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Unless we actually make it difficult for them they are not going to break, they smothered us, played as a well drilled team, we played like individuals. I know which one I would put money on. problem is all season we have been an team of individuals relying on quick feet and quick hands to score. I don’t see how we have time to actually get something cohesive together. they play trap and smother the puck, we play as individuals it’s like trying to wade through tar. we need to pump it in deep, aggressively forecheck and dig it out the board and quickly move the puck to free up the ice. That requires a whole team effort and is not how we have been playing. indont want us to lose but if we do I hope we win the sweepstakes as we need some of the creativity and vision of Laffy on our team
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agree, although experience is overrated On these boards. Yes it’s useful but it’s not this magical thing that suddenly takes a player from good to great in the post season. a player that can perform in the PO but not that well in the season I would question their attitude rather than saying it’s experience. also experience only counts for so much in a team that seems to lack a game plan And doesn’t set players up to win
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Cannot blame reffing for the loss on this one. Was It bad - yep. Did we play even worse yep. im not one to call for fire this or that person after a loss, however I’ve increasingly been feeling that green is out his depth. He was good at Utica and it seems primarily because he was given individuals which were good and he allowed them to play. at the NHL level we play like a team of individuals. There is no system, no structure and we rely on Petey to do his magic. when we enter the zone we don’t hit the net, we don’t stretch the defence, we don’t move the puck quickly. It’s easy to shut us down you can smother the player with possession and forget rest. defence looks woeful, not the players but the system, positionslly it looks like they are all over the shop and the forward core done seem to be on the same wavelength about where they need to be defensively. compaire this performance with the flyers performance earlier and there you have a team of good (but not standout players) that know how to enter the zone, know how to back check, know how to pull defenders out of place and know when to hit the net. AV was great at the moose because of his coaching, green seems to have been good at utica despite it
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[GDT] Wild @ Canucks, Sunday August 2 @ 7:30 pm
UKNuck96 replied to Dumb Nuck's topic in Canucks Talk
Looking forward to this game, watching the flyers game and then setting the alarm for a 3am start to watch the game. flyers looking good, AV doing a good job with them, if they beat the capitals in their next game I do think they have a good chance to be the team coming out the east. (Hart is looking exceptional, especially at his age!) games so far have been at a good level hoping Canucks wild delivers -
Skate Jersey Petition For Qualifying Round/Playoffs
UKNuck96 replied to djheer's topic in Canucks Talk
I think the average was about 5’7 to 5’9 for the Viking’s. With the Swedish being the taller of the groups. Poor quality land, lack of space and finances were a key driver in raiding/invading England. Which ultimately led to the creation of the Danelaw. also in 990 Swein Forkbeard was proclaimed king of England after an invasion and this set in motion a series of events which came to head in 1066 with the Norman Invasion. its a very interesting period of time. And that’s without looking east with the founding of the Rus and the trade through central and Eastern Europe, the trade routes down the Volga to the Caspian Sea and their contact with the Arab world in Baghdad. these trade routes mean that they had access to material and technology not seen in Europe. Specifically access to Wootz Steel (From India/Sri Lanka through trade with the Arabs) this means they were able to then forge the Ulfberht swords which were not to dissimilar to Damascus steel swords -
Skate Jersey Petition For Qualifying Round/Playoffs
UKNuck96 replied to djheer's topic in Canucks Talk
They were young men/farmers looking for land (the ones raiding Saxon England anyway) they were strapping young lads in their prime. They were only a smidge taller than the Saxons but both the Saxons and the Danes were taller than other European tribes/groups longboats used for raiding were believed to have been rowed by the soldiers and not by space thralls so while people come in all shapes and sizes their work can impact their body shape significantly. Also while the Danes/Norse/Swedes were traders and had vast trading network they were also raiders, warriors and conquers. The word Viking in Norse literally means ‘to raid’ -
Our problem at Center beyond Pettersson and Horvat
UKNuck96 replied to Patel Bure's topic in Canucks Talk
Agree with that, I do feel though that the current set up does seem to reward boom and bust teams far more than those who try to keep teams together. Albeit it’s not a given, especially when you look at how long the oilers were stinking the joint out. Chicago are probably a good example of riding the wave of the boom and bust and maximising on it. They have also been very good at trading players and scouting/drafting with a focus on sting young prospects coming in. But I do think they are now a team on the side down. Will be interesting if they blow it all up in the next couple of seasons ready for a new crop of youngsters -
Our problem at Center beyond Pettersson and Horvat
UKNuck96 replied to Patel Bure's topic in Canucks Talk
I agree. I think the crux of the issue is that you need two waves to be successful or have your prospects hit at the same time with a team built for them to step into (or just get lucky) we have some excellent players on ELCs and some just coming through, however it’s all landed at one time and the team isn’t quite set up ready and while we have some good prospects on the way in, it’s not a second wave of Grade a prospects. I do worry that we will end up a Middling cusp team as we don’t have enough to push on unless some capwizardey happens and our current crop of ELCs will be up for a full contract when the next few come in -
Our problem at Center beyond Pettersson and Horvat
UKNuck96 replied to Patel Bure's topic in Canucks Talk
