Probably deserved the win on the play. However, team never does things the easy way. Always do enough wrong to keep the other team in the game.
Good
Garland - came to play. Was glued to the puck at times and despite giving up size fended off much bigger players to maintain possession. HIs line showed a lot of hustle but sometimes caught in transition. Good shot on his goal
Hoglander - provided good energy even if little finish. Nice pass of the Dreis goal.
Bear - came on as the game went on. Broke up a lot of plays off the rush and was good (maybe the best on the team) moving pucks up from the back.
Joshua - made good passes around the Calgary net and coming out of his zone. Is more and more establishing a physical presence and is showing more skill than anticipated.
Schenn - very solid around his net. Calgary is excellent at getting to the crease and player like Schenn was negating much of this. He is essential type of player in these types of games.
Kuzmenko - buried that shoot out shot with authority and had numerous good shifts with his line. Consistently shows he is strong on the puck and can make quick effective plays.
Bad
Myers, Myers , Myers - is having trouble enough doing his own job but constantly tries to do other people's jobs as well. Total contrast to Schenn. Instead of maintaining position in front of the net and keeping people away from the goalie he gets drawn away to one side and then watches the puck and not the man going to the net. Is losing control of situations and just playing frenetically. Holding the puck penalty was an example. Just playing dumb hockey and trying to do way too much. Irony is that he, in the end, is getting less accomplished.
Studnicka - plays like this he is useless. Over-skated the play all game and moved the puck poorly. Skating around accomplishing nothing. Just a body flying around disconnected from the play. Definitely not in sync with line mates or the rest of the team
Others
Hughes - shooting from the point on the PP is feeble. He is not a threat at all. Canucks might have put this away early but couldn't get much out of the PP and Hughes lack of shot was hurting. Also thought his stop and go hockey was getting the team out of any flow. Needs to stop dilly-dallying with the puck and get it up quicker like OEL did on the one goal. Had some good periods of play but takes unnecessary chances and over handles the puck.
Pettersson -if the Canucks are going anywhere, they need more than they have got out of Pettersson the last couple of games. Playing too much hockey standing still. Another person hurting flow by overhandling the puck and trying to make overly ambitious plays
Miller - try was there and fewer brain farts but still not the player we saw last year.
OEL - Had long spells of good play but then would seemingly tire and not get to the puck fast enough to keep himself out of trouble.
Burroughs -got abused by the Calgary forecheck and forced into errors. Not terrible and certainly better than Noskillman but was exposed at times by Calgary's size and speed. Let's face it - we do really have a six NHL
d-men.
Dries = good thing was his goal - bad thing is inability to get back on defense. It is that lack of speed to get back and hold position in his end that is his biggest liability. Knack around the net and poor defensive transition play were both shown tonight.