HarbularyBattery Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 48 minutes ago, Bob Long said: despite what the fan base and local media says, the mcbabies can't put out the same level of defensive effort that Nashville did. correct 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slegr Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 2 minutes ago, Psycho_Path said: I like your optimism that it'll be an evenly reffed series. Ain't gonna happen, but I like your optimism I’d agree. NHL loves its McDavid, and they don’t like a far-western Canadian team that plays when most of the North American audience is asleep. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancan Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 8 minutes ago, Slegr said: I’d agree. NHL loves its McDavid, and they don’t like a far-western Canadian team that plays when most of the North American audience is asleep. Both Hughs and Boeser are still very, very, popular in Michigan and Minnesota where they were god's on there Collage teams. Add USA born players like Miller, Garland, Joshua, Demko, DeSmith, Lafferty, Cole, Myers, the NHL can really get behind Team USA (aka Canucks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophomore Jinx Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 1 hour ago, Bob Long said: despite what the fan base and local media says, the mcbabies can't put out the same level of defensive effort that Nashville did. That is it right there. Nashville is a bugger of a team to play against, so structured, albeit boring, but disciplined and skilled too....any team would have had it tough against them...it was a great team building series for our guys, and well earned in moving on, and IMHO it will serve them very well against the Oil....they won't know how to contend with our big D...and outside of the obvious ones, guys like Lindy, DJ, Zadz, Blueger, Suter, are going to be difference makers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarbularyBattery Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Just now, Sophomore Jinx said: That is it right there. Nashville is a bugger of a team to play against, so structured, albeit boring, but disciplined and skilled too....any team would have had it tough against them...it was a great team building series for our guys, and well earned in moving on, and IMHO it will serve them very well against the Oil....they won't know how to contend with our big D...and outside of the obvious ones, guys like Lindy, DJ, Zadz, Blueger, Suter, are going to be difference makers. edmonton is also way easier to bait into taking dumb penalties if big z lays a few hits you better believe kane and nurse are gonna come and try to play stupid games and get take penalties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 6 minutes ago, Sophomore Jinx said: That is it right there. Nashville is a bugger of a team to play against, so structured, albeit boring, but disciplined and skilled too....any team would have had it tough against them...it was a great team building series for our guys, and well earned in moving on, and IMHO it will serve them very well against the Oil....they won't know how to contend with our big D...and outside of the obvious ones, guys like Lindy, DJ, Zadz, Blueger, Suter, are going to be difference makers. Yep. No one thinks that this will be easy, but i like our chances, and that the media is against us. It'll help inspire the guys. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancan Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 1 hour ago, cripplereh said: Long as we hit mcbaby and Leon lots it will get them iff their game which will allow us to take charge. They seem to not play us well,so we should win. I'd put Mikheyev (to try) and cover McDavid. He can actually match his speed, and has proven that as a Leaf a few years ago catching him on a potential breakaway and stealing the puck from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 2 hours ago, Alflives said: Alf hates Perry and Kane already. Alf hates all the Coilers, their fans, and their city. No need for any playoff series to hate those smelly buggars. Hate is a powerful emotion Alf You don't hate them enough just yet - that will change over the next two weeks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 3 hours ago, Rip The Mesh said: Still trying to figure this out. Who decides? Why Can't Shorthouse at least at least do the Canuck games at home. I've listened to both and Shorthouse is not bias but we are not talking about the color guys. Shorthouse is the very best play by play announcer in the league. Get this; There have been times when the Canucks didn't make the show (many times),and Shorthouse was asked to play by play somewhere else. I've already used my Twitter account and many people don't understand. Damn! the contracts that shorthouse and singh each respectively signed decide. singh is higher in the pecking order because he has a different role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 3 minutes ago, tas said: the contracts that shorthouse and singh each respectively signed decide. singh is higher in the pecking order because he has a different role. And whoever made that decision needs to be fired for allowing Singh to consistently disgrace the country with his misconduct. There's got to be some kind of clause outlining an expectation that Singh is required to act like a professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darius Posted May 5 Popular Post Share Posted May 5 Speaking of fan dynamics, Canucks have found a new cheer squad over at Calgary Puck. The last place I would have thought I would have seen pro Canuck sentiment. Their hate of the Oilers is deeper of course but after years of trashing the Canucks the vast majority are on the bandwagon... You can read gems like this: direwolf Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: North Vancouver Exp: This is not a difficult choice. This current iteration of the Oilers are arguably the most reprehensible collection of losers and scumbags ever assembled on an NHL team. Not even the 2011 Canucks were as unlikable as these clowns. My wish for this series is that the Oilers lose in such humiliation fashion that McLotteryball and Pissy both leave this summer for greener pastures, and that dinks like Ron MacLean finally retire as a result. If it takes cheering for one of the Flames’ biggest rivals to help make this happen, then so be it. The Oilers should never win anything, EVER. Hands down the most embarrassing, undeserving franchise in pro sports. F*** them forever. E = No good! Commie Referee Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Small town, B.C. Exp: Go Canucks and it's not even close. At least the Canucks have some players we all like. Who cheers for Perry and Kane and Draisatl and McDavid? Gross. 