i’ll start by acknowledging that i wasn’t expecting to be watching the canucks this time of the year and that this has been a fun ride
but the game tonight, oh my gosh.
starting mik on the top line was a giant facepalm. hoglander would have scored several times on the opportunities that mik got off the jump.
petey was our best forward again, but a very low bar.
lindholm looks like he was playing with a broken hand?
and yes, the pp. but the one thing i think tocchet needs to learn before next year is short shifts. for a guy who came up under keenan, it’s almost incomprehensible to me that he regularly leaves his top lines out there for 90 second shifts, even when he has the chance to change them after 45. and don’t even get me started leaving your five best players out there for full powerplays where they aren’t even gaining the zone. tbh, i am guessing all three of hughes, petey, and miller are pretty seriously injured, but they also have hella miles on them from so many two minute pps.
but i’m glad they ended the season on a high note, and not playing the same garbage hockey they did for the first 50 minutes of the game. my kid cried himself to sleep again, the first time being when vegas eliminated us four years ago. but i’m glad his last memory of all this will be the last ten minutes and not the first 50.