SergioMomesso Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, debluvscanucks said: Thornton. Lazy, dirty, thinks it's fun to try and injure others. Haha, our Joe is awesome! I was laughing at SJ ‘s comeback attempt with their go to guys almost adding up to century in age. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glug Datt Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 snapshot of this year vs last year.. it might be a weaker division this year, but we're still ahead of last season by a good margin.. barring an injury plagued implosion, were making the post season, and it ain't gonna be in a wild card spot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toyotasfan Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 The team sure missed Motte last time he was out , he averages 6 hits a night, after that it drops off to 1or 2 . 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reyezone Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 8 hours ago, ShawnAntoski said: Hope he doesn't have any concussion concern. It looked all shoulder to me. EK had Motte's arm tangled up with a hold and went into the boards high and hard and the shoulder likely popped. Hopefully no surgery needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Man Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, EP Phone Home said: Golden clip from Reddit from our empty net gods! Pearson and Louie must have a Canucks record for most empty netters in a season. Great W against the Sharts. That Marky pad stacker was unreal. Love this !$&#ing team! According to https://morehockeystats.com/teams/en Canucks is # 1 in NHL when playing against empty net, so far (knock on wood) no goals allowed. The only one team in NHL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 34 minutes ago, smithers joe said: you had me worried for a minute. i thought you knew something i didn’t. well i am lazy in my old age, but i had a bath, just last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 24 minutes ago, reyezone said: It looked all shoulder to me. EK had Motte's arm tangled up with a hold and went into the boards high and hard and the shoulder likely popped. Hopefully no surgery needed. You're right...good take on it. He did get the elbow up momentarily at one point...but it was more he had his arm tangled up and that, in itself, was dangerous. EK made no attempt not to follow through with a shove into the boards with a guy who couldn't really brace to avoid it. Accidentally on purpose. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Mad Bro? Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 “We play for each other. We play for the guy next to you” - Markstrom This guy is the glue holding the locker room together. Hope he’s signed to an extension. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift-4 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Vid of Motte injury? I totally missed it. Just saw him leaving ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rob_Zepp Posted January 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2020 Game was on overnight for me so just watched and I thought Canucks were predictably sluggish given nature of huge win over the Cup champs. I did notice Boeser's "try" much higher than recent games. Marky was amazing. Meyers played very well (continues to - no idea why this guy gets a bad rap). Hughes was both brilliant and astonishingly bad. Jake looks like he is back in the WHL - have not seen a more confident shot from him since his last year in Calgary. EP40 is all a budding superstar is supposed to be - sometimes in games he doesn't dominate on the "sheet" he just does things so well. Horvat is a beast in the circle. Beagle has no pain receptors. Motte looks like he could be gone a long time. Did not like Edler's game much - that is rare for me. Stecher played like the puck was on fire and he had to get rid of it quickly. Miller continues to be a steal even if Tampa gets a perennial 30 goal scorer from their pick. Overall impression - a "trap" game that they won only because teams that know how to win, win games like this. Green has this group convinced they can win every game and I saw no signs of panic. Too many good chances last night but Marky had very little traffic at times - Meyers does an amazing job clearing sight lines....am I the only one who notices that? In the room after, the boys will know they got away with one. As far as Motte goes, I am hopeful they consider giving Kole Lind a taste on the eastern trip even if just to ride the pine or sit in the press box. His play has earned it. 2 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Zepp Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Glug Datt said: snapshot of this year vs last year.. it might be a weaker division this year, but we're still ahead of last season by a good margin.. barring an injury plagued implosion, were making the post season, and it ain't gonna be in a wild card spot I am not quite ready to declare "playoffs for sure" - this upcoming eastern swing will be but one of their important tests over the next two months....BUT, one thing currently in their favour is the ROW stat of which they lead teams around them (Calgary by 5, Vegas by 4 - the two teams I feel are most threatening) and that is a key stat when ties in standings come about and it would not surprise me to see a few ties among point totals in the Pacific upon end of the season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Next time these two teams meet, I want retribution for the cheap hit on Motte. Blood!