GDT: [GM19] Canucks vs Sharks | Mon. Nov 20th, 7pm | SNP | Blood in the Water

[Vector]

WHEN: November 20th, 7:00PM PST
WHERE: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
RADIO: Sportsnet 650


Canucks Line-Up:

Mikheyev-Pettersson-Kuzmenko
Di Giuseppe-Miller-Boeser
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Hoglander-Lafferty-Beauvillier

Hughes-Hronek
Cole-Juulsen
Hirose-Myers

Demko

Sharks Line-Up:

Eklund-Hertl-Zetterlund
Duclair-Granlund-Zadina
Hoffman-Kunin-Labanc
Smith-Carpenter-MacDonald

Ferraro-Emberson
Okhotiuk-Burroughs
Rutta-Addison

Blackwood

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[Vector]

 

[LemonSauceD]

PDO trap

 

[hellstick]

Ten goals wasn't good enough.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

We need a practice. We will win this.

 

[theguardianII]

San Jose, embarrassed at home. They won't need incentive and the Canucks luck is starting to come down.

25 years ago you would expect a really big physical response from them, but now, maybe a note passed under the table.

SJ is better than their record, not much, but better and they are starting to get closer in results, they may not be a pushover this time.

In the past Canuck luck would have them lose this game.

Vancouver has reached the pinnacle, can they stay there?

Every stat line says they should win easily but then there is "game management", not quite as evident as in the past where the winning team would suddenly get stupid and take 2 or 3 penalties, but still there. Teams still seem to be fairly even in PP's. But not ir one is much better than the other.

Canucks should/could feast on the SJ PK.

The schedule is not as bad as some make out, other teams have had worse, much worse. Vegas has played the same number of games

 

[bossram]

PDO trap

PDO of 105 you say?

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Sharks havent played since Thursday
weird

 

[Vector]

Appears none of our media made it to today’s practice.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Appears none of our media made it to today’s practice.

That's good news.

 

[Vector]

That's good news.

Why?

 

[Kryten]

Why?

Team can focus on themselves and the game and not PR BS

 

[Vector]

Team can focus on themselves and the game and not PR BS

That’s not an issue at all, though.

Paterson said it wasn’t really a practice today. Only one coach and goalie with a handful of players.

 

[LordBacon]

Can the bois get a break?
Jesus Christ what a shit schedule

 

[Hansen]

Reserved

 

[valkynax]

Is it time for us to hoist the toilet bowl?

 

[Hansen]

The schedule from now to early December is rugged, not necessarily the competition but just the absence of a break. Gotta take it shift by shift.

 

[mossey3535]

I would have liked to hear how the practice went. They were in desperate need of one but the schedule is tight so it may have exacerbated some of their fatigue issues. But overall I think it'll be more beneficial to practice. Tocchet has already said that he sees them losing their details without practice.

IMO this is a team that had so much success because the structured forecheck and neutral zone layering would help the blue line deny entries or cause turnovers just as the opposition entered our zone. That hasn't happened as consistently in the last 6 or so games to my eye.

Another issue is that they've lost a lot of counterattack power because they're coming from deeper in their zone (if they don't just get hemmed in their zone in the first place), whereas the turnovers they caused high at the blueline early in the season would be crazy chances the other way when the other team is caught on their heels. Haven't seen too much of that lately either.

 

[supercanuck]

Apologies in advance. Not sure which forum to ask this...Are kids allowed to bring their water bottles to games at Rogers Arena? Would be the metal ones that can keep warm/hot water.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

I would have liked to hear how the practice went. They were in desperate need of one but the schedule is tight so it may have exacerbated some of their fatigue issues. But overall I think it'll be more beneficial to practice. Tocchet has already said that he sees them losing their details without practice.

IMO this is a team that had so much success because the structured forecheck and neutral zone layering would help the blue line deny entries or cause turnovers just as the opposition entered our zone. That hasn't happened as consistently in the last 6 or so games to my eye.

Another issue is that they've lost a lot of counterattack power because they're coming from deeper in their zone (if they don't just get hemmed in their zone in the first place), whereas the turnovers they caused high at the blueline early in the season would be crazy chances the other way when the other team is caught on their heels. Haven't seen too much of that lately either.

They didn’t really practice today..they had a team video session.

 

[Kryten]

Inside footage of video session

 

[Grub]

Just need a win. The Canucks have not looked good for some reason after losing Soucy and having scrubs fill in.

 

[Vector]

“We need to take a step back, look at it, figure out what was not good enough, and fix it right away,” said Cole post game. “You know, fatigue should never be a factor. Yes, there’s a lot of hockey games. Yes, time zones, travel, all that, but it’s the NHL. There’s no excuses, like, ‘Oh, I was tired.’ You’ve gotta figure it out.”

“When you’re tired, you just got to play, you just got to be really smart,” said the Canucks’ bench boss. “You know, you’re out there for 30 seconds, you get the red, get it in deep. You know, get one guy safely off, get another guy, you know, standard structure. And then on the fourth goal, we make a switch then we leave the guts open. You know, we’re usually a pretty good team getting to the guts of the ice and we’re leaving that guts of the ice open. And then that’s when goalies have to play post to post. I hate when goalies have to play post to post. So you got to protect the guts of the ice even when you’re tired.”

 

[LordBacon]

We can really use some eaasy points rn.
This is a must win game.

 

[I am toxic]