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[GDT] Vancouver Canucks at St. Louis Blues game 5 | Aug. 19, 2020, 7:30pm | Series tied 2-2

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2 hours ago, Gawdzukes said:

The thing is refs base their decisions on emotion and their own interpretations of game flow, of which they preside over.  Meaning you have to play within their rules. There have been times in this series where you can hear the refs yelling lay off, play the puck, or no interference through the neutral zone, etc. Several times we've been guilty or trying to drag the puck through the zone when we shouldn't and conversely weakly slashing a player which results in a penalty, which wouldn't have been called a period or even minutes before.

 

It's called experience and we've been burned by it several times as an inexperienced team. One example was Brock's slash on the PP. The Canucks were severely bungling the play on their own PP. After they finally lost it due to their own ineptitude Brock slashes the guy on the hand as he tries to turn up ice instead of chasing back and taking a line-change. He looks incredulously at the ref as he goes to the box. CDC whines. End result, down 1-0.

 

Not to say the Blues aren't getting away with murder but they've established that as part of the game and now it has to be more serious than manslaughter to get a charge. Must find away around it. Kill them before they kill you mentality but only when the Murder bulb is lit up.

My point was about the inconsistencies from series to series.

 

We should have capitalized on the delay penalties, no question.

 

The colour commentator was irate at the MacEwen penalty and actually said that Mac should destroy the goalie next time around if they're going to call such a bad call. Then they gave them a 5 on 3 on the same hit thrown on Horvat earlier in the game that resulted in no call against the blues.

 

They gave us 3 pps in the 3rd but we've seen that script before. We were exhausted from a back to back and OT. If blues don't go up 2  on the 5 on 3, we don't get those calls. If we score on the first pp in the 3rd we don't get the next 2 and blues would have gotten the next pps until they go ahead by 2 again. Then follow up with late pps for us unless we score then no more. I don't care about the league butt-kissers and their tinfoil whiner labelling. They've screwed us over in every way possible over the years.

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650 making a great point .....

 

Nux are taking a beating in their own end with the heavy Blues forechecking, so that when we finally get the puck out we are dog tired and just dumping in for a line change.

 

Blues thus get possession and an unimpeded breakout while we are changing and they get into our zone so easily. Rinse and repeat. 

 

We need to stop that

 

Green has part of a solution in his black aces.  Bailey and Graovac are big bodies, and Bailey, especially, has blazing speed (and was second only to Boucher for goals in Utica)

 

Rafferty and Juolevi are big puck moving d-men, much more so than Benn and Fanta.

 

Does Green have the balls to make changes?

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3 minutes ago, Googlie said:

650 making a great point .....

 

Nux are taking a beating in their own end with the heavy Blues forechecking, so that when we finally get the puck out we are dog tired and just dumping in for a line change.

 

 

I noticed this last game....by the end of the game, the guys were absolutely gassssssed.  Could barely get off the ice for changes.

 

I loved Fanta's game...Benn too.  I don't know about this part.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Googlie said:

650 making a great point .....

 

Nux are taking a beating in their own end with the heavy Blues forechecking, so that when we finally get the puck out we are dog tired and just dumping in for a line change.

 

Blues thus get possession and an unimpeded breakout while we are changing and they get into our zone so easily. Rinse and repeat. 

 

We need to stop that

 

Green has part of a solution in his black aces.  Bailey and Graovac are big bodies, and Bailey, especially, has blazing speed (and was second only to Boucher for goals in Utica)

 

Rafferty and Juolevi are big puck moving d-men, much more so than Benn and Fanta.

 

Does Green have the balls to make changes?

I wouldn't do it. While bailey has speed he doesn't have the acumen to make those decisions and he can't just glide through the St. Louis D untouched because he's fast. More than anything every player can correct that, they just have to know when to dump it and when not to. If we fix that those problems will go away.

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