AnthonyG

Talk to buddy with the string showin. Where the hell is his reply at all even acceptable? He can share his dialogue all he wants, but that wasnt dialogue, thats a sour ass individual coming off pretty aggressive. No problems with his comments?

Have you tried going outside bud? You sit here stewing on such a negative outlook, I cant imagine just how miserable your life must be irl. Try some fresh air and a shower more than once a month. You are wasting so much of your time on an issue thats more than a year down the road lmfao. How bored and lonely are you that something so far down the road has you obsessing over it.I’m trying to help you get over this ever so stressful situation in your life that has you so angry over an NHL player who is still an RFA and on a young team thats up and coming. Its called being optimistic, try it once in awhile, you’ll feel better

You seem to be well educated in health and how the body works, I’m nowhere near as knowledgeable, merely just passing on what was explained to me by guys that were or have gone through the process and awaiting surgery. Yes I do agree that elite players playing through pain is still a better outcome of some players fully healthy, but nonetheless it does impact performance overall, which yes that is indeed why we see players in the playoffs fight through it. Not only that but its their pride and a chance at a cup for just a few weeks of pain if they can play through it the whole way.

Hence the knee braces. Which would be given to any guy with ACL or MCL tears. Its to stabilize the knee and reduce any stress anywhere else. Broken bones/fractures imo should definitely be sidelined as it has a serious impact on performance. Whereas tendons can at least be supported and can function as intended with little to no impact on performance. Where as pain impedes your ability to perform. Or if your shit is straight up broken, it aint workin

So its one thing to play through injuries versus returning too soon. As you’re likely waiting for surgery, its going to effect performance. But being cleared to play early after surgery/rehab is where the actual negligence is. Because you have yet to recover. Theres a few ex pro’s I play puck with in the summer who have played with torn ACL/MCL’s because what was explained to them, was it makes no difference until surgery. Its not doing any further damage as it has yet to even be repaired. UNLESS of course its a partial tear. So they use braces to stabilize the knee’s. It effects performance yes, but doesnt draw set backs. The most important aspect of injury is repair/recovery. Until then, its not changing the needed outcome.

Everyone wrote him off. I know countless Laff fans that truly believed he was leaving town. Signed his way the fastest way to free agency and could have held out and dipped outta toronto and went south like soooo many other US players who wanted out of Canada. Gaudreau walked Tkachuk demanded a trade out They spoke about how it sucked being trapped in Canada during a pandemic and how difficult it was to not see family and be stuck with all these rules and regulations, where it would be easier to manage that crap in the states. Matthews easily could have went and found any other team in the states next summer that is close to a contender and made them a contender getting paid without losing half his money to the high taxes here. Matthews is a great example of dont panic and dont believe the writing on the walls. Just because hes american, just because he signed his way to free agency as fast as possible, doesnt mean hes looking to leave. Sure Toronto is a competitive team, where as Vancouver hasnt made playoffs in a few seasons, but Vancouver is 100% a team on the way up not down. If Pettersson thinks this team is heading downhill, then he needs a set of glasses. We are young, he is just now becoming a super star where as Matthews was a generational talent when he was drafted. Matthews is what made Toronto what they are for the most part. Pettersson is now doing just that. Along with Hughes to boot. let me ask you this Who would you rather EP+Hughes+Demko or Matthews+Reilly+Samsonov?

All I’m going to say on the Pettersson contract concerns are this…. When everyone thought this guy was going to walk straight into free agency and sign in either ARZ or some big american city possibly a no tax state and pile on the dough and give the Canadian market a big F U like a typical american with a huge ego and all about money…. He remained in Toronto. Quit crying, Pettersson is an RFA at the end of next summer and we have plenty of time to work out an extension. Also if EP wants to talk about competing and going for a cup, he’d better be leaving some money on the table or he’s going against his own narrative. I firmly believe time with the twins and what their mindset was in 2011 to take a pay cut which triced down along pretty much that whole 2010-11 roster who left money on the table for the next guy and the next guy and so on… They will talk to EP will sign a deal that will benefit the team and leave cap space for the next guy….. i hope lmao… but seriously quit with the EP trade talks and all this other crap.

