Dazzle
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Just now, kloubek said:
Jake found a way to start scoring again. Wait for an empty net. Happy for him.
This game has not been good. Yet another game that shows we won't be a playoff team until we can sort our our poor defensive decisions.
I would really like to see Virtanen try another coach besides Green. Maybe he'll be scratched a lot. I dunno. We'll see.
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12 minutes ago, oldnews said:
yeah - every single player makes mistakes, has braincramps...takes their turn.
which is why error gazing is such a failed way of watching any player.
People tend to pick their favorite whipping boy - and then confirm their bias any time there's a "pizza delivery", for example. You could make a long list of Canucks who have made people's shizzlists - most of them decent to good players, some of them very good players.
the problem with Gaudette's game however is not 'mistakes', not even 'inconsistency' - it's how consistently unable he is to grasp the details of playing without the puck. He remained a liability throughout his time here - did not show the ability to play the center position at this level, did not have enough upside to force his way into the top 6, wasn't a particularly good fit in the 'bottom' six, and faced an increasingly uphill battle to earn a RW spot anywhere in the lineup.
Borderline no-brainer to deal him - whether or not there's any truth to the covid rumours.
Yeah, it's not unlucky that he's not doing the right things.
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7 minutes ago, Beary Sweet said:
At this point, I would’ve preferred we kept Toffoli over Pearson. Re-sign Toffoli then let Pearson walk after this year. Nothing we can do now
Toffoli doesn't kill penalties, if I recall. Pearson does.
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Leave it to the Canucks to let a defenceman who had issues potting goals score a snipe shot...
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1 hour ago, wallstreetamigo said:
The point is hockey is a game of mistakes. All players make them. Finding a clip of a boneheaded defensive miscue or blown assignment is possible with every player. Gaudette isnt perfect of course but no player is. I have seen in his time in Vancouver plenty of good positioning and defensive plays and plenty of not so good ones. Again, every player has them.
Your argument is garbage. Point out a mistake for one player and extrapolate that out to his entire game but ignore any bad play from a player you decide is good. Thats just biased subjectiveness.
You do make a good point. There was a game by TB (a few years ago) that had Stamkos coughing up the puck with a terrible giveaway in his own zone.
This is a premier player that made a terrible giveaway. Absolutely terrible.
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12 minutes ago, King Heffy said:
Hopefully he's able to sort out whatever issues he's having. This fanbase should be very understanding after what happened to Rypien and the subsequent commitment from our group to promote mental health.
Unfortunately, this fanbase (overall) has never shown that it learns from its own mistakes because it spends a lot of time blaming others. Whether it's blaming irrationally on one GM, or a player (Eriksson), it's always somebody else's fault.
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28 minutes ago, qwijibo said:
The Sergechev trade didn’t look good from day 1. Drouin has taken the brunt of fan displeasure since he arrived. The best thing that could happen for him is a move to a less crazy hockey market.
I think if Drouin cleaned up his game too, that would help immensely. I think if Vancouver had Drouin (in Virtanen), fans would still complain about his defensive game.
But yeah, hometown boy not thriving in a hometown. Not everyone can play in such a heated market. I think it was Sakic who specifically avoided playing in his hometown.
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1 hour ago, qwijibo said:
Maybe instead of looking at how Ericksson should act people should take a minute to look inwards. The amount of gate Drouin gets on social media is brutal. There’s no confirmation that that’s the reason He’s stepping away but it’s not a reach to consider the possibility. At the end of the day these guys are human. Maybe we dial back the personal attacks on them
This is very, very true.
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18 minutes ago, wallstreetamigo said:
I didnt realize Gaudette played out there 1 on 6
Gaudette's game (and lack of defensive awareness) has been talked to death. For whatever reason, he is not doing very well to improving that aspect of his game. Whether it is due to poor training or some other reason, we do not know. One thing we do know is that Gaudette was limited to playing 7 minutes in his first game, and scratched for three games.
People will say he is being eased in to the lineup, but we'll have to see. Yet Gaudette is kind of like Virtanen in a way. Wildly inconsistent, but you know there's more to their game. -
13 minutes ago, wallstreetamigo said:
So you think that if you did something stupid in your job every single other person in your job in the entire world cant be trusted to do the job?
