Series Talk: WCQF: Vancouver Canucks vs Nashville Predators (VAN Leads 3-1)

[Angry Little Elf]

So any idea when game 1 is?

April 21st

 

[LemonSauceD]

Brock Boeser @M2Beezy

 

[LordBacon]

Wheres Ryan Kesler when you need him

 

[LemonSauceD]

Wheres Ryan Kesler when you need him

We have the generational all time guy JT Miller. No worries

 

[nucksflailtogether]

Predators has Grit and Heart.. They are beating Vancouver

I can see Preds winning but what is this idea the Canucks are a soft team? The only soft player we have is Pettersson, and hopefully he figures it out in time but there's still a bunch of other very difficult guys to play against, notably our #1 C.

 

[Nuck Bonino]

Nucks are favored but anything can happen in the playoffs, hope for a good clean series

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Playoffs are a whole different beast, but I really like the way we matchup vs Nashville in this series. 3-0 vs the Preds on the year with 2 of the games being 5-2.

 

[TruGr1t]

I can see Preds winning but what is this idea the Canucks are a soft team? The only soft player we have is Pettersson, and hopefully he figures it out in time but there's still a bunch of other very difficult guys to play against, notably our #1 C.

Canucks aren't really soft, maybe a bit at forward, but the defense more than makes up for it, they're large and physical.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Predators has Grit and Heart.. They are beating Vancouver

Say what you want about the Preds potentially beating us, but these stupid cliches like "Grit and Heart" are not a valid reason. We literally won our division, the Preds are a wild card, we're 3-0 H2H vs the Preds on the season, and the reason why the Preds beat the Canucks is "Grit and Heart"?

 

[Fraser28]

April 21st

I don’t think that’s confirmed yet?

 

[nucksflailtogether]

Canucks aren't really soft, maybe a bit at forward, but the defense more than makes up for it, they're large and physical.

Yeah I don't know where people get this idea. Find me a more physical defenseman than Zadorov, or a player with more heart and grit than Garland. Try winning a board battle against Hoglander/Joshua. And so on. I do think Nashville has a good team and tons of character and no Canucks fan is taking them lightly...but I think emphasizing their heart and grit might actually be just admitting that Canucks have more top end skill.

 

[sid232]

So any idea when game 1 is?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canucks-playoffs-could-start-sunday

Looks like it will be starting on the 21st rather than the previously reported 23rd due to both teams complaining.

Otherwise on paper, seems like the best possible matchup for the canucks (swept the regular season series). Though looking at advanced stats for the games, Nashville actually had a higher expected goal for the games and the canucks were quite successful on the powerplay in the games played between the teams. Given our shooting percentage has gone down in the last few weeks and our PP has stalled, hard to say how this series will go, to be honest.

 

[David71]

canucks in 5. hughes vs josi, demko saros. miller and company will need to step it up to score past these preds. muitple games go to overtime. i think the bottom 6 of vancouver will be the stars in this series.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Yeah I don't know where people get this idea. Find me a more physical defenseman than Zadorov, or a player with more heart and grit than Garland. Try winning a board battle against Hoglander/Joshua. And so on. I do think Nashville has a good team and tons of character and no Canucks fan is taking them lightly...but I think emphasizing their heart and grit might actually be just admitting that Canucks have more top end skill.

This whole “Canucks are soft” mentality has been around since forever

 

[TruGr1t]

 

[logan5]

WQhat is the definition of "soft"? Pettersson falls down easily but he doesn't get intimidated, he throws hits, and he plays a good defensive game. so it's not like he will disappear because he is supposedly soft. Our softest forward is probly Boeser the Kikheyev. Outside of that you have 5 foot 6 Garland, who is a major puck hound and is constantly stripping pucks off of guys, and he is hard to check, and he's feisty. Hoglander, Miller, Joshua - these are hard guys to play against. This team is the opposite of soft.

 

[2for1PizzaPastuh]

if any upset were to happen in R1, this would be it.

Lack of experience, toughness, playoff grit on the side of Vancouver could all be factors.

 

[nucksflailtogether]

WQhat is the definition of "soft"? Pettersson falls down easily but he doesn't get intimidated, he throws hits, and he plays a good defensive game. so it's not like he will disappear because he is supposedly soft. Our softest forward is probly Boeser the Kikheyev. Outside of that you have 5 foot 6 Garland, who is a major puck hound and is constantly stripping pucks off of guys, and he is hard to check, and he's feisty. Hoglander, Miller, Joshua - these are hard guys to play against. This team is the opposite of soft.

Pettersson doesn't play soft but he is just so flimsy still its hard not to see him as soft. But yeah he will turn it on here I think, we've seen him turn on beast mode before.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Canucks took the season series 3-0-0 and outscored the Preds 13-6.

Best round one match the Canucks could have hoped for as they had a rough time against both the Kings an Knights this year.

I have the Canucks in 5 but the Preds have been a lot better in 2024 so we will see.

 

[StreetHawk]

Canucks took the season series 3-0-0 and outscored the Preds 13-6.

Best round one match the Canucks could have hoped for as they had a rough time against both the Kings an Knights this year.

I have the Canucks in 5 but the Preds have been a lot better in 2024 so we will see.

It's also the farthest travel of all matchups. Might be greater than the total distance between all 4 Eastern matchups.

 

[LemonSauceD]

I can see Preds winning but what is this idea the Canucks are a soft team? The only soft player we have is Pettersson, and hopefully he figures it out in time but there's still a bunch of other very difficult guys to play against, notably our #1 C.

Pettersson has 126 hits this season so he’s not exactly soft in that regard either

WQhat is the definition of "soft"? Pettersson falls down easily but he doesn't get intimidated, he throws hits, and he plays a good defensive game. so it's not like he will disappear because he is supposedly soft. Our softest forward is probly Boeser the Kikheyev. Outside of that you have 5 foot 6 Garland, who is a major puck hound and is constantly stripping pucks off of guys, and he is hard to check, and he's feisty. Hoglander, Miller, Joshua - these are hard guys to play against. This team is the opposite of soft.

Top 5 team in hits as well

 

[Three On Zero]

Predators in 5. Canucks aren't ready for playoff hockey, don't see their core players responding well to tight checking games.

Shouldn’t you be saying Canucks in 5 than? Nashville doesn’t play a “tight checking game”

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Shouldn’t you be saying Canucks in 5 than? Nashville doesn’t play a “tight checking game”

Yeah.
This guy doesn’t watch Nashville games.

Nashville plays Bruce Boudreau firewagon type hockey. Which is rarely successful in the playoffs. Not the Barry trotz predators of old. Canucks are literally one of the best defensive teams this season

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

That's what i voted too.....

Demko and Hellebuyck are good enough to ruin my predictions though.....Lol

I would actually say the opposite in that COL/WPG series... Not that Helleybuck is good enough, but that Georgiev is bad enough.


I think Winnipeg wins that series in 5 or 6 games.

 

[Breakers]

How is it an upset when nobody expected vancouver to make the playoffs


genuis logic