Post-Game Talk: Canucks def. Coyotes - 3-2 (OT) (Horvat x2, Boeser)

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

It's the only other time he's been scratched.

Yeah,but there was no prior history there..He wasnt a top 6 sniper,Calder runner up, allstar...

He was a rookie, out of college that was tiring out at the end of the pre season.

 

[Zippgunn]

Hopefully it's just a matter of time for EP to get that man strength, though some guys never really do. Being positionally sound is great n all, but at a certain point, you're gonna have to move someone by force. He's been getting pretty owned and water skiing the last couple games. Hughes too, but he is younger and has that low gravity.

Petey is playing like he is in some kind of sulk. Does this too much for my liking.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Love that Boeser is scratched.

He’s f***ing awful and that contract is atrocious.

 

[VanJack]

Boeser being scratched is a 'good news', 'bad news' story. While he deserves to be parked, his on-ice performance and hefty contract, makes him almost untradeable.

And as bad as Boeser has been in the last three games, the guy who really deserves to 'sit' imo is Garland. Another $4.9m contract that's also rapidly entering the 'untradeable' category.

Once you get past Pettersson, Hughes, Horvat and Miller on some nights, there isn't a single player on this current roster who's playing anywhere near their pay grade.

But I guess that's the conundrum of a 'capped out' team with a long list of bad contracts.

 

[Hit the post]

Boeser being scratched is a 'good news', 'bad news' story. While he deserves to be parked, his on-ice performance and hefty contract, makes him almost untradeable.

And as bad as Boeser has been in the last three games, the guy who really deserves to 'sit' imo is Garland. Another $4.9m contract that's also rapidly entering the 'untradeable' category.

Once you get past Pettersson, Hughes, Horvat and Miller on some nights, there isn't a single player on this current roster who's playing anywhere near their pay grade.

But I guess that's the conundrum of a 'capped out' team with a long list of bad contracts.

That damn Gillis saddling JR with all that garbage.


signed, CDC

 

[DonnyNucker]

Love that Boeser is scratched.

He’s f***ing awful and that contract is atrocious.

Fantastic news. Hopefully puckmunchkin is ok

 

[Peen]

Scratching Boeser was the most obvious decision of all time.

Bruce gave him a “show me you can do it” opportunity after Boeser had suggested frustration with his role. He didn’t last more than half the game. He looked so awful.

I don’t think Punch disagrees because I was spamming that they need to scratch him in the last GDT.

 

[mriswith]

This why lack of foresight is so frustrating. Now that all our player values have cratered this season there's trade talks when a bit of foresight could identified that the roster just wasn't that good and these trades could have been done last year on the upswing.

Play good=double down on roster, play bad=trade away roster is precisely how you end up buying high, selling low and getting nowhere.

 

[Love]

Brock Boeser

 

[Breakers]

Boeser can’t transition puck.
He has one of the lowest “controlled exit” percentages in the league.

If he could do that he would be serviceable.

 

[VanJack]

Even in his salad days as a rookie, Boeser was at best an 'average' skater. But with all the injuries it looks to me that he's a step slower than he was. This might not be as big a problem if the league hadn't gotten faster every single season.

As other posters have stated, if Boeser could at least transition the puck out of his own zone he might still be in the lineup. But of all the lackluster forwards they have along the wall, Boeser might be one of the worst.

If you're Boudreau, all you can hope for is that he gets better. His contract makes him untradeable. But he isn't getting any younger.

 

[LuckyDay]

Jimmy Pattison was/is a beast for production out of his employees and very hands on.

After the 1972–73 WHA season ended, the Philadelphia Blazers' owners sold the team to Jim Pattison who moved the team north of the border to Vancouver, British Columbia where it was named Vancouver Blazers.

Pattison knew that in order to compete with the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL, who shared the same arena, he needed to attract a major star to the team, as Andre Lacroix, who had led the league in scoring the previous year, left to join the New York Golden Blades, while the team's (and league's) highest-paid player, Derek Sanderson, had been forced out at the end of the season in a major embarrassment to the team and league. Pattison tried to sign Boston star Phil Esposito, offering him $2.5 million over five years. Esposito decided to stay with the Bruins for less money.

The team performed poorly in their first year, finishing with a record of 27-50-1; despite this, Vancouver was such a strong hockey town that the Blazers actually led the WHA in attendance, drawing 9,356 a night, more than 50% above the average of the other eleven clubs in the league.

