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[GDT] Canucks Vs Flyers - Oct 28th, 2021, 7:00pm PST
wai_lai416 replied to therodigy's topic in Canucks Talk
still 0 player movement on the pp.. lots of puck movement.. but 0 player movement.. the penalty kill ain't even bother moving -
[GDT] Canucks Vs Flyers - Oct 28th, 2021, 7:00pm PST
wai_lai416 replied to therodigy's topic in Canucks Talk
i dunno about this EP hoglander bailey line. i saw multiple times Bailey dump the puck into EP's corner and expect EP to fly in there to chase the puck? not sure how he's going to get out of his slump that one when he doesn't even have the puck on his stick in the offensive zone -
considering EP only had 2 points in 8 games last season and finished with 21 in 26.. i'm not even worried
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[GDT] Canucks Vs Flyers - Oct 28th, 2021, 7:00pm PST
wai_lai416 replied to therodigy's topic in Canucks Talk
I'm pretty sure the flyers are 3-1-1 not 2-2-1.. hopefully they come out and play hard and win one. I think ppl are already running out of excuse for them -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
so you are telling me he has nothing to do with Virtanen and McCann? some random guy in the scouting department told him to pick those guys and he's like sure since i know absolutely nothing about any of the players? like u mean he didn't bother doing any research on any of the possible players he thinks will be available at #6 and just went with whatever his scouting department say? pretty sure he had a month of tape watching and research on so and so players. it's not like he flys around the CHL to watch hockey games to scout players himself. if he has no idea about the draft then why did he not trade kesler for a 2015 1st rounder instead? anaheim probably woulda gladly said yes since it'll end up a even lower draft pick -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
ok we are retooling so because we are retooling those 1st rounders don't count? -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
it wasn't rebuilding yet he has the 5th and 6th overall pick so because he's not rebuilding those picks doesn't mean anything?? what kind of logic is this? i mean we have more draft picks while sedins were here than we had since sedins were gone.. so did we ever rebuild? we had more 1st rounders while sedins were still around then we did after they left lol? we had 5 1st rounder before sedins retired and since then we had 2? so by that theory we never even rebuilt at all? -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
isn't that his problem? he has 8 years worth of rebuilding to create a new core. he has demko boeser ep hughes. horvat is not even his the defense have more holes than swiss cheese and the offense all the players drafted the coach he hired wants them all play like a selke candidate or they can ride the bench -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
not really there's a huge difference if they waited for adam fox.. he would become a ufa sure he will sign with rangers. but he'll no longer be signing a 3 year elc he can sign whatever he wants and rangers doesn't retain his rights -
Again I said 80-90% of the time and look it was scretch pass hitting a player in stride which I said. Which rarely happens with the Canucks majority of the time the guy is standing still waiting for the pass or casual skate up to the neutral zone and dump and chase. Look what happens when we skate in straight line. How often do we do that in a game? Rare. Game plan against vancouver? Just clog up the neutral zone and wait for the dump in and make them beat us on the fore check
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Pettersson isn't known for his explosiveness but he's not exactly slow if you let him skate in stride. He's like 0.7sec slower than mcdavid in the fastest skater competition. First few steps hes not going to create any separation so the only way for EP to have speed is if u hit him in stride which this teams seems unable to make any pass. This team doesn't play North to South. Nor do they play with any speed at all. The only time the team have any speed going into the offensive zone is if they do the stretch pass. You are saying he's forced to play dump and chase coz he's slow? What about hughes and Garland? Every single canucks is slow? Coz everyone of them dump and chase like 80-90% of the time. When was the last time u saw EP open for a shot? Their offense is static with no movement from any player. When you are playing dump and chase that means the other team will have everyone in the defensive zone. When you are passing the puck around the perimeter without the players moving.. the other team just sits there and plugging up all the lanes. Should he just try to shoot the puck thru 1 or 2 defender everytime and have it blocked? Look at our breakout we have hughes standing in front of the net casually waiting for an open guy to pass to rather than just skate the puck up. Everyone is just standing still and waiting. How often do u see the other team with the puck standing still waiting for a pass? The other team is always moving our team is always starting from a standstill. Hence we don't ever create separation while other team just blow past our defense or stretches them.
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[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Lol the 2 top picks built the rangers? Kakko and lafreniere? They aint even a big factor yet in NY.. What about the 2nd rounder they traded to get the Adam fox? What about bassard for zbanijed? Those 2 trades alone is way better than any move Benning have made in his tenure in vancouver. Getting kakko and lafreniere prolly push them ahead of schedule but even if the rangers didn't draft them they would still be in a good position. -
blah blah blah all the talks about EP holding out of camp to get more money. he held out of camp for more money just to sign for less than what people were expecting and barely more than comparables?? or maybe it's because they couldn't agree on a contract for hughes and going back and forth and took forever? i think it's pretty much given.. they were going to sign together it wasn't going to be EP signs now and hughes signs month later. or who knows? maybe JB was trying to offer him Boeser's bridge deal? you guys weren't part of the negotiation yet i find it funny you guys are like well this fraud held out for more money and missed training camp and now struggling get rid of him etc. the entire line is struggling Miller is struggling Boeser is struggling EP is struggling yet all we hear is EP sucks. Boeser basically missed the entire preseason EP missed basically the entire preseason they literally had no practice playing together so far. instead of letting the line just work thru it's issue since they don't have the practice time to do it. Green just tosses the line into blenders every game and hope they'll magically rediscover their chemistry. The lotto line is not built for a dump and chase style as they really don't have a guy that can retrieve maybe miller and he's not even good at it. Everytime they have the puck.. they'll choose to dump the puck into a corner even if there's space for a pass or even room to skate.. watch tonights game.. look at how many times our defense dump the puck into the corner just outside of the blueline even when he has room or open players to pass to.. the whole line looks disinterested.. i mean i wouldn't blame them.. dump the puck in knowing you likely won't be able to recover it time to skate back the other way and defend. rinse and repeat. i feel like each line should have their own style of play that's suitable to them.. shouldn't be all 4 lines can only play dump and chase even though we are not a heavy team that can crash and bang on the forecheck to recover pucks.. but they are taught and told to only play 1 style and most of the longer tenure player looks like they are fed up with the system and don't care anymore. can't blame them if your coach wants you to keep playing a fail system that clearly doesn't work.
