[PGT] St. Louis Blues at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 05, 2019

[-AJ-]

1 minute ago, Grape said:

Hey Stamkos, here's two screenshot of what I'm talking about

 

The first one is around the time Markstrom should've realize that the puck was coming to him. This is about a second after the shot by Vancouver is released. Schwartz is at the left side of the screen.

 

The second one is the moment Schwartz picked up the puck.

 

All Marky had to do was beat Schwartz and skate, I would say, a third of what Schwartz had to skate, to retrieve the puck.

 

Again, I'm not a fan of arguing against one of my favorite players, so I'll leave it at that and not continue to argue. I don't want to feel like an HF poster.

Possibly, but I think he would've had to really book it to get there in time. Schenn wasn't skating that fast. Had Marky gone for it, you can bet he would've put on the jets and beat him to it.

 

Plus, even if Marky gets to it, he has to hammer it down past three Blues with very little time to prep his clear/pass. There's a case to be made for it, but I think it would've been very risky either way. In retrospect, probably still the safer move than taking a 3 on 0, but a hard-to-read situation that happens pretty uncommonly, so I don't blame him for not making that move. Not to mention he was burned on a rush to the puck in our last OT, so I can understand his hesitancy.

[DIBdaQUIB]

28 minutes ago, J-23 said:

Blues took a penalty like every shift.

You mean they committed an infraction every shift but were seldom penalized. 

 

[Jam126]

2 minutes ago, Conscience said:

Eventually we’re going to need a 2nd Line, PP and schaller cant win us every game.

We got Hoglander and Podkolzin coming our way soon. 

[-Vintage Canuck-]

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Grape said:

Hey Stamkos, here's two screenshot of what I'm talking about

 

The first one is around the time Markstrom should've realize that the puck was coming to him. This is about a second after the shot by Vancouver is released. Schwartz is at the left side of the screen.

 

The second one is the moment Schwartz picked up the puck.

 

All Marky had to do was beat Schwartz and skate, I would say, a third of what Schwartz had to skate, to retrieve the puck.

 

Again, I'm not a fan of arguing against one of my favorite players, so I'll leave it at that and not continue to argue. I don't want to feel like an HF poster.

Still a massive risk being the slowest guy on the ice, with no momentum, and a certain goal if you miss. 

 

Even if he gets there, where does he go? Into the neutral zone whereas Binner can send it to one of the three guys who’ll have an open net. The Canucks would’ve still be offside. 

 

He had no “right” way to play that, and it’s ludicrous to fault him on what he did. 

[Caknuckle Puck]

Lets Hire Babcock and give The Legend a real team to work with

[Jaimito]

2 minutes ago, Rindiculous said:

Well at worst you’d have to say they played an even game which is pretty damn good to do against the defending champs and top of the West but that’s not what I saw.  Canucks outshot them, outchanced them, and really should have outscored them if not for dumb luck tonight

I didnt say they had a bad game.  It was evident they had a tougher time to play their style vs a big experienced team compared to bottom tier teams.  That's why they didn't score 5 again.  Binnington didn't make many awesome saves. The blues D were effective at taking away pt shots until QH got one. 

 

Overall they competed every shift, and deserved the point tonight.  Obviously Blues is the type of team that will be very tough to beat in a 7 game series.  It shows how far they came since last couple of yrs and they are getting closer to the top teams.  But to say they outplayed the blues in this game is incorrect.  The game vs Dux, yes.  

[redhdlois]

12 minutes ago, JoshuaGuy said:

MOST of the posters on here have never played street hockey, let alone ice hockey and certainly not any competitive hockey. 

Or probably not even seen a game live

[Grape]

Just now, -AJ- said:

Possibly, but I think he would've had to really book it to get there in time. Schenn wasn't skating that fast. Had Marky gone for it, you can bet he would've put on the jets and beat him to it.

 

Plus, even if Marky gets to it, he has to hammer it down past three Blues with very little time to prep his clear/pass. There's a case to be made for it, but I think it would've been very risky either way. In retrospect, probably still the safer move than taking a 3 on 0, but a hard-to-read situation that happens pretty uncommonly, so I don't blame him for not making that move. Not to mention he was burned on a rush to the puck in our last OT, so I can understand his hesitancy.

Yeah, I agree. I do think he was hesitant because of what happened vs. Getzlaf, which was honestly just a really nice move by Getzlaf more so than a bad decision. 

 

I feel bad for him because if one hadn't happened the other probably wouldn't have either. I would guess that was why he smashed his stick.

[riffraff]

I’m kind of on the side of enough of the stick smashing stuff.  Once in a while, like maybe twice per season.....but it’s kinda like people who yell or complain all the time: after a while it loses its effect.

 

Tonight’s ending was a freak occurrence and I just don’t think it warrants a stick smashing.  Just my .02

 

of course I’m not a fired up pro nhl’er

[Junkyard Dog]

Just now, FlyLow_ said:

Everything about the PP was brutal. If the PP does anything at all it's a win.

He was the worst one on it in particular tonight.

 

Blues have a really good PK but he can't be coughing it up like that.

 

 

[24K PureCool]

15 minutes ago, Rindiculous said:

Did they change that rule?  I thought it was a penalty shot

Yep, changed starting this season.

 

AWARDED GOAL: If the goal post is deliberately displaced by a goalkeeper during the course of a "breakaway", a goal will be awarded to the non-offending team.

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-announces-rule-changes-for-2019-20-season/c-307949196

[DontFockWithBrock]

28 minutes ago, Jam126 said:

3 of 4 points against the Stanley Cup Champions is pretty good. But, we could've had 4. OT is not on our side this season so far. lol

But St. Louis also has 3 of 4 points against a team like us 

[CaptKirk888]

25 minutes ago, Grape said:

Come out and play the puck.

 

He had a lottttt of time there. 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha you are brilliant

[6string]

Hard to believe coach Green as he looks down his bench in OT with all that open ice, that he doesn't see Virtanen's speed with off the rush abilities to take even ONE shift.

 

SMH.

[riffraff]

2 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

 

[DIBdaQUIB]

29 minutes ago, Crimson-JH said:

I don’t blame Marky on that situation...  

 

Damn, those Blues are such a clingy team in the NHL... they love to hold on to everything, especially other players!

They have an assistant couch who specializes in obstruction and how to impede away from the puck..  They're well coached in that area.

 

[JoshuaGuy]

I cannot understand why our power play isn't centered around Pettersson one timers. It's a no &^@#in brainer. It's like putting Ovechkin on the wrong side.. complety idiotic in my opinion. 

Edited November 6, 2019 by JoshuaGuy

[Wilbur]

3 minutes ago, FlyLow_ said:

Everything about the PP was brutal. If the PP does anything at all it's a win.

Credit where credit is due too, that St. Louis PK was hyper aggressive and it worked.

[westsideconnect]

1 minute ago, riffraff said:

I’m kind of on the side of enough of the stick smashing stuff.  Once in a while, like maybe twice per season.....but it’s kinda like people who yell or complain all the time: after a while it loses its effect.

 

Tonight’s ending was a freak occurrence and I just don’t think it warrants a stick smashing.  Just my .02

 

of course I’m not a fired up pro nhl’er

Woot! Somebody's with me!