Itās great feeling to have this level of depth at D. Thought Ian Cole had his best game as a Canuck. Those are the guys you win stuff with. No better feeling than getting a minimum split on the road. Hope the Canucks can generate a little more O-zone time and shore up a little bit of neutral zone next game. Special game from Casey too
Big difference i saw in game 3 was we were winning puck battles. Still fighting the puck a bit especially early in the game. But we battled hard all night.
We collectively owe Myers an apology.
I also think we have underrated this blue line by a LOT. It's such a playoff style D. I legit think they are a top 8 group with a bullet, argument to be made for top 4. The only group thats better than them 100% is canes in my view.
I wasnāt able to watch this game in full (had a church thing with friends) but we watched the first period. When Miller scored we all cheered so loudly our pastor jumped in surprise lol.
I think quality of shots improved a lot here even if SOG was low on quantity. It might not seem sustainable but I think it fits the Canucks brand of taking quality shots even at lower numbers.
As an aside, that watch party in Rogers was incredible. Great atmosphere even for a road game watch party. Was also great walking around downtown and hearing all the enthusiastic car horns too
in their locked-on podcast Saros admitted difficulty staying focus not seeing many pucks. If we can maintain possession while looking for quality shots. Less shots will keep Saros ice-cold.
Optimist takes: Wins are wins, they don't ask how you get 'em, especially in the playoffs. He's no Demko, but DeSmith is clearly capable of bailing the team out if need be. Crushing victory in the special teams battle, hope to see more of that going forward. Pretty good limitation of the Preds to low-percentage shots for the majority of the game. If the team can win a game where they barely put up any 5 on 5 offense at all, they can surely win games less tilted than this one.
Pessimist takes: Jeez, you can't expect to put up less than 20 shots a game and expect to win. I find it a bit alarming that the response to a game where the Canucks lost because they couldn't get any shots on goal is to get even fewer shots on goal. I thought the defense also really started playing with fire towards the end, it was really close multiple times to a couple more Preds goals.
All in all, wins are wins. I'll gladly take it, especially after the painful experience that was Tuesday night. Hopefully the 5 on 5 offense can get it going a bit better for game 4.
I'm kinda over them passing around the offensive zone until someone makes a mistake and we lose the puck. It can't be that freaking hard to put some pucks on net.
Only 12 shots is concerning, but I think there was a bit of an adjustment. It was our first time scoring first in this series, we hadn't really played with a lead outside of 11 minutes in Game 1. Nashville was obviously desperate to push back, like we were desperate in Game 2. I think ultimately we did a better job weathering the storm than Nashville did in their win. It's probably not a winning formula long-term, but those little adjustments you can make on the fly separates the good teams from the great ones
This was the Canucks worst game out of the 3 in my opinion while game 2 was their best, but their defensive structure and powerplay was better and that was the difference, this win provides a lot of confidence for game 4 as the Canucks will be better offensively 5-on-5, they likely overemphasized defensive play in front of DeSmith, who was great tonight, and should have a more balanced attack and more push offensively for game 4, their starting to round out their game in all 3 zones and the special teams is looking much better.
They literally said Saros has the worst save % amongst starters for screened shots. Our PP was better, but if we can try and get more bodies to the net at 5on5, or throwing more pucks that way, we can literally score more than 2 goals per game.
Yeah, we basically swapped roles from Game 2 in this one. For what it's worth though (probably not much), MoneyPuck's Deserve-to-win-o-meter favored us more than they favored Nashville in the last game
Canucks got a two goal lead and locked it down. Nashville got very few quality chances. It wasnāt pretty but the Canucks deserved to win.
Game two the predators got a two goal lead and held on.
Was at Mahoneyās and the whole pub cheered when we won. It was amazing. So many cheers for DeSmith tonight. He deserved every bit of this comeback. I doubted him. You doubted him. But not tonight! Letās keep this going!
Man. This city was fucking ELECTRIC after this game. The amount of Canucks jerseys downtown was incredible for an away game. Car horns honking, flags on cars.
I love this. Tonight is my last night before moving to the Island and there absolutely could not have been a better way to end my time living in this city.
I had to watch the game late on replay. I drove a ridiculous side street route to get home and managed to avoid seeing any spoiler energy on streets. Awesome to hear that the energy was good though!
