StanleyCupOneDay

I may not be a doctor, but to me if it’s a rib area fracture that sounds more like month to month considering the time needed to reheal and then slowly introducing physical contact to the body after to get used to NHL play again. It seems like if we see him it’ll be in April at the earliest.

Maybe not such a hot take after seeing the returns on trades so far, yeesh sellers market much? We got a steal.

I love this trade, Toffoli always gives me nightmares when we play against him. Happy to have him on the other side for a change. So basically we traded: - A 3rd round smaller in size prospect at a position we are set in for years to come with 3 NHL C’s (Petey, Bo, Gaudette) already ahead of him. - A 2nd round pick with a 30% chance of getting any NHL player 3 years from draft day. - A 4th liner NHL bubble guy. - A conditional 4th round pick with a 5% chance of getting any NHL player if Toffoli re-signs. For - The absolute best you hope a 2nd round pick could turn into: A Stanley Cup winning playoff experienced in his prime top 6 NHL forward mired on a terrible team who has previous experience/chemistry with Pearson. CDC’s reaction of course: How JB manages to swing trades like these without giving up our top blue chip prospects is a mystery to me. We now finally have a legitimate 2nd line, which we’ve been missing since the Sedin era. Toffoli is going to make a lot of people here look silly just as JT did before. Bargain deal for a top 6 RW’er

I said this in another thread a while back and I’m sticking to it. He should hang up his skates. Dude’s young, got a whole life in front of him and risking his health further is just not worth it. We saw some great glimpses of what could have been, but sometimes luck and bad injuries derail a persons promising career in sports. Wish him the best in his future endeavors. A side note, I’ve been extremely pleased with management of this team since WD left and have made it known, but collectively how they’ve handled Ferland has been awful. Why even play him in Utica this season? What’s the rush? After the 2nd concussion out he needed to be done for the year, why they decided to put him in so soon is a complete mystery to me. And he got reinjured in the game, AGAIN. How many times does a group need to learn a lesson before changing what they’ve been doing? Incredibly frustrating to see and might have ruined a promising career.

How is it a trend after only one game? How many games have we given up 50 shots in this year? We have games where goalies steal us points and others where the opposition goalies steal points for them. We have games where 1 player carries the team to victory, others where 1 player costs us a victory. That’s just hockey filled with imperfect human beings who have good times and bad times in life and on the ice. Now if this were say the 2nd or 3rd game in a row we gave up 50 shots I’d probably share some of your concerns, but for now I’ll chalk it up to a one-off.

People don’t give a healthy Sutter the credit he rightly deserves. Had some bad luck with injuries over his time in Vancouver and some think he’s worthless. He’s a guy you want on your side of the ice and is worth every penny when he plays. Hope he keeps it up to prove the naysayers wrong. Love the guy.

If we had lost this one then I would’ve started to worry about the team and our playoff chances. But we didn’t. Now we’re at home and can string some wins together to hopefully get some distance in the division. Great game on a big night.

We hit a 3 for tonight. All lost in regulation.

Hot take: Miller is worth double what we paid if he plays like this consistently (which he has so far).

Fair enough, the Blues PGT gave me a different impression and I didn’t see these points made elsewhere, though I may have just not read the right thread.

Am I the only one seeing Green’s plan behind moving Boeser to the 3rd? To me it all makes sense. The coach is satisfied with his offensive skills, but sees defensive work is needed to become a more complete 200 foot player. So he decides to switch Brock and Jake from the 1st line to the 3rd. This allows Green to take a closer offensive play-driving game look at Virtanen who has earned his shot to see if he can be that play driving top line power forward we hoped to get. Brock at the same time then gets to work on his overall game with two less defensive minded line mates. It is setting him up nicely if all goes well to fit on the line with the 2 other defense/offense 2 way players in Bo and Pearson, replacing Eriksson. And even while tinkering with the lines the team keeps winning. A great result a lot of other teams wish they had.

There’s a lot of people that don’t understand by playing players in different positions then they’re used to helps to round out and further their game even if the stats don’t show it. Brock playing on the 3rd won’t be forever and he’ll gain valuable experience early in his hockey career by making mistakes that will pay dividends for him later. I remember as a lurker the outrage when Bo played on the 4th line a couple? seasons ago. Look at him now. Same with Gaudette taking face offs as the 3rd C even though he’s losing a lot of them. 2-3 years down the road the lessons he’s learnt will be paying off in the face off circle. Both will be better more complete players for it.