And ultimately the PK ties into goaltending, which was atrocious for us for 3/4 of the season. We were also hover around the 65% mark for the first 1/3 of the season iirc. There were games we lost due to 3-4PPGA. Some of those games were 1 goal losses or an empty netter was added. My biggest beef has been that goaltending was the biggest issue, the PK had its own issues outside of goaltending, which was personnel, but nonetheless goaltending and PK go hand in hand. Bad goaltending = bad PK. Not necessarily systems, but the FWDs were close to tits on a bull. The amount of unblocked shots or high slot area shots/goals on the PK were the FWDs responsibility, yet they struggled to tie guys up or get in the shooting lanes. If 1) our goaltending returns to form and 2) PK personnel do their job we will be a very strong team imo. Its no secret we can score, Demko CAN play at an elite level as seen in the bubble series vs VGK, all of 2021-22 and then when he returned from injury. Our PP is nearing 25% and with a little better PK, we are a threat to anyone. Im only asking for our goalie to play to his level and the new PK personnel to do the job they have been doing prior to coming here. Really not asking much. The PK has the potential to gain us some points, 7-8 like you say… and then Demko on the other hand in tight games when our offence is struggling will also give us the chance to get points, which I believe is somewhere around the ball park of 12-17pts. I can see a 20pt increase in the standing totals for us based off of better PKing and goaltending. VAN ranked 16th in xGA with 258.93. Actual goals against 296……………… goaltending was the achilles and it showed even moreso on the PK.

So Ullmark, Swayman, Sorokin, Shesterkin, Georgiev, Vasilevskiy, Bobrovsky, Andersen Thompson…. Their jobs were all easy, right? The team never relied on them at all to make big saves? They were never left hung out to dry? Never stood on their head all season? Theres a reason their teams were good, it was because their goalies were standing on their heads quite a bit. The +48GSAA Ullmark had ON HIS OWN, is a MASSIVE indicator that he stood on his head all season long and Boston overachieved as a team, because that guy was robbing teams all god damn season. Then Swayman who added another 15+GSAA combines for a total of SIXTY-THREE GOALS SAVED ABOVE. 3/4 of the entire effing season those guys were taking goals away. Every other top goalie was saving 20-30 goals. Meanwhile our goalie was on the opposite end of the spectrum with -27GSAA. If you took just Ullmarks GSAA and compared it to our whole f***ing goalie squad which added up to -55GSAA at the peak. Thats a 103 goal differential. I’d say Demko’s entire 2021-22 season and when he returned from injury is the real Demko. That slow start was not the real Demko, he was clearly battling something and it eventually took him out for quite some time.

Hard not to call the last few seasons a sh*t show. COVID putting our season on hold, started with 18 games in 30 days and then had to finish the season with 19 games in 30 days, Front office changes, bench boss changes, star players having poor starts, Miller going from C to W, Petey from W to C, injury plague, captain gets moved, lots of new faces, buyout etc…. Its been hard to gain any real traction and 2021-22 was the first time we saw the whole team come together and play at the same level for a lengthy period of time. It took 44 games for Petey to get going but that last 38 was unbelievable. Looking at the numbers I posted about scores vs top teams, 5v5 goals and then taking into account how bad our PK and goaltending was, I feel even if Demko *fingers crossed it doesnt happen* were to go down, the PK unit we built will help play a role in getting points out of teams across the league by reducing the amount of goals. We lost sooo many games by 1-2 goals but we scored 3-4 goals at the same time, but they would happen to score 2-4 PP goals…. If we cut that in half, we are getting extra points and that was with dogshit goaltending which I believe Martin if hes the back up, will want to redeem himself or Silovs wants to show what hes capable of, they will step up and deliver better results than last year. Personally I feel Silovs performed quite well in his stint, so its not like he needs to redeem himself. I’m also excited to see Boeser’s game, he became a much more involved winger and was looking a bit like Mark Stone, getting defensively invovled and constantly tying guys up and trying to steal pucks or holding them there until someone else came and picked up the puck. If Boeser becomes half the winger that Stone is defensively, thats a massive W to go with his 20-25 goals and possibly 60pts. I’d be happy as hell with that, but perhaps Boeser gets back to a 30g pace and possibly 70pts. I wont get my expectations up too high so long as his defensive efforts in our zone remain high.

