Oh dont get me wrong, I am fully with you. It is just that this time an injury is indeed having some impact. All the years before when Benning used it as an excuse for his teams failing it didnt make a lick of a difference and even if fully healthy during the season they would not have made the playoffs. Now this year when they need everything to go right for them to make it a few weeks without Markstrom might make the difference.
I knew where you were coming from just using your comment as a starting point to pile on
It should be really hard to spin "we had to play our backup goaltender in a way that many teams have to play their backup". Because that's what it is. You have a backup to get 30ish game a year and at some point they are going to get a run of games because of injury. And really last night was not on Demko at all. They gave up 40 shots yet again and that was coupled with giveaways and bad coverage.
What the tits is going on with the Canucks ?
Once again, Petterson or the forwards didn't show up. I guess these players figured that they only need to contribute once every few games, especially when their goalie is hurt.
In all likelihood you have a regression down to the underlying numbers. The offense and goaltending has been outperforming the metrics and bailing out the team defense. Now you are getting this string of games where it looks like they "deserve" more but aren't getting it. But earlier they deserved less than they received which is really why these are things you look over the long term with large sample sizes.
I mentioned it and others mentioned it numerous times this season that if the underlying numbers didn't start to improve 5-on-5 it was going to start really hurting the team. And it is. Especially because it has come with decreased PK and PP efficiencies.
"I liked our game" "two lucky bounces" - Green
hahahaha
Or as I prefer to look at it...a poor start where the yotes really had an effective forecheck and caused the canucks issues. A middle portion of the game where the canucks indeed were better. And a final 15 minutes where the canucks tried to sit on a lead and failed to put forth effort. So basically Green likes 35-40 minute efforts. That pretty much explains everything.
Team struggles without him
Cap going up
Everything's coming up Markstrom.