kmotamed Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 To me, and im not putting the blame on Luongo, but i believe a contributing factor is that Lu is either injured or is starting to get really anxious/nervous/forward-looking to the playoffs, and that might be effecting his ability to focus on the now. On top of that, we're not playing good enough defensively and other than last night when we got 4 goals and Henrik actually got a couple points... Our supposed best players have not been producing, have not even been playing an inspired enough game to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rini Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 What's wrong with the Canucks? What's wrong with you guys?? We have been on top of the league! We still are second in the west! We still are third overall! We kicked some asses along the way! Won the really important games! Remember home streaking Wings? Who stopped them? (Burrows of course <3) I wanna see you playing a hard game like this for 5 months and don't getting tired... All they need is a little rest and what's the best time if not now? Just let them be... for god's sake... Playoffs are still ahead and they WILL get up and give us some great hockey! I can't wait for them to get back on track and I know they will rock! Cry babies... Just wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jovocop55 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It isn't a slump. The team's been playing poor for almost the entire season.For whatever reason though, we've been winning games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Fatigue Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Canucks have the worst Canadian hockey based fans, sure they scream and burn cars on the streets, but you never see that wild atmosphere (excluding the burning cars and chaos) in Rogers Arena. What a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Well the team hasn't been playing consistently well all year first of all. Secondly if the Sedins slump it becomes obvious with the parity in the league that any team is capable of beating us. The Sedins are what elevate the Canucks to an "elite" team. Thirdly if Luongo slumps it's the same as above as really his overall numbers are middle of the pack. Combine the slumping twins with a slumping Lu and you get well... The Habs b1tch slapping us around in our rink on national television. IMO those are the main reasons for "what's wrong with the Canucks". I won't even bother with our inconsistent and revolving door d lineup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsayin Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It isn't a slump. The team's been playing poor for almost the entire season.For whatever reason though, we've been winning games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedMachine Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 They haven't been playing well for most of 2012. People kept saying "don't hit the panic button, the playoffs are still a long ways away". Well, the playoffs aren't that far away now, they are still struggling, at a time when almost everyone else in the West seems to be turning it up a notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Light Racicot Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Maybe you didn't realize the Sedins were in a bigger slump than Raymond going into last nights game. You could actually say Raymond was being punished getting put with the Sedins. Just getting tired of Raymond bashing in every freakin' thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Light Racicot Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Canucks have the worst Canadian hockey based fans, sure they scream and burn cars on the streets, but you never see that wild atmosphere (excluding the burning cars and chaos) in Rogers Arena. What a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I blame the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derr12 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 What I saw last night: The good: Forwards; great offensive zone pressure. Sometimes the passing stuff didnt go as planned, but they still had the smarts to go to plan B and just get the puck to the net. The sedins are opting to go more simple and even showed a little bit of nasty! I even liked mason raymond. He was going to the dirty areas, he was fast, he was shifty. Our offence was HUNGRY looking. Defence: 99% of the time as soon as possesion was had in our end the first pass/breakout was very effective. They moved the puck pretty well. Roberto: Bobby-lou made a bunch of timely saves early on turnovers after long periods of inactivity. This should have alarmed the team to play a little more carefully once we were up 2-0. The bad. Forwards: There wasnt any support up high for when the dmen pinched to keep the puck in the zone. This was part of the reason we kept getting burnt on 2-1 and 3-1's. Forwards were caugh so far back that there was next to no backpressure entering our zone. once the forwards did enter the zone they collapsed to the net so hard that we were leaving 2 or 3 open guys at the top of the circle and blueline with a perfect screen of blue for Lou to contend with. We also got caught having 2 men chase the puck while on the penalty kill. This resulted in a goal. Defence: Poor choices with the puck and pinching. There is no need to go after a 50/50 pinch when your team is up 2-0. We werent using our game-sense here. The defence coach is responsible for this blunder in my opinion, its a game management thing. There was poor coverage aroudn the net too that I attribute to some of the pairing changes. I think sometimes they forgot what side of the ice they were supposed to be on. Roberto: After 10 mins roberto knew what was starting to happen. I think he started clenching his bunghole after this. You could see him struggle to see pucks. Rebound control which is normally very good was off, and he was overplaying at times. his timing seemed off, he looked nervous. It was not his finest game, but he was making the first save. Had we played schneider im not sure he could have done any better, but we might have made it to overtime as I believe the doan goal would have been saved. schneider I think would have had that one, he would have just gone to the post IMO. So to sum up... Could have been worse, should have been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derr12 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Also really liked how smashy our 4th line looked. rock-em sock-em hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoobydooby Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It isn't a slump. The team's been playing poor for almost the entire season.For whatever reason though, we've been winning games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 IMO.They might have assumed with managments commitment to winning that more help was coming at the deadline.The new players are still finding their way.Being a top team,they arent comfortable playing their successful road style at home.Lots of teams are in do or die mode.I'm more concerned about the defense than the forwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlsson`s Flo Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Clearly, theyre just smoking the good stuff before playoffs. Gotta relax brahs, we got dis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canidiot Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yup, everything that's wrong with the team is Raymonds fault. Odd man rushes due to a pinching d-man....Raymonds fault. Sedins/Burrows in a drought....Raymonds fault. First PP unit not producing....Raymonds fault.Lou letting in a softy....Raymonds fault. yes, this applies even when Raymond is on the bench because he's giving everybody the stink eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoItForRaymond Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 You know you're in a terrible slump when you have Raymond playing with the Sedin twins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taib mahmud Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Let them coast along the rest of the way and play .500 hockey. The key now is to stay healthy and hope the new canucks will gel come p/off. They should not fear whoever they meet in the p/off's. This is the year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashi Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Hopefully when the playoffs start they all go into beast mode and we sweep through every round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupisAll Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Let them coast along the rest of the way and play .500 hockey. The key now is to stay healthy and hope the new canucks will gel come p/off. They should not fear whoever they meet in the p/off's. This is the year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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