Angry Little Elf
My wife came back
Hi dadAnd to think we could have had even more if we shot on even half the times I furiously yelled SHOOT at the TV.
Hi dadAnd to think we could have had even more if we shot on even half the times I furiously yelled SHOOT at the TV.
Ryan McDonut is clearly not 100%If it keeps going like tonight you have to wonder how banged up the Predators are by game 5.
If you think they are going to fix the PP now after it’s been shit since Jan, you’re delusional.The over reaction is insane. He coached this team to 50 wins. Let’s chill out.
We lost a game where our coach failed to get the players to adjust to all the damn shot blocks. If that persists that go for it.
PP is a giant f***ing issue, get the Sedins on it and see if they can fix it.
Wasn’t Tocchet sick last weekLmfao and who gave it to him coach?????
He was good enough for the Canucks to win.As a Pens fan, DeSmith's performance was exactly as expected.
At this point, DeSmith has proven that he can't give the team a chance to win.Silovs was pretty bad in the regular season. If we have to resort to him we’re boned.
His -1.61 goals saved above average says otherwise. Not good, not playoff goaltending performance worthy. Just average and he was below that.He was good enough for the Canucks to win.
If you think they are going to fix the PP now after it’s been shit since Jan, you’re delusional.
Too many people still think this can be the team from the beginning of the season.I would broaden this statement ... if you think the team is going to fix the overall offensive problems it's had since the all-star break you're living on a hope and a prayer, at this point. Offensively, I think they ranked 25-27th in five-on-five shot rate post All-Star Game and ranked in the bottom 10 among all NHL teams on the season.
PP is just one major symptom of a larger problem.
Too many people still think this can be the team from the beginning of the season.
They are not.
That team had swagger. It also had everything go right for them.
Demko coming back was the only saving grace and possible X factor. That lasted 1 game.
Nashville also played exactly how they wanted to for their road games. Will be different on their ice.
It is what it is but to have pure blind faith that everything is going to be ok based on substantial evidence on the contrary, is crazy to me.
Only 15 sog against per game might feel weird for a Latvian goalie so I’m not so sure either.As a Latvian clearly I'd love to see Šilovs play, but not sure if SC playoffs is the right timing for such knee-jerk reaction after one crap game from DeSmith. Or is there extra context?
Thanks for jumping in. It seems to me that (if Demko is out long-term), Canucks fans know that DeSmith is highly unlikely to be able to handle a starting role, whereas Silovs is unknown.
A bit of a reversal of the saying "the devil you know is better than the one you don't".
If the odds of being eliminated are high either way, I think the prevailing opinion is that you may as well roll the dice on the unknown rather than the almost-guaranteed elimination (with DeSmith).
Only 15 sog against per game might feel weird for a Latvian goalie so I’m not so sure either.
(I kid, I kid)
This is generally my thoughts as well. Tochett how he is training there team to okay well in one goal games in the regular season so that this trait shines through in the playoffs. And that makes sense and there is utility there. And I think you saw that to a degree in the first game.It's driving the stat-watchers nuts because they keep scratching their head saying "well the Canucks dominated possession for large parts of the game and generated 37 shots in the third period" (only 6 hit the net, by the way). This has been the refrain since the all-star break, and it's now a large enough sample to theorize there is a larger problem with how they generate goals and execute offensively, versus some sort of "puck luck" that is going to revert to the mean at some point.
I have read Tocchet's system focuses more on maintaining offensive zone time than generating high-danger chances, so I assume it's a combination of coaching and the players inability to execute on the relatively few high-danger chances they generate per game.
The combination has made them basically a bottom-tier NHL team offensively since the all-star break.
The Vancouver Canucks were 23-14-4 on the road this season.
Good teams have to win a few games on the road. Let's see how the guys bounce back in Game 3...
This is generally my thoughts as well. Tochett how he is training there team to okay well in one goal games in the regular season so that this trait shines through in the playoffs. And that makes sense and there is utility there. And I think you saw that to a degree in the first game.
But the team seems to have also lost its ability to score in bunches and come back from multiple goal deficits like we saw earlier in the year. So I think there is a trade off. We may be better in one goal games as our defensive is tighter, but it’s at the expense of scoring chance generation, so when we get down more than one goal we struggle to come back.
How many times have we scored more than 3 goals (excluding empty netters) since the TDL?
With all that said, of course the Canucks didn’t get the puck luck tonight, and were obviously the better team. But I do think some are overrating the “shot attempt” stat. It’s one thing to have a great shot attempt that misses the net, but it’s another thing if a team is clogging up the middle of the ice, and you aren’t moving the puck laterally enough to open up shooting lanes, but are just continually whipping the puck at the net and they are getting blocked. Obviously not saying we were entirely the latter, but you get the point.
Considering the fans were chanting in support of him when it happened makes it better.you gotta admit that first goal was pretty funny!