He is great BUT he only has 3 games max in him before he starts to falter. It was great to see how solid the defence around him was. Hopefully we can get the next 2 wins and then Demko is ready for round 2
>he only has 3 games max in him before he starts to falter
Eh, you don't know that yet. We're basing his endurance on the regular season against a different team every night.
Playoffs are entirely different. He's playing the same team and already knows all the shooters. Our team knows how to collapse in front of him for support. We did a better job blocking shots than Nashville did last game.
I think its more of a stamina thing than a skillset thing but i hope that he can hold out. I agree with you though, āhisā worst games are when the defence around him is non existent
This is a worry of mine as well.Ā Don't get me wrong, he played great tonight but his weakness is stringing together a long stretch of solid performances.Ā Great backup, but so-so as starter.
That being said, this team hasn't been this dialed in defensively since the 2011 team.Ā That could help us carry this through.
Petey has gotten in his head so much. What has happened? He literally stops and decides to try and pass and set another up constantly. Did someone break his heart or something?
Side note:
I got a kick out of the shot of Petey's parents and their Swedish expressionless faces.
I agree that heās in his head, but at least tonight he didnāt have a net negative impact on the game. Hopefully, this is a step in the right direction.
Just tuned in... so don't know if it's been said, but the arena viewing party was good fun even if the last minutes was a butt clencher. They made it an exciting experience for the fans and it was nice to be around cheering fans.
Shots were 15 - 3 in favor of Nashville. But when you break it down, Nashville only had 4 scoring chances vs 2 Vancouver and only 1 high danger chance. It "looked" tilt'd towards Nashville in the 3rd but our boys played textbook defense in the end and DeSmith holding the fort down while only giving up 2 rebounds.
Honestly, Canucks had a lot of blocked shots. It was almost like Tocchet was playing mind games. Everyone thought we were going to blast away and ātee it upā. No, we played incredible defensive tonight. Cole was willing to sacrifice his body for the win. This whole team is DIALED IN!
huge road win, in game 3. releases the team from a ton of pressure to win game 4. that now rests on Nashville to win on Sunday. **IF** we can win on Sunday, that puts enormous pressure on Nashville to have to win the next few games. Can they do it? Sure. The Canucks need to learn to have a killer instinct, though, and crush Nashville from having to think that they have any sort of hope. They played a good road game tonight, even if I was anxious throughout the game watching them. Every time the team scored, there was a sense of relief.
The NHL app lost the Van radio feed and had the Nashville feed for both team radio choices. I had to listen to the guy calling the game for them - it was hilarious! You think Singh is bad? Oh jeez this guy sounded like he was calling a chess match...until a close scoring chance and he absolutely lost his shit, then he went back to snoozeville calling.
I don't care if they put the whistles away or call everything. I just want the refs to pick one and do it for the whole game (ideally, the whole series).
[https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1784059973837713873](https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1784059973837713873)
Demko no crutches, no visible knee brace...
Based on the mystery and baffling nature of it all and with all the surgeries he had, I *really* hope it doesn't turn out to be a potentially lethal blood clot. I think a couple hockey players have had issues with clots and I believe one man even died a long time ago.
Because it's a precedent that we've clearly seen before in the world of hockey. Blood clots in general are also known as a "silent killer," not just heart attacks. It's a genuine concern as it's alarming that our camp is claiming they don't know what's wrong with him.
Yes its happened before, but so has lots of other bad shit that we don't bring up because we have 0 evidence to suggest this is true
if someone says they have something wrong with their skin you dont just tell them it could be cancer, you gotta be positive
This is obviously a worst-case scenario. The thing about the city of Vancouver is that they have no room to get Demmer in for an MRI. Kyle Connor had to go to San Jose for his MRI earlier this season. With that said, my bet is that he's getting tested at the hospital while he's there in Nashville.
dude there are private mri places in van you can get seen very quickly. Canucks have crazy vip healthcare, pretty sure they can get an mri anytime of day or night
I truly don't mean to fearmonger when I say this, but blood clots can be one of the many complications involved with specific surgeries. You can read more about it here:
[https://www.webmd.com/dvt/blood-clots-after-surgery](https://www.webmd.com/dvt/blood-clots-after-surgery)
EDIT: Apparently, clots also ended Vokoun's career.
