Post-Game Talk: GAME #65: Canucks 2 @ Coyotes 5: Brad Richardson with the quad damage

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[Mr. Canucklehead]

Coyotes are on a hot run right now; if the Canucks come out with the same start they did with Colorado, this won’t end well.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Demko time I think
Hope the groin didnt affect him too much

 

[Soups On]

4-1 loss tonight, Granlund with the highest weak-plays/60

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Some reports are coming out that Edler is ready to return and the Gaudette Is back w the team after dealing with the flu.

 

[hellstick]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

 

[mathonwy]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

Loui keeps trying to scratch himself but the coach keeps putting his name into the line up.

 

[BROCK HUGHES]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

I'd be sitting him out all the time.The guy is a salary cap nightmare.A 6 plus mill a year 4th line player is really bad asset management.

 

[Josepho]

oh man i'm just so devastated that i'm gonna have to miss ANOTHER coyotes canucks game

 

[Hit the post]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

He's just the itch that you can't scratch.

 

[Love]

Is Pettersson playing?

 

[PhilMick]

Loui keeps trying to scratch himself but the coach keeps putting his name into the line up.

I wish he would do the right thing and come down with the same made up skin condition Marian Hossa has.

 

[VanJack]

Hopefully this contest is better than that awful mud-wrestling effort at Rogers Arena last week. Maybe the 'Yotes will actually open it up a bit more at home. A few goals would be nice.

Any word on the starting goaltender for the Canucks? Can't see how they don't go with Demko. Markstrom was buried under an avalanche of shots and scoring chances last night in Denver, including OT and a shootout. With the travel he'll be gassed tonight.

Another basically 'must-win' game for the Canucks. Feeling curiously positive about this one. The 'Yotes are due for a letdown game at home.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

And what, play Schaller?

Amyhoo, I the the ‘Yotes take this...

4-2 (3-2, if Marky plays)

Pearson
Leivo

 

[Fire Benning]

Getting to that point in the season where I can't be bothered to tune in.

 

[Pip]

Arizona is better than us, further along in their rebuild, and has better management

Dark times

 

[hellstick]

And what, play Schaller?

Sure. What's the difference? Or even better, how about Gaudette if he's healthy?

Loui's the top paid player on this team. I think even the biggest detractor of the signing at the time would have expected better production and effort out of him during his Canuck tenure. I doubt he even gets bought out until 2020 at the earliest.

 

[HankNDank]

Sure. What's the difference? Or even better, how about Gaudette if he's healthy?

Loui's the top paid player on this team. I think even the biggest detractor of the signing at the time would have expected better production and effort out of him during his Canuck tenure. I doubt he even gets bought out until 2020 at the earliest.

I don't think he will get bought out. We will keep him around and leave him exposed in the expansion draft. If (when) Seattle doesn't take him, we wait until after July 1st that summer, he will only be paid $5M more on the remaining 2 years of the contact. We will be able to trade him to a team who wants high cap hit - low monies player.

 

[Hemty]

Arizona is better than us, further along in their rebuild, and has better management

Dark times

Not according to Botch, who tries to S*** on the yotes every chance he gets.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Arizona is better than us, further along in their rebuild, and has better management

Dark times

Is it because they're two points ahead of us?...Or they've missed the playoffs for 6 consecutive years.(3 playoff appearances in 15 years)...or your a bitter Canucks fan?..maybe all three?

 

[Zippgunn]

Some reports are coming out that Edler is ready to return and the Gaudette Is back w the team after dealing with the flu.

If it's the same flu that I'm getting over I sympathize; it's a killer. Had me in bed for four straight days...

 

[VanJack]

Bodog and the other sports betting lines have the the Canucks officially at eight percent to make the playoffs. That goes down with a loss tonight.

Yet the pompom waivers and cheerleaders on House Radio will continue to prattle on about "the young Canuck players playing meaningful games in March". Seriously? At odds of under eight percent, they have a better chance of winning the draft lottery than making the playoffs.

And as far as the young players are concerned, Pettersson looks completely gassed to me. I'd start to worry about him getting hurt again. Meantime the veterans you're supposed to be relying at this time of year like Eriksson and Beagle are on cruise control to the finish line. And naturally the only two top-tier d-men they have in Edler and Tanev are injured again.

So despite all the spin-doctoring, this March is looking a lot like every other one in the last four years to me.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

You think Eriksson is ever going to be scratched?

Eriksson has been decent defensively, his contract and offensive production are a complete joke, but he’s not a liability on the 4th line. Granlund and Schaller are worse.

 

[wavaxa2]

I wish he would do the right thing and come down with the same made up skin condition Marian Hossa has.

Maybe a pair of Chris Higgins' bacteria laced skates can be quietly slipped into his locker.

 

[MS]

Bodog and the other sports betting lines have the the Canucks officially at eight percent to make the playoffs. That goes down with a loss tonight.

Yet the pompom waivers and cheerleaders on House Radio will continue to prattle on about "the young Canuck players playing meaningful games in March". Seriously? At odds of under eight percent, they have a better chance of winning the draft lottery than making the playoffs.

And as far as the young players are concerned, Pettersson looks completely gassed to me. I'd start to worry about him getting hurt again. Meantime the veterans you're supposed to be relying at this time of year like Eriksson and Beagle are on cruise control to the finish line. And naturally the only two top-tier d-men they have in Edler and Tanev are injured again.

So despite all the spin-doctoring, this March is looking a lot like every other one in the last four years to me.

The bar is just comically low here.

12th in the conference 5 points out of the playoffs (with a record that would be 12 points out of the playoffs in the East) being framed as a big success by the team and media is just a total joke.