All completely winnable games. In years past, we'd be looking down the barrel of a potential 13 game winning streak. As it is, I'd want the Canucks to win at least 7 of these games.
Post-Game Talk: GAME #31 - Canucks @ Kings - March 23, 2013
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All completely winnable games. In years past, we'd be looking down the barrel of a potential 13 game winning streak. As it is, I'd want the Canucks to win at least 7 of these games.
Tobi Wan Kenobi
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This makes no sense Hodgson wasn't even on our first unit......It's not even worth noting.
CCF23
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Didn't think we'd win. Schneids is in the zone right now. Good defensive effort beyond him, though. We did a good job of blocking shots and were more physical today than we usually are. Stringing together two greasy road wins is just what this team needed.
PP still sucks, though.
PP still sucks, though.
Pip
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a lot of people have said that our PP would be much better if we had Ehrhoff and Hodgson, when they themselves are struggling on the PP in Buffalo
PG Canuck
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Any PP of ours that doesn't give up more chances than we get, is a good PP.
From Canucks Army:
"I don't want to harp on how dreadful the power play looks, because I realize that it's missing 2 of its most important pieces. I'll just mention that the team had 3 opportunities, which only generated 2 scoring chances. Both were for the Kings."
How many games do you guys think they going to give Nolan for crosschecking one of the star players in the NHL (and the Canucks all-time leading scorer) in the back of the head, while he was on his hands and knees on the ice in a defenceless position?
If the Edler suspension is any indication, my guess is about 4 games.
Oh wait. I forgot. They don't give players any sort of REAL punishment for trying to hurt the Sedins. Hahahaha never mind! I got confused about which league I was watching. Never mind. Carry on.
If the Edler suspension is any indication, my guess is about 4 games.
Oh wait. I forgot. They don't give players any sort of REAL punishment for trying to hurt the Sedins. Hahahaha never mind! I got confused about which league I was watching. Never mind. Carry on.
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PG Canuck
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Yup. Just shows how little confidence the PP has right now when it's more of a PK rather than a PP.
The league is a farce. I've completely given up having any expectation that the NHL gives a crap about the Sedins or about any teams that aren't important to them.
The Canucks played a decent team game. Small steps, but they're improving.
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That was perfect, perfectly played, that's exactly the sorts of games we've got to win going forward. These guys are finally getting an identity, playing the tight-checking, defence-first, low-scoring games that we need to be playing to win with this lineup. Awesome game.
NoRaise4Brackett
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So that Canucks fan from Glee was at the game.
guy under him picking his nose... kinda like this:
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Yep, we've been screaming for AV to put Schroeder on the 2nd line and it's working out. Might have to give AV credit here though instead of hate since I'm not sure if the trip to the AHL had a good effect on Schroeder or if its just being put with better linemates.
Having a 2nd line these last two games is making a huge difference...we just have to decide now if we want to put faith in the 2nd line or go get a more veteran guy...
We have tons of cap space right now due to the guys we can put on LTIR (Maholtra and Booth) I hope we still get a guy who can play forward at the centre position and be an effective winger...or a guy that could play centre with Kesler at wing.
Yeah, that's Hansen every night. The guy is a stud for us. I wonder if we can get him on a Burrows contract to make up for the fact that Burrows is no longer going to be on a Burrows contract.
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Schneider slowly but surely claiming the #1 goalie spot. If he keeps this up, he will solidify his position and allow Gillis to trade Luongo with full confidence. It should be noted that we might be in rough shape without Luongo at the start of the year so Gillis has actually played this pretty well regardless of what we get for Luongo IMO.
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I'd say because you need to prove to yourself that Schneider is or isn't a franchise level starter before this off-season.
With the cap going down, we simply cannot go with both goalies into next season and don't want to go into next year with a question mark in net. I honestly believe the starters job going forward is still up for grabs but Schneider is making his move while no matter how Luongo plays, we know already know he is a great starter. If Schneider can play out the season as franchise level starter, then we will trade Luongo. If Luongo needs to start taking a lot of starts because Schneider isn't getting the job done, I think Schneider is gone this off-season.