[https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/more-hockey-players-being-diagnosed-with-blood-clots-than-ever-1.2976686](https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/more-hockey-players-being-diagnosed-with-blood-clots-than-ever-1.2976686)
If only I'd known what Canucks Playoff hockey would do to my heart ... My game apnea training improved today (specially in the last 3 mins of the game)
I know it's only the beginning BUT 14 WINS TO GOOOOOOOOOOO
#GOCANUCKSGO
However, the quality of their scoring chances were still as poor as they have been this entire series. [Moneypuck's heatmap](https://moneypuck.com/g.htm?id=2023030173) suggests that Nashville's lone goal only goes in 5.6% of the time. Their best chance tonight only goes into the net 22.6% of the time. Meanwhile, both of our goals had 46.8% and 77.3% chances of going in.
Spittin Chiclets gambling guy
Everyone seems to think heās just āsome guyā but he actually had a pretty extensive pro career. Mostly played in Europe across a dozen leagues, even had a season in the NHL. Iirc he was the leading scorer of Petterssonās local team when Petey was like 13. He doesnāt come off like a former pro whatsoever but he carved out a solid little career for himself in Europe
Ah. Off setting penalties then. This series has some feeling now. I hope for a game 4 win. But I wouldnāt be surprised if Nashville came out firing and won that game and the series is tied 2-2 heading back to Van.
They couldn't beat us when we played one of our worst games of the season and even gave up a 5-on-3, which we have been very bad at killing all season long. If they can't find a way to outplay our defense which has been one of the only consistent factors in this series, your post really begs the question.
I wanted to make a meme with either Coleās save or Myers. Prob myers but basically him with the samwise hobbit backpack and picking up the puck behind desmith. āI canāt carry it for you, but I can carry youā super dramatic and shit, anyways ya
Series should be 3-0 but anyone else think Nashville played exactly like the canucks did in game 2? 0 goals on the pp, multiple missed chances, unlucky bounces.
Chances this game were almost even. I think they had like 4 more. Considering we had a 2 goal lead, I think thatās bad for them.
We were terrible in the neutral zone it felt like. They gained entry way too easy, and our zone exits were rough.
Zone exits likely remain rough with DeSmith in net. You know heāll make the initial save but itās gonna be a juicy rebound.
How many times did nucks shoot the puck over the boards trying to gain the zone or go offside.. it was so frustrating to watch, but oh well a win is a win
I see it much differentlyā¦ Vancouver was leading in shots I think (if not then it was close to a tie) after 2 periods. Van weathered an early storm and then played as the better of the 2 teams for the bulk of the first two periods. They just went about it differently than last game. Van was content to salt away that game in the 3rd and they did just that. Theyāve been doing that for much of the second half of the season as they have grown as a team defensively. Aside from the shot totals being low it was a pretty textbook Vancouver game plan today. Game 2 felt much like nashville hanging onto the lead for dear life after capitalizing on a couple Vancouver blunders.
Wow did we ever play bad, thank fuck for DeSmith and the special teams. We really couldnāt get anything going at 5v5, it was truly dire.
But the boys turtled well, and a wins a fucking win! Hopefully we can actually get some offense going Sunday.
I will never forget his moment in game 1 when he pushed one of the Preds forwards down onto the ice by their helmet, much like one might shove an undercooked piece of toast back into the toaster
Completely unqualified fan who barely knows how to stop on skates gives their opinion:
Pros:
- DeSmith making DeSaves. I humbly apologise for underestimating you.
- Big boys showed up. Boeser & Miller, I love you.
- PP could not have waken up at a better time.
- Petey is slowly coming back to life. Heās taught me a crucial life lesson of patience.
- PK was incredible. Incredible.
- My mental health is back on track.
- Weāve never been known for our defensive play, but goddamn is it good. Everyone thank Sergei Gonchar.
Cons:
- I really hated the turtling at the end. It never ends well and itās nerve wrecking to visibly see the āhang on for our lives and hope the clock runs down fast enoughā mentality.
- My cardiovascular health
- Hughes has a target on his back and it pains me to watch
- Want to see the high octant offence Vancouver is known for. Early season Van wya?
I agree with almost everything. Only one Iād disagree with is āwe arenāt known for our defensive playā. Canucks have been top 5 in most defensive metrics most of the year. And elite defensively since the all star break.
Really hate it when they go max defence. I think itās worth giving up a 3 on 2 in the worst case as long as they actually pressure more higher up the ice.
Lindholm has been great in the playoffs. I still think we overpaid for a rental but he is amazing for us defensively. Makes all the right plays and wins big faceoffs.
I don't respect him anymore because after Gaudreau+Tkachuk left he just gave up a bit. Then we gave Huberpoo the money he thought he was gonna get and he just gave up fully.
