wallstreetamigo
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As usual, you miss some important context. They scored early in their power plays. So they didn’t have (or need) the full 2 min where they could pepper useless shots on goal to pad their supposedly important sog stat line. They simply did what effective power plays do, they capitalized. 2 of their power plays (and most of their pp time) was in the last 5 min of the game and they could have easily scored if not for Demko. So thanks to him. The Canucks had 12 minutes of spread out pp time. So ya they generated a shot per minute (which is still actually pretty meh tbh) but did nothing with it yet again.
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The Canucks power play is garbage. Hughes needs to be replaced by OEL who can actually hit the net and shoot the puck harder than a u15 player. Miller needs to be replaced by Garland, pretty much the only forward who can gain the zone with speed in any scenario. Would not even mind seeing EP moved down for Podkolzin. At least he shoots and can hit the net when he does. Chiasson needs to go too. Horvat is pretty good at net front. Roll with Horvat, Garland, Boeser, EP or Hoglander, and OEL. Get some urgency on that unit.
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I am pretty sure I have been watching the Canucks longer than you. 40+ years. Maybe that is why my expectations are higher for my team than people so afraid of trying something new that they cling for dear life to mediocrity and a losing culture, which comes down to Benning and Greens leadership. If my comments bother you, block me. Don’t tell others how to be a fan. Or that they don’t have the right to be one. That’s a typical response of someone who can’t accept that, in actual fact, the biggest fans are often the ones who are willing to criticize the team. It’s easy to be supportive of everything the team does with no independent thought. Its harder to actually understand hockey enough to demand more.
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I didn’t say they didn’t generate shots. Clearly you misread what I said. I said with 12 min of pp it’s a given that they would generate shots. What team wouldn’t with that much pp time. As in, generating shots means little if you can’t actually score on them and if they are mostly in the crest weak low percentage shots which this team has basically trademarked at this point.
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Like I said, they had 12 min of pp time. Generating shots with that many minutes is pretty easy. The only constant with this team is that they take mostly perimeter, low percentage shots, fail to generate much off the rush due to the dump and change style, and they regularly lose races and board battles. Not sure what 5 years of Canucks hockey you have been watching.
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Dump and change offensive hockey is not a good system in minor hockey let alone the nhl. They had 12 min of PP time. It stands to reason they should generate some shots. Outplaying them? In what way? They were still giving up pucks by dumping and not chasing, losing races and puck battles all game long, and were passive and scramble defensively. Sure sounds like a fantastic system.