Nucks could be denied their championship, cough, I mean Presidents trophy banner. I hear those are big items in their rafters. Oilers didn't even celebrate winning those. The biggest doesn't matter banner in pro sports anyway.
Was keying on Hughes and Pettersson a lot yesterday. The constant tone going back to bench yesterday was negative, and frustration. Its kind of like they know what is coming up. Wasn't a lot of verve or anything with the Canucks. The closest you could come to moxy was JT Miller. Generally the look on the Canucks is they're not feeling it. All they had was trying to generate from behind goal or stuff pads or make wrap arounds or try to come out from behind net.
Its one thing for Hughes to be so tiny as a D (what a liability without puck) but that he doesn't have a shot and doesn't score much compounds things. Nucks need a bunch of punters that just aren't any good to be scoring bunches off of Hughes passes. Somehow Nucks had that but its really died down. They're not getting magic PDO anymore. They must realize it.
These are among the forwards Nucks dressed last night:
Lafferty, Podkolzin, Mickheyev, Aman, Blueger, Garland, D guiseppe. Suter Hoglander. Thats a full 9 forwards that are just not that good. Or not as good as they've appeared. Theres a lot of fill there really any why they get no goals from the bunch in tight checking games. 9 of the forwards Nucks dressed last night are under 200lbs. That don't work for playoffs.
I mean the Nucks essentially at forward have Petey, Boeser, and Miller (and injured Lindholm). The rest is Garland, pun intended. How do you win in playoffs with that?