Post-Game Talk: GAME #36: Canucks 4, Oilers 2: VAN wins the Sam Gagner Invitational (and is back to .500 on W/L)

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Sam Gagner Invitational Tournament

	PHI	EDM	VAN
PHI	-----	L​	L​
EDM	W​	------
VAN	W​		-----

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[EpochLink]

ROXY FLU

 

[PG Canuck]

Look out Lars

 

[ErrantShepherd]

Look out Lars

Looking out for Petey to be rollin' past Molin.

...hopefully the Canucks can follow suit and win against these Oilers. Hitchcock coached teams bore the me to tears though, not expecting this to be a fun watch unless the Canucks can get a few on the board early to open things up.

4-3 Nucks?
Petterson with a hat trick, and Horvat.
...cause idk, why not?

Though honestly, all this game needs is 1 point for Petey for me to be ok with it. Just hoping it's not a godawful boring game to watch...

 

[Canucks LB]

Mcd vs ep40 i am excited as heck

 

[WTG]

Hitchcock has been a revelation for the Oilers. It's good to see that they finally have a coach who has strong systems. Hitchcock really was the perfect fit.

 

[polarbearcub]

Biggest game of the year.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

This will be tough.

Our forwards will be as fresh as they can be coming off a back to back, but our perennially overworked defense and a likely-to-start Nilsson going up against McDavid and a hot Oilers team is going to be tough.

If the Canucks are going to take this one, they’ll need to score their way out of it, methinks.

 

[Motte and Bailey]

Only 4 points out of a playoff spot. Let’s make it 2! Go Canucks Go

 

[Zombotron]

If the playoff bar is 95 points, then the team needs 60P / 27-30 wins in its remaining 45 games to get there. Not optimistic about them walking away from EDM/TBL/WPG with a good record, but we'll see.

 

[WTG]

If the playoff bar is 95 points, then the team needs 60P / 27-30 wins in its remaining 45 games to get there. Not optimistic about them walking away from EDM/TBL/WPG with a good record, but we'll see.

Come on you must be used to thinking your guy can win.
You're a Vettel fan

 

[Zombotron]

Come on you must be used to thinking your guy can win.
You're a Vettel fan

WHAT THE f*** ARE WE DOING HERE, HOCKEY, OR PING-PONG FOR f***'S SAKE????????

i'm going home

 

[WTG]

WHAT THE **** ARE WE DOING HERE, HOCKEY, OR PING-PONG FOR ****'S SAKE????????

i'm going home

HONESTLY WHAT ARE WE DOING?

 

[NoShowWilly]

San Gagner Invitational finale.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Great little run here by the Canucks,..but i don't see it this game.....3-1 Oilers

Will probably be a neutral zone slog, where neither team can string more than two passes together at a time...This is where you need a player like Pettersson to pull the rabbit out of the hat.

 

[Icebreakers]

Oilers are 9-2-2 under Hitchcock.

Btw that Oilers D looks awful... those bottom 4 players are almost as bad as ours. Thats like 4 Biega/MDZ level players.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

This will be a tough one, but I'll never vote for anything other than a win vs. the Oil.

2-1 Canucks

Boeser
Beagle

 

[rickwiththe]

Feels like a high scoring game. Unfortunately I think the nuck's might pull the short straw here. On the plus side, there should be a good chance for some EP points.

 

[JanBulisPiggyBack]

Welp looks like the Canucks have a good chance of taking the Sam Gagner threesome home tonight, looking like a series sweep
The Bean Pot would do itself justice to take notes on how well organized and promoted these mini tourneys are, from a historical standing
The revenue it generates alone is amazing, too bad it’s raking almost all the shine out of the world juniors

 

[Zombotron]

It is f***ing weird to me that Kyle Brodziak is on that team, as he was on the 2007-08 Oilers I saw 8 times in my first season as a fan. Too bad we can't bring out Taylor Pyatt, Brad Isbister and Byron Ritchie to counter.

 

[Egghead1999]

Feels like a high scoring game. Unfortunately I think the nuck's might pull the short straw here. On the plus side, there should be a good chance for some EP points.

don't get the memo ; Hitchcock is Oilers' coach now

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

It is ****ing weird to me that Kyle Brodziak is on that team, as he was on the 2007-08 Oilers I saw 8 times in my first season as a fan. Too bad we can't bring out Taylor Pyatt, Brad Isbister and Byron Ritchie to counter.

Feels like he's always been around and has played on ten different teams at this point.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Feels like he's always been around and has played on ten different teams at this point.

...and done a decent job of being a Canuck killer on each one of them.

 

[polarbearcub]

That oilers d is worse than ours... holy crap it’s bad