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  1. Pearson would help the team more as a key PK’er than he does on the PP. And he would help give the team a good two way 3rd line IMO.
  2. So then why do we play slow and not get in on the forecheck effectively? Why do they lose most puck battles even if they do get there? Why is our puck support actually $&!# most of the time? Why do they take mostly perimeter shots into the crest with zero traffic in front? How Green wants to play does not suit the roster at all. The fact that he can’t see it and still tries to make the square peg fit in the round hole is proof enough it’s time for a change.
  3. So why should we naturally assume that Horvat can’t produce even more offensively with higher quality wingers that can keep up? Thats my point. Green is not confident enough as a coach to try something different there. Horvat is one of our best players offensively. He produces a reasonable amount no matter who he plays with. And Tanner Pearson is probably the 8th best option on this team for the top 6 right now. Especially one that struggles most nights to score. He is too inconsistent both in his overall effort and his production to be given the offensive role he has. He has a handful of really good shifts each game where he looks like he belongs there then the rest he looks a day late and a dollar short.
  4. This exactly. I think Hoglander and Podz could both add an element of hustle to the PK. Garland as well. When something isn’t working, try something different. The static PK isn’t even good at suppressing passes let alone shots and chances. This team has several guys that could be good pk players in a revamped system. But that takes coaches who aren’t stuck in the mindset that only plugs can pk.
  5. Unfortunately the only constant you can count on with Green is Pearson in the top 6 alongside Horvat. I don’t think Pearson has been particularly effective there but only a new coach will solve that IMO. Podkolzin has been really good.
  6. Good game overall. The players are playing better but the lack of adjustment on the PK is now pretty concerning. The power play has been better but nothing much I would attribute to coaching there. More like the players are actually trying to be a bit more creative and unpredictable. Pretty sketchy call on Halak. Not sure how a ref 5 feet away with an unobstructed view makes that call but at least it seemed to motivate the team to actually move their feet and shoot the puck from a dangerous area. The team is getting lots of shots on goal but most are pretty non threatening perimeter shots. The shot by EP was kind of a muffin but it was from a good spot. Gibson was awesome but unfortunately the Canucks tend to make it pretty easy on goalies to look good.
  7. If we have no one else who can PK at an nhl level in the absence of those 3 players then clearly the GM should have brought in (and the coach should have kept) a couple of guys who could since those absences were known before training camp, don’t you think? Instead, they focused on a PTO guy who can stand in front of the net on the pp and not much else and a bunch of plugs who apparently can’t pk.
  8. It is early on. Things can change for any team really. Another team struggling has nothing to do with why the Canucks are struggling and it doesn’t make the Canucks struggles any less significant. That was my point.
  9. I watch a lot of different teams actually. I wasn’t one of those people who had the Avs pegged as a #1 overall team. They simply lost too much last off-season IMO. I still don’t see how my point was negative at all. It’s simply reality. How does Colorado struggling have anything to do with the Canucks struggling? How does struggling less than another team mean our team is any better than they have actually been? One has nothing to do with the other. It’s a false equivalency solely designed to somehow suggest the Canucks struggles are not as bad as they have been. People here do it all the time. Green isn’t a bad coach because X coach is worse. Benning has made less mistakes than X GM so he must be awesome. Player X on the Canucks is great because Player Y on another team is garbage. Etc etc etc. Its a coping mechanism for people who don’t have the ability to look objectively at faults of their own team.
  10. I wasn’t being negative at all. I was saying that how Colorado (or anyone else) is struggling has nothing to do with why the Canucks have been struggling and it also doesn’t mean our team is better than they have been. People bring up those kind of false equivalencies all the time to try to minimize the problems with the Canucks.
  11. Colorado has had a string of injuries to key players though so it’s not exactly apples to apples yet. The Canucks were missing 2 4th liners and a 2nd/3rd pairing dman.
  12. It’s easily explained. They are low character &^@#stains that cared more about winning a Stanley cup then protecting their legacy and cashing in their big contracts than doing what was right. Beach was a nothing to the players, that’s why they said nothing. If it happened to Toews or Kane the response all around would have been very different. Because those guys had value to the team.
  13. Everything you post about this is just excuses. You can tell Toews, Kane, and Keith knew. Has anyone tracked down Seabrook, Hossa, Byfuglien, etc. yet? Its an interesting coincidence that guys who are no longer playing say everyone knew and guys still benefitting financially from it remember nothing.
  14. I coach high school hockey and minor hockey. It never ceases to amaze me how seemingly normal, moral, well grounded people can transform into vulgar, idiotic tools who lose sight of reality as soon as they step into a hockey rink. The reason is because it is accepted and allowed, even encouraged and supported inside a hockey arena. My daughter, 12 years old at the time, was timekeeping a peewee rep game with my wife. She forgot to turn on the clock for about 15 seconds after a faceoff. The home coach, whose spouse is our association president, screamed at her for a solid minute calling her a useless C word, and other such names. My wife naturally said something to him and then complained to the association. You know what happened? Nothing. They never even responded to the complaint.
  15. I think Eichel might be a bit better than JT Miller.
  16. If the power play was willing to move around they wouldnt need one guy who just stands in front of the net the entire time. The PP coach should have already been fired. Not many teams have this much supposed firepower to construct 2 pp units.
  17. He is a hell of a player. But his shot is inaccurate, even his wrist shot.
  18. Unpopular opinion but Hughes is just not that creative as the guy running the puck movement. He gets the puck from Miller, walks out along the line, passes to EP. No shot, rinse and repeat. OEL passes the puck effectively to both sides, moves more effectively, and can actually hit the net with a low, accurate shot. The ONLY reason they need Chiasson to park himself in front is because they are stationary. They need to move and make all 5 players a threat. Most power plays amount to a 4 on 3 for the penalty killers.
  19. His shot is weak and inaccurate. Not a good combo to be considered a threat. Hughes really can walk the line but he has only one move he constantly tries to do which is get the puck to EP. He is actually not that creative as a quarterback yet.
  20. I agree that no one really shooting is the problem. But they need to move around a bit and make someone other than those 3 guys an actual threat the other team has to worry about.
  21. Nice shot. Too bad in games without the 1 on 0 guys almost never have that much time and it ends up hitting the crest.
  22. The problem with Hughes currently is he only really looks for EP. Every other team knows it and seriously cheats to stop that play. Would like to see OEL there more often tbh. He has a shot that gets through and on net and he uses both sides of the ice with his passes. Even if they replace Miller with OEL and keep Hughes there too we would be more effective IMO.
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