With our huge LTIR space, there is no reason to trade Luongo or Schneider unless the return offered is very helpful now.
NOTE: Still think we should play Luongo in back-to-back situations though.
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If it gets them to stop doing that **** to our star players, I would consider it well worth the trouble. But alas, I doubt it. Really don't know what you do to stop this bull**** from happening aside from having a killer PP.
I'm super down on AV this season, but I think the slow demotion of JS to the fourth line and then to the AHL was probably the right call.
He played with Sestito and Weise before and after his last call up, and I think its obvious his second go with those two went a lot better (even without Weise's goal).
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Schneider is doing a little demo on why Luongo is expendable (in case some folks forgot). This guy is an elite netminder in the NHL in his own right. 20 shots? I don't care...he stood tall at all the right moments, and like he said in the post-game...he worked pretty hard for that shutout. It wasn't a game where the Kings didn't have a handful of crazy point blank chances.
Anyway...this is AV's bread and butter. Coaxing wins out of an absolutely embarrassing lineup. Our roster is pathetic at the moment and we shouldn't be winning games, but this is where 'the process' and 'keeping it simple' really shines. The question for me...is whether he can take full advantage of a truly talented roster. Remains to be seen i think...but it's hard to hate on the coaching after eeking out a win like this vs defending cup Champs with an ugly roster like we're icing.
Also, Ballard-Tanev needs to be a thing. Ballard looks so much more smooth and calm, and Tanev seems to get hammered on the end boards an awful lot less often when Ballard is able to use his skating to get back and grab pucks. Both of which are huge bonuses.
As does Hamhuis-Bieksa...together late, with Garrison caught out with the icing and no chance to change as the far side D...HamJuice came up big late again. Those two are just made for each other. When Edler is back, it's time to revisit the 'Big $$$ Experiment' imo.
Anyway...this is AV's bread and butter. Coaxing wins out of an absolutely embarrassing lineup. Our roster is pathetic at the moment and we shouldn't be winning games, but this is where 'the process' and 'keeping it simple' really shines. The question for me...is whether he can take full advantage of a truly talented roster. Remains to be seen i think...but it's hard to hate on the coaching after eeking out a win like this vs defending cup Champs with an ugly roster like we're icing.
Also, Ballard-Tanev needs to be a thing. Ballard looks so much more smooth and calm, and Tanev seems to get hammered on the end boards an awful lot less often when Ballard is able to use his skating to get back and grab pucks. Both of which are huge bonuses.
As does Hamhuis-Bieksa...together late, with Garrison caught out with the icing and no chance to change as the far side D...HamJuice came up big late again. Those two are just made for each other. When Edler is back, it's time to revisit the 'Big $$$ Experiment' imo.
Jabba The Hutton
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Been saying it for 2 years now. Hamjuice simply works, if we are not going to pair up hamhuis/bieksa, we might as well trade bieksa, bieksa without hamhuis is scary.
The problem then arises again, why the hell do we still have 3 dmen on the left side making 4 mil+ with 2 spots left?
Hamhuis and Bieksa has been a downright disaster this season because Hamhuis needs a babysitter just as much as Bieksa does for whatever reason. He's probably injured.
Pip
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No thanks, Bieksa is as bad as ever and just downright a liability most of the time. Hamhuis is also struggling this year and is not playing good enough to cover for the trainwreck that is Kevin Bieksa
hamhuis/bieksa struggled in the first few games, rusty from a lockout?
then when they started to play better, they were broken up, because edler/garrison couldn't work together.
Since then, hamhuis has played with edler/garrison, and bieksa had to play with both as well.
Whoever is genius enough to put edler-bieksa together must have filmed the "perfect storm".
hamhuis-bieksa clearly works, and was one of the main reason we won back to back president trophys. And how we went all the way to the finals with them playing against the other teams top players game in and game out.
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