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gibson owns the canucks in his career lol..
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i don't think the PK is fixable.. we simply don't have the personel for penalty kill.. Hughes doesn't play PK so that's a top 4 gone. if OEL or myer goes in the box that means we are using bottom 2 pairing on the pk against other teams top offensive player. also Beagle Rousell Player Name is far better defensive players than whatever we are marching out on the PK regardless of how bad they are offensively.
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Good to see PP improved a lot, how about any suggestions to PK?
wai_lai416 replied to Rabbit's topic in Canucks Talk
well at least myer is lasting longer on the penalty kill before giving up a goal. poolman is avging a PK goal against every 3mins 20 sec of penalty kill myer is every 4mins. poolman was suppose to be brought in for his defensive ability and being paid strictly for his defensive ability. i don't care what myer is making 6mil u can split that up into 3mil for offense 3mil for defense. poolman is strictly defense only so no i'm not really giving him any slack. -
Good to see PP improved a lot, how about any suggestions to PK?
wai_lai416 replied to Rabbit's topic in Canucks Talk
lol so who do you suggest we put on the PK? Poolman have been pretty terrible 4v5 and on for majority of the goals against on the PK. -
Good to see PP improved a lot, how about any suggestions to PK?
wai_lai416 replied to Rabbit's topic in Canucks Talk
well we have been throwing 2-3mil per year every year for the past 4-5 years at the buy out retirement funds so does it make a difference? -
Good to see PP improved a lot, how about any suggestions to PK?
wai_lai416 replied to Rabbit's topic in Canucks Talk
There are plenty of issue with canucks pk. 1 they are not aggressive enough 2 they are terrible at preventing that cross ice pass from the slot 3 they hardly block any shots 4 their center is terrible at faceoff 5 we don't have enough defenseman capable of playing penalty kill Poolman so far have been on the ice for a good chunk of all the powerplay goals against. Hughes doesn't play the penalty kill at all. If OEL or myer takes a penalty. All you have is OEL/myer, hamonic, poolman and a combination of hunt borrough or schenn. So basically your bottom 2 pairing defenseman on the pk whenever one of OEL or myer gets called against other teams powerplay/top players. When you have to rely on ur #5/6/7 defenseman against other teams top players.. you are gonna have issue. Can't wait till we go on a road trip when hamonic won't be available yet I believe due to the waiting period to get the second shot and the wait period after the shot. We will be rocking 2 of schenn hunt borough whenever oel or myer gets a penalty instead of 1. I was looking thru how much minutes each players play on the PK. I was like oh they dont play all that much PK mins.. then I realize oh wait the other team scores pretty quick on the powerplay so we are rarely penalty killing lol -
Key to the game will be once again PK. Anaheim have a good powerplay running at over 20% and we have the league worse pk almost 60% now
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[Signing] Flames sign Jacob Markstrom
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Lol markstrom playing excellent coz of the system they play in Calgary.. hes a good goalie elevated to great this season behind good coaching. remember the LA kings team? Quick was playing at a vezina caliber when Sutter was there. Coincident certain goalie when moved to a team with great defensive structured coaches all of a sudden puts on vezina like campaign? Carolina regardless of what goalie they put in is playing like a vezina goalie.. mrazek the rookie last year now Anderson. Columbus when torts was there plays great defensive hockey. Islander with trotz. Put demko in Calgary behind the way the flames defense is playing he will be as good if not better. Also helps when your team don't have a defense philosophy of letting the other team shoot as many perimeter shots as they want. -
[PGT] Dallas Stars at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 07, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Makar plays about 1 min of pk a game vs hughes avg 6 sec of pk per game over the entire season. Sure it's not all about the pk it's more flash but you ain't gonna win or get nominated if you can't play in all situation and dominate on points. Otherwise Tyson barrie would have gotten a few Norris votes and I think he ended up with 0 -
Why team doesn't draft BPA and draft based on positional need is baffling to me. Sry as much as people hated MT. He's heads and shoulder above juolevi at the draft in terms of skills talents ceiling. Worse case scenario you trade him further down the road for a Dman why we don't take the BPA when it's a clear better player is head scratching. You can always trade it for a positional need as he'll be worth more. Like if it's a toss up between MT or Juolevi ok draft positional need but when it's a clear better player and u went positional need is the dumbest move u can make.