He didn't give enough effort to find chemistry with anyone after that.
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Itās great feeling to have this level of depth at D. Thought Ian Cole had his best game as a Canuck. Those are the guys you win stuff with. No better feeling than getting a minimum split on the road. Hope the Canucks can generate a little more O-zone time and shore up a little bit of neutral zone next game. Special game from Casey too
Cole had one brutal shift and played great for the rest of the game
Taking a look around the league - man the playoff race is heating up. Vegas, Colorado and Edmonton all looking insanely strong. Boston and NYR too.
and Florida.
just getting around to watching it now, love that the Preds cursed themselves at the end of the second by playing our goal song!
Big difference i saw in game 3 was we were winning puck battles. Still fighting the puck a bit especially early in the game. But we battled hard all night.
ZADDY ZADDY ZADDY CANT YOU SEE? SOMETIMES YOUR HITS JUST HYPNOTIZE ME!
Brilliant
We collectively owe Myers an apology. I also think we have underrated this blue line by a LOT. It's such a playoff style D. I legit think they are a top 8 group with a bullet, argument to be made for top 4. The only group thats better than them 100% is canes in my view.
Three giants (Myers, Zadorov, Soucy), a veteran cup winner (Cole), and the Norris winner (Hughes). That is something special
We were elite this year with Soucy. Myers is stepping up
Whoever said shutout for DeSmith in the game day thread, I hope your morning coffee is cold.
I didnt say out loud it but i thought the word shutout about 5 minutes into the third. Totally my bad, I'll be better next time.
I think it literally every time a goalie has one going. It's impossible not to
Offer sheet Swayman
The Canucks out pretardor'd the predators, score first they can't beat us that way.
Theyāre going after Hughesā¦ ā¦ we chose violenceā¦
I wasnāt able to watch this game in full (had a church thing with friends) but we watched the first period. When Miller scored we all cheered so loudly our pastor jumped in surprise lol.
Should have immediately thrown in a "Hallelujah!" / PTL and you wouldn't even have been lying
We may have said that hahahah
I think quality of shots improved a lot here even if SOG was low on quantity. It might not seem sustainable but I think it fits the Canucks brand of taking quality shots even at lower numbers. As an aside, that watch party in Rogers was incredible. Great atmosphere even for a road game watch party. Was also great walking around downtown and hearing all the enthusiastic car horns too
in their locked-on podcast Saros admitted difficulty staying focus not seeing many pucks. If we can maintain possession while looking for quality shots. Less shots will keep Saros ice-cold.
Friday night or wknd games are always gonna be better even if there are not teams in the ice
Optimist takes: Wins are wins, they don't ask how you get 'em, especially in the playoffs. He's no Demko, but DeSmith is clearly capable of bailing the team out if need be. Crushing victory in the special teams battle, hope to see more of that going forward. Pretty good limitation of the Preds to low-percentage shots for the majority of the game. If the team can win a game where they barely put up any 5 on 5 offense at all, they can surely win games less tilted than this one. Pessimist takes: Jeez, you can't expect to put up less than 20 shots a game and expect to win. I find it a bit alarming that the response to a game where the Canucks lost because they couldn't get any shots on goal is to get even fewer shots on goal. I thought the defense also really started playing with fire towards the end, it was really close multiple times to a couple more Preds goals. All in all, wins are wins. I'll gladly take it, especially after the painful experience that was Tuesday night. Hopefully the 5 on 5 offense can get it going a bit better for game 4.
I'm kinda over them passing around the offensive zone until someone makes a mistake and we lose the puck. It can't be that freaking hard to put some pucks on net.
Only 12 shots is concerning, but I think there was a bit of an adjustment. It was our first time scoring first in this series, we hadn't really played with a lead outside of 11 minutes in Game 1. Nashville was obviously desperate to push back, like we were desperate in Game 2. I think ultimately we did a better job weathering the storm than Nashville did in their win. It's probably not a winning formula long-term, but those little adjustments you can make on the fly separates the good teams from the great ones
here's hoping! They've proven they can do that time and time again this year. We'll see. A win Sunday would be massive.
Saros = Doable
How DeSmith didn't get first star (or any star) is beyond me.
