[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers | February 25, 2021 | 7 p.m. PT | SN

[Whaleroad Train]

Stecher must be sitting in Detroit saying "Thank god Benning didn't offer me a contract"

[J-Strap]

15 minutes ago, HC20.0 said:

The second time in 3 games where Demko did everything in his power to win and we just hung him out to dry.

In today's environment, having good hygiene is essential...laundry every other day is best practice

[shazzam]

1 minute ago, Devron44 said:

Sure if he wants to sit around. For some people it’s not in their DNA but maybe he wants a break, sure i get it 

I mean given his experience, he'll wait for that lucrative multi year deal

[Jaimito]

1 minute ago, luckylager said:

Further into the ground?

Newell is huge problem, not at all part of the fix. 

 

Get the zamboni driver behind the bench

You expect them to win any games in the coming week? 

[samurai]

on the positive Jake played his best game of the season tonight

[xereau]

Just now, b3. said:

Let Trent Cull coach through an iPad from Utica. Anything better than these guys.

Whole team's checked out.

Aquaman should sell the bloody franchise, is what he needs to do.

[Convincing John]

Thank you Benning for taking us this far but it’s time for a new vision. Time to prune this tree. 

[Squamfan]

4 minutes ago, b3. said:

This would never fly in Montreal or Toronto.

 

Dubas and Burger Van always face the media.

Burke and and Gillis team had weekly interviews on 1040

[cuporbust]

1 minute ago, Squamfan said:

 

[b3.]

And to think this team is CAPPED out!!!!

[NewbieCanuckFan]

2 minutes ago, luckylager said:

Further into the ground?

Newell is huge problem, not at all part of the fix. 

 

Get the zamboni driver behind the bench

But then the ice at the arena will be ****'ty.  Did you think about that?

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[Devron]

1 minute ago, Whaleroad Train said:

Stecher must be sitting in Detroit saying "Thank god Benning didn't offer me a contract"

Guarantee he didn’t see that. Literally lives in Vancouver

[We_Are_All_Canucks_4_life]

if we keep losing hopefully this happens.

[khay]

3 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

Blame Mike Gillis.

I wish we could but he left us zero piece, well except Horvat. 

 

Seriously, no one other than Horvat on the current roster is from Gillis. I guess it was Horvat, Marky (traded Luongo) and Tanev (signed from college). Gillis built a great team but man he sucked.

 

At least when JB is gone, the next GM will have a lot of assets to work with.

[ilduce39]

2 minutes ago, EmilyM said:

But it’s a fair criticism that we’re clearly multiple pieces away from being a competitor, yet we’re capped out. Contracts come off the books this offseason but the point still stands that this team is not good enough to be a capped out team right now.

Yeah, It’s a fair criticism in a general sense - I’ve agreed with that for sure - but our record this year belies the talent on the roster even if the bottom 6 (and below) has bloated salary.  Its just lazy for media to go back to that well when there’s other reasons the team is struggling.  
 

It’s not like Loui’s $&!#ty cap hit caused us to be shut out - we still have top-10 firepower on the roster and enough vets that we should be able to play semi-respectable two way hockey at least most of the time. 
 

Is it just plain bad luck? Coaching? Psychological issues?  Poor internal leadership? (Probably some mix of the 4) but I roll my eyes when the guys getting paid to ask those questions lazily point the finger at the the cap situation.  I’ve even read (Drance, not Dayal) fire out a whole column defending Green and angling at JB.  
 

I mean, fine I guess, but the talent JB put together, while flawed for sure, is greater than what we’ve seen this year - for the first time in his tenure as GM.  People are content to just pile on him (and again, I think he’s gone this offseason) but there are issues well beyond that at the moment.  All the bad contracts disappear in a year and a half.  Right now we’re Oilering - that’s legitimately concerning in decade of crappy hockey despite good top end talent kind of way. 

[-DLC-]

6 minutes ago, khay said:

Agree. No one stepped up.

 

Demko did his job though, allowing only 2 goals. 

 

Hoglander tries to.  

[rychicken]

7 minutes ago, xereau said:

is that Jack Fig? 

[zetagumdam]

Enough is enough.  Green and his coaching staffs are out of ideas to turn this team around.  A good coach should be able to stop the bleeding with what he has on hand, should be able to find ways to fire up the players.  Green is unable to do that.

Our goalies also not good enough to make game changing saves as we did last season.

change coach now and replace JB by the end of the season.

[J-Strap]

2 minutes ago, xereau said:

Cuz he might get his widdle feewings huwt.

maybe Green's got a compromising video tape of hirsch doing inappropriate things....like not being able to stop pucks

[b3.]

1 minute ago, Squamfan said:

Burke and and Gillis team had weekly interviews on 1040

They both were intelligent and had a backbone, that’s the missing key with Jim and John.