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  1. K one thing I think we will see as players get more creative and better is shooting low pad for a self rebound a lot more often on breakaways. As a goalie it's ridiculously tough to stop. When in tight like that, all you can really do is react so if somebody is putting a puck off of your toe chances are you're gonna give a weak rebound. Eventually in the next 15 years I anticipate it being a lot more of a common move. Obviously nothing you'll be able to do in a shootout though which is why we don't see it as often even today.
  2. Our pk is bound to balance out. It's not as bad as the numbers suggest. It'll end up around tenth in the league is my guess.
  3. Question is can we carry this forecheck into the 2nd period where there's the long change or will we play line change all period?
  4. I wonder if Chatty is gonna show his bite this game or keep it safe. He can be really physical some games.
  5. Holy hell I'm way behind you guys on Centre ice package. Wayyyy behind. A minute and a half?! Wtf.
  6. I honestly thought he'd be in the lineup last year a few years ago, however with our defensive prospects getting stacked within the past few years I'm surprised he finally got called up lol.
  7. I'm watching on Centre ice package, is the feed pretty low res quality for you guys out in BC?
  8. Also glad to see Green use his time out for once. Of course it wasn't in an effective manner but baby steps. When we were down 16-1 in shots in the 2nd, somewhere in there is ideal but at least we have progress.
  9. OJ had a horrible game. Let's be honest. He gave the puck away to the other team on missed passes around 6 times tonight. His passing was extremely off tonight. I get that we should support the young kids but he played horrendously tonight. Prime Luca Sbisa Pizza Night bad.
  10. The difference is we all knew AV was a fantastic coach. He just was too systems based for a playoff matchup and lacked adaptability over a 7 game series. AV everybody knew was the perfect regular season coach. But that team should have easily won a cup. That team was absolutely stacked. We knew we needed a different coach of the same calbur but was willing to shake things up in the playoffs to throw a different look at teams halfway thru a series because we became predictable. With Green, we're predictable all of the time if you watch the games. We play one of two ways, one being a heavy forecheck with relentless pursuit of the puck and its those games we win, or we play and extremely passive defensive game and those ones we pray our goaltending robs us one. Not to mention our powerplay should never look the way it does (yes this is Newell brown's area but a head coach oversees this). It's a chl level powerplay. The only reason why it was any good is because it's one of the highest skilled powerplays in the nhl and when a team has no idea how to defend against skill and allow them space, they kill teams because they are so skilled with it. 75% of hockey games the Canucks play are dictated by the other team. A good head coach is the one that gets their team to dictate the play, not the other way around. He's on the same level as Willie, in my opinion, but I'd rather watch Willie coach this team because he at least pulled energy out of the group. He was just handed a God awful team. This team needs an uptempo coach. Gallant would be the perfect fit for this club. You don't take a team with this amount of skill and dumb their creativity to basic hockey. Even if you compare scrimmage games to these games you see a drastic drop in creativity from everybody. We need a forecheck to gain possession and we need a possession system to be consistently good. We rarely see these games from our team. Green is not a possession coach. AV was huge on possession.
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