Sedinyoureyesontheprize Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 We have the whole league right where we want them, believing we are a crap team before surging back to go on a huge run. Good plan boys! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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oldnews Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 1 hour ago, PetterssonOrPeterson said: Yes and keep oozing that inferiority complex that Vancouverites have to Toronto when they don't care. I love the BC pride, but this need to be "better" than any other region when people from those areas don't even think twice about Vancouver is laughable. the ironing is delicious. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Junkyard Dog Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 If we don't allow more than 5 goals against I will consider the game a success. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumb Nuck Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 19 minutes ago, Setyoureyesontheprize said: We have the whole league right where we want them, believing we are a crap team before surging back to go on a huge run. Good plan boys! The ol’ St. Louis ploy, love it but there is one deed we have to take care of first to make it work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 3 hours ago, HorvatToBaertschi said: Edler having a pathetic season but Juolevi has been in the pressbox something like 5 or 6 consecutive games smfh Are you suggesting they should scratch Edler? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 3 hours ago, PhillipBlunt said: Truly. They have talent and skill to spare, but they’re seemingly just a bunch of lazy, overpaid vets mixed in with entitled lazy young core players. No one wants to work hard on this team. No one wants to sacrifice their body to make a play or defend a teammate outside of Jordie Benn. This team deserves to fail and deal with the fallout from being a bunch of individuals instead of a real team. which of the young core players do you believe are "entitled" and "lazy"? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBdaQUIB Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I'm going to watch just to see hoglander show our vets how to play the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefCon1 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up" - vince lombardi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Provost Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 This is the Canucks... that means we are going to win this game just enough that no one gets fired, then reel off another losing streak, winning just enough to be paralyzed by indecision and not fix anything. I remember a few years ago at the end of the season and we were far outside the playoffs, we did one of this killer California road trips that always resulted in zero points for us. We decided to win them all and screw our chances at a better lottery pick... because of course that is when we would win. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Krinjer33 Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 Isn’t this exactly what happened to Colorado? They were good for one season then terrible the next, but look where they are at now. I don’t want the team to tank, but this might be the right year to stay the course and finish with a high draft pick instead of making some rash decisions to fix a struggling team. 1 4 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Moe Knows said: Why is Juolevi on the taxi squad? In 7 games he had 1 goal and was +2. Chatfield has 0 pts and -7 in 9 games. Unless he's hurt this makes little sense to me. Am I missing something here? It would be a good question to ask - if Van media were in the habit of asking good questions. My guess would be that with Hamonic out and Chatfield stepping in at RHD - they felt the need to utilize (the veteran) Benn - to play with Hughes (he's was good initially, but not quite sustaining lately). I don't think it's a performance issue (Juolevi's) as much as trying to balance their pairs and perhaps not being willing/able to roll with a young D on every pairing... They're already very young imo with a rookie and sophomore in the lineup....with youth on every line as well on most nights. And in spite of Chatfield's (misleading imo) surface statistics, he's been comparably good (relative to Juolevi) in arguably more difficult circumstances. That would be my guess/take - not knowing of course what Green and Co. do - or what the grounding of the decision is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Roger Neilsons Towel Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Alain Vigneault said: ^weird comment. Toronto is a lovely place. Anyways, we'll probably lose like 6-3 or 7-2. As I have said all along, this team is finished. "Marquee signing" Jayce Hawrlyuk has yet to sniff the ice, meanwhile, 700k signings everywhere else are making the difference. Makes you wonder... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post oldnews Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Krinjer33 said: Isn’t this exactly what happened to Colorado? They were good for one season then terrible the next, but look where they are at now. I don’t want the team to tank, but this might be the right year to stay the course and finish with a high draft pick instead of making some rash decisions to fix a struggling team. Certainly similar (assuming Vancouver slides anywhere near that badly). 39w 39 losses in 2015/16 when McKinnon was 20 yrs old. 22w 56 losses in 2016/17 Not quite the changes the Canucks went through. Colorado had Holden move on....Varlamov went from .914 with 27w, 25 losses, to .898 with 6w, 17 losses (losing his job in the process). They followed that season with 43 wins and 30 losses.....McKinnon 'broke out' and Rantanen 'broke in'.... Imo, 'rethings' are (or should be) about the long game - and in Vancouver's particular circumstances, a few things are mitigating (like Markstrom/expansion - Demko)... I'm personally fine with taking the risk of 'stepping back' this year - would probably go a bit further - for a few reasons (some that can't be controlled and some that might be) - but in the end the real way to hope to ensure contendng in the future is to continue to produce the steady stream of prospects that they have been. Edited February 8, 2021 by oldnews 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanfor42 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, Provost said: This is the Canucks... that means we are going to win this game just enough that no one gets fired, then reel off another losing streak, winning just enough to be paralyzed by indecision and not fix anything. I remember a few years ago at the end of the season and we were far outside the playoffs, we did one of this killer California road trips that always resulted in zero points for us. We decided to win them all and screw our chances at a better lottery pick... because of course that is when we would win. There are a thousand examples of exceeding expectations in the past as well. You are choosing to select a vague example to make a point that the Canucks are victims. They are not. We are a team building to be better who needs another year or two to clear some cap and mature some players. All will be good partner. I feel your pain but listen, we are honestly on the way up. Patience grasshopper. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devron Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Well this is the weirdest hockey I’ve seen in awhile. I think if we don’t let in a goal in the first 5 minutes we have a shot ahaha I don’t even know what to say anymore. Good luck guys. Go Canucks go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aGENT Posted February 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2021 41 minutes ago, Krinjer33 said: Isn’t this exactly what happened to Colorado? They were good for one season then terrible the next, but look where they are at now. I don’t want the team to tank, but this might be the right year to stay the course and finish with a high draft pick instead of making some rash decisions to fix a struggling team. Yup, where they added Rantanen in the draft. Winnipeg too. They made, then missed, the playoffs and added Laine. Anybody feel bad for them? Did their teams panic and fire everyone in coaching/management and/or trade everyone? It's really quite common for teams coming out of a rebuild. A good year with a taste of playoffs and then a year (or more) of regression, more high picks and then back at it. But if you look at CDC (or Twitter etc) all the 'experts' have the answers in blaming and firing Benning, or Green, trading away the scape goat player du jour... I've even seen more than one suggestion of trading Hughes. How more than one poster has come up with that depth of idiocy is baffling. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleboy Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Same line up? More of LE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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