He’s not a very good stat watcher either

Buddy his record prior to injury vs top teams was trash. His record after returning was nowhere near trash. HOW DO YOU STILL NOT COMPREHEND COLIN DELIA AND SPENCER MARTIN WERE ABSOLUTELY TRASH. Demko against top teams had a rough stretch in the first few weeks. After that his record IS A WINNING RECORD. Like god damn man. one f**ing game below .500 and outscoring playoff teams. We had a handful of losses early while Demko was likely battling through something hence the f***ing injury. Good god man the PK was also one of the biggest crippling issues all season long. Tocchet came in, Demko got healthy and the systems changed, we had some call ups who played great and our PK got way better. We just added one of best PKers and built a better PK unit overall. We dont need Demko to play 70 games and stand on his head. We need special teams to do their god damn job and make life easier on whoever is in net.

@wai_lai416 VAN vs EDM 1-2-0 5-3L - Demko 5-2W - Delia 4-2L - Martin at 5v5 VAN outscored EDM 7-5 VAN vs MIN 0-2-1 4-3OTL - Demko 3-0L - Martin 2-1L - Demko at 5v5 MIN outscored VAN 5-3 VAN vs CAR 1-1-0 3-2L - Demko 4-3SOW - Delia at 5v5 CAR outscored van 5-3 VAN vs SEA 2-2-0 5-4W - Demko 6-5SOW - Martin 6-1L - Martin 5-2L - Delia at 5v5 SEA outscored VAN 14-8 VAN vs NJD 0-1-1 5-2L - Demko 5-4OTL - Delia at 5v5 NJD outscored VAN 6-4 VAN vs TOR 1-0-1 3-2L - Martin 4-1W - Demko at 5v5 VAN and TOR scored 2-2 VAN vs BOS 0-2-0 5-2L - Demko 3-1L - Silovs at 5v5 BOS outscored VAN 2-1 VAN vs LAK 2-2-0 4-1W - Demko 3-2SOW - Demko 4-1L - Demko 3-0L - Delia at 5v5 LAK outscored VAN 6-5 VAN vs VGK 1-2-0 5-4L - Demko 5-1W - Martin 4-3L - Demko at 5v5 VGK outscored VAN 10-7 VAN vs COL 2-1-0 4-3W - Martin 4-2W - Delia 4-1L - Delia at 5v5 VAN outscored COL 6-4 VAN vs FLA 0-2-0 5-1L - Demko/Martin 4-3L - Martin at 5v5 FLA outscored VAN 7-3 VAN vs WPG 0-3-0 5-1L - Martin 4-2L - Delia 7-4L - Martin/Delia at 5v5 WPG outscored VAN 10-5 VAN vs NYI 1-1-0 6-2L - Martin 6-5W - Delia at 5v5 NYI outscored VAN 7-5 VAN vs TBL 0-2-0 5-4L - Delia 5-2L - Martin/Delia at 5v5 TBL outscored VAN 7-2 VAN vs NYR 0-2-0 4-3L - Martin 6-4L - Silovs at 5v5 NYR outscored VAN 9-6 VAN vs DAL 3-0-0 5-4W - Demko 5-2W - Demko 3-1W - Demko at 5v5 VAN outscored DAL 9-4 VS top 3 in our DIV 20GF at 5v5 VS top 3 in our DIV 25GA at 5v5 VS playoff teams 73GF at 5v5 VS playoff teams 103GA at 5v5 Demko's record vs playoff teams 7-8-1 GF 57 - 3.56GF/G GA 46 - 2.88GA/G correct me if I'm wrong.... but it looks like with Demko in net, we can compete with any top team in the league and we sure as hell can score against them too.

Which him going down 1/4 of the way through backs up that theory as well, that he wasnt 100% and finally that nagging issue became an injury. He went from bottom 5 goalie to top 10 goalie in the league after returning from injury.

Yea and it was bad goaltending that was the main culprit. Which is also tied into why our PK was so crappy. Demko had the 3rd worst GSAA league wide in all situations -10.12 in 15GP. hard to win when you’re basically battling a free goal against 2 of every 3 games after that Spencer Martin said hold my beer