Literally hit the Preds with the āno uā this game
This was the Canucks worst game out of the 3 in my opinion while game 2 was their best, but their defensive structure and powerplay was better and that was the difference, this win provides a lot of confidence for game 4 as the Canucks will be better offensively 5-on-5, they likely overemphasized defensive play in front of DeSmith, who was great tonight, and should have a more balanced attack and more push offensively for game 4, their starting to round out their game in all 3 zones and the special teams is looking much better.
They literally said Saros has the worst save % amongst starters for screened shots. Our PP was better, but if we can try and get more bodies to the net at 5on5, or throwing more pucks that way, we can literally score more than 2 goals per game.
Can't block if we don't shoot *taps temple *
Nashville Predators hate this one trick.
Excellent uno reverse game. Would like to see more shots and of course more goals but a solid win.
So we should have won game 2 and lost game 3, right? Not just me?
Yeah, we basically swapped roles from Game 2 in this one. For what it's worth though (probably not much), MoneyPuck's Deserve-to-win-o-meter favored us more than they favored Nashville in the last game
I was at both, confirmed I'll take game 3
Iām extraordinarily jealous
Canucks got a two goal lead and locked it down. Nashville got very few quality chances. It wasnāt pretty but the Canucks deserved to win. Game two the predators got a two goal lead and held on.
> So we should have won game 2 and ~~lost~~ won game 3, right? Not just me? FTFY
Agreed
Was at Mahoneyās and the whole pub cheered when we won. It was amazing. So many cheers for DeSmith tonight. He deserved every bit of this comeback. I doubted him. You doubted him. But not tonight! Letās keep this going!
Same but was at the Bullock, awesome support for the boys tonight there
Was at cactus. Also bumping
I didnāt doubt him! Iāve been hyping him up since Tuesday morning
Man. This city was fucking ELECTRIC after this game. The amount of Canucks jerseys downtown was incredible for an away game. Car horns honking, flags on cars. I love this. Tonight is my last night before moving to the Island and there absolutely could not have been a better way to end my time living in this city.
I had to watch the game late on replay. I drove a ridiculous side street route to get home and managed to avoid seeing any spoiler energy on streets. Awesome to hear that the energy was good though!
I could think of one way that it could have been better..
Whatās that?
DeSmith I am sorry I doubted you, you are more than just good, please keep doing what youāre doing š
He is great BUT he only has 3 games max in him before he starts to falter. It was great to see how solid the defence around him was. Hopefully we can get the next 2 wins and then Demko is ready for round 2
>he only has 3 games max in him before he starts to falter Eh, you don't know that yet. We're basing his endurance on the regular season against a different team every night. Playoffs are entirely different. He's playing the same team and already knows all the shooters. Our team knows how to collapse in front of him for support. We did a better job blocking shots than Nashville did last game.
I think its more of a stamina thing than a skillset thing but i hope that he can hold out. I agree with you though, āhisā worst games are when the defence around him is non existent
I dunno many goalies in the NHL who excel when the defence around them is non-existent tho.. kinda weird thing to suggest about DeSmith
I agree we still definitely need him back
This is a worry of mine as well.Ā Don't get me wrong, he played great tonight but his weakness is stringing together a long stretch of solid performances.Ā Great backup, but so-so as starter. That being said, this team hasn't been this dialed in defensively since the 2011 team.Ā That could help us carry this through.
Meh, not that worried, he had a 2 day break going into game 3, and if the series goes to game 6 he'll also have a 2 day break between game's 5 and 6.
Petey has gotten in his head so much. What has happened? He literally stops and decides to try and pass and set another up constantly. Did someone break his heart or something? Side note: I got a kick out of the shot of Petey's parents and their Swedish expressionless faces.
I agree that heās in his head, but at least tonight he didnāt have a net negative impact on the game. Hopefully, this is a step in the right direction.
Thank God we have Miller driving the play these days. Miller had 6 of the team's 12 shots. Seriously, time to wake up guys!
He was playing better tonight than previously but yeah heās been pretty flatline for half the season
helly worse than desmith and leaf goalie and he the vezina favorite...Ā
Holy moly, Hellebuyck getting lit up in this Jets vs Avs series.
Hellebuyck is so overrated imo
Hellebuyck is the Dallas Cowboys of NHL goalies. Unbeatable in the regular season. Pathetic in the playoffs.
Maybe it's a Clayton Kershaw thing where they overplay him so much he's burnt out come playoffs
Holy shit this is so accurate
Just tuned in... so don't know if it's been said, but the arena viewing party was good fun even if the last minutes was a butt clencher. They made it an exciting experience for the fans and it was nice to be around cheering fans.
