Popular Post PhillipBlunt Posted August 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2020 “This series is going to seven games. We’ll wear them down.” 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post oldnews Posted August 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 37 minutes ago, 189lb enforcers? said: No EP, etc = no f all, let alone playoffs. Those high picks are why this team is in the playoffs, not Motter. EP would be the first person to call that the reductive nonsense it is. It's a team game. The team gets nowhere without the contributions of a whole lot of players, period. That's how you win Cups. Yours is a lottery champion mentality. Those high pickz - Matthews, McDavid blah blah - watching as our team advances. Markstrom Tanev Edler Myers Fantenburg Stecher Horvat Miller EP Hughes Boeser Beagle Sutter Motte Pearson Toffoli Ferland Virtanen Roussel LE MacEwen Benn Gaudette Juolevi That's why the team is where they are. And that's not even counting Loui Domingue's cookies. 'Motter' was +2 in this series 20% ozone starts Beagle was +3 with 15.4% ozone starts Pettersson was +4 with a team high 65.8% ozone starts. Beagle and Motte dominated St Louis and won the 5 on 5 battle - doing so playing up a steep grade. Pettersson's success can't be separated from his team-mates, linemates, etc. They were a large part of his conditions for success. And while Motte and Beagle were scoring, Pettersson was blocking shots and diving in passing lanes. That's how you win. No double-flamingos in this group. Lindenning and Green deserve a lot more credit than this market has afforded them. This isn't about "I told you so's" - it's about being real, recognizing a real team building effort, and giving credit where it's due. Tank nation spent the past five years whining about every win - that might cost us to drop a spot in the draft. Tank nation wanted lottey picks, period. "Tank nation wanted top 7 picks" LOL. Tank nation had no idea how good Pettersson was until he started running away with the Calder - they were too busy drooling over and envying the Leafs the entire time. In fact, tank nation was still whining that 'we' had no elite talent comparable to Toronto - after EP had already been drafted. Tank nation is rewriting their story. Go right ahead and tell yourselves this team is what you wanted - or that Benning arrived here "by accident". You're only fooling yourself. Edited August 22, 2020 by oldnews 5 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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canuktravella Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Elias Pettersson said: Nobody on the Blues plays like Reaves. I’d take out Eriksson of course. He can’t even score in empty nets anymore... leave eriksson alone lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownUndaCanuck Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Hell of a game by the Canucks from start to end and just a dominant performance in the face of adversity and lots of pressure by the Blues all season. Strong teams put away these elimination games, when you look back at Cup winners, what really decides them is how they perform in elimination games. I was worried the Blues would come out stronger but we absolutely walloped them. Fair to say I think the key to this series was goal tending as it is with most. Last year, Binnington won them the Cup basically by himself. This year, he single handedly lost it. The Blues in the post game interviews were trying to defend him but he was straight up awful and made it easy for us. Yes, some of the goals were A-grade chances, but in the post season you have to be able to stop them. If Allen had started tonight it might have been different but thankfully they played their worst player, who really sunk their team after the Boeser goal. All were straight on shots, made it easy for the Canucks. This was a hard team to beat otherwise, they dominated us most of the time 5 on 5 but our special teams and goalie stole the show and hopefully they can do a number in Vegas. Tonight in particular full marks for our neutral zone play and forecheck which caused chaos and lead directly to goals. I think beating the West's best team is nice but the Blues were struggling at the start. They did eventually arrive and gave us their all and we did bend, but our bounce back was impressive and something I don't think we even saw in 2011. This team's resilience is impressive. Give credit to the coaches, Markstrom and our leaders and veterans on this. While this game was a cake walk, Game 5 down 3-1 was a massive turning point. Whatever was said in that dressing room worked. Going forward, when the Canucks find themselves in trouble against Vegas, they can always look back to the turning points in this series where they literally out-played the best post-season team in the league. Harsh they don't get long to celebrate or much of a break but this is a good confidence boost and momentum to ride off for everyone tonight. In particular I think that Boeser goal really fired him up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Dr. Crossbar said: Gag on it!!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Crossbar Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 minute ago, PhillipBlunt said: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyGuy123 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Anyone played Gloria yet??? Me neither.... LFG!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post luckylager Posted August 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Timråfan said: To be a bandwagon fan from Sweden is quite nice these days with Petey, Marky, Eagle, Fanta and Loui. Höglander and Linus coming in also, hopefully... Go Canucks Go Oh Timra, you're definitely not bandwagon! Lmao A poster who comes in here to cheer on the team, and gets called "Loui Eriksson's Mom", is definitely not a bandwagon fan. True Canuck fans have always celebrated most Swedes. 1 8 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WHL rocks Posted August 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2020 Pettersson 10 games 4 goals 9 assists 13 Points Leading the league in playoffs scoring, tied with some guy named MacKinnon in Colorado. What a great start to his playoffs career.. just like his start to his NHL career in his rookie season.. Super Star 2 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 CONDENSED GAME | Blues at Canucks 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Just now, Dr. Crossbar said: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 POSTGAME | Tyler Motte, Jay Beagle, Antoine Roussel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdeath Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, KyGuy123 said: Anyone played Gloria yet??? Me neither.... LFG!!!!! I'm too busy liking Pina Coladas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Crossbar Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 1 minute ago, PhillipBlunt said: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 POSTGAME | Troy Stecher, Jacob Markstrom, Brock Boeser 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure961089 Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said: That's totally inconsequential and has zero impact whatsoever. They've had a ton of games together, playing together, where they've both been invisible so what you're saying goes against the truth of the matter. In the regular season?.... Virtanen scored 18 goals in a shortened season lol. He was basically a 20 goal scorer. Guadette scored 12 in 52 games, that’s a 19 goal season in an 82 game schedule. I’d say that’s one productive invisible line. In the playoffs this far Guadette had only played 1 game before he was benched. They’ve scored 10 goals in 2 games with him in the lineup the last 2 games against the Blues. They feed off each other, the Canucks feed of Gaudette youthful exuberance and I predict Gaudette and Virtanen will eventually end up playing on the same line at some time vs the Wild. Good debate, keep it up. Edited August 22, 2020 by Pure961089 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 POSTGAME | Travis Green 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dumb Nuck Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: Sorry but in 2011 we were the dragon and sadly we got slayed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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