Post-Game Talk: GAME #57: Canucks 2 vs. Sharks 7: Wow! What a debacle!

[Gaunce4gm]

Macewen is a player

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

If you were Dipietro, how do you go on after a game like this? Kid must have told his family and friends he was going to start only to get demolished on national tv.

Poor kid thrown to the Sharks. Not going to be good for his confidence.

My hot take - I think DiPietro is going to be absolutely fine.

He just got to realize his dream of playing in the best league in the world. He stopped shots fired by some of the best players in the world. Sure he lost, sure he got lit up - but no goalie gets to that level without having been lit up a few times. DiPietro has had far, far harder knocks in his life than giving up goals in a hockey game. I guarantee that all this game is going to do to DiPietro is make him hungry for more. He showed up, he tried his best, he kept battling when the game was out of reach, and he will learn from it.

None of that excuses the fact that this situation should never, ever have occurred in the first place, and only played out this way because of blundering incompetence from management. This was entirely preventable, and for an organization that keeps crowing about playing meaningful games to gift away two points to a divisional rival because they couldn’t Ice an NHL goaltender is pathetic.

 

[David71]

time to find a capable nhl goalie. depending on how long markstrom and demko are out for. this is all on benning.

 

[Fire Benning]

Now what are they going to do on the back to back if Markstrom isn't good to go? Dipietro in both games? This is just ridiculous, unacceptable, peewee level management.

 

[CherryToke]

Anyone miss Schaller?

 

[Dr Good Vibes]

Now what are they going to do on the back to back if Markstrom isn't good to go? Dipietro in both games? This is just ridiculous, unacceptable, peewee level management.

I'm scared they're gonna trade draft picks for a goalie.

 

[Hit the post]

time to find a capable nhl goalie. depending on how long markstrom and demko are out for. this is all on benning.

Not a good time as even when he has ALL the leverage he doesn’t exactly win many trades. Now he has no such leverage + awful pro scouting =

 

[Eddy Punch Clock]

His name is Mike so....

I suck.

I honestly meant M7KE. I wonder how many broadcasters will screw that up.

 

[clunk]

Can't playing apex legends lmao
The only BR game I actually like

****.

Someone needs to be the hero and call them out. All the calls are going to be in the context of the game, not the management gaffe.

Very important that they get trashed on 1040 and the vitriol is directed towards them rather than just the team.

 

[polarbearcub]

Now what are they going to do on the back to back if Markstrom isn't good to go? Dipietro in both games? This is just ridiculous, unacceptable, peewee level management.

Especially a team that’s in a playoff race and s management that wants to take a run at it . They throw the kid to the wolves and put the entire team in a tough spot

 

[Zippgunn]

Canucks need to respond. This is Gudbransons time to shine. He needs to take out Burns long term in a clean injury to the neck or something. I dont want to encourage an injury but this is embarrassing. Yeah yeah blame Benning for the goalie situation but doesnt mean the Sharks have to be such classless yahoos. Send a message. Gudbranson and Roussell this is their time to make the Sharks never forget this game for all the wrong reasons for them

Roussell is doing his bit IMHO...

 

[bbud]

time to find a capable nhl goalie. depending on how long markstrom and demko are out for. this is all on benning.

Demko is.skating and if Markstrom has a.bug as was one radio report do you wait a.day ?
If it's a longer term thing yes but not until.

 

[hellstick]

pray he doesn't get lit up.

ha

 

[Frank Garrett]

...or maybe he goes to the DEL...

Maybe he retires and becomes a mechanic for Porsche.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

If you were Dipietro, how do you go on after a game like this? Kid must have told his family and friends he was going to start only to get demolished on national tv.

Poor kid thrown to the Sharks. Not going to be good for his confidence.

Hot take
He has definitely experienced worse loss in his young career, he’ll be fine

 

[Michael Dal Swolle]

My hot take - I think DiPietro is going to be absolutely fine.

He just got to realize his dream of playing in the best league in the world. He stopped shots fired by some of the best players in the world. Sure he lost, sure he got lit up - but no goalie gets to that level without having been lit up a few times. DiPietro has had far, far harder knocks in his life than giving up goals in a hockey game. I guarantee that all this game is going to do to DiPietro is make him hungry for more. He showed up, he tried his best, he kept battling when the game was out of reach, and he will learn from it.

None of that excuses the fact that this situation should never, ever have occurred in the first place, and only played out this way because of blundering incompetence from management. This was entirely preventable, and for an organization that keeps crowing about playing meaningful games to gift away two points to a divisional rival because they couldn’t Ice an NHL goaltender is pathetic.

Agreed 100%. DiPietro handled himself well after the WJCs and seems like a mature enough kid to deal with it.

My concern, though, is if Markstrom ends up on the shelf for longer than a couple games. DiPietro didn't look ready to play at this level, and if he ends up getting blown out on multiple occasions this year I start to worry about the lasting impact on his confidence.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Anyone miss Schaller?

No?

 

[ATypicalCanadian]

 

[TruKnyte]

Is there a list anywhere of goalies without contracts?

 

[PG Canuck]

Jumbo Joe even saying he felt sorry for DiPietro and it's a brutal spot to be put in.

Yikes.

 

[Throwback]

Well I'm 0-2 when I go to games against the Sharks . Last time against the Sharks was game 2 2013 playoffs. Glad MacEwan had a good game though.

Edit: probably last time I'll see Thornton play in person too. Big milestone for him today. What a career.

 

[Melvin]

Joe Thornton reminds me of Groot

 

[MS]

Well, that was a debacle. Jim Benning wears 100% of this mess. Just an embarrassing situation.

- Dipietro should never, ever in a million years have been dressing for a game right now and this wasn’t his fault. But you can see how massively far this player is from the NHL and how undersized he is for his position. Have been shaking my head at the ‘better prospect than Demko’ posts here over the last year and this is why. Will be in tough to be an average AHL goalie next year for Utica.

- MacEwen was very good in (laughably) limited minutes. Good showing from him - wish he would have gotten clear on that late chance where Dillon made a diving play to strip the puck.

- Tanev-Gudbranson experiment needs to end, now. Well, Gudbranson with anyone experiment needs to end but having Tanev play on his off side with that sack of crap is just a miserable situation.

- Hutton has been excellent but did not have a strong game today.

- Gudbranson doing nothing about Kane attacking Stecher and then taking a pathetic selfish slashing penalty later sums up this player perfectly.

- did Goldobin play?

- Pettersson really the only forward doing anything again. That pass on our first goal was unreal.

- Horvat just looks exhausted.

- Granlund sucks. Such a terrible skater.

 

[Dr Good Vibes]

Jumbo Joe even saying he felt sorry for DiPietro and it's a brutal spot to be put in.

Yikes.

This is a pretty unusual situation lol. I honestly bet our management team is embarrassed. Or they should be.

 

[Melvin]

This is a pretty unusual situation lol. I honestly bet our management team is embarrassed. Or they should be.

Embarrassment requires a level of competence they do not have. It's called the Dunning Krueger Effect.