Pre-Game Talk: Canucks@Oilers Game 1

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Is Lammikko reporting to Abby or Van..?
https://thehockeywriters.com/canucks-lammikko-size-personality-penalty-killing/

The beat reporters today sure made it sound like Lammikko is joining the main club and will get a look on the fourth line.

Would make sense given they waived Di Giuseppe.

 

[alternate]

Don't think there's any question Lammikko joins the big club with Sutter out. Will likely be on one of our key PK guys.

 

[Hit the post]

sounds like a threat!

Don't think there's any question Lammikko joins the big club with Sutter out. Will likely be on one of our key PK guys.

More like he's get the position by default considering the other options available.

 

[krutovsdonut]

Is Lammikko reporting to Abby or Van..?
https://thehockeywriters.com/canucks-lammikko-size-personality-penalty-killing/

he would need to clear waivers to get to abby

 

[xtra]

Man that defense is so bad; and it’s actually fully healthy right now.

when the inevitable OEL/Hughes injuries come it’s gonna be gloriously bad

 

[M2Beezy]

Working Wednesday evening. Rats. Will miss much of this and you guys will miss my commentery

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Working Wednesday evening. Rats. Will miss much of this and you guys will miss my commentery

We can just type “man I love this team!” after any half decent play.

 

[alternate]

Working Wednesday evening. Rats. Will miss much of this and you guys will miss my commentery

Pretty sure we are all willing to watch on tape delay. Let us know when you are home so we can sync up our PVRs!

 

[wetcoast]

Cannot wait, going to be an awesome season. We're shaping up to be a top 5-8 team in the NHL.

WE WILL WIN. YOU KNOW WE WILL.

GO CANUCKS GO!!!!

Sure we will because we just handily beat the Oilers in their barn with our stars not playing and with our backup goalie to boot.

Now back to reality as I just happened to slip into preseason alternate universe there for a bit.

Anyone watching the Canucks the last 2 preseason games and looking objectively at that back end has to be worried right?

Now maybe starting on the road will help with 4 games against non playoff teams and a 5th against the Kraken after the Oiler tilt but if they are in the hole they might be squeezing those sticks on that first home stand.

 

[VanJack]

The only hope in the opener is for the Canucks to stay out of the penalty box. Draisaitl and McDavid will eat them alive if they don't.

But that blueline is so ponderous and prone to turnovers, it's hard not to see how they don't draw a bunch of hooking and holding penalties. And it's a double whammy because the PK has been terrible throughout the pre-season. In fact, after a three week training camp, I have absolutely no idea which players the Canucks will actually employ on the PK.

With a six-game roadie to start things out, I just hope we aren't having the same dialogue about this team we had at the 10-game mark last season. It was apparent from the get-go they just weren't ready to start the season.

 

[1440]

Chiasson literally played with 2 of the best players in the world and did not much with it.
That team then let him walk for nothing in favor of noted all stars puljujarvi, yamamoto, kassian, perlini.

So he better be a brock placeholder, but it certainly doesn't seem like it from the way the coaches have used him the entirety of camp.

He is excellent on the powerplay but weak at even strength. Not completely useless, but not the sort of player I would want signed.

 

[wetcoast]

Without another shoe dropping, there simply isn’t room to sign Chiasson to so much as a minimum wage deal. Unless Boeser is more injured than we realize, or the Canucks send down a waiver exempt player such as Podkolzin or Rathbone, it doesn’t work.

Also just frustrates the heck out of me that the first time we legitimately have six top six forwards, Green inexplicably dispatches Hoglander to the bottom six and has Chiasson playing on the top unit.

What do you mean unless?

All signs are pointing to Podklolzin being demoted and Chiasson signed, this is a Benning/Green team after all.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Excellent is an overstatement

 

[Bobby9]

Might have to put Miller on the trade block for a 2-3 Dman asap

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

The beat reporters today sure made it sound like Lammikko is joining the main club and will get a look on the fourth line.

Would make sense given they waived Di Giuseppe.

Yup...sounding like he is Sutters replacement ..Sutter is out indefinitely.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Might have to put Miller on the trade block for a 2-3 Dman asap

Here we go again

 

[Get North]

The beat reporters today sure made it sound like Lammikko is joining the main club and will get a look on the fourth line.

Would make sense given they waived Di Giuseppe.

He'd need to get acclimated to the system and coaching staff. Since he's not in Vancouver yet, I highly doubt he plays game 1.

No Sutter means it's up to guys like Petan, Dowling, Lammikko to take the job of 4C. We're safe with Jason Dickinson, the question becomes what do the wingers look like if Miller plays 3C. Somebody like Chiasson or Petan in the top 9 doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Kryten]

Here we go again

Miller should be traded next summer

 

[Cornwallace]

Very cool to see Gadjovich was waived to give Chiasson a chance to ride shotgun on the first line

 

[logan5]

If Hogs and Podz establish themselves as good top 6 forwards, then imo we have enough forward depth to trade Miller for a d man. But what level of d could we get for a good player on a cheap price, but 1 yrear away from free agency? He could easily be the missing piece that puts a team in a position to win a SC, so maybe we could steal a 2 or 3 d man, who also is nearing free agency.

 

[vanarchy]

Miller should be traded next summer

If the D crumbles through the season like we think it will, his overall value may just go down by then.

 

[AppleHoneySauce]

If the D crumbles through the season like we think it will, his overall value may just go down by then.

Its going to down anyways because the most valuable part of miller (his contract) will be one year out from expiring.

 

[Fraser28]

What the f*** are those forward lines? If those are what Green actually goes with on opening night, he should be shot into the sun.

 

[kanucks25]

This bottom-6 and defense as a whole looks awful lol.

They need to be stacking the top-9, sticking all the non-NHLers on the 4th line and only playing them in blowouts/PK.

 

[Three On Zero]

Going to be ugly, but I do have to laugh at Edmonton fans claiming they had depth to play McDrai separate yet they start the season together lol