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruilin96 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Silent Man said: According to https://morehockeystats.com/teams/en Canucks is # 1 in NHL when playing against empty net, so far (knock on wood) no goals allowed. The only one team in NHL. I am pretty sure they gave up a tying goal once when the goalie is pulled in a home game in December against Buffalo. I was at the game and I remember the Sabres scored the tying goal with a min left (empty net) but Canucks won it in OT eventually. I could be wrong as I may see the net empty but the goalie has yet to make it onto their bench thus it is isn’t officially an empty net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brownky Posted January 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2020 15 minutes ago, Rob_Zepp said: I did notice Boeser's "try" much higher than recent games. Marky was amazing. Meyers played very well (continues to - no idea why this guy gets a bad rap). - Meyers does an amazing job clearing sight lines....am I the only one who notices that? Those things I agree with. Myers gets a bad rap because he's always got the puck on his stick, and sometimes he gives it away. But the key there is, he's always got the puck on his stick-this of course means the other team lost it to him in our zone. That's kind of a bigger deal. He's a crease clearing machine and punishes guys for being too close to the tendy. As for the goalies, - if it's not a funky tip, rebound or deflection, I don't see very many back door or high-traffic saves Marky (or Demko) has to make. He's eating lots of shots, but the majority seem to be from the lower-risk outside or those fringe high slot shots that goalies love to get - see it clearly, good distance out and right in line with the goalies challenging that shooter - in part because they know the back door is covered by 'somebody'. Boeser had his best game in awhile last night imo. Got a point for his efforts, but even without that he was skating 'harder' than he has been, and that hustle was one thing definitely missing from his game for the past while. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devron Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Nucks 16-8 in for the months of December and January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack in the box Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Couldn't watch the game last night, I'm possibly lacking the heat-of-battle-rage, but I just watched the highlights and replay of the Karlson hit. I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think it was intentional. I'm not even sure it's a penalty. I mean it just looks like 2 guys going into the boards awkwardly while in a puck battle. And unfortunately Mottes head is extremely low. Watch it again: https://streamable.com/6bw57 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker 67 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I hope I'm not the only one who thought that Kassian/Tkachuk tilt was lame. So much hype from the hockey media, they wanted so bad to resurrect the hatred between the Alberta teams, this game turned into "will they or won't they fight" contest. Who cares? It's not like it's Reeves vs Lucic, just two jerks who dislike eachother. I noticed Tkachuk wanted to fight right off a faceoff, but Kassian declined. I guess he wasn't ready, or something. Then, when it did happen, Tkachuk looked like he was going to jump out of his socks trying to get that first punch in. lol. The guy has no balance. Anyway, the hype sure didn't match the fight itself, and the teams even seem to have made up after Tkachuk stepped up. Nothing to see here. Speaking of seeing nothing, was Lucic even playing? Good win by the Canucks, keep the win streak going. I still have concern though, that they're giving up way too many shots. SJ should not be able to get 40 against Markstrom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, Gassy Jack said: Couldn't watch the game last night, I'm possibly lacking the heat-of-battle-rage, but I just watched the highlights and replay of the Karlson hit. I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think it was intentional. I'm not even sure it's a penalty. I mean it just looks like 2 guys going into the boards awkwardly while in a puck battle. And unfortunately Mottes head is extremely low. Watch it again: https://streamable.com/6bw57 There is no doubt EK knew where Motte’s head was but other than that the hit was inevitable. The way motte skated in he was putting himself in a dangerous spot with all his momentum going towards the boards. Plus motte connected his own body to EK’s so the overall force of the impact was multiplied. i love mottes tenacity but sometimes you need to be safer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therodigy Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 9 hours ago, JamesB said: Comments on tonight. 