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Wow, I thought they'd find a way to bring it home. They turned it up and controlled the final period, you're not gonna win many games if you allow the other team to dominate your zone. Isles have one shot in the third, Canes have fifteen. Which is a shame, Varlamov probably deserved better than this. If the Isles had kept the pressure on they probably would have won.

May that be all the solace they get, hoping the Bruins punt em again

Leafs haven't beaten the Bruins since 2022, Bruins have won eight straight https://mcubed.net/nhl/bos/tor.shtml

Isles looking to make a series of it, good for them, there's no question that they're the underdog here. It's still interesting that 35-year-old Varlamov was the steadying presence down the stretch instead of Sorokin, and that he continues to be the guy for the Isles. He's looked good thus far tonight. I get riding the hot hand, but it's been that way for a while. Good thing him and Sorokin work well together.

4-3 Preds Forsberg

Maybe, but one could argue that Ruff is the most qualified head coach they've hired since they had Ruff Wait a minute..

I think I've seen this one before https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-hire-lindy-ruff-as-head-coach

Yeah, that's one thing that jumps out to me when folks talk about the good old days. Good old days for who? Billy Joel sang "'cause the good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.". Sometimes you can't go back, in many cases it's best not go back. Sometimes if you want thing to be better you've got to build the better future in the present. Women weren't considered persons til 1929, couldn't open bank accounts without their husbands written permission til 1964, didn't make up roughly half the labour force til 1995, and couldn't vote in Federal elections til 1960. The right to vote in various provincial elections and the federal election for Indigenous Peoples with status gradually trickled in between the late 1940's and late 1960's. Same sex marriage wasn't a thing til 2005. https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/commemorations-celebrations/womens-history-month/women-history-canada-timeline.html https://www.redcross.ca/blog/2021/3/over-100-years-of-victories-large-and-small-of-women-in-canada https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indigenous-suffrage One could bring up things like the Chinese head tax and the Chinese Immigration Act, the Komagata Maru, and Africville. One could point to the internment camps, children being forced to attend residential schools, and the 60's scoop. One could discuss starlight tours, MMIW, and black and Indigenous individuals being disproportionally represented within the Canadian criminal justice system and their having more interactions with the police. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-systemic-racism-police-1.6744961 There a lot of conversations one could have about rights, I'm barely scratching the surface regarding rights in Canada. But time has proven again and again that people are not all treated in an equitable manner, things aren't perfect now but they are better than they once were, the key is to keep pushing forward without undoing the progress that has been made.

Myers doesn't get enough credit for his play, wouldn't be surprised to see him extended

I don't even like the Oil, I just think one can be objective about teams and players whether one likes them or not

Gonna be a very low shooting game it seems

You don't want to run? You don't want to hide?

I think he's probably better than a lot of Canucks fans give him credit for It could be that the stats are skewed, being a good possession team helps, but the Oil are still 10th in goals allowed, 5th in shots on goal allowed, and 15th on the PK Winning faceoffs helps too, they're 5th in the dot

Next ROH guy will likely be Edler once he retires Hughes will catch him but he still leads the Canucks in a lot of categories for D For example, only three players have played more games in a Canucks uniform than Edler and they're all in the rafters

Their last game at Denver was a 5-1 win against the Oil to close out the season, you can cherry pick off games for every team

I ain't having serious conversations about contention this post-season, next season maybe, I don't think we're experienced enough Maybe they'll prove me wrong, we'll see I'm not afraid to play them in a series either though

Be interesting to see how the Avs bounce back next game, their tending can't get any worse and Winnipeg doesn't typically score like this

It's true, you can be a Canucks fan and still have a realistic take on where the Oilers are as a team We won our season series against them but you don't climb out of the hole they did without improving your defensive game

I wouldn't say that, but Georgiev is actively hurting them tonight Oilers actually have better team defensive stats than the Avs do, I don't think enough folks around here give the Oil enough credit defensively, they aren't the team they were at the beginning of the season

Avs likely come back better next game, Georgiev's lost them this one, it'll be tough to be much worse Six goals on twenty shots just can't happen

I'd argue that the Avs would be leading with simply average goaltending We'll see

Both teams have 30+ hits thus far

Maybe, but if they keep giving the high octane Avs this many chances there's a good chance they'll break through eventually

Neither team has had a powerplay which is a bit surprising