Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Canucks Community

Slegr

Members
  • Posts

    4,468
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    5

Everything posted by Slegr

  1. Call me salvage, but I would just love to see a Canuck injure a Leaf right now. Wouldn’t care if it’s accident or not.
  2. I wonder when the last game was that we had three power plays. I hear other teams get them in games.
  3. This is quickly becoming one of my least favourite seasons as a fan. I’ve watched this team intensely since 1990. Even the dark days of Keenan and Messier had some redeeming qualities. But this one has been hard. It’s magnified to me by the fact we play the teams I hate most - Toronto and Calgary - so many times, and competing in the same division in a year that we’ve taken a big step backwards. Covid, injuries, losing players to free agency, seeing those same players grill us regularly, watching Toronto media go ape-crazy over their team, and now the dark cloud over Virtanen. Plus, dear God, somehow Erikkson is still on this team and could show his face again before the season is done. It’s almost too much. But I’ll keep watching, and hoping that things get better. Because that’s what fans do.
  4. Interesting that Virtanen is not on the ice. It makes me wonder whether there is any truth to the speculation / rumours posted yesterday and / or whether they are just thoroughly investigating and shelfing him until the truth is known. Whatever the reason, I won't say that I'll particularly miss him. He has been given all the opportunities in the world to make a difference on this team.
  5. All this talk about Motte, but wasn’t he already feeling dazed and confused with reoccurring concussion symptoms while out with Covid? Maybe he needed more time off rather than getting put back into the lineup? He wasn’t hitting anyone since he got back in - it felt like something’s been off with him already.
  6. I would not be surprised to see Edler retire after this season, especially after tonight’s game. He’s a future ring-of-honour player who holds multiple Canuck records and nobody so much as gives Simmonds a dirty look after he viciously cross checks Edler repeatedly (no call) and then whoops his butt in a forced fight. That’s humiliating to Edler, who already served a major penalty, game misconduct and two game suspension for something Matthews did recently with no disciplinary repercussions. I’m embarrassed by the Canucks’ lack of heart tonight. They let down a veteran and very dedicated Canuck by not even getting in Simmonds’ face. I know Simmonds is a tough guy, but I’m calling out the Canucks as gutless tonight, and I would understand why Alex Edler would be done with this team.
  7. Time to fire Green? And fire Benning as soon as draft is done? (Can’t let him go right before he could do what he’s best at)
  8. I am so sick of our team being so nice. Like Bieksa said earlier, teams enjoy playing us. no push back. no major hits. No offence. Blah
  9. At this point, I'm okay with the Canucks not making it to the post-season, but I'd love to see the Leafs get taken out early. And to help with this dream, I'd enjoy seeing Boeser on a 5-min major PP, taking slap shots at as many Leaf ankles as he can, Edler-style. Is that poor sportsmanship on my part? Perhaps...
  10. Blah, just caught up on PVR. I hate everything right now. Sutter’s late goal just shows how easy it is to beat their netminder, yet we couldn’t generate squat against them. I guess the post season hunt is officially over. Biggest regret this season was watching Toffoli sign with Habs. If we had kept him, chances are we would have won quite a few more games (including key games against Habs) and we might be in fourth spot right now.
  11. Schmidt has been a mixed bag to me. His mistakes almost always end up in the back of our net. Of those three, he’s the one I’d prefer to be removed from an important game, but looking long term, Edler won’t be with us forever.
  12. Luongo did the Canucks no favour by retiring rather than going on legitimate LTIR. Canucks did Luongo a favour by trading him to the one team he wanted to go (back) to. Luongo was a serviceable Canuck but Captain Kirk wore #1 the best in my book.
  13. Doesn’t the tracker show it’s 33%? never mind, you mean probably both doses. I’m surprised, Canada is picking up steam and looking pretty respectable with it now.
  14. I'm super frustrated tonight, but yeah, Jake has been terrible. He had that one amazing game this season, and then everything else was blah.
  15. Yeah, it seems to hurt extra hard seeing Toffoli score the winner for the Habs. He seems so much more three dimensional than Boeser these days. If we don't get a power play, Boeser is pretty much invisible the entire game. He's been a one-trick pony for too many games, and without Petey setting him up, he looks pretty lost at times.
  16. I was not prepared for such a frustrating loss. Terrible situation. We need more offensive weapons.
  17. Jake Virtanen is so frustrating. Yes, he was awful last night taking those careless penalties that could have cost us the game. He offered nothing in terms of offense. Yet, he also did throw some hard hits last night, and he drew a penalty and had Ottawa's #1 goalie strain his groin trying to trip Virtanen. So he did influence the game in a good way too. He's just so inconsistent. On a positive note, I was thinking of our position and how we're trying to catch up to the Habs. It seems entirely possible, at least in my head. Even if we just win 3 of the 5 games that we have in hand on them, then we just have to earn one more victory than they do in our same amount of other games to be played. Given the downward trend that they've been on - it doesn't seem out of reach to me.
  18. That’ll be a double minor.. but ref missed some infractions the other way moments ago
×
×
  • Create New...