[PGT] Nashville Predators at Vancouver Canucks | Nov. 05, 2021

[ShawnAntoski]

1 minute ago, Jester13 said:

Schmidt is almost a ppg on Winnipeg.

 

This coaching staff 100% misuses its players.

This coaching staff will be earning there reputation in the end. 

[Darius]

1 minute ago, mll said:

Chiasson hasn't played on the PK since 2018/19 where he averaged only 37 seconds per game.  

Lammikko averaged less than 1 min per game on the PK last season.  

 

Did Podkolzin even play on the PP for SKA?

At this point I’d put Bo on the pk.  The centres have been getting murdered in the defensive draws, Bo seems to be the only guy that can hold his own. 

[ShawnAntoski]

7 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

To my knowledge, Chaisson was never known as a defensive specialist or better than average in that area.  

ChaseOn, is Greens' pet project and only a really bad screw up - that makes Green look bad will make Green realized that this experiment was a bad idea from the start.

[mll]

2 minutes ago, Darius said:

At this point I’d put Bo on the pk.  The centres have been getting murdered in the defensive draws, Bo seems to be the only guy that can hold his own. 

Vancouver's face-off win percentage on the PK is 26.3% with only Vegas below them.  The median is about 45%.  

[alt kilgore]

21 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Do they drop pass? 

They just work on not dropping passes

[Jack Fig]

1 hour ago, Pears said:

If you don’t think was even close to a superstar during his rookie and sophomore years then I really don’t know what to say. 

Great start to his career. Not a superstar. Superstars win .... he hasn't won anything to this point. And now he's declining badly as a player. 

Edited November 6, 2021 by Jack Fig

[DS4quality]

This is what being a canucks fan feels like right now.

[Western Red]

Just now, mll said:

Vancouver's face-off win percentage on the PK is 26.3% with only Vegas below them.  The median is about 45%.  

Ruthless. Sutter not being good to go really has been a death knell so far. No contingency plan for a RHC?

[Eddie]

Was also at the game last night and there were a few positives.  

 

Petey and Brock despite all the hate on here are slowly getting back to form and showing more glimpses of their former selves. Petey reallly needs some confidence.  

Podz is gonna be a great player - makes a few junior mistakes in his own end from time to time, but his vision, passing, change of pace and aggression are all things of beauty, few more years with better coaches and he will be an absolute beaut - i'm calling it now ! 

Hogz, Garland, OEL, well actually all the D were pretty solid - Schenn is a bit ropey but u gotta love the aggression and abrasion he brings

 

Team wise we totally outplayed them. The difference makers again were their best players compared to our. Duchene was clinical where Bo whiffed on a couple of grade A's.  Johnasson was dominant in the face of dot.  Granland looked like a Selke nominee while Dickinson was really not noticeable and Brock was totally at fault for the terrible coverage on the 3rd goal I think it was. Hughes was a little quieter tonight and had a few whiffs in the O Zone leading to a goal against. Petey had his flashed but wasn't really affective. Miller tried but nothing really worked. Josi was solid too but outside of that only other Nashville players i semi noticed was Cozens, where as all of our lines looked skilled and dangerous when on the ice, and for the most part in control in their own zone.

 

Much better effort, possession and movement than a lot of games on this home stand tonight but just didn't have the class of finish to pull it off. . . 

 

And then there were special teams. Not much more to say there - they completely cost us the game. I don't know if it came across better on T.V but i was sat above the bench and on the 6:5 at the end the players looked visibly disillusioned with the coaching staff, Miller was arguing about something, couldn't make out exactly what was being said tho. Even if the PP and PK were just below average we statistically still win that game - ours our other level bad - again, there was an audible sigh in the crowd when we got that final PP. 

 

Small signs things are getting better, but like others, fells like were waiting for the corner to turn and hope is running dry that it is ever gonna happen - just too many cases of Deja Vu every game.

 

I think we just have to move on from the coaching staff at this point. Hell I'd even try Babcock on a 1 year deal at this point - can't be much worse than what we have as coaching is really costing us the W. Feel like Green is our Dallas Akins right now. 

[Jack Fig]

24 minutes ago, ShawnAntoski said:

ChaseOn, is Greens' pet project and only a really bad screw up - that makes Green look bad will make Green realized that this experiment was a bad idea from the start.

Sounds like a forechecking scheme ...

ChaseOn ... (clap, clap) ... ChaseOff. 

[Taphouse Canuck]

12 minutes ago, Jester13 said:

Schmidt is almost a ppg on Winnipeg.

 

This coaching staff 100% misuses its players.

Exactly. Schmidt was a top Dman with Vegas, then he came here and nothing went right, because we have no defensive system. He goes to WPG and becomes an elite player again, it's a miracle right?

[Pears]

3 minutes ago, Taphouse Canuck said:

Exactly. Schmidt was a top Dman with Vegas, then he came here and nothing went right, because we have no system. He goes to WPG and becomes an elite player again, it's a miracle right?

FTFY. 

[Taphouse Canuck]

Amongst the other PP failings is the fact that we seem unable to control the puck in the O zone. Given the man advantage you wouldn't think it would be that hard, but teams now know that if they pressure us we will cough up the puck and give them a short-handed chance. Nashville had 2 good chances and better teams will bury those.

 

We all remember when the Sedins used to keep the puck for a full minute shift, or even longer, and the opposition never even got a stick on it. Maybe they could just show some of our younger players how to work on puck possession?

[Ghostsof1915]

 

[mll]

11 minutes ago, Western Red said:

Ruthless. Sutter not being good to go really has been a death knell so far. No contingency plan for a RHC?

Sutter was 55% on the PK last season -  not only best on the team but also top-10 in the league.  Only 8 players who took at least 50 PK draws did better (Sutter took 91).

[Ghostsof1915]

1 minute ago, mll said:

Sutter was 55% on the PK last season -  not only best on the team but also top-10 in the league.  Only 8 players who took at least 50 PK draws did better (Sutter took 91).

Which is exactly why I'd like Sutter back before Motte. No offence to Motte. But we need someone to take the load off of Horvat and Miller. 

[DS4quality]

Didn't Elliott Friedman and the media tell us 'WE NEED TO SIGN TRAVIS GREEN?'

Why? These aren't this season problems,  they've actually gone on for 5 years, with the exception of the bubble.

A coach who uses the bag skate to judge his players isn't my type of coach. 

[Alflives]

1 minute ago, DS4quality said:

Didn't Elliott Friedman and the media tell us 'WE NEED TO SIGN TRAVIS GREEN?'

Why? These aren't this season problems,  they've actually gone on for 5 years, with the exception of the bubble.

A coach who uses the bag skate to judge his players isn't my type of coach. 

Actually, it wasn’t (and never was) a bag skate.  It’s an evaluation.  

[Canuckfanforlife82]

5 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Which is exactly why I'd like Sutter back before Motte. No offence to Motte. But we need someone to take the load off of Horvat and Miller. 

It won’t matter they always get injured. Always. Why would you have confidence in them when they get injured all the time?

Edited November 6, 2021 by Canuckfanforlife82

[Jack Fig]

1 hour ago, NUCKER67 said:

The PK was supposed to be better this year with the additions of Dickinson, Chiasson and Lammikko. 

It was?