NuxFan09
Registered User
Team isn't deep enough with offensive ability and the veterans look really slow and disinterested at times.
The reason San Jose is as good as they have been in the past year and a half is the second wave. The youth that plays with energy, speed, and excitement - something the Canucks lack within their organization. Maybe next season with Shinkaruk and Horvat, but right now the Canucks aren't able to keep up with the Sharks.
On nights when Marleau and Thornton aren't going as hard, Couture, Pavelski, Burns can provide a secondary push.
When the Sedins and Kesler aren't going...who's left? Higgins? Hansen? Booth? It's unrealistic to expect top 6 performance out of players who have never provided it consistently over the course of their careers.
It's been an issue here for a long time, a lack of a supporting cast for the leaders on this team. When this team had Kesler running wild in 2011, it wasn't an issue due to his dominance, but without him at that form, eventually you need some support. Pretty dismal worth ethic last night from the Canucks, behind to almost every puck and no real push until the third.
Well said. The Canucks really needed at least one impact player from one of the drafts between 2006 and 2008 like the Sharks got in Couture.
If Schroeder somehow makes a leap in his development and becomes an impact player, that helps a lot. Then, eventually the Canucks will get that next wave in Jensen, Gaunce, Shinkaruk and Horvat. It's just that right now the Canucks are in a phase when they have veteran impact players and a wave of young promising players that hasn't hit yet, but no middle layer of young-ish impact players just nearing their prime.