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Myers is a great tank commander! Every shift he does something special towards this effort!

A baby duck scores, this crowd is happy! QUACK! QUACK!

Yah, I hear ya. And, frequently benching Kuzmenko, may also be good for that tank. Wink!

Are you imagining - Tanev? His contract will be up in a year. Does his eventual new contract price go up, or down?

I loved seeing Kuzmenko celebrate goals knowing it’s his rookie year & really appreciated that ear to ear smile of his. Tocchet seems like a ‘no fun’ coach. Whatever, I guess he’s teaching something, but if the game doesn’t stay enjoyable…. just like with any other job, he’ll diminish the mental health of the players he’s coaching.

They are playing to mentor the baby Canucks. I’m excited for the strides that the baby Canucks are making too. After being eliminated from the play-offs, this is the place where their “mojo” for these away games comes from, in large part no doubt….and a major reason why they decided to bring so many of ‘em over here!

IKEA is my happy place. Fast Food choice #1: Swedish meatballs/mashed potatoes /lingonberry sauce

There was only a slightly louder cheer there, when MacTavish scored. I sense these Ducks-fans are rather accepting of the tank.

Judging by the cheers for any goal scored, these fans want.. a) Bedard b) to see a fight c) to see any baby Duck score d) to see their kid skate with the players post-game e) to see their mom win a Ducks worn jersey f) to see their dad win the 50/50

YASSSSS!!! 100 points for EP40 - done Now why are we still watching.. or what are we still hoping for?

With Kuzy on the bench and off the 1st unit PP, yah, you had trouble generating a little more offense! Coaching to tank here, despite what’s said at the post-game presser. Keep teaching! We understand, that hard tasks make for more challenges to overcome next year or things to achieve this summer. Got it! Wink!

Remember - so many of our veteran players are on LTIR or shut-down, 1/2 the iced-squad is either an AHL call-up, or was a college kid this year. And Tocchet routinely benches players…just because! They were fine. After their last home game in VAN, ownership, management & this coaching staff is in tank-mode, but still teaching, grit, determination & belief in a system…just against all odds.

The more complicated these rule changes get & highly NON-transparent the lottery draws are…the more I believe that the NHL draft lottery is rigged & the Canucks organization is hooped & totally cursed - if that’s the case.

There’s even a hockey reference in this song! LOL My favourite line: ”Sure, could use them 30 days to recover from the party!” LOL

I think without publicly saying it, Tocchet has been setting the line-up that he has to tank the last 3 games. The Canucks players may succeed despite that, by the sheer will of the kids & the efforts of these veteran PROS, but they are NOT being given absolutely everything that they need to succeed immediately, now…(shut-down players & benchings, etc). It’s clearly a time for training these college kids & laying a foundation for next season’s training camp. That’s good & fine & we get it.

The team opposing them has a little something to do with it. For their home games, the Canucks have generally been quite entertaining, and score lots of goals. They also experienced an awful LOT of one goal games this season. Parity is through-out this league. Attitude, persistence, belief & desire have a lot to do with it, too. As do these officiating crews! The NHL has to do much better training & vetting their officials & making sure that the proper technologies used, especially when/where they can make a difference to the accuracy of the calls made upon the ice. With a bolstered defense, more grit, speed, size, familiarity & a more integrated & uniform coaching style….I have the faith that this team will not only BE better - but I feel that they ARE already better even with the AHLers & college kids playing here, in place of all the injured or shut-down veteran players - right now.

Likely, yah. They sure like to corral all of our walk-offs. This former/Canucks-all-go-north-plan hasn’t quite worked-out for them. Changes are coming!

WOW! Flames eliminated! That team will not be staying together. I wonder what the fall-out will be?

I’ll give ya that.

Cheech & Shorty nailed it. Prepare for some more old-school refereeing now. All the manufactured drama will do for this game, what the style of play on the ice could not earlier.

Coaching for the tank? What if? The players are total pawns for these last 3 games & no longer playing at home.

Good grief! Challenged Dries for delivering a stiff shoulder…. A brutal reason to start a fight, but I guess their players have to do something to entertain fans when their style of hockey is so dull.

Nashville needs to blow-out these ‘Lames! Misery loves company!! C’mon Preds!

Nic-names for the Kings when they choose to wear these particular lids? a) tin men b) silver surfers c) pot heads d) lead heads e) other

I hear ya! I remember how a wrist injury took him well over a calendar year to fully recover from…. so glad HE’S BACK! It’s point time tonight, Petey!