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If Marchessault starts any yapping and the canucks don't tell him to suck on his mom's titties and to stop wasting their time, I'll be disappointed! I imagine Roussel is going to have a field day!

What a performance by Petey! We'd be leading the series 2-0 if we had toffoli game 1!

Canucks in 6! Vegas locker room is torn apart by the fleury drama!

That's why I put "tanking" in quotes. I don't mean we tanked on purpose as we never did that. I just use the tanking term to mean trust the process and get high draft picks. Without high picks to get that elite core, then any rebuilding efforts will take a lot longer. Getting high picks is just step 1. Then you need to build around that elite core through trades and free agency.

Yup I do! Those were some dark years, but well worth it. Getting Pettersson and Hughes is showing that trusting the proceess and "tanking" for high picks is paying off! Where would this team be without those two?! Not even close to contenders! Avs with Mackinnon, Rantanen and Makar is showing that their tanking is paying off too. I remember their 48 points season not too long ago! Now, they're legit cup favourites this year! This is what the pro tankers wanted! An elite core that can have sustained winning instead of just mediocrity like the Wild have been for years. The wild are the example of what you don't want to be. Good enough to make the playoffs yearly, but not good enough to pass the first round. Just a cycle of mediocrity because they don't have the high end talent. As a pro tanker, I'm very happy with the current team and can't wait till Pod and Hog come over! I still have high hopes for Lind and hope he eventually gets a shot with us before he becomes Seattle expansion bait.

Needed fans to yell shoot there!

Getting post trauma flashback nightmares of being up 2-0 against the Bruins! This was the only game where I felt we looked outmatched and despite that we would have won still if our pp scored.

First game of series we're looking outclassed.

I think we can put to bed the myth that Virtanen is built for playoffs and we just had to wait for it. He doesn't look any different and I hope Gaudette goes in for him next game. Or take Eriksson out. He's adding absolutely nothing on the Horvat line and is just dead weight offensively.

Wooo Dallas ends it and saves the canucks game tonight!

Holy $&!#! Dad power strikes again!

Get Hughes out there! 5 mins only in the 3rd?! No wonder we can't get the offense going!

What a heartbreaker! I knew, I didn't like those repeated icings.

&^@# yeah! Pettersson made perron pay!

Damn. You knew the parade to the box would eventually come back to haunt us.

What a beautiful win! Great game all around and we can beat the dirty blues! Very nice to see Binnington get lit up!

I agree. Canucks fans can be such assholes on social media when things aren't going well. I can't enjoy a nice Instagram pic of the dog race without like 80% of the comments crying with the sky is falling takes.

Yeah Gallant was given a raw deal. The knights had some of the best analytics, but fleury was pretty bad early on. The knights haven't really played much different since gallant was fired, but fleury started playing better. They would be in the same position now if they never fired gallant. Show me a good coach and I'll show you a good goalie and vice versa. It's no coincidence all the coaches fired this year had goalies with horrible stats. I do think a coach can be given too much credit or too much blame precisely for that reason. Wasn't green in coach of the year talks while markstrom was rolling? He hasn't suddenly become bad while markstrom is hurt. We just haven't been getting enough saves lately and I love demko, but he had a bad road trip that I can't excuse. Yesterday, he played well and I felt so bad for him how it ended cause it was looking like a great bounce back game for him.

Nah babs would have buried Hughes because he hates small and skilled dmen. He would play a Ron Hainsey type player over Hughes. Babcock is a terrible human being and overrated coach that only won a cup thanks to Lidstrom. I would not want him anywhere near our young players. It says a lot about hockey culture that GMs are still considering Babcock as a coach according to Pierre LeBrun. He really should be blacklisted from the game unless he makes one hell of a mea culpa before getting another job. It's not just hockey players he treated badly, but he treated the arena workers and stuff badly too. Like Johan Franzen said, he's the worst human being he's ever encountered. That should not be forgiven so easily, but hockey culture being what it is, I do see him getting another job in the nhl. I just don't want it being with the canucks.

This is not comparable to eriksson because it's a bad contract for an almost as bad contract. The canucks don't want another bad contract back for eriksson.

No excuse will be required because Parise has a legit injury history, so will finish his career on LTIR no problem. You have to remember Luongo could have easily gone the LTIR way too, but the panthers asked him to retire instead because they preferred that for cap reasons. Oh, but one caveat is like the canucks the wild will be hit the hardest by cap recapture and not the Isles, so it'll depend on what big Lou tells Parise to do.

Ladd makes 5.5m for 3 more years and is useless now. Parise has 5 years at 7.5m but the last 3 years are 2m, 1m and 1m salary, so a perfect LTIR ending given his injury history.

Man Isles are going all in! I'd love to face them in the finals as an 82 rematch!

It's going to be a travesty if Hughes doesn't win the calder!

True. Sometimes it's hard to tell how much of the isles lack of offense is due to their talent or the system they play.