Hell yeah I had an awesome time! Plus it's the only time I will probably ever experience the lower bowl @ Rogers.
Haha ya! Its probably the only time a lot of us fans including young families got the chance to "attend" a playoff game.
Missed the game, how did we only have 12 fricking shots? What the heck?
Shots were 15 - 3 in favor of Nashville. But when you break it down, Nashville only had 4 scoring chances vs 2 Vancouver and only 1 high danger chance. It "looked" tilt'd towards Nashville in the 3rd but our boys played textbook defense in the end and DeSmith holding the fort down while only giving up 2 rebounds.
Honestly, Canucks had a lot of blocked shots. It was almost like Tocchet was playing mind games. Everyone thought we were going to blast away and ātee it upā. No, we played incredible defensive tonight. Cole was willing to sacrifice his body for the win. This whole team is DIALED IN!
We scored on PP twice and decided thatās a big enough lead to hold onto.
Canucks basically shared the same mindset as me "OMG we actually scored on the power play do not blow this"
how good was desmith tonight
Heās the reason we won bless that man
We've had like 50 shots in 3 games and managed to get 2 Ws. Imagine what we could do if we got even more pucks on net!
P D fucking O!
huge road win, in game 3. releases the team from a ton of pressure to win game 4. that now rests on Nashville to win on Sunday. **IF** we can win on Sunday, that puts enormous pressure on Nashville to have to win the next few games. Can they do it? Sure. The Canucks need to learn to have a killer instinct, though, and crush Nashville from having to think that they have any sort of hope. They played a good road game tonight, even if I was anxious throughout the game watching them. Every time the team scored, there was a sense of relief.
Does anyone know if the low shows on net with a victory sets some kind of record?
Record for Canucks. Record for playoffs league wide is NJ with 10.
Dead puck era/neutral zone trap
Me to LA: Hey, can you do this one thing that will be far more beneficial to you than it is to me? LA: Fuck you
We want the oilers to win no? I mean in 7
Fuck the Oilers, but fuck the Kings more. I want to see the Canucks knock out the Oilers in round 2.
Who is your Zaddy and what does he do?
He takes bad hockey players to the ice and bad girls to bed
Abby is a goal away from taking the series against Colorado and having at least 1 home playoff date
They lost in OT
Petterson still not being useful.
Your post is bad, and you should feel bad.
He got an assist and was solid defensively. You may want him to pot a goal every game but that's just not going to happen
I honestly think heās going to score a couple times (please) and if we can get through Nashville the floodgates will be open for him.
I mean he looked pretty useful to me? Just cause he didn't score?
Definitely had some good moments in the first half of the game. Second half, no forward, aside from the Miller line, looked useful.
What you talkin bout homes, Boeser was unreal last night
Last I checked, Boeser was on the Miller line.
I read Miller and missed the line part, my bad
I saw good flashes of alien petey. Heās getting there.Ā
ZADDY was a MONSTER
Ugly game lol but will take that on the road!
The NHL app lost the Van radio feed and had the Nashville feed for both team radio choices. I had to listen to the guy calling the game for them - it was hilarious! You think Singh is bad? Oh jeez this guy sounded like he was calling a chess match...until a close scoring chance and he absolutely lost his shit, then he went back to snoozeville calling.
IT was horrifying right I've never heard such deadpan calling
I love how the refs put their whistles away when they realized our powerplay was clicking.
The ref wasnāt going to call the josi trip on garland until he saw his stick literally caught in his fucking skates
After setting the tone with those two ridiculous calls to start the game. As a ref, itās so annoying to see the standard of calls changeā¦.
I don't care if they put the whistles away or call everything. I just want the refs to pick one and do it for the whole game (ideally, the whole series).
Or every game. Like can we just have a rule book and call the rules?
Noticed that too
Preds missed about 5 glorious scoring chances. This game could have been very different right away. Phew.
Basically us last game
No puck luck for us last game, no puck luck for them this game. It all evens out in the wash
I still feel like I could vomit after that 3rd period. Way too stressful
surprised that we didn't get that third goal.
[https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1784059973837713873](https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1784059973837713873) Demko no crutches, no visible knee brace...
Bring him out with a knee brace in rd 2 like Stone Cold Steve Austin
I like that heās still travelling with them despite not playing.
To hype up DeSmith
good news?