4 1 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan-observer Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 13 minutes ago, Sophomore Jinx said: That is it right there. Nashville is a bugger of a team to play against, so structured, albeit boring, but disciplined and skilled too....any team would have had it tough against them...it was a great team building series for our guys, and well earned in moving on, and IMHO it will serve them very well against the Oil....they won't know how to contend with our big D...and outside of the obvious ones, guys like Lindy, DJ, Zadz, Blueger, Suter, are going to be difference makers. I thought Nashville played as good a D possible and great on the Canucks to come through. Look at the replay of the last goal - see how structured Nashville was with the player switching - took a Petey side step - poke at the puck to move it to Boeser - a no look pass + one timer just a few inches to the left of the post to score the clincher - if Suter hits a few inches to the center, Saros makes the save. Given the Preds record the last 2 months, I think they may have the pushed the Oilers to 6-7 with that suffocating system. Canucks will be slight underdogs in this series - I don't think they mind as they were quite pressured to beat the Predators even though that was a very good team. Sometimes, media looks at total regular season points a bit too much and not enough at who is also playing well heading into the post season (Panthers vs Bruins last year). Obviously the Canucks will try to tighten it up and not play a free flowing a contest given the Oilers vast scoring - Canucks should also try to maintain their energy level over 3 periods - seen many times opponents put relentless pressure on the Oilers in first two periods then tire a bit - just to have the Oilers use their speed and blow them out in the third. Hope to see continued improvement from Petey in this series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBamba Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 ALL of the pressure is on Edmonton. We are heavy underdogs. All of the media outside of Vancouver are literally laughing at this matchup. Ultimately I think they’ll beat us in 5-6 but that’s just because I’m a wet blanket. However some of the biggest juggernauts have fallen to tight checking teams with hot goaltending. By juggernauts I’m talking historically good teams. We defend the rush well, we collapse in front of the net. We have an imposing D, we hit a lot, we have Silovs who looks like the annual goaltending story of the playoffs. The biggest thing we have is Zero expectations. It feels like the team put pressure on themselves after the all-star break. That pressure is now gone IMO. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, LaBamba said: ALL of the pressure is on Edmonton. We are heavy underdogs. All of the media outside of Vancouver are literally laughing at this matchup. Ultimately I think they’ll beat us in 5-6 but that’s just because I’m a wet blanket. However some of the biggest juggernauts have fallen to tight checking teams with hot goaltending. By juggernauts I’m talking historically good teams. We defend the rush well, we collapse in front of the net. We have an imposing D, we hit a lot, we have Silovs who looks like the annual goaltending story of the playoffs. The biggest thing we have is Zero expectations. It feels like the team put pressure on themselves after the all-star break. That pressure is now gone IMO. You also can't really predict squat. Silovs with the series clinching shut out. Even god didn't see that coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip The Mesh Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 10 minutes ago, tas said: the contracts that shorthouse and singh each respectively signed decide. singh is higher in the pecking order because he has a different role. I think if you do a pole, you'll find Shorthouse is rated the best in the busyness. There is only one else close. What is this pecking order? If you mean he sometimes he's on HNIC? Whatever, I think he's a crappy play by play announcer; Where's the contract? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taphouse Canuck Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 21 hours ago, Fanuck said: Need to exploit Edm suspect defense and pressure the goalie who's playing well. Won't beat Edm by setting NHL record for least amount of shots in 2 rounds. Stay out of box and commit to their system that got'em here. Amen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABNuck Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 19 hours ago, 24K said: Which is gonna break first. Our system defense and especially our pk or Jeff Skinner. I think Jeff Skinner is golfing these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBamba Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, Bob Long said: You also can't really predict squat. Silovs with the series clinching shut out. Even god didn't see that coming. When did you become so confrontational? Did you read the last part of my post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABNuck Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 5 minutes ago, Rip The Mesh said: I think if you do a pole, you'll find Shorthouse is rated the best in the busyness. There is only one else close. What is this pecking order? If you mean he sometimes he's on HNIC? Whatever, I think he's a crappy play by play announcer; Where's the contract? I think if you do a pole, you're a dirty whore. Unless it's a Pole, in which case you're probably just European... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-dlc- Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 3 hours ago, Miss Korea said: If you were the public representative of what it means to be a Canucks fan, I would be embarrassed. Your greatest opponent is the officials, not the other team. When we win or score, you think it's a victory against the officials. When we lose, it's DEFINITELY the officials' fault. I don't even know how you can even enjoy watching hockey when you think the entire sport is one great big referee conspiracy against Vancouver. You would be a shining example of what it means to be a toxic fan. You're gonna call an Oiler a dirty cheat or diver at least 10 times a game. You're gonna call out the officials for every single call/non-call on the Canucks, no matter how fair it is. And if things get rough, you're gonna suggest our guys start headhunting McDrai. Over half of your GDT/PGT posts are about officiating. Enough. Toxic ^ 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawns Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 hour ago, Bob Long said: They have but everything is a tradeoff. They can't play as physical as NSH either, which should give Petey more space. They will target Hughes as much as possible tho. I agree, it'll be easier on both Petey and Hughes, physically. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob Long Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 10 minutes ago, LaBamba said: When did you become so confrontational? Did you read the last part of my post? You misread me, I was agreeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hughes Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 27 minutes ago, Bob Long said: You also can't really predict squat. Silovs with the series clinching shut out. Even god didn't see that coming. Yes I did 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBamba Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 3 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said: 32 years since Vancouver and Edmonton against each other in the playoffs wow. I actually can’t believe this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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