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[GDT] Sharks @ Canucks - Fri, Dec 15 @ 7PM - SNP


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I would be a little surprised if Goldy is in tonight.  Or Chaput.  Green doesn't punish you for an isolated mistake but if he feels you're overall effort wasn't there he will sit you.  

 

Our goaltenders have gone from top 10 in the league to 20 and 21.  So to average that far down, we have had several pretty rough outings and steady decline in that department.  How much of that is due to the 15-20 face-offs we are no longer getting without Sutter or Horvat?  How much is due to no longer having Baertschi intercepting passes or Gud keeping the crease cleaner? Some for sure but the goalies haven't been great lately. And the D is just having a hell of a time getting the puck and moving it out of the zone efficiently.  On top of that Vanek all of a sudden looks too slow and out of sync with his linemates, and Ganger remains a mystery as to how he scored any goals.  Granny is being asked to do much more than be a 3d line center and it isn't going all that great for him.  The 4th line has been getting big minutes in clutch situations and done OK, better than OK, but we are 0-4 in the process so not much credit to be given there.  

 

No Tanev is going to be painful.  We squeaked out some points last time he was out, but that was when we had Bo and Baertschi.  Maybe we can go back to Edler/Stecher which was a decent pairing last year. Never liked Edler with Tanev.  With Biega, Pouliot, Stecher, Hutton we have some real speed and skating there but zero size.  No rebounds allowed or we could be in for it.  Gong to have to look for a 2-1 result to get the win behind Marky tonight.  He has to step up and say this job belongs to him.  Any stumbling around and the coaches will be left scratching their heads awhile longer and staring wistfully at Demko's stats.  

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