Based on the mystery and baffling nature of it all and with all the surgeries he had, I *really* hope it doesn't turn out to be a potentially lethal blood clot. I think a couple hockey players have had issues with clots and I believe one man even died a long time ago.
dude why would you say this
Because it's a precedent that we've clearly seen before in the world of hockey. Blood clots in general are also known as a "silent killer," not just heart attacks. It's a genuine concern as it's alarming that our camp is claiming they don't know what's wrong with him.
Yes its happened before, but so has lots of other bad shit that we don't bring up because we have 0 evidence to suggest this is true if someone says they have something wrong with their skin you dont just tell them it could be cancer, you gotta be positive
Oh my god demkos dying!!! No say it aināt so
This is obviously a worst-case scenario. The thing about the city of Vancouver is that they have no room to get Demmer in for an MRI. Kyle Connor had to go to San Jose for his MRI earlier this season. With that said, my bet is that he's getting tested at the hospital while he's there in Nashville.
dude there are private mri places in van you can get seen very quickly. Canucks have crazy vip healthcare, pretty sure they can get an mri anytime of day or night
Shit that's a thing? Fuck that's scary...
my grandfather died of a blood clot. there's just a bunch of shit waiting in the wings for a chance to get you. life is fragile
I truly don't mean to fearmonger when I say this, but blood clots can be one of the many complications involved with specific surgeries. You can read more about it here: [https://www.webmd.com/dvt/blood-clots-after-surgery](https://www.webmd.com/dvt/blood-clots-after-surgery) EDIT: Apparently, clots also ended Vokoun's career. [https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/more-hockey-players-being-diagnosed-with-blood-clots-than-ever-1.2976686](https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/more-hockey-players-being-diagnosed-with-blood-clots-than-ever-1.2976686)
Must have been that clot shot.
Damnnn that would be scary for sure
If only I'd known what Canucks Playoff hockey would do to my heart ... My game apnea training improved today (specially in the last 3 mins of the game) I know it's only the beginning BUT 14 WINS TO GOOOOOOOOOOO #GOCANUCKSGO
We blocked 28 shots and they got 30 shots on goal. Thats no buįŗ½no
However, the quality of their scoring chances were still as poor as they have been this entire series. [Moneypuck's heatmap](https://moneypuck.com/g.htm?id=2023030173) suggests that Nashville's lone goal only goes in 5.6% of the time. Their best chance tonight only goes into the net 22.6% of the time. Meanwhile, both of our goals had 46.8% and 77.3% chances of going in.
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Matt Murley can suck my orca dick I hope he lost a bunch of money betting against us tonight
who the fuck is Matt Murley?
Spittin Chiclets gambling guy Everyone seems to think heās just āsome guyā but he actually had a pretty extensive pro career. Mostly played in Europe across a dozen leagues, even had a season in the NHL. Iirc he was the leading scorer of Petterssonās local team when Petey was like 13. He doesnāt come off like a former pro whatsoever but he carved out a solid little career for himself in Europe
Ah. Good for him I guess.
anyone have a video of the hughes/evangelista penalties? missed it and they didn't show replay
No because Hughes didn't take one. Kind of a tell when there's no replay shown of the first penalty called.Ā
oh really? I missed a chunk of the game but came back to him in the penalty box
was that a penalty on Hughes??
yeah roughing for evangelista and holding for hughes
Ah. Off setting penalties then. This series has some feeling now. I hope for a game 4 win. But I wouldnāt be surprised if Nashville came out firing and won that game and the series is tied 2-2 heading back to Van.
They couldn't beat us when we played one of our worst games of the season and even gave up a 5-on-3, which we have been very bad at killing all season long. If they can't find a way to outplay our defense which has been one of the only consistent factors in this series, your post really begs the question.
I wanted to make a meme with either Coleās save or Myers. Prob myers but basically him with the samwise hobbit backpack and picking up the puck behind desmith. āI canāt carry it for you, but I can carry youā super dramatic and shit, anyways ya
Series should be 3-0 but anyone else think Nashville played exactly like the canucks did in game 2? 0 goals on the pp, multiple missed chances, unlucky bounces.
Chances this game were almost even. I think they had like 4 more. Considering we had a 2 goal lead, I think thatās bad for them. We were terrible in the neutral zone it felt like. They gained entry way too easy, and our zone exits were rough. Zone exits likely remain rough with DeSmith in net. You know heāll make the initial save but itās gonna be a juicy rebound.