Canucks

Regular season[4]

Postseason[5]

Season

Conference

Division

Finish

GP

W

L

T[6]

OT[7]

Pts

GF

GA

GP

W

L

GF

GA

Result

1973–74

—

East

7th

78​

24​

43​

11​

—

59​

224​

296​

—

—

—

—

—

Did not qualify

1974–75

Campbell

Smythe

1st

80​

38​

32​

10​

—

86​

271​

254​

5​

1​

4​

9​

20​

Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Canadiens)[8]

Season	Team Name	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	PIM	Finish	Playoffs
1973–74	Vancouver Blazers	78	27	50	1	55	278	345	1047	5th, Western	Did not qualify
1974–75	Vancouver Blazers	78	37	39	2	76	256	270	1075	4th, Canadian	Did not qualify
	Franchise totals	395	174	207	14	362	1381	1498	5278

Jim Pattison's record with the Vancouver Blazers vs the Canucks

 

[hellstick]

Boeser is just too slow and not hard enough on the puck. He wants to be the guy, but he can't move quick enough around to do that. I think this is a hard lesson for him, hopefully he can salvage the season and come back prepared for next year. Maybe living in a party house with a bunch of his friends in Minnesota isn't the way to go in the offseason.

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

Tank game tonight nice, who can tank more...

 

[Play]

You dont.


We do. But you dont.

Humbling and quite profound

We got quadruple penetrated on that trade. Every single crevice stuffed.

Anyways, Riley Stillman.

Lol holy shit. That was a egg yolk trad

 

[racerjoe]

I want to make sure this gets taken the right way, but I would rather have scratched Stillman and had Boeser play left d.

 

[wonton15]

I want to make sure this gets taken the right way, but I would rather have scratched Stillman and had Boeser play left d.

I think I'd rather have Stillman play forward in Boeser's place instead and run with 5D

It might even be a net positive if they just switch positions

 

[racerjoe]

I think I'd rather have Stillman play forward in Boeser's place instead and run with 5D

It might even be a net positive if they just switch positions

I mean they have both been pretty terrible, but I just can't understand what Bruce sees in Stillman. Brock has been bad, but somehow defying all odds he has put up points. He doesn't deserve to be in the lineup, but there is bad, then there is what Stillman has been. Can we just play two players short and double shift Petey and looks at the rest of the defence... maybe Hughes, or well maybe Bear.

 

[EpochLink]

Boeser has been prison booty since the start of the season, the past couple games are shockingly terribad.

Let this be a lesson to him

 

[CherryToke]

Boeser is just too slow and not hard enough on the puck. He wants to be the guy, but he can't move quick enough around to do that. I think this is a hard lesson for him, hopefully he can salvage the season and come back prepared for next year. Maybe living in a party house with a bunch of his friends in Minnesota isn't the way to go in the offseason.

He will never change. Too lazy. He'd rather get fat and watch Grey's Anatomy all day

 

[Vector]

11F/7D

Maybe Guenther is playing? No idea.

 

[m9]

FYI, to everyone. Guenther didn’t play the last game and, as far as I can tell, isn’t playing tonight. Not sure why.

11F/7D

Maybe Guenther is playing? No idea.

He played last game v LA - had two assists. Don't see why he wouldn't be in there tonight.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

I understand sending a message but there’s no way BB6 is more unproductive than Aman , Hoglander , etc. he’s on pace for 70 points.

Boeser has been prison booty since the start of the season, the past couple games are shockingly terribad.

Let this be a lesson to him

His body and mind are both broken. I feel bad for the guy to be honest. He was never a great skater and then breaking his back really f***ed it up. His skating is honestly below NHL level and average for AHL level.

Boeser has been prison booty since the start of the season, the past couple games are shockingly terribad.

Let this be a lesson to him

He doesn’t seem the type to get fired up after a healthy scratch. That would work for say, JTM9 perhaps. BB6 will likely sulk and just be less productive afterwards.

 

[Vector]

He played last game v LA - had two assists. Don't see why he wouldn't be in there tonight.

Wasn’t in the projected line-ups and has been a semi-regular scratch. With Ritchie and Kaddish scratched, he’s definitely in the line-up now.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

He played last game v LA - had two assists. Don't see why he wouldn't be in there tonight.

Cuz it’s not nice to rub in the other teams faces the worst trade in the last 20 years.