Ya that seems legit.
Journalists should be policing themselves to ensure accountability. The false reporting of Hughes being on IV certainly doesn't reflect journalistic integrity.
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1 hour ago, wallstreetamigo said:
Discounting everything the media reports because a player denies a specific story is not really practical or reasonable though. It could be that the story was wrong for sure. But it is actually still possible that Hughes was actually on an iv and that he and the team wouldnt want it confirmed. That kind of stuff happens all the time. Players and teams lie all the time too in order to fit their narrative.
The media is far from perfect. But they do report a lot of things that are true.
Benning supporters dont like the media because they regularly call him out on his numerous contradictions. I get it. I am sure that is frustrating.
So by reporting things that aren't true, that makes the media a tabloid, no?
And tabloids should not get the same respect that actual journalists should receive, because, you know, journalistic ethics?
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2 hours ago, wallstreetamigo said:
Honestly? The Canucks should have pushed for more time to prepare to get back to playing. As the games have clearly shown, a good number of players do not have their conditioning to a level where they can compete for 60 minutes.
If this had happened to Boston, or Tampa Bay, or Toronto, etc. there is zero chance those teams would have not pushed back hard on a dangerously abbreviated time for return to games. And the NHL wouldnt have expected them to.
Its been widely reported that the players thrmselves were unhappy with how the Canucks basically caved to the nhl demands.
I have heard this by journalists like Sekeres, but was there an actual source? No, Sekeres doesn't actually count because people like him have been invalidated/contradicted by other sources (namely Hughes being on IV).
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1 hour ago, wallstreetamigo said:
Highmore is also a far more replaceable type of player though.
There is a reason GM's typically overvalue offensive ability. Because its a lot harder to score at the nhl level than it is to hustle and not generate offense.
Gaudette in the right role could be a very good scorer. And learning to bedefensively responsible usually takes offensive players a bit longer. I think he will be fine.
I am glad for him he got moved. I do expect it will eventually come back to haunt us though.
So that explains why Goldobin was let go then, right? How come Reid Boucher has never been given a chance to play in the NHL? I totally get why the offensive thing is such a persuasive argument, but Gaudette was NOT bringing the offense that would've offset his defensive lapses. Maybe he was snakebitten (he definitely was), but if he's not helping the team score, he is not helping the team.
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1 hour ago, wallstreetamigo said:
Saying a team being older in average age is better ignores so many actually important variables that its the very definition of a superficial analysis.
Those playoff teams are better because they have better players no matter what their age.
That is the point @Azzy was making. If young players have an opportunity they could be better than those average or worse vets.
Sooo how do you explain teams like Calgary and St. Louis dropping off in their standings, despite making huge splashes on the offseason? You could make a similar argument about Montreal because they were barely a 'playoff bound' team a month ago, and they're still not comfortably above the line where either Calgary or Vancouver can't reach them. They could still miss it if they continue to slide.
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6 hours ago, Timråfan said:
I like it when fans see the defensive side in players.
So you want Loui back also?
Loui's cap space is the reason why he's buried. If he cost 2-3 million dollars, we wouldn't be complaining, would we?
Not surprised that combover is following anyone who remote agrees with his "neanderthal" brain, like a lost puppy.
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2 hours ago, 73 Percent said:
You've never judged a player before playing 30 games in the nhl? Not even once?
I think he means that we should be giving players adequate time (subjective to people) before passing judgement.
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I think it's a joke that a bunch of guys can say his shot is nowhere near Boeser, as if you could açcurately reference the shots and gauge their speed/weight. All I'm saying is that the claims about his shot being nowhere near elite is stupidly premature.
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45 minutes ago, Azzy said:
If zero points in four games is "maximising use" of Matthew Highmore, then the Canucks may as well just be honest with fans and admit that this team is rebuilding.
Four games - three of them against one of the worst teams this league has seen in the last 30 years - and zero offense. He's yet to actually do anything of substance or value. I'd rather have sent Gaudette to Chicago for Future Considerations and promoted Jonah Gadjovich. And not claimed Jimmy Vesey, but promoted Kole Lind.
