[GDT/PGT] Preseason Oilers @ Canucks / Oct. 9 / 6:00 PM Rogers Arena

[Coconuts]

You know, it's a shame the coaching staff decided not to give the team more than a single game as a unit to start gelling 

 

It's almost as if we could have spent more games doing something other than sifting through plugs 

[Ghostsof1915]

Ref is too scared to mention the cities.

[fanfor42]

1 minute ago, DefCon1 said:

Now they are playing podz with petersson?? Man they still dont have set lines. Am not sure we will have a good start to this regular season.

We will have a bad start.  6 road games.  No continuity. Blah.

 

This is going to be hugely dissapointing.  Green has not put together a cohesive group at all.

 

Didnt he think a priority was to get the 6 new guys to learn to play together? Obviously not as he focused on a scramble drill with having multiple fringe guys getting long looks and never focusing on when the actual roster would play together.

 

 

 

 

[mordekai]

1 minute ago, b3. said:

Motte needs to return so we don’t have to watch Highmore anymore.

We could have had Lockwood but green loves his journeyman

[Dazzle]

Just now, stawns said:

OEL has been solid, just not getting much PP time

Rathbone Rathbone and Hughes.

[-NucksFan]

1 minute ago, x00x said:

another shutout for smith :O

I believe it’s their back up not Smith 

[XxS3E3DI2N2SxX]

bad pass after bad pass after slow skating after bad pass. = Canucks hockey lately... zero emotion and zero ability to fight for spots on the team.

Do they have too many gifted roster spots? is that their problem?

[b3.]

All of these great scoring chances we are having is tiring me out!

[fanfor42]

4 minutes ago, stawns said:

Its October, not February.  

They all count partner.

[DS4quality]

Myers and Poolman have been decent. Schenn out Bowey in IMHO.  Something tells me Hunt gets in ahead of Rathbone. 

[dKs89]

Canucks have had approximately 8 shots in the last 30 minutes....

 

Just typical stuff for this team it seems regardless of who is and isn't on the ice. Hmm, wonder what that might mean. 

[ShawnAntoski]

I wonder who gets benched since the usual suspects of: JV and LE are gone.   Can a coach be benched and just let the players make there own line and plays for the rest of the game ?

Edited October 10, 2021 by ShawnAntoski

[grandmaster]

2 minutes ago, Coconuts said:

You know, it's a shame the coaching staff decided not to give the team more than a single game as a unit to start gelling 

 

It's almost as if we could have spent more games doing something other than sifting through plugs 

This

[spook007]

That's been a poor showing so far.... Zero connection between the players on the ice... 

[DIBdaQUIB]

2 minutes ago, Jack Fig said:

I don't know ..... but it's looking more and more like Petan starts here. 

Based on merit, he may be playing by himself. 

[Taphouse Canuck]

They've put their 3rd string goalie in and we haven't even troubled him yet. There needs to be a serious increase in effort in the third.

[jason10009]

I think OJ has been relatively solid and should be given an opportunity this season. 

[SergioMomesso]

3 minutes ago, Canuckfanforlife82 said:

It should bother people we ice our best lines and they ice half their team and we look like crap. This game should be about setting the tone for the season for good habits. So for those saying it doesn’t matter, it does becuase they are beating us without their top players and the next game they will have all their players back. That is a scary thought. 

Yes. Why is ok for us to lose when we ice a minor league and an NHL lineup. Complete BS. Guys like Bo and JT will want out sooner rather than later if no one gives a flying f*ck 

[khay]

In the third period,

 

Miller-EP-Garland

Hoglander-Horvat-Podkolzin

 

or some mix of the 6 of the best forwards spread over the top 2 lines should be tried. 

 

No real useful experiments were made in this preseason.

 

All Green experimented are Miller on C, Petan on Miller's wing, and sending Rathbone out when his strengths as well as weaknesses are already glaringly obvious. It's been 7 games and he's still running the same experiments over and over and over.

 

Maybe he plans to run the same experiments for the 82 games in the regular season?

 

Fire the f*cking clown already. Missing the playoffs is inevitable with him at the helm.

[StiffStick33]

Scubs+Miller having a realllyy bad game.