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[PGT] Dallas Stars at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 07, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Lol ya if he gets plus 40/50 maybe but chance of that happening? Prolly prolly closer to 0. The avg highest +/- is around 35 the last dunno how many years. With one odd exception in Karlsson that 1 year. The fact that he only has 2 hits and 9 blocks you almost view him not even a defenseman so I doubt he even gets a nomination unless he's leading the league in points and +/- -
[PGT] Dallas Stars at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 07, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Yup hughes will prolly never ever get a Norris nomination in his career unless he starts playing penalty kill too on a consistent bases not when there's injury or what not -
you mean the young swedes that's getting flamed by the fan after each and every game? again he won't be foolish to wait till june 1st when he becomes a UFA to see what's available he can always double back to vancouver if there's no interest out there. if vancouver was willing to offer him a elc before june 1st they'll still be offering him the elc after june 1st unless they wanna spite him for not signing and lose another prospect for nothing.
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lol vancouver always were gonna sign boeser.. only he wanted to play in college where he can't sign until he's done playing.. unless boeser was planning to wait till he's 22 before joining the NHL? just like rathbone.. he was signed to his elc when he was 19 when he was done with his college career.. not even sure why you guys comparing them.. it's completely different situation. Karlsson on the other hand? the team didn't show any interest in signing the kid early and wait till he's about to hit UFA? 100% his agent is telling him to not sign the ELC and become a UFA and sign with a team that can offer him a max performance bonus where vancouver can prolly offer him almost 0 based on their cap situation
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because he missed the chance to sign him to an ELC during the summer and the kid prolly knows he generated enough interest especially another strong start that there will be quite a few teams come knocking come june 1st so he no longer have the need or urge to sign with vancouver if he becomes a ufa?
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lol the lotto line ain't exactly fast but they are still playing the same old dump and chase that green wants them to play. notice how they don't support each other when they have the puck nowadays because they are expecting each other to dump the puck in so there's no need to give puck support entering the zone
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[proposal] Pettersson for PLD / Boeser+ for Laine
wai_lai416 replied to Patel Bure's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
he literally just said he can sign a 1 year QO and leave your team with absolutely nothing after 1 year lol. imagine trading EP right now for 2 seasons of PLD -
Canucks PP is not effectiveness, any suggention?
wai_lai416 replied to Rabbit's topic in Canucks Talk
does it look like the players are allowed to go off script here? Miller said his line is not a dump and chase line.. yet every game his line dump and chase 90%+ of the time when they get the puck lol. -
[Report] Sharks claim Jonah Gadjovich off waivers
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
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[PGT] Nashville Predators at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 05, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
i dunno i'm watching anaheim vs arizona highlights.. anaheim's PP looks a lot different than ours.. like the guy on the side would rotate with the guy at the point.. and all 5 guys are shifting together constantly moving.. our PP OEL or Hughes is literally the only one that moves.. the rest of the team is standing still or miller would do the weird wind up from the point and skate towards the net. the anaheim PP with newell brown looks a lot different that the newell brown PP i've seen in vancouver. -
[PGT] Nashville Predators at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 05, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
i honestly don't think half the team is trying.. sure they are professionals.. but when you are trying the same sh*t over and over and over again for 4-5 years and it doesn't work but are told to keep doing it anyways.. you are bound to half ass it... like EP for example i haven't even seen him try to do any of his shifty moves to get around players or any of his fancy dekes.. like you see him once in a while just go in a straight line trying to go thru 3 guys.. before you'd see him at least try to deke around them.. now he's now even deking anymore -
[PGT] Nashville Predators at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 05, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
well newell brown have the anaheim PP running at over 20% and i can't even name a player off the top of my head beside getzlaf.. i'm sure coaches have some input on how they want their assistant to run things.. otherwise whats the point of the head coach.. just to decide which goalie to put in and juggle lines?