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We did look like the team sitting back on our 2-1 series lead in the first twenty minutes... Turned it up in the 3rd but it was kinda too late. All those slewfooting and slashes are hard to watch. We gotta give them back but I guess we r too inexperienced to pick the right time to do it. I liked Rouss dislocating Blais' jaw tho. He fed him a couple good ones.

True, we have gotten away with first 2 games. But it wasn't due to luck. It was from sacrificing, blocking shots, taking hits to make plays, eating up some uncalled cheapshots. Blues definitely know how to play playoffs type of hockey. But we definitely were outworking them all over the ice. And that's what got us those 2 wins. And sure these first 2 wins won't get us into the next round. We would need to keep improving and mold ourselves into the championship calibre team. On a positive note, we seem to be getting better each game. We r learning what the playoffs hockey is all about. The Blues r a good team because they have been there last year. And the experience is carried over to this season and made them successful. Think about how far we have come in just past 6 games. Our level of compete, execution and desire. This team has grown. Those fans who were so quick to turn by wanting our coaches, GM, some of our vets gone? Nux r proving to them that they should keep sticking with their daytime jobs.

This is why we have to make the playoffs. Boys are getting better every game. Took this "rookie" coach 3 years to bring us playoffs hockey and ... he just out-classed last year's cup winning coach in Berube after losing one of our highest minute logging D.

We earned it. Took the hits and made the plays. Played to our strengths. Such a big improvement as a whole as they play more games into the playoffs.

Canucks r legit sleepers in the entire playoffs. It's gonna be pretty fun surprising a lot of people around the league.

Thank you Canucks for showing us the actual playoffs series!!! On to the real one guys. Thank goodness we kept Boeser, Sutter and Beags. Thank goodness Green did his job and delivered real playoffs. Thank goodness I wont have to read any troll posts in GDT/PDT until our very next loss.

Any words on Ferland and Rooss? Kinda hoped Ferland would be a key player in the playoffs...

New day New sheet Let's go!

2-1 Nux Edler GWG

6 Hours till pregame. Boy I have waited too long for this.

Hmm. I agree that we won't see them in Game 1. But I disagree that we won't see them at all this playoffs. We will see them one way or the other during the playoffs. Whether there be an injury or a need to replace an inefficient player.

I like your idea. Big Mac certainly earned his spot in the lineup after solid showings during the latter part of the season + recent training camp. Same goes for Gaudette as he was one of the hardest working, improved player this season. If we are starting a new season, I absolutely agree it makes total sense to sit Sutts and Tuna. But as this is playoffs hockey right off the bat, I wouldnt be surprised to see Greener go with "Veterans" and have Big Mac and Gaud watch a game or two before being injected in.

No, I do appreciate your ideas. And I don't twist things. I DO think all players are different. And that Boeser's best season has not happened. Not even close. If he had 3 healthy, full seasons and put up those numbers, I wouldnt feel as bad about trading him right now. But he did not. And he had 2 awful summer trainings due to injuries. And summer training at his age is so important in this league nowadays. That is why I say trading him is a big mistake and that he is, I think, far from his peak. You obviously took time to do some research to respond and I appreciate that. I like the Justin Williams analogy. But Boeser is not a similar player to Phil Kessel. Only similar thing is that they are both snipers with heavy wrist shot. Boeser is a character player that's why I think he's not close to reaching his best days yet. He will get better as our stock piled prospects enter the league as key pieces. It's a rare find to have a Right handed sniper on the team. I think we should be extremely careful how to deal with him.

Also my question was which player peaks at their 3rd season in the NHL? And your list doesn't really correlate to that question. I would cross off Linden as he had actually not so good numbers in this first 3 seasons. Sergei Samsonov, again, peaked after his 4th season. I don't think Luke Schenn ever really peaked as an NHLer. Devin Setoguchi had below average first 2 seasons and had a brief success in his 3rd season and resumed to being below average after that thru rest of his career. I think this is a peculiar case. Bure's number did go down due to injury on his 4th season. But he still had 51 goals in his 7th year and 58 and 59 in his 9th and 10th season .... so yeah. By Hodgson, if you mean Cody Hodgson, I don't think he did have a peak in his NHL career. And who is Ververgeart?

I don't think you are getting my point. The fact that there are 10 players that you could name that peaked before 23 does not mean rest of the hundreds of thousands of players in those eras of the league peaks at 23 on average. Statistically, that's a very very very very very low chance. If you insist that you know he already peaked at 23, I don't buy that. If you insist he will peak in 2 yrs at 25, I don't buy that but then again, if you know he has 2 more yrs to peak, why trade him now for that much lower value... Doesn't make much sense to me. I cant name any players on top of my head right now that had injuries in their first 2 years but still went on to have decent careers.

Thanks for sharing those names. Those are minuscule portion of player pool tho. And I wouldnt say a lot of players peak at 25. Maybe 27~28. If he has 2 years to peak, then why would we trade him before his peak? Wouldnt we get much better return when he's at his peak?

Different story tho. They r in different stages of their respective careers. Boeser played 3 seasons in this league... Who peaks at his 3rd year in the league? I can't name one. Help me out if u can.

3 seasons. 2 of which plagued by injuries. Nope he hasnt peaked.

Boeser hasn't had his best season yet. So sure, his trade value will rise the more we keep him. And getting a top pair right side D who can put up numbers sounds sick. But once Boeser hits his ceiling, we wouldnt even need to negotiate much to get that kind of caliber player. We can decide then whether getting another dream Dman out-benefits having Boeser. Also, don't we have some good Dman in our pipeline?

I wasn't saying trading Boeser wouldnt be beneficial tot his team. If we were to trade him to a team, Boeser has enough potential to fetch that team so much more than a hell of a defenceman we would get.

Trading Boeser right now would be 100x worse idea than trading JV for lacking "Hockey IQ" few years ago. The kid hasn't had a legit summer training yet in any of his first 3 seasons in the NHL. He's already being pegged on the 2nd line of 2022 USA Olympics team by Button. I am shocked that this is even a discussion at this point.

I wanna see him earn a spot on 4th line and work his way up. He's versatile like that. And I think that's how we would best find out how to utilize him. I don't agree with making him a one-dimensional top 6 fwd right off the bat. I would love to have a left handed Mark Stone on our team.

5-3 Avs Jost

4-2 Nux JV and Hinestrosa

Absolutely agree. We got much better players from let's say 2 years ago. But getting a young player off to a good start by putting him a good position to succeed is pretty important. All the players u mentioned were given those opportunities. And those were taken from those that they thought werent with us in our longterm plan. I am not an expert. But it takes more than good players to win hockey games in NHL.