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Just now, luckylager said:

So how many GM's are pissed they didn't get Stecher signed?

 

29

 

Twenty nine 

5 points now ... nice to see the Canucks finally get a young guy like that - 

 

Just to think of where this D was when JB took over and look where it is now, and theres even a blue chipper in the pipeline...

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Called the score.

 

The Sedins and Sutter were absolutely buzzing tonight and started the show. Sutter really understands the twins now with some of his passing to open areas, lets keep that line as long as possible. They're generating tonnes of chances every game now. Brilliant PP movement and goals too, and hopefully Henrik will now realise that when you take the puck to the net and get greasy you get goals. Far more goals scored tonight and we did it with dirty rebounds and crease-presences. That's unfortunately how you score nowadays.

 

Eriksson and Granlund looked great again, another nice goal but plenty of nice chances against some very good defenders one-on-one. Chaput looked nice out there two, some good chances and could have had 2 goals easily but has AHL finish. He deserves the chances he's getting. As for Eriksson, he was always bound to start heating up and now he is finally contributing.

 

Burrows, Horvat and Baertschi were brilliant again tonight. Obviously with the goals they scored from nice tips and net presences, but they generated chances on the rush as well against some very good Wild defenders.

 

Fourth line was essentially invisible. Fair enough that WD doesn't want to play them in such a tight 3rd period but we can't rely on our top-3 lines this much in today's NHL. They certainly didn't get enough ice-time and Gaunce and Skille had a solid, safe game again tonight anyway.

 

On defence, what a mess. Ladies and gentlemen who want to trade Edler, this is what you'd have to deal with for the rest of the season. We're immediately seeing the effects of this team before and after Edler, we saw it at the end of last year when we got shredded and it's going to happen every single game for the next 4-6 weeks. Sbisa, Tryamkin and Hutton are all terrible defencemen compared to what we need and quite frankly our defence was flat-out embarassed tonight.

 

Dispicable game on defence defensively from everyone except Larsen, Stecher and Tryamkin. We'll start from the top.

 

Sbisa starts the game with an absolute pizza. Call it nerves,call it rust, call it what you want but that was a stupid play and not the safe play to try and stop the cross-ice pass, then he doesn't even clear the rebound. Two mistakes one after the other and we're down 1-0 instantly thanks to Sbisa. He is good at 18 minutes a night, average at 20 minutes a night but CANNOT be asked to be our top left handed defenceman for 1 month. Apart from the early pizza he played pretty well, didn't get too many shots through and it's pretty scary to see him try and make any play at the blueline but there's obviously a MASSIVE drop off in talent from Edler to Sbisa and we're going to see if first hand on a nightly basis now. Sbisa was average tonight. Definitely not our worst, but far from what he needs to be.

 

Stecher on the "top pairing" on the other hand played brilliantly. Hate to say it but he's BY FAR our best defenceman, both on the defensive and offensive sides of things. Most importantly, when he makes defensive mistakes, they're either recoverable or he covers up them himself, they're not leading to goals against. He's quick on his feet, but its his great passing in all zones that helps him out the most. Then offensively he's an absolute dynamite. We haven't had a defenceman like Stecher in a long time who can get pucks through to the net and it directly resulted in the GWG and another goal. This is the difference between the Canucks last year and this year - his ability to sift pucks through and shoot hard. Absolutely brilliant game by the kid who is probably going to be our MVP with Edler out. Looks like he might be able to play a few more minutes too because he certainly wasn't cracking. More than anything, his game got better as the game got along and with another monster shot in the final minutes, that's a few pretty damn clutch goals he's lead to. Stecher is an absolute gem, he plays well and safe defensively, skates well, and is our best offensive defenceman, and more importantly is coming up clutch and playing top pairing minutes as a rookie, despite being paired with Sbisa of all players. Cannot sing this kid's praises enough. Pay the kid, lock him down, he's looking like a foundational defenceman if he keeps this up.

 

Then there was our 2nd pairing. Hutton was for the most part BRUTAL tonight. Nice goal, sure, but he didn't do much else. Some terrible zone entries on the PP, terribly risky plays at the line and got caught on the rush badly. He was flailing defensively all night long and I think Hutton is one of the more overated Canucks for sure. He's good at 20 minutes again, like Sbisa, and is being asked to do a lot right now, and the more we lean on him the more he bends. The kid needs to learn how to play defence, he's such a wild-card out there and doesn't have the best strength or stability defensively.

 

His partner really isn't helping out. Gudbranson was terrible tonight too. No really good plays, could barely keep the puck in offensively and defensively he struggled and was often caught. Then there was that turning point of a 4-3 goal that he really muffed up, and he was responsible for the 4-4 goal too. We know he's not a perfect shutdown defenceman but he HAS to be better, especially with Edler out, as a sort of leader on the blueline right now.

 

As for Tryamkin, he was very solid and should definitely be given more minutes because he can shoulder them and never seems to get tired or make massive mistakes. He played solid physically, zero offence but didn't have a problem with board fights defensively or getting the puck out, and he cleared the crease better than anyone on this team - there was rarely a crowd in front of Miller when Tryamkin was on the ice. Get this kid more ice-time. He's a lefty, we can't overload Hutton and Sbisa, so we should almost go with a 22 (Hutton) - 20 (Sbisa) - 18 (Tryamkin) split for minutes and creep Tryamkin closer to 20 minutes and see how he goes because he can probably handle it better than the other shaky 2 defencemen on the left.

 

Larsen had a pretty solid game, didn't play much, didn't do much offensively or defensively but didn't make mistakes which is all you can really ask.

 

Ryan Miller had a really up and down game too. Made a game-saver right at the end but let in some soft goals and to be fair didn't get much defensive help, which is why it's hard to evaluate his play today.

 


TL;DR - The defence is a mess. Stecher is saving this team right now, Tryamkin needs more minutes to shelter Sbisa and Hutton who are hopeless when they play too much, Gudbranson needs to emerge as a leader but offensively we've got some nice partnerships developing and we're really clicking offensively.

 

 

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1 minute ago, oldnews said:

I disagree with that.

This team has played better than their record reflects.

They have the worst pdo in the league right now, 20pts off last year's horrendous season.

 

They are a lot better than most people realized.

True, I honestly think their worst stretch of hockey during those 9 game losing streaks was more of bad luck than bad play. We could of won atleast 4 out of those 9 games we lost earlier this month. Still a long way to go and I hope we can string together some good wins in a row to put us back into a playoff position and will go from there.

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6 minutes ago, SergioMomesso said:

Baer-Cheez with 5 points in his last 2gp. Kind of ironic that a shot off his foot keeps him sidelined for 2 and tonight 2 pucks bounce off of him for 2. 

 

He should start wearing bigger shinpads and skates :P.

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Just now, DS4quality said:

I'm liking the Granlund- Eriksson combo. Also Chaput and Megna not too bad for "AHLers"

Yeah, not as much whining about the Eriksson signing, the lack of waiver claims, etc, etc ad infiinitum.

 

The team deserves these wins = they got the shaft on that long road trip - otherwise, they're a pretty good team.

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