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[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
the good majority of the rabid fans can't afford to spend an entire paycheck to have an family outing at a hockey game -
[PGT] Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 26, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
the team is too frustrating to watch.. we play like they are all 35+ aging veteran.. super slow and casual. seems like no matter what hoglander do he'll never get to play in the top 6 this season with horvat.. and whoever thinks having podz play pretty much 1 period a game and then staple to the bench for no reason is a good idea for his development dunno what to say. it seems like the only way podz will get to play is if the team is playing with a decent lead.. otherwise green don't trust him offensively or defensively -
so far early this season showed last year was no fluke.. quite a turnover in terms of personnel but playing the exact same style of hockey. people can blame the players all they want, but when your coaches are unwilling to change or adapt and keep banging his head playing the exact same style of hockey that obviously isn't working for this team. i think it's time to bring in a coach that preaches more offensive creative hockey. can't be worse than what we are experiencing
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i would have put podz or anyone with better offensive skill on EP's wing than Highmore. i really don't see how rotating EP's winger every game and give him someone like highmore would get him out of his funk. i think it's fair to say EP have started with and played with the most different wingers this season so far in the NHL and not just for the odd 1 or 2 shift.
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no one is going to give you anything for hamonic or even trade for him and risk him taking a temp leave at anytime during this season or next season for family or whatever reason while holding the cap space hostage. he doesn't count against the cap when he's out yet you can't just spend the cap to replace him if needed
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Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
wai_lai416 replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
You kinda missed the memo Dahlen had no patients. Again I already said the canucks were basically calling up and giving anyone not named dahlen a chance in that top 6 that year. We had injuries and our top 6 was trash the call up were trash and he was still not given 1 game despite doing well in Utica. It's pretty obvious he's not a Green guy with 200ft and he knows it he'll never get a chance in the NHL with the Canucks as long as Green is the coach. He probably doesn't want to play in the Utica system either coz they are trying to groom him into a 200ft checker that he was never meant to be. You sound stupid trying to suggest oh EP is playing like crap coz we traded away his best friend. I guess EP is signing with the Sharks next so he can play with his buddy right? Or he will be demanding a trade to the Sharks next if he continues to struggle so he can rediscover his scoring touch playing along side dahlen? Lol EP definitely signed a 3 year bridge rather than a max long term so he can sulk we traded his buddy so he can make less on his next contract by struggling. -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
wai_lai416 replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
no not really the only reason Puljuarvi isn't out of edmonton was they couldn't get anything close to his value of a 4th overall pick lol otherwise he would be gone. Funny you think the kid is going to work his ass off sitting in the AHL knowing he has 0 chance on this team seeing all the injury and callups and he still gotten 0 chance. and even the current version of the canucks he has no spot on this roster. you really think he would re-sign when his ELC expires to try for a spot on this team again with no guarantees and then be sent to the AHL again? not a chance he's gonna re-sign with the team and just play in europe at least on the sharks there's plenty of roster spots up for grab on the canucks theres no spots available unless you are a 3rd 4th line plug. -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
wai_lai416 replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
so the player expressed he wants to be traded and doesn't want to play for your team anymore cause he doesn't like the chance he's getting with the big club. you tell him F*k you stay in the AHL i ain't trading u? or are you suppose to gift him a playing spot just to make him happy? -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
wai_lai416 replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
lol i don't think this have anything to do with dahlen.. sure i don't like how dahlen was not given the chance here but does that mean you have to gift a spot for dahlen in order to get pettersson to play? Dahlen asked to be traded out of vancouver he was the one that left pettersson not Vancouver trading away Dahlen to piss off Pettersson.. well i guess we should just get rid of hughes to NJ at all cost coz he looked like he wanted to play with the other 2 hughes. -
Serious question about perceived negativity around this team
wai_lai416 replied to MeanSeanBean's topic in Canucks Talk
lol i dunno about you philadephia dominated us in the 1st period and if it wasn't for carter hart being terrible like he is we wouldn't be walking out of the 2nd period with 4 goals.. and the 3rd period the last 5 mins? i dunno how you can say we were great.. other than scoring 4 goals which probably at least 2 wouldn't have gone in on a competent goaltender. detroit and edmonton we were flat coming out of the game. you are paid to play a 60min game. not play a 40min or 20min game hell you are only on the ice at most 20mins a game for most ppl.. and u can't even show effort for a full 20mins on the ice and only show up here and there?? we didn't eather the storm against seattle Demko did lol the entire team was no show. no shots for almost 20mins? and we had a powerplay or 2 in there. that's effort?