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DefCon1

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  1. Looks like its back to Green PK strategy. Stand in middle of nowhere and let them shoot instead of challenging them.
  2. watch us lose all the games on this roadtrip then the easy games afterwards get postponed. Just seems like Canucks luck after having a big win streak get interrupted by a long break due to covid or attendance issues.
  3. Horvat for Crouse and Chychurun? Boeser for Klingberg get Toffoli Crouse-Miller-Toffoli Hoglander-Pettersson-Garland Podkolzin-Dickenson-Klim Motte-Lammikho-Lockwood Hughes-Klingberg OEL-Chychurun Rathbone-Myers Demko DiPietro The offense doesnt lose much but the D becomes elite all of a sudden.
  4. Hope they can trade OEL, he has not produced any offense and his defense is not as good as Tanev.
  5. Face it, our team is middle of pack at best with that defense and Pettersson slumping hard
  6. I say we rank at 14 or so in the league if we play to our potential. I think if Petersson was playing like his calder level year and Boeser was playing like last season then they would rank even higher. We have won the 8 games under Boudreau with Petersson not playing well.
  7. I think they will give Pettersson another season to get it going. He is a similar case to Nylander who held out and played terrible after signing but the next season he was back to his normal self. I dont get why Canucks fans are super patient with a bust like Virtanen, gave him 5 years to see if he can become even a decent 2nd liner while we try to rush a trade with a player who won the calder just a couple of seasons ago and had a great playoff. I think he needs a full training camp next season to judge where he is at. If he doesnt go back to normal next season then JR will probably trade him at that point but I think Canucks will be patient with him now, they need to be. I dont want to lose Petersson for a bag of pucks then watch him get 100 points with another team. They will be kicking themselves for a long time if that happened. The only way they trade Petersson now is if it is straight up for someone like Jack Eichel or Trevor Zegras. Other than that it will be a high risk, low reward to trade him now.
  8. yeah, people are missing that our team truly cares now, and they are playing like they give a damn unlike when Green was coaching and everyone was just coming in to collect their pay cheques while giving minimum effort and not caring as much.
  9. Yep so true, I don't know why Canucks fans are so unrealistic with them losing to two best teams in the NHL while going into both games cold. Its like missing gym for 2 weeks and not working out, then expecting to push more weight or double the weight than you had prior to those two weeks. Its just not realistic to expecting to win but they gave it all and were close against Tampa. I think the execution being off did them in. I think it will get better once they play more games and warm up.
  10. Bo also couldn't score all alone, Boeser also kept missing the puck, Dickenson couldn't even shoot with the gaping wide open net. All of this is just rust and being off for 10 to 12 days. Plus they had that covid situation and missed even more games, so they had played like 3 games in one month before coming to FLA. Then facing the hottest teams in the NHL. I think this road trip is not fair to them due to not being able to be game ready.
  11. Honestly I blame NHL and Aquaman for all the non-sense postponement that really stopped Canucks moment. Was completely idiotic to not play against Sens. They had 12 days off then they played the first 2 games against the two best teams in the NHL who were hot and had played more games and were ready. Canucks came in cold and they just were rusty to execute their game plan. They played good and out shot both teams but I think the execution was off. Lots of bad passes or missed shots due to missing the puck or missing the net. Hope they are more game ready now, that they played 2 games.
  12. I get the frustration but I think we need more patience with him. After all Benning and Canucks fans gave 5 freaking years waiting for Virtanen to do something before Benning was forced to terminate his contract due to the criminal charges. I think Petersson will be given more time, I dont see JR trading him for a bag of pucks.
  13. Will take longer than that, if you trade your best players for picks and prospects. The prospects might take 2-3 years at best or 4-5 years to become a real good NHLer, the draft pick will need couple of years of AHL or junior hockey and maybe a couple of years in the NHL or AHL afterwards to become a contributor in the NHL. Assuming we play our cards right and get the right prospects and draft good, otherwise we could end up with more Juolevi's or Virtanens.
  14. We were never a cup contender so it was an expected loss with all the time off. They played good against TB, they just dont have any finishers unfortunately. I dont mind trading Boeser for Klington to shake things up. We need more offense from our D.
  15. Dickenson basically with zero offensive instincts or IQ. Has the puck to score on a wide gaping net but decides to hold on to it
  16. Canucks will probably be a bit more patient with Petersson and see how he does next season with a full training camp and less distractions like the contract situation. If he is still playing crappy next season, then maybe Canucks will just pull the plug on the Petersson experiment and trade him knowing that they gave him last season, this season and next season to shape up. They will see how he does this season and next before trading him and I hope he can return to normal soon because he is getting paid 7.8 million which is too much for a non productive player.
  17. This is were I don't mind if Canucks traded Myers and Boeser for someone like John Klingberg. That would make the Canucks top 3 D more mobile since Myers is kind of slow and it clears cap space where we can get another top 4 D that is cheap in the off-season. Hughes-Klingberg OEL-Larsson That is what I have in mind in terms or retooling the D. Keep Poolman and bring up Rathbone and I think it will make us more mobile.
  18. exactly, it was so terrible that Benning only knew Weisbrod who was a buffoon and Green hired Baumgartner who couldn't coach because he knew Baumgartner.
  19. Well I rather they look at all the candidates resume and picked the best versus hiring someone you know but them not having the results you like compared to other candidates. Its like a university accepting one of their own students that had a 3.3 GPA and rejecting the other student that studied in another school but had a 4.0 GPA. Familiarity can sometimes breed mediocrity and create another old boy's club where people are just hiring their friends or people they know and not hiring based on the experience and results. Also JR talked about diversity but if he just hires ex Pens, then I don't see where that diversity will come from.
  20. What up with Hamonic? He still hasnt healed yet?
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