Post-Game Talk: Senators def. Canucks - 4-3 (SO) (Miller, Boeser, Dermott)

[TryamkinPleaseReturn]

It does kind of feel like Benning is kicking us from beyond the grave with Gaudette being probably the final nail in the coffin of the Canucks playoff chances. If you told me Benning is actually an evil genius who was here to destroy the franchise from the inside, I would find it easier to believe than he is just some kind of Elmer Fudd character making the best moves he could think of

 

[Tomatoes11]

Lol at the people saying that we didn’t get the bounces tonight. We were literally gifted a point or two. The refs literally let us get away with murder tonight. They hung their legs out and hooked like crazy to stop the senators young team speed and got away with it blatantly all night.

I suggest you guys analyze the games with more of a reductionist approach if you want to view where this team is at objectively.

Huge changes need to be made next off season. Boeser turning it on doesn’t inspire hope that we unload him either. Plus the playoff hopefuls better hope whoever hung their leg or knee out on stuezle missed call doesn’t get looked at by the league. Lol

 

[VanJack]

Last night's result is just the way things go in an 82-game schedule. When Ottawa is playing well, they're a tough out. And there was never any way the Canucks were going to run the table down the stretch.

For context, the Canucks beat the Leafs twice in their head to head meetings. And even the most rose-colored Canuck fan would have to concede that on most nights, the Leafs should beat the Canucks. It's a cliche, but on any given night...etc..,.etc.

The bigger issue is why the Canucks are finding themselves in a 'do or die' game every night? And answer of course is that ownership waited far too long to clean house and the season was in dire peril before they finally made a move.

 

[Breakers]

Love the Miller-Garland-Pod line

however I may be in the minority but I do not like Dickinson--Pettersson---Boeser Line.
I just don't like the combo and the way it plays. I hate it.

Garland does well wherever he goes

 

[theoriginalBCF]

Love the Miller-Garland-Pod line

however I may be in the minority but I do not like Dickinson--Pettersson---Boeser Line.
I just don't like the combo and the way it plays. I hate it.

Garland does well wherever he goes

It is impossible to deny Boeser-Pettersson, but at the end of the game, he should've rode the Lotto Line. You can see they were getting tired playing so hard last night. I suspect a solid rebound vs Minny.

 

[Hoglander]

If that's it for halak's season, we avoid paying his 2nd bonus of 250k for a .905 saves%, by .002

 

[Catamarca Livin]

Fun game to be at. Disappointing end. If they miss the playoffs the OT and shootout record will be a large reason. Not as big as Green and Petey early season but still big. They have a good line injured right now and are undefeated in 7. They are a playoff team based off last 50 games. Actually they are a good team with d issues. Look at the goals for and against they are a better team than Dallas and LA. Just have not won enough coin flips. Improvement needed but worlds better than first 25 games.

 

[vancityluongo]

Are people really complaining about Petan in the shootout when 3 minutes later Adam Gaudette, a player who was benched for something like the final 35 minutes of the game and logged 4 minutes of icetime, scored the winner? Lmao

 

[Zippgunn]

Are people really complaining about Petan in the shootout when 3 minutes later Adam Gaudette, a player who was benched for something like the final 35 minutes of the game and logged 4 minutes of icetime, scored the winner? Lmao

The second I heard Gaudette's name in the shootout I knew it was all over...

 

[MS]

Are people really complaining about Petan in the shootout when 3 minutes later Adam Gaudette, a player who was benched for something like the final 35 minutes of the game and logged 4 minutes of icetime, scored the winner? Lmao

It's really weird how upset people are about this.

We've had shootouts for a long time now and you'd think this sort of thing would have died a decade ago when Jeff Tambellini was a go-to shooter ahead of the Sedins.

 

[Breakers]

Reductionist approach?

Is that why ottawa went for huge gaps without a shot on goal
Lost the dangerous scoring chance differential at 5v5.

But ok

 

[Vector]

It's really weird how upset people are about this.

We've had shootouts for a long time now and you'd think this sort of thing would have died a decade ago when Jeff Tambellini was a go-to shooter ahead of the Sedins.

Or Ryan Shannon.

 

[Breakers]

Yup because of the refs but I know someone like you would somehow miss these things

The refs trapped the ottawa in their zone.

Got it thanks.

 

[MS]

The refs trapped the ottawa in their zone.

Got it thanks.

I mean, with the 4-1 PP advantage they sort of did?

The last two PPs we were in the Ottawa zone pretty much the entire time.

 

[Breakers]

I mean, with the 4-1 PP advantage they sort of did?

The last two PPs we were in the Ottawa zone pretty much the entire time.

I’m talking about 5v5
I know when Vancouver is decimated at evens

Last night wasn’t it.

 

[TeddyBare]

Petan is 1 for 11 in shootouts in the The AHL in 6 seasons.

The shootout is a toss up so I really don’t care about who a coach chooses, But if a player has a noticeable weakness in the activity he shouldn’t go. The resume is there for you see.

 

[CalderSchmalder]

Or Ryan Shannon.