1. The Canucks were outplayed through two periods. Like some people said in the GDT, it looked like "one of the those games", but the team came back strong in the 3rd and full credit for the win. 2. The shot totals and the Corsi totals favour San Jose by a big margin, but the game was closer than that. San Jose was taking a lot of low probability shots (and shot attempts), especially once they fell behind. In terms of high danger chances, Natural Stat Trick has the Sharks 10 to 9 for the Canucks -- very close. The Canucks had their chances, including three partial breakaways by Pettersson and a couple of posts. Once again, this game could have gone either way, but Marky had a solid game and kept the team close through two periods and he was the probably the key difference. 3. Hughes was named the first star. He looks great out there, and Green had him taking his full share of minutes against the other team's top players. (The three left D's -- Hughes, Edler and Fantenberg -- each had just over 5 minutes of even strength time against Kane.) After the last game I said that Hughes was maybe taking too many shots from the point. Glad he did not listen to me, as his opening goal on a shot from the point was an excellent play that helped keep the Canucks in the game. Hughes almost never gets beaten on a play that involves skating. He is fast and he always take the right angle. However, he can get trapped in his own end and it is tough for him to win puck battles given his (lack of) size and strength. But another excellent game by Hughes. 4. Once again, Fantenberg had a good game. He actually led the D in even strength Corsi and he shared the LD PK time with Edler. I thought he played very well. 5. Horvat is probably not getting enough credit in the winning streak. He was 15 and 4 in the faceoff circle and, as always, had the toughest minutes although, like the last game, the tough minutes were divided up more evenly that earlier in the streak. 6. I have not often commented on Beagle, partly because he is usually not particularly bad or particularly good. He has "met expectations" but that is because expectations for a 4th line center are not usually very high. But I have to give him credit tonight. He is fearless in blocking shots and does a good job on the PK. After getting hurt tonight on a shot block he came back and make a great play on the Sutter goal. So credit to Beagle and it is good to Beagle and Sutter finally get on the scoresheet. 7. Great GWG by Virtanen. He continues his streak and he continues to look like he belongs in the top 6. Green moved him around tonight, putting him with the Horvat line and the EP line. 8. Green changed up the lines a bit, partly because of the Motte injury and partly to get things going after a sub-par showing in the first two periods. After Motte was hurt, Eriksson played with Sutter and Beagle in a lot of tough defensive situations. I was sorry to see Motte hurt and that takes away some energy and physical play. But the defensive capability of the Beagle line is actually better with Eriksson on it and those guys had a strong 3rd period (including getting a goal). 9. It was also good for Boeser to get some time with Pettersson and Miller in place of Virtanen, as Virtanen took Eriksson's place on the Horvat line. And it was good to see Boeser on the scoresheet again. However, his game still needs to improve. The team needs more from Roussel and Gaudette. Gaudette did get an assist on Virtanen's PP goal, but I think that playing with Roussel and Gaudette has made it hard for Boeser. None of those guys really drives play. 10. Cannot believe a penalty was not called on Karlsson on the play where Motte was injured. Even though I am sure there was no intent to injure, that is a dangerous play -- guiding the opponent's head into the boards. But it would not have made sense for Horvat or anyone else to go full goon (or even partial goon) on Karlsson. Better to come back and win the game. And save the emotion. The Canucks have a long road trip ahead. 12. Overall, another big win and, with losses to Edmonton, Arizona, and Dallas, the Canucks are solidifying their spot in the standings. I very much agree. I would've felt a bit better about the hit of a 2 minute boarding minor was called. Personally wouldn't cry for a suspension, but there always seems to be a lack of consistency from a refereeing standpoint. Good to see the Canucks responding with a win! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballisticsports. Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Am I the only one here who would like to see the 2nd pp start the PP ?(I use to dread that thought, not long ago) They keep it simple and hustle and get shots on the net I would even like to see Hughes on the point with them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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