Hell, why is a guy with absolutely nothing to contribute getting any ice time at all when we have Sven Baertschi, shadow-of-his-former-self as he is, being left to rot in Utica?
Give Highmore's minutes to Gadjovich, or Lind, or Baertschi, or Loui Eriksson, or ask Travis Green to lace them up again - but for the love of God, stop wasting ice time on people who cannot play at this level. 10 points in 77 career games, there are much better options within the system.
There's more to hockey than just scoring. He's not hurting the team, in the same way that Gaudette had, with his defensive lapses.
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What an amazing take. Yeah, never mind.
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19 minutes ago, combover said:
Calling Chicago a bottom feeder when there above us in the standings. lol.
Highmore couldn’t crack there line up yet as you point out he gets 15 minutes here . So who’s the real bottom feeder.
So you're saying they're not a bottom feeder?
We're one of the bottom feeding teams, FYI. Anyone on this list is a bottom feeder, minus Seattle. Also, asking for a friend, how many games has Gaudette played 15+ minutes?
Pick Team Record Pts PPG RW Streak L10 Top 2 #1 Ovr 1 13-29-7 33 0.674 10 Lost 1 4-5-1 34.9% 18.5% 2 14-27-7 35 0.729 9 Lost 4 3-6-1 26.5% 13.5% 3 22.8% 11.5% 4 14-27-7 35 0.729 11 Lost 10 0-9-1 19.1% 9.5% 5 15-25-10 40 0.800 11 Lost 9 1-7-2 17.2% 8.5% 6 18-27-4 40 0.816 14 Won 1 5-5-0 15.3% 7.5% 7 17-25-8 42 0.840 15 Lost 1 4-3-3 13.3% 6.5% 8 18-24-5 41 0.872 12 Lost 8 1-8-1 12.3% 6.0% 9 17-22-6 40 0.889 15 Lost 2 3-7-0 9.3% 4.5% 10 21-24-3 45 0.938 18 Lost 1 5-5-0 7.3% 3.5% 11 19-20-3 41 0.976 13 Lost 1 5-4-1 6.3% 3.0% 12 21-22-5 47 0.979 17 Won 1 3-7-0 5.2% 2.5% 13 22-21-5 49 1.021 14 Lost 1 5-5-0 4.2% 2.0% 14 22-19-7 51 1.062 14 Won 1 4-4-2 3.2% 1.5% 15 26-21-2 54 1.102 18 Won 1 6-3-1 2.1% 1.0% 16 25-18-6 56 1.143 22 Won 2 7-2-1 1.1% 0.5% -
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6 minutes ago, fanfor42 said:
Bad loss.
I know some people think Green is a good coach and should come back.
I don't know if he will be back or not. But we are a bubble team that has games like this often where we don't look ready to go and get outplayed.
I am in the camp that a new coach with real experience is what we need. That's all.
This is no knee jerk. Long term watching these guys do the same herky jerky over and over again.
I want a coach that commands respect and the players will go to war for.
Green is like the woke Oscars...ok but really not a classic.
Green has had some good games. But the fact that there were no shots in the third for the first 10 minutes show a lack of urgency. It's the same issue with the PP. A lack of urgency.
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4 minutes ago, x00x said:
u really thought the canucks would make the playoffs esp with the current schedule that had? i see either flames or habs being the last and 4th team, both can make it....im just glad the canucks are actually playing, i already counted them out along time ago LOL , shocked ppl still think they can make it haha
Nah. The Canucks still have a chance. It's difficult, but they still have a chance. 14 more games to go. It's still too early to write them off.
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1 minute ago, DefCon1 said:
They dont shoot when facing 3rd string goalies.
Canucks are honourable that way. We also don't use timeouts to spare the humiliation for the other team.
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Just now, Dannydog said:
I"m so excited to see Greens post game interview. pinns and needles.
"I liked our game tonight. That's a good young team over there"
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[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Ottawa Senators l April 28, 2:30 p.m. l SNP
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Calgary is only a couple of points above us. Tanev's effect is minimal.