call back) against the Senators....

To be fair, we jumped out to a 4-0 lead and just sat on it for the rest of the game. The team losing usually has a lot more urgency to try and crawl back.

 

[tantalum]

To be fair, we jumped out to a 4-0 lead and just sat on it for the rest of the game. The team losing usually has a lot more urgency to try and crawl back.

But as covered in the game thread there are the score effects of teams sitting back and then there is bad defense. The Canucks once they went up 3-0 sat back as teams do (the general score effect) and spent the next 25+ minutes putting on a demonstration of how not to play team defense.

 

[Consistencee]

Minnesota just bumped us out of a wild card spot. Happy holidays!

 

[Javaman]

Tonight's results were pretty damn good as far as tank nights go. If Vegas had managed to beat the Islanders, it pretty much would have been a perfect night.

Every single western conference team in action tonight got at least one point.

 

[Havre]

Top 5 pick incoming for Tampa. Not a bad way to get out of a future cap crunch.

 

[dwarf]

Will be an interesting game. Accessing all of Buffalo's young talent. We do sometimes make trades with them.

 

[Jack Burton]

Alright let's go!
Big L today please and thank you.

 

[Hyzer]

Canucks continue to blow leads like it's in fashion.

Unfortunate result for team tank. The way she goes

 

[RandV]

Will be an interesting game. Accessing all of Buffalo's young talent. We do sometimes make trades with them.

Funny for how the media likes to talk about what a great job Benning and the Canucks are doing you never hear the same thing about Buffalo who are pretty similar:

(mixing youth, long term contracts, and prospects)
Eichel, Dahlin, Reinhart, Olofsson, Skinner, Mittlestadt, Ristolainen, Jokiharju, Cozens
VS
Pettersson, Hughes, Horvat, Boeser, Miller, Gaudette, Myers, Demko, Podkolzin

 

[mathonwy]

Someone fire Benning before it's too late.

 

[dwarf]

Damn, next game is one of two anomalies for my tanking wishes every year.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

Someone fire Benning before it's too late.

Some might argue its already too late...

 

[vanuck]

Some might argue its already too late...

Benning plays 4D chess. The man is hyperdimensional. This would not surprise me at all...

 

[Lindgren]

There wasn't much of interest on the out-of-town scoreboard tonight, but the Calgary OT win vs Colorado was the perfect result in that game.

 

[4Twenty]

The link you just posted shows Vancouver to have a better winning percentage, more regulation wins in fewer games, and a substantially better goal differential. Not sure what you're getting at here.

5 on 5 Buffalo has scored 65 goals and allowed 55 goals. Good enough for the 7th best ratio in the league.

5 on 5 Vancouver has 60 goals and has allowed 57 goals, good enough for 14th in the league.

Team Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

 

[y2kcanucks]

Got $40 on the Canucks to win tonight. As much as I’d love to see a loss, Toronto almost always struggles here.

Either way, Go Leafs Go!

 

[Pavel96]

Got $40 on the Canucks to win tonight. As much as I’d love to see a loss, Toronto almost always struggles here.

Either way, Go Leafs Go!

Nice, but sorry, here's hoping you lose your money!

 

[Jack Burton]

Let's go

 

[y2kcanucks]

Nice, but sorry, here's hoping you lose your money!

Me too, me too.

 

[TruKnyte]

I still hate Toronto.

 

[The Drop]

This is a win/win either the Canucks comeback in an epic win and piss off Toronto media fanboys or they lose and stay in course.

I just hope it’s goals by guys like Boeser, Petey instead of the plugs