Post-Game Talk: Flames def. Canucks - 5-2 (Pettersson, Hoglander) | Well, nuts.

[VanJack]

They got through it at 1-1. Secured the 2 points, Irrelevant that the Isles got a point since they are in the East. No impact on the Canucks. If you are going to play Quinn that much, at least they got the full benefit of doing that. Meant for Calgary game, you needed to dial him back.

For a team that controls their own arena, Canucks have a lot of 2 game home stands before a road game. Seems a bit odd.

Maybe you can 'dial back' his ice-time, but you're not going to 'dial back' Quinn Hughes as a player. He's going to give it everything he has on every shift. His ice time in Calgary last night was 23.,47, which is only slightly below his season average.

There were definite signs last night of fatigue. And when players are mentally and physically tired, that's when the tend to get careless and put themselves in harm's way for big hits. Frankly my heart was in my mouth every time Zadorov was out there. He's the kind of guy who can put a player out for the season.

Hughes ice-time over a long 82-game season was an issue last season, and nothing much has changed.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Garland shouldn’t have been on the top line, they generated nothing. Calgary seemed heavier, stronger and faster than Vancouver, but Vancouver was on a back to back so cutting them some slack. Canucks will bounce back, can’t win em all.

 

[StreetHawk]

Garland shouldn’t have been on the top line, they generated nothing. Calgary seemed heavier, stronger and faster than Vancouver, but Vancouver was on a back to back so cutting them some slack. Canucks will bounce back, can’t win em all.

I do also wonder about the mentality of the players with these 1 off games. You get back after a 3 game trip, drop you stuff off and then back out again but for 1 game. I’m sure the players prefer to do trips of 3-5 games vs these one offs. But it is what it is.

 

[ChuckFanForever]

Tough game tonight. Our top players didn’t have it and DeSmith wasn’t good.

That or he shoots right?

Perhaps it was both! Anyways, he's been sent down again and Hirose is up next...

 

[Nucks2001]

Tougher schedule coming up over the next few weeks and VERY important divisional and conference games. Golden Knights, Avs, Ducks, Kraken and the Flames again. We need to keep on winning and create separation from these teams.

Interesting to note that we have not done so well against Eastern conference teams this season compared to the West. Was the same case last season.

Tougher schedule coming up over the next few weeks and VERY important divisional and conference games. Golden Knights, Avs, Ducks, Kraken and the Flames again. We need to keep on winning and create serious separation from these teams before the East Coast Seing in January.

Interesting to note that we have not done so well against Eastern conference teams this season compared to the West. Was the same case last season.

 

[ChuckFanForever]

Tougher schedule coming up over the next few weeks and VERY important divisional and conference games. Golden Knights, Avs, Ducks, Kraken and the Flames again. We need to keep on winning and create separation from these teams.

Interesting to note that we have not done so well against Eastern conference teams this season compared to the West. Was the same case last season.

Away games vs strong Eastern Teams are always gonna be the Canucks bane, simply because they are the Western-most team in Canada and have to fly the furthest/longest to get to the opposing teams barns...

 

[Nucks2001]

Away games vs strong Eastern Teams are always gonna be the Canucks bane, simply because they are the Western-most team in Canada and have to fly the furthest/longest to get to the opposing teams barns...

True. Our home record against Eastern teams was atrocious last season. 1-1 this season with the win over the Islanders, should honestly be 2-0, with the officiating in that Rangers game. Good that we picked up wins against the Sens and Canadiens as well.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Yep. Schedule loss. Not really a big deal. They were gonna lose some games sometime.

They've got a fairly soft schedule through the New Year where they should be able to bank more points. Get home ice in Round 1 locked down.

Da Nucks are going to da ship and gonna do da damn thing when they da get there.

 

[MS]

Garland shouldn’t have been on the top line, they generated nothing. Calgary seemed heavier, stronger and faster than Vancouver, but Vancouver was on a back to back so cutting them some slack. Canucks will bounce back, can’t win em all.

Yeah, that was a mis-step from Tocchet. Those guys played together for the first 3 or 4 games of the season and it just didn't work at all, and I'm not sure why they went back to it instead of trying something new. Beauvillier looked pretty decent with Pettersson last year, for starters.

Predictably it looked just as bad in November as it did in October.