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    [GDT] Home Opener! Minnesota Wild @ Vancouver Canucks | Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 @ 7:00pm PDT | Sportsnet One, SN650

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    19 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

    Good news. It looks like Podkolzin will play in the Canucks homer opener.

     

     

    Yes let’s sit Podkolzin and then play him on the wing he doesn’t usually play on and take away one his his greatest assets this team needs which is driving the net. Much easier to do on your off wing which is the position Podz likes to play. I get it’s a bit easier in your own zone and breaking out this way, but I’d much rather be utilizing Podkolzins strengths. This is what I don’t like about Green, doesn’t properly utilize his players and tries to make most of them play the same way in his crappy system. (Boeser net front presence on pp) Ever notice how physical/creative players are when they first get here and then it disappears? Look how much more gritty OEL & Garland are than the rest of our team. 
     

    Also if pp1 is going to get that much time OEL should be on the unit with Hughes. Move Miller to the 2nd unit. Hughes can be the rover so we can actually get some movement on the pp. 

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    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

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    12 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said:

    Hard to judge a player who missed the 2nd half of last year to injury and almost all of training camp/preseason to contract talks. 
     

    I’ll give him till like the 20ish game mark. A couple weeks after this 17 day homestand. Roughly a month from now.

    He should have even more energy then. Where’s his motor that he had in his rookie season? He used to get pissed and chase pucks down when he lost it, now he just pouts  or skates to the bench. 

    Elias Pettersson | #40 | C

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    3 hours ago, Hamhuis Hip Check said:

    So you would trade one of if not the best player we have ever had for a player who still has yet to have the surgery that might allow him to regain his form and a chance at a lottery pick. Lets be real, even if buffalo finished last we most likely wont be picking first, thats just our luck. Plus it would severely hurt the chemistry we have in the locker room and set this rebuild back a couple years. Do you think boeser is going to be happy if his friend is gone and our team has another horrible season? I wouldnt be surprised if he walked after that. 

    :lol: Pettersson gets knocked off the puck easier than almost anyone in the NHL. He’s overhyped and plays nowhere near the caliber he did at the start of his rookie season. He doesn’t even have his motor anymore. Still a good player, but nowhere near the best player Canucks have ever had. 

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    How Green's coaching and Benning's trades degraded this team

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    7 minutes ago, DSVII said:

    Reddit did a good post summarizing all my problems with Green:

     

    1. We turtle once we have the lead. Last night, we were playing some good hockey. We were winning possession-wise and once we had the lead we stopped playing dynamic, started collapsing and trying to defend, which we are terrible at. When it was 2-2 suddenly we started to forecheck more aggressively and stopped playing Green's ultra-passive way. It's very surprising to me that we are doing something well that is bringing us success, and the players are told to change it.

    2. The ultra-passive way. Our changeup from defending last season to now seems to be collapse even harder with less pressure on the opposing team. We are getting one forward applying pressure instead of two. This makes it even easier for the opposition to control the puck. Just look at our possession metrics against Buffalo, a team that is comprised almost entirely of guys that would not make the roster on most other NHL teams.

    3. New and unimproved penalty kill. Yes we are missing Motte & Sutter, but this is essentially an extension of the last two points. Our defenders don't apply any pressure, which would be fine if other teams played the PP like us but they don't, because that would be stupid. Which brings me to...

    4. Complete and utter lack of movement on PP1. This has been a thorn in my side for literal years now. Our players stand in a diamond around the outside with Bo in the middle, and lazily pass the puck back and forth. I would have killed to defend against a powerplay this slow when I was still playing hockey that mattered. It's so, so easy to defend against a puck that isn't moving. We have to pass way faster and move our feet when we have the puck to force the defenders to adjust. If you don't move the defenders don't either, which means no seams are opening up. This is $&!# that has gone on for years and it boggles my mind because even AAA teams know that puck movement is essential.

    5. Unnecessary line juggling. Most of us probably agree that we got goalied in Detroit, which begs the question: why mess with a lineup that was bringing us success everywhere but the scoresheet? We're four games in and guys have barely had a chance to play together on structured lines yet, and now you're making huge shuffles like Miller to 3C and swapping in our bottom pairing from the bench. I can understand wanting to get your 7/8 D in a game, but a lot of the other line juggling, especially this early, works against a team that is on the road and can't focus on practising and gelling.