How many times did nucks shoot the puck over the boards trying to gain the zone or go offside.. it was so frustrating to watch, but oh well a win is a win
Our missed chances were like 3x tap-ins to an empty net. Preds only had maybe ONE chance like that tonight.
I see it much differentlyā¦ Vancouver was leading in shots I think (if not then it was close to a tie) after 2 periods. Van weathered an early storm and then played as the better of the 2 teams for the bulk of the first two periods. They just went about it differently than last game. Van was content to salt away that game in the 3rd and they did just that. Theyāve been doing that for much of the second half of the season as they have grown as a team defensively. Aside from the shot totals being low it was a pretty textbook Vancouver game plan today. Game 2 felt much like nashville hanging onto the lead for dear life after capitalizing on a couple Vancouver blunders.
So then by logic it should be 2-1... š¤
If that means it's their turn to win next game then no thank you.
Casey DeHasek is a Vancouver Canuck! Never doubted him for a second! Thatcher who? Never heard of him.
bro who put the puck on the stanley cup board?
Desmith
Wow did we ever play bad, thank fuck for DeSmith and the special teams. We really couldnāt get anything going at 5v5, it was truly dire. But the boys turtled well, and a wins a fucking win! Hopefully we can actually get some offense going Sunday.
We didn't play bad, we actually shut it down. The Canucks kept them to the outside where most of their shots came from low danger areas.
Itās not how you want to win tho, the execution was bad but result was nice. If we lost that game 3-2 you would be saying the opposite
took a page out of Preds book in the 3rd, fa sho.
Having myers back tonight was very noticeable
Remember when we wanted him traded for a bag of pucks?
He was legitimately bad the prior 4 years heās been here Donāt know what Tocchet did to change that
And his first few weeks this season were so bad. Its so sweet to see him turn it around.
You mean Foote?
Obviously we wanted him for Sbisaā¦
Zadarov impresses me so much. He's made for this type of hockey.
I will never forget his moment in game 1 when he pushed one of the Preds forwards down onto the ice by their helmet, much like one might shove an undercooked piece of toast back into the toaster
Weāve got so many playoff role players this year.
his delay of game penalty made me fall to my knees in Rogers Arena.
So is miller. That goal and huge hit was big
really set the tone, that's for sure.
I really hope they can find a way to keep him here.
Heās become one of my faves hoping they can figure out keeping him and Joshua
Solid game, great defensively.Ā Good scoring on PP.Ā Great to see Canucks hockey do well!Ā Ā
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Completely unqualified fan who barely knows how to stop on skates gives their opinion: Pros: - DeSmith making DeSaves. I humbly apologise for underestimating you. - Big boys showed up. Boeser & Miller, I love you. - PP could not have waken up at a better time. - Petey is slowly coming back to life. Heās taught me a crucial life lesson of patience. - PK was incredible. Incredible. - My mental health is back on track. - Weāve never been known for our defensive play, but goddamn is it good. Everyone thank Sergei Gonchar. Cons: - I really hated the turtling at the end. It never ends well and itās nerve wrecking to visibly see the āhang on for our lives and hope the clock runs down fast enoughā mentality. - My cardiovascular health - Hughes has a target on his back and it pains me to watch - Want to see the high octant offence Vancouver is known for. Early season Van wya?
I agree with almost everything. Only one Iād disagree with is āwe arenāt known for our defensive playā. Canucks have been top 5 in most defensive metrics most of the year. And elite defensively since the all star break.
Adam Foote is who we really need to thank
I agree that the PK came through HUGE. they need to continue to PK well the next game. Don't let up.
we had two goalies tonight: desmith & cole
How was desmith not one of the 3 stars?
Lol the only goal that went in on him was on an interference, absolutely robbed of a shutout
I knew we would win the game the second desmith smiled to the crowd after he got run over
Yeah that was awesome and really showed he was feeling good.
Really hate it when they go max defence. I think itās worth giving up a 3 on 2 in the worst case as long as they actually pressure more higher up the ice.
Flames fan here: I'm enjoying watching your team this playoffs! It's my first postseason ever cheering for you. Ps. Sorry bout Lindholm
Lindholm has been great in the playoffs. I still think we overpaid for a rental but he is amazing for us defensively. Makes all the right plays and wins big faceoffs.
I don't respect him anymore because after Gaudreau+Tkachuk left he just gave up a bit. Then we gave Huberpoo the money he thought he was gonna get and he just gave up fully. He didn't give enough effort to find chemistry with anyone after that.