Playoff game, playoff win. Against the Stanley Cup Champs. Ready for April.

Yes because JT Miller obviously plays on the 3rd line with Pettersson. I’m talking about in hindsight, what we know now, would other teams trade 2 1sts + for a 1st line 75-80 point player signed cheap for 3 more seasons at 26 years old? I’m saying yes. That’s my hot take.

Here’s a hot take. We got a 50% discount. Miller is worth 2 1sts and 2 3rds. 26 years old, on pace for 75-80 points at $5.25m per year cap hit and signed for 3 more seasons. Try to tell me teams wouldn’t give up 2 1sts + for a non rental player like that.

Patience is a virtue. Jake looks like the first rounder we drafted. I’m really glad Green, Benning and everyone involved with the Canucks organization stuck with him through his mistakes and learning curves. The payoff if he continues like this could be the 1st line power forward we were hoping for. Worst case he’s a solid 2nd or 3rd liner who can play up and down the lineup when injuries occur. He’s finally learned that by improving the defensive side of his game it frees him up for more offense at the other end of the ice. Kudos to all involved with Virtanen’s development especially after the WD era seemed to knock his confidence out. And of course cheers to Virtanen himself for continuing to work on it even with lower ice time in games. He earned this chance to play with the top line and Green’s gambit to split up the lotto line moving Boeser to the 3rd while controversial here so far is paying dividends both offensively and defensively.

The date and time games are played and who we play against. Do I get a prize?

So you‘ve been a fan for 40 years. You watched Game 6 of the Stanley cup final in 1994 live and that in your mind makes you more knowledgeable then the coach currently on a 7 game win streak in the toughest hockey league in the world? I’ve been a fan for 20 years, doesn’t mean I know more then the guy actually paid to coach.

Yes, I did. I saw Bob McKenzie talk about the rule on tv. To the average viewer though that should have been a penalty regardless of the rule. I thought it was going to get called. I fully admit it, we got lucky there imo, but that doesn’t take away from Canada coming back from being down 3-1 in the 3rd period. Sometimes games break your way, other times not. Bounces can go in and bounces can miss. Penalties can be called and can be missed. That’s hockey and that’s why we’re all fans of the game. I mean if it was predictable which team would win at the start of every game who here would actually watch? The twists and turns build the emotions into a celebration or defeat. We don’t know which until after the game ends. May as well go along for the ride.

Just finished up watching the recorded game after work. What a f-ing crazy game eh? The emotional roller coaster of a Canada vs Russia medal game is always intense and today’s game was no different. As for the controversy I think most people would agree after watching the replay the puck hitting the camera on its way out of the rink should have been a penalty. That said, it wasn’t called. Sometimes missed or bad calls happen, you just have to roll with what you’re given in any sport. If Russia didn’t give up a 2 goal lead they wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place. Bad refereeing is bad refereeing, but there’s nothing the players can do about that. Many players of Team Canada will have this game, this tournament and this moment as the highlight of their hockey career. They played their hearts out all game and throughout the tournament. They deserve to celebrate earning a gold medal with Canadians cheering them on. Some people trying to take away from their efforts, saying the win was tainted because of a non call is shameful. There is no asterisk next to any gold medal. Team Canada won gold, end of story.

Calling any person a cripple is tasteless. You can criticize without doing so. Do better.

WHY ARE WE YELLING?

Saw that too. Over 3,000 man games lost, the only team who has crossed that mark.

Nah, the joke is those who still want to fire Green.

Tanner Pearson. We’ve legit found a 2nd line winger for Bo and it only cost us Gudbranson. Best bang for the buck. Honorable mention to Brock Boeser who while fighting it a bit from game to game is still putting up solid 1st line numbers. So they would be my choices for unsung difference makers (hero just sounds odd to use on a hockey player to me). We always hear about Pettersson, Miller and Hughes for most games, which isn’t a knock, it’s well deserved attention, but to win consistently the Canucks need more than 3 players putting up points.