    6. Killing creativity. Our best players aren't free to do what they do best. With the exceptionally rigid structure of zone entries and O-zone play where players are anchored to specific sub-areas of the zone completely annihilates the ability of our top players to make top plays. It is predictable as all hell, and predictable forwards are the easiest to defend against. This was actually a strength of Green when he first started - the rigid structure is exactly what you need when you have a roster full of plugs as it takes the thinking out of the game. For the love of god though, when Elias god damn Pettersson is completely invisible all night long because he's just in areas that are irrelevant to the play, give him more leash. The systems are choking out our stars.

    7. In-game Confusion. Our lines don't know who is going on for who, partially because of Travis "Vitamix" Green's constant line blending, partially because our special teams sure are special. You see multiple guys on the bench standing to go on when they aren't up. Either Buffalo or Detroit had someone hop over the boards only to immediately hop back on the bench when another guy went too. This happens nearly every game, and it's part of the reason we get so many too many men penalties

    8. Game management, or lack thereof. How many timeouts have you seen Green call to calm his team down and re-center them on the goals of what they are trying to accomplish? (I know he did yesterday at least, which is good) How many times have we allowed a few quick ones, only for the same players to head out and do the exact same things?

    This. Insane how some people still can’t see how bad the coaching is. How many years is it going to take for them to move around on the power play!?

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    [PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Buffalo Sabres | Oct. 19, 2021

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    1 hour ago, JayDangles said:

    I'm starting to have a real problem with Miller and feel like he may be part of the problem with this team. He is making all kinds of terrible decisions with the puck, and in the defensive zone, everyone can see... BUT I don't think he is the type of guy to own his mistakes or take criticism. 

    Yes he swears and pouts when he screws up, but that's not taking accountability. I played a lot with emotional guys and it drove me crazy how they would get pissed at themselves, but never actually own up to their mistakes. Yet they were the first to yell at others and point out people's shortcomings.

     

    Basically unless everything is going 100% his way, I get the impression he is a complete negative Nancy... And as a leader he is dragging people down rather than building them up. 

    IMHO of course.

    Have been saying this. He needs to go before he loses all his value. Even last year Boeser would be visibly annoyed with Miller constantly throughout the season. 

    Burroughs? Do we really need him?

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    51 minutes ago, mikeyman109 said:

    im sure other fans were saying that when Naslund, Bertuzzi and Morrison retired

    Linden and Bure too

    Every team goes through turnover. I much preferred the 94 team to the 2011 team. big tough could score and defend. But we all have our favorite players from each era.

    Those guys had heart and intensity. Bert was a beast. His rivalries with Phaneuf, Jackman, Walz, etc were awesome. Hockey was so much more entertaining back then. 
     

    I’m a big fan of Pettersson, but he does a lot of pouting on the ice like Miller when things don’t go his way. He used to chase down the puck any time he lost it or messed up when he first arrived and had a way higher compete level. Now a lot of the time he just throws his head back and slowly skates to the bench.

     

    We’d be an absolute joke again this year without the compete level OEL and Garland bring to the team. Look at how much more Horvat has been engaged and how Canucks games are actually exciting to watch again even if they lose. That was one of JB’s best moves imo. Hopefully Miller and Petey take note. They need to be split up imo, they feed negatively off eachother. 

    [GDT] Vancouver Canucks @ Detroit Red Wings | Oct. 16th, 2021 | SNP, 4:00PM PT

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    38 minutes ago, Strawbone said:

    Haha! You've sold me!

     

    42 minutes ago, RWJC said:

    Podzilla is pretty good. Orcas travel and hunt in a pod and that’s our logo.

     

    Plus, he’s a beast that was submerged under water in the Russian system. Lurking. Waiting. Gestating deep down within the nuclear juice embryo of the aftermath of Chernobyl.
    Now he has been summoned, awoken, dutifully exacting a devastating attack on North America(n hockey) via the rugged west coast.


    A secret military experiment gone wrong who’s blood is thicker and slicker than Oil, Jet fuel for saliva, breathing fire that burns brighter, longer, hotter than any Flame…

     

    Reigns true over all mankind, and neither wily, silver haired Kings or Knights in bright shining, golden armour can topple… 


    Repels any attack like it’s water off a Ducks back…
     

    Can bludgeon a Shark until the light fades from its eyes…

     

    A monster kaiju that can rip the head off a Kraken in one bite…

     

    A destructive creature, hell bent on radiating vengeance across the Pacific…

     

    He is legend.

     

    He is…

     

     

     

    Podzilla.

    Yes.

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