Second game in a week where the referees mistakes/bias whatever you want to call it costs Canucks goals that end up costing the game. First Detroit game and now this. Boggles the mind how this kind of embarrassment can go on night after night. It's like the NHL doesn't even care.
First goal was a joke. I probably would've pulled Luongo the moment it happened. Unacceptable. Flames had nothing going on before that, and that was a nothing play also. Game could've been totally different had Luongo been able to make a regular save there. He made few good saves rest of the game but simply put, an AHL goalie outplayed him.
If Booth plays like that more consistently he's worth his contract. Higgins and Hansen had good games and Kassian skated well too. Sedins were decent but nowhere near the level they were against LA. PP has been garbage.
I don't know. These are those kind of games that the Canucks have found a way win (or at least get a point) in recent years. This year's team just doesn't seem to have it. It's going to be a frustrating regular season followed by 1st or 2nd round exit.
While we all have the right to be angry at the officiating for calling a stupid penalty against us for what seemingly was nothing, it's pretty bad when a team supposedly as good as the Canucks end up losing to Calgary because of one play. If we really are superior to them then we should have been able to rebound from that. We didn't. Our response and push was pretty sad.
Would you pull every goalie every time they let in a softie or make a mistake? Schneider made one last game. I don't think either goalie should be pulled after a simple mistake like that. These things happen. I don't think our fan base realizes this. You can't pull a goalie every time there's a stupid mistake like that. Two, okay. But one is a mulligan that happens with every goalie. It happened in the first period so the Canucks had a long time to bounce back from that. If its late in the third then it's a backbreaking goal, but in the first it's not as bad. That was Luongo's only mistake in the game, and he went on to make some spectacular saves later in the game, including one which led to our 2nd goal.
I'm not a Booth hater by any means, but he will never be worth his contract until he starts scoring. You pay someone $2M to generate chances, energy and forechecking, you pay someone $4.25M to do that and to score on some of those chances. Right now he's playing like a $2.25M player.
I agree that this is going to be a frustrating season followed by an early playoff exit. I've been saying this since July. Hopefully things change but what I saw last night was the same thing I've seen in 90% of our games this year, show up for the first period, collapse in the second, snooze for the first 15 minutes of the third and try for a comeback in the final 5.