Have you heard the story of Chris Pronger laying down the law to Shannon when they were on the Ducks? It's pretty funny lol



Convo starts at 2:09:30

 

[Tomatoes11]

I’m talking about 5v5
I know when Vancouver is decimated at evens

Last night wasn’t it.

I already mentioned earlier that the refs let us get away with murder. How do you think we got all those chances? We could do whatever we want without taking a penalty and they couldn’t do anything without getting one. Lol but yeah you think how you like. Haha

 

[Breakers]

I already mentioned earlier that the refs let us get away with murder. How do you think we got all those chances? We could do whatever we want without taking a penalty and they couldn’t do anything without getting one. Lol but yeah you think how you like. Haha

Couldn’t do anything without getting one
Holy hyperbole
Didn’t gambrell cross check Lams in the face after the whistle?

 

[Vector]

Have you heard the story of Chris Pronger laying down the law to Shannon when they were on the Ducks? It's pretty funny lol



Convo starts at 2:09:30

Main takeaway is that Shane O'Brien has let himself go. Not quite Tkachuk-level but he's morphing into Jeff O'Neill.

 

[geebaan]

Geebaan is the king of the jinxes

Man up 2-0 and playing well I genuinely believed. What an idiot.

 

[VanJack]

Surfing this thread it's a little shocking how many fans are seriously bummed out about last night's loss, and looking for scapegoats. OT and the shootout is a basic crap-shoot. If Pettersson scores on his shootout attempt, the Canucks win it.

I mean it happens sometimes. I'm sure Vegas didn't expect to lose in regulation at home to the Devils, with their season also hanging in the balance.

I guess if they find a way to miraculously pull out wins in Minny and Calgary, all will be forgiven.

 

[MS]

Surfing this thread it's a little shocking how many fans are seriously bummed out about last night's loss, and looking for scapegoats. OT and the shootout is a basic crap-shoot. If Pettersson scores on his shootout attempt, the Canucks win it.

I mean it happens sometimes. I'm sure Vegas didn't expect to lose in regulation at home to the Devils, with their season also hanging in the balance.

I guess if they find a way to miraculously pull out wins in Minny and Calgary, all will be forgiven.

Yeah, it's weird. I thought the team worked hard and actually had one of their better performances of the season last night - especially considering it was the second of a BTB.

But their finishing was poor, and Ottawa I thought played an absolutely terrific game for a team on the road playing meaningless hockey. Props to their coaching staff because their players were working their asses off last night. They brought a higher intensity level than teams we've seen recently competing for playoff spots.

People base their opinions so strongly on the results rather than the process. The team was great if we win while getting dominated and Demko makes 40 saves, but lose in a shootout after a good performance and everyone is looking for scapegoats.

 

[Melvin]

Yeah, it's weird. I thought the team worked hard and actually had one of their better performances of the season last night - especially considering it was the second of a BTB.

But their finishing was poor, and Ottawa I thought played an absolutely terrific game for a team on the road playing meaningless hockey. Props to their coaching staff because their players were working their asses off last night. They brought a higher intensity level than teams we've seen recently competing for playoff spots.

People base their opinions so strongly on the results rather than the process. The team was great if we win while getting dominated and Demko makes 40 saves, but lose in a shootout after a good performance and everyone is looking for scapegoats.

That the GDT is consistently dominated with shootout-talk after any SO game is so frustrating. Everyone knows that the SO is a random coin-flip, yet people are obsessed with who gets to go and what they do and blah blah blah. Guys, the game was a tie. It was a tie and they lost the coin flip. It's hilarious to me how the general tone of a GDT is completely different based on the results of the freaking shootout and cannot fathom how this can still be the case in 2022.

In 2007 it was kinda interesting arguing about shootout strategies and so forth but at this point doesn't literally everyone know it's RNG? Remember when AV used Edler in the shootout and everone here was losing their minds? Then Edler scored in like 3 straight shootouts and it became a thing until he stopped scoring. It doesn't matter. Bruce can go Schenn-Hunt-Lammikko in the shootout if he wants, I couldn't care less. How was the hockey game?

 

[MS]

That the GDT is consistently dominated with shootout-talk after any SO game is so frustrating. Everyone knows that the SO is a random coin-flip, yet people are obsessed with who gets to go and what they do and blah blah blah. Guys, the game was a tie. It was a tie and they lost the coin flip. It's hilarious to me how the general tone of a GDT is completely different based on the results of the freaking shootout and cannot fathom how this can still be the case in 2022.

In 2007 it was kinda interesting arguing about shootout strategies and so forth but at this point doesn't literally everyone know it's RNG? Remember when AV used Edler in the shootout and everone here was losing their minds? Then Edler scored in like 3 straight shootouts and it became a thing until he stopped scoring. It doesn't matter. Bruce can go Schenn-Hunt-Lammikko in the shootout if he wants, I couldn't care less. How was the hockey game?

Absolutely.

And it's not even just the shootout. It's the same if we lose in OT, or if we play great but don't get a result in regulation vs. play terrible and have our goalie save us.

People start at the result and work backward to form their opinions rather than building their opinions off the process independent of the result. And it's the same with absolutely everything.