GDT: WCSF GM06 | Vancouver Canucks @ Edmonton Oilers | Sat. May 18th | 5pm PST | SNP/CBC | Finish Them

[Angry Little Elf]

Need demkos smelling salts

 

[Slapshot_11]

Hughes is so bad

 

[EpochLink]

They can’t keep alrernating win/lose/win/lose
After a win, no adjustments are done

 

[Sedinery]

Blew 2 early pp’s and handed momentum right over

 

[Tact]

It might be time to put in DeSmith...game 7 as well.

Nope. Silovs gets game 7 unless Demko is ready.

 

[JumpierPegasus]

I genuinely can't remember our last zone entry

 

[Ace of Hades]

I blame the early start time on this too.

 

[mossey3535]

Tocchet's biggest weakness at work here. He just doesn't like making on the fly adjustments and relies completely on his one decision working.

Yeah lineup change worked amazing last game, looked like it was working early in this one but the Oilers changed their game and now we're behind the curve.

 

[AzNightmare]

If Demko is ready - he’s in net if I’m the coach. And that’s not a knock on Silovs. We just need a hasek like performance for game 7 and Demko can bring that.

If anything, it's a hail Mary just to change something to spark life back into this team...

I'm not sure if Silovs can be rock solid again for next game. Seems like Edmonton has full confidence they can pick him a part now. Put Demko in and maybe Edmonton might have newfound doubt.

 

[Sedinery]

No clue why hughes is on, rest him up

 

[EpochLink]

I blame the early start time on this too.

Next start is at 7pm our time

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Team isn’t winning Game 7 unless something drastic happens.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Hughes was garbage tonight. Playing extremely soft. Starts with the guy who has the C on his chest. Bailing out on dump ins and throwing pucks up the boards for turnovers is just a pathetic style of hockey to play, injured or not.

I said it to Tocchet and he finally made adjustments. So it's Hughes turn.

Someone needs to take the Norris he'll likely win and smack him upside the head with it.

 

[M2Beezy]

There was one good zone entry this period. When Podkolzin creatively skated it in to the goal line and passed it back to the point, when Myers took a shot that was blocked. How come we cant repeat that?

 

[StickShift]

This is game 5 reversed.

 

[Kryten]

That zone entry attempt was the epitome of their series

 

[deadinthewater992]

Tocchet needs to call them out again.
Just completely no showed.

He already called them out, not two days ago. The team knows they have to be better.

 

[EpochLink]

Tocchet must be seething behind the bench

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

Can’t remember a game where we got beaten this bad at 5 on 5.

 

[Sedinery]

Faceoffs have been pathetic and cost us pp setup time

 

[Ace of Hades]

Next start is at 7pm our time

Good.

 

[biturbo19]

This is really not the period you should come out with in the third, after an absolute dud of a 2nd...and the chance to put these guys away. Same rope a dope nonsense they pulled against Nashville really.

I just don't get this team sometimes. JT Bozo is the emotional heartbeat of the team...but it feels like too often Petey is the guy who sets the urgency level for the team. And that's not great.

 

[Donuts]

hughes

 

[M2Beezy]

This is game 5 reversed.

Pretty much, except their guys could score more often this game

 

[VanJack]

I guess if you're going to lose, you might as well lose big. Just a disappointing effort all around.

Hughes is looking like he's skating on egg-shells out there, waiting to be hit again. The Oilers have totally neutralized him. But this is the first game of the series where the Canucks look like the tired team. Just no bite on the forecheck, and little pushback.

Oh well, it always figured to be a 'toss-up' series I guess. But the history of the Canucks in 7th games on home ice is a checkered one.