[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Toronto Maple Leafs l April 29, 4:30 p.m. l SNP

[philtbc829]

Well I wish I had more confidence that the Nucks can come out as Leaf blowers again....but I am just hoping that at this stage it isn't a blow out....Hopefully Kole will have a good showing

[Junkyard Dog]

41 minutes ago, Devron44 said:

Big Save Dave. I hope I get to say that a lot today. Every goal 

Hopefully we get Red Light Rittich instead of Big Save Dave. 
 

Can’t make the same mental errors though or the Laffs will score 5+. They’ll win the run and gun game. 
 

Our hopes lies with Holtby being Holtbeast. 

[HorvatToBaertschi]

6 minutes ago, Jack Fig said:

Sorry to be the bucket of cold water, but I've seen Lind play enough in junior and he doesn't excite me. Hopefully he's rounded out his game plenty since then. 

Juniors was 3 years ago. Typically that's what developmental years in the AHL does for a player, rounds their game out. 

[204CanucksFan]

4 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

 

Really like to see Lind with Motte. I think that that is going to a really good line for us tonight

[tas]

30 minutes ago, DSVII said:

Deja vu from 2016-17.

Those were not meaningful games/wins in March when all the teams back then were just resting their starters vs us and looking ahead to playoffs.

 

If anything they cost us our draft positions. 

yeah and it really hurt the team in the 2017 draft ...

[Jack Fig]

17 minutes ago, rychicken said:

What deficiencies did you see?

Hides in the shadows, rides the coattails of his linemates who do the grunt work. He plays a quiet game .... but again, I'm going back to his junior days. 

[Jaimito]

Hoping for more compete tonight. Last night was awful to watch. 

[MattJVD]

10 minutes ago, Jack Fig said:

Sorry to be the bucket of cold water, but I've seen Lind play enough in junior and he doesn't excite me. Hopefully he's rounded out his game plenty since then. 

He's come a long way in 2.5 years in Utica

[Jack Fig]

17 minutes ago, HorvatToBaertschi said:

Juniors was 3 years ago. Typically that's what developmental years in the AHL does for a player, rounds their game out. 

Talented player, but he looked like a lot of talented players who never made the jump successfully. 

[xereau]

In case this game starts to suck, here's a nice relaxing wood turning channel which in my opinion is worth the sub.

 

 

[Dumb Nuck]

Just now, Jack Fig said:

Talented player, but he looked like a lot of talented players who never made the jump successfully. 

Nice to see him get a shot but he is not our savoir, he’s getting a look because Green conceded we are not making the playoffs.

[DSVII]

5 minutes ago, tas said:

yeah and it really hurt the team in the 2017 draft ...

2016 set this team back by more than what the 2017 draft gave us. 

 

 

[-Vintage Canuck-]

 

[tas]

Just now, DSVII said:

2016 set this team back by more than what the 2017 draft gave us. 

 

 

how do you figure?

[204CanucksFan]

4 minutes ago, Jack Fig said:

Hides in the shadows, rides the coattails of his linemates who do the grunt work. He plays a quiet game .... but again, I'm going back to his junior days. 

I saw him a lot in Kelowna as well in 16-17 and 17-18 and in both years I watched him aside from being the stat leader on the team both years he was also the biggest driver of play on his line both years definitely more so than Dube.

[Junkyard Dog]

Chatfield in for OJ. Back to back I am okay with that. Prefer to rest the veterans that play twice as much as Chatfield/OJ and give the young guys more ice time but it is what it is. 
 

Send Rathbone back down if he isn’t gonna get games in. 

[wallstreetamigo]

11 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

 

I kind of like these lines.

 

I actually said the other day they should try Virtanen on his off wing with Miller and Boeser. Got roundly ridiculed over it too. Here's hoping these lines can get something going.

[Provost]

Toronto is sitting a bunch of their regulars to rest them.

 

Reilly, Muzzin, Foligno

 

...oh and they are giving us a chance by playing Rittich as well

 

They don’t think much of us as competition.

Edited April 29, 2021 by Provost

[xereau]

6 minutes ago, Jack Fig said:

Hides in the shadows, rides the coattails of his linemates who do the grunt work. He plays a quiet game .... but again, I'm going back to his junior days. 

Benning said in the pre-season big presser that he's being groomed for 4th line duties. He has a hidden nasty side to him which I saw in Kelowna and worlds, and if he's learned to harness said grit, he'll be a good 4th liner. He and MacEwen have chemistry, so we have actual goals from the 4th line to which we can look forward.

 

I watched like 30 Utica games last season before covid, whenever the hell that was, and he was at times their best player. He was plain bad his 1st season in the AHL, so as a few have pointed out, the guy's grown nicely in the minors.

[Patrik Laine]

Wooohoooo Lind is in. Why is olli out must be a green im a moron move. At least put Rathbone in then. But no look at me im Travis Green I have curly hair and a stubby nose 

#firegreen