While I agree, I would much rather get to a situation with two top scoring lines and a shut down line, and a general defensive line. allows for a lot more rotation and better matchups, then trying to dilute what we have into three lines that can score a bit. (with the top two lines being rotational to a point) In an ideal would I would prefer to see top line out and out scoring, second scoring with some size, third shutdown that can generate some offence (think Hanson,Kesler,Burrows from back in the day, or Niedermier and Phalson) And a fourth line that is defensively sound and can do hard shifts in the Defensive zone, anchored by a face off specialist (aka someone like Malholtra) at the moment I agree while we have a number of players that can play centre, we have an imbalance of the right kind of centres on the team for the lines and purpose they are on -
After watching that game (I know it’s an exhibition ) one thi BF I’m concerned about is our D. Not the players but the system. We seem to struggle to keep the puck in the offensive zone, and positionally we are often a step behind when it comes to chasing back. there were a lot of 2-1 and 3-2 breakouts for the jets. notnjust this, it looks like we are using a hybrid of a 3-2 defensive system and half ice overload. Now I’m not sure if this is players being rusty, but there were a significant number of times when either the players on the blue line let their check through and didn’t mark them resulting in an unmarked player to the side of the crease. Other times we had 3 on 3 down low, however our three overloaded the side against 2 attackers and no one covered the third man, who was able to again steam in to the crease completely unmarked. against the wild who are very good at moving the puck quickly through the zone I see this as being a huge issue giving up a lot of a grade opportunities
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[Signing] Canucks sign Jack Rathbone
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Great news TV at he has signed. can someone explain to me though why it burns this season, giving us only 2 years of the entry level contract? Also why would we want that as surely the aim is to have players at this level in the team on the elc for all 3 years allowing the team to have high skill low price to offset the cap of the older players. (Who then get moved or retired as the contracts come up) and the cycle repeats -
Proposal - Edit: Matt Sekeres is bad at headlines
UKNuck96 replied to Moose Nuckle's topic in Canucks Talk
To be honest most media sources these days are clikbait race to the bottom to get clicks to pad ad revenue figures. It’s where they get their money from. if you want to see a $&!# storm of fake/made up/speculative stories go google Newcastle United Takeover. Also even the BBC engage in it. At the last F1 gp they had the headline was Hamilton wins after both Ferrari’s collide, This obviously didn’t get the clicks/readership they wanted (although since it’s ad free I’m guessing it’s personal KPIs that drive it) so they changed it to Hamilton wins after Ferrari collision. pretty clear what they were trying to do with that headline. im guessing the Vancouver and hockey media is just the same, and you will have hacks who just make up a story to get air time, hit their KPIs etc. i take all rumours with a pinch of salt -
I’m a Canucks fan from the Uk as the name suggests and have been since I lived in Vancouver in 1996. However living in the UK does make it hard to catch the games due to time differences (with games starting on average at 3 to 3:30am local time and even a midday game is about a 7pm start. As such since 2011 I haven’t watched as much or followed as much as I would have liked due to work, family, home life, and have only recently been able to follow more closely. Anyway I was thinking about 2011 and the cup run. During the years of AV we were a light, fast and skilled team and often the fans and commentators said we were to small, to light to compete in the playoffs and the the bruins, size and strength was the way to go. However in the current NHL the approach we had in 2011 is now a common approach to building teams and the game is more free flowing than before. I think AV was a bit before the times with how he built the Canucks and while he often gets derided (or seems to on these boards) I do feel that he coached well and had a significant impact on who the Canucks signed, drafted, traded to fit with that philosophy. what I find interesting is that while the league seems to have followed the path set down by the Canucks, the Canucks seem to have gone the other way and have looked on the whole for more size and more strength than the finess of 2011. the Canucks have gone from being forerunners to behind the game in my eyes and the scars of 2011 are to blame for that? does anyone else see similar?
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https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-round-robin-best-of-5-series-dates-times/c-317365910 With the dates and the schedule announced, I think that in terms of ice allocation we have got a daily good set of slots being first on the ice for (Potentially) three games. I see with the heavy ice usage there being some degradation in the later games so hopefully this means we can play hockey more than have to game mans the rink situation
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Why I don't want the Canucks winning the Cup this year
UKNuck96 replied to EP40.'s topic in Canucks Talk
So you wouldn’t want the Canucks to win the league because Liverpool got a guard of honour at the Etihad Stadium. Not exactly the same thing considering it’s a) an away game b) Liverpool had already won the league c) they won it when Man City lost to Chelsea so either way even if there were fans they wouldn’t have been played when it happened d) they haven’t yet had a home game after winning that the fans would have been able to go to. I get the whole empty stadium bit if winning the Stanley cup, but ask a Liverpool fan winning the league is winning the league, the team still has to be good enough to do it. Yes they would have preferred to have fans in the stadium on their next home game to celebrate but I doubt you will find a fan who will say they didn’t want to win it this year because they had to plays some games behind closed doors . the whole argument comes across as entitled. ‘If I cannot be there to see it I don’t want it to happen’ -
Why I don't want the Canucks winning the Cup this year
UKNuck96 replied to EP40.'s topic in Canucks Talk
You do realise the 1000 number is not fans, it’s made up of teams, coaching staff, officials etc and it’s an up to amount not a total and includes social distancing. In a hockey arena where it’s a lot smaller, more compact concourse and less entrance and exits it will be harder to get fans back in safely compared to say a outdoor stadium