[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks @ Calgary Flames l May 13, 6 p.m. l SNP | WHY ARE WE HERE EDITION

[Patrik Laine]

Just now, ey40 said:

Will they ever score a power-play goal before the season end?

I hope not. Goodbye coaching staff 

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

24 minutes ago, J-23 said:

Knowing the Canucks we will probably go 4-0.

Or we go 0-4 and Calgary wins the lottery, be careful what you wish for 

 

[Patrik Laine]

Just now, Herberts Vasiljevs said:

 

The ROW tiebreaker.

ROW? does that involve a canoe race? 

[Smashian Kassian]

Really hoping we are better than Seattle next season.

[xereau]

3 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

CONDENSED GAME | Canucks at Flames

 

I like this summary better.

 

[Fakename70]

1 minute ago, Devron44 said:

You excited for the Kraken? What’s that gonna be like as a Canucks fan 

You know, I was actually all set to abandon the Canucks - they've been the "home team" down here, obviously - even though I've been a fan since the mid-'90's. All the Seattle NHL group had to do to ensure my addition to the fanbase was NOT name the franchise Kraken. Really, that's all they had to do. In hindsight, I'm glad they did. I'm really not the type of sports fan who jumps from team to team. Liked the same MLB squad since 1981, and have repp'd  the Seahawks since 1982-83. Hell, I still rep the Sonics. Other than when they go against the Canucks, I'm sure I'll be generally apathetic towards the Kraken. 

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

30 minutes ago, Devron44 said:

You excited for the Kraken? What’s that gonna be like as a Canucks fan 

Bigger rivals than Calgary  and Edmonton

 

Edited May 14, 2021 by AlwaysACanuckFan

[Fakename70]

10 minutes ago, Patrik Laine said:

Sleepless in Seattle was the worst movie ever and nirvana was a bunch of antifa hippies. 

Never seen it, and I've never liked them at all. Seriously, never. 

[4petesake]

4 minutes ago, xereau said:

I like this summary better.

 

 

[KILLER]

3 minutes ago, Smashian Kassian said:

Really hoping we are better than Seattle next season.

They better take 5 years to get to the playoffs or they'll be off to a better start than ourselves. 

The Canucks had a choice of washed up garbage at the 1970 expansion draft. Pat Quinn was one but he was hobbled by the time we got him.

[Bad_BOI_pete]

14 minutes ago, Patrik Laine said:

Sleepless in Seattle was the worst movie ever and nirvana was a bunch of antifa hippies. 

i see your here for a long time.

[Bad_BOI_pete]

5 minutes ago, AlwaysACanuckFan said:

Hopefully not this 

whose that Turner Brown?

[Dumb Nuck]

Well, as much as I as well as many of you laughed at Ottawa throughout the season, we now need to win 3 out of our last 4 not to finish last in the division and there is nothing funny about that, thank god we have a good coach.

[WZRD]

 

[xereau]

18 minutes ago, Devron44 said:

You excited for the Kraken? What’s that gonna be like as a Canucks fan 

Seattle city council narrowly defeated a measure 7-6 on a petition to change the Space Needle to a giant crack pipe.

 

 

K not really, but get ready for the Crackhead memes, for quite literally ever.

Dumbest name.

Edited May 14, 2021 by xereau

[rekker]

1 minute ago, Dumb Nuck said:

Well, as much as I as well as many of you laughed at Ottawa throughout the season, we now need to win 3 out of our last 4 not to finish last in the division and there is nothing funny about that, thank god we have a good coach.

Ouch 

[Fakename70]

10 minutes ago, 4petesake said:

It’s going to be like this...

While true, I still think the Kraken would be making a big mistake in trying to manufacture a geographical rivalry with Vancouver. Personally, the prospect of regular season games between the 2 franchises doesn't move me at all. Certainly not to the point of developing a genuine dislike for them. There's no history there. Especially playoff history. There's nothing there at all. It's barely different from when Vancouver was awarded the Grizzlies. As a Sonic fan, that didn't mean anything at all to me. I genuinely fail to see Canuck fans in Vancouver getting wound-up because there's now a team in Seattle. You can't have a "rivalry" between 2 teams with no prior history between them. I think there's a lot of "hockey fans" down here who have yet to grasp that. 

[guntrix]

15 minutes ago, 4petesake said:

It’s going to be like this...

This'll actually be fun. This team needs a true rival.

 

The Alberta teams have each other and let's be honest, Chicago and Boston (with their cups and all) don't pay as much attention to us as we do to them. 

[xereau]

1 minute ago, guntrix said:

This'll actually be fun. This team needs a true rival.

 

The Alberta teams have each other and let's be honest, Chicago and Boston (with their cups and all) don't pay as much attention to us as we do to them. 

 

[apollo]

2 hours ago, Ray_Cathode said:

The run we went on in the playoffs occurred while we were largely outshot, suffered from a huge deficit in zone play, struggled to recapture pucks in their own zone, struggled at capturing pucks on the forecheck, and was almost entirely bailed out by its goaltenders and the rest of the players that Benning had so mismanaged the cap that we could not afford to keep them: Markstrom, Tanev, Stetcher, and Toffoli.

 

Last year’s playoff was an illusion that mislead almost everyone regarding their assessment of this team. Most of the old farts that Benning has so long overpaid no longer produce anything whatsoever: Eriksson, Beagle, Roussel, Edler, Baertschi, Sutter, and Ferland - they represent 28 million of wasted cap and somewhat less cash. On top of that, he lost the player he paid so much to get, and who has scored more goals than any Canuck, and all for less than the Canucks had been paying him! Tofolli cost Montreal 4.25 mil - how can one not compare his production to that of Vancouver’s six million dollar man, Eriksson, or Sutter at 4.375 mil, or even the comparative worth of the permanently concussed Ferland AHL 3.5, or Baertchi’s 3.3 or even Beagle or Roussel at 3.0 mil. The value in return for the bucks paid is absurdly poor. Sure, there are other teams with bad contracts, but with the frequency and amount that JB has racked up? Is there any still employed GM with Benning’smassive failure.

 

And to top that off with a cherry on top of that treat, is that our prospect pool is now ranked as 19th in the NHL - after seven years deep into a rebuild that never was. That Benning, whose singular talent is finding draft eligible prospects, has been throwing away draft slots like so much confetti at a wedding is an embarrassing contradiction. 

 

Illusion 

 

Was it criss angel or David Blaine who man handled the Stanley Cup champion Blues in 6? Or was the Canucks first line: Angel Houdini Blaine? 

 

Musta got lucky to beat cup Champs in 6... And also the wild were on fire under their new coach. They were probably one of the strongest teams that got eliminated. 

 

Vegas came down to the 3rd period of game 7... But yea they out shot us lots... Our PP really let us down when Reaves took the 5 min major. Otherwise we in the west final and who knows SCF? 

 

Last playoffs was not an illusion my friend. Sorry we got the deadliest covid variant unlike anything any NHL team has experienced in the history of the sport. 

 

Canucks for cup 2022 

Edited May 14, 2021 by apollo