GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Not a hat trick but I wonder if they'll take the goal away. It should be credited to Hall.

Oilers have to play 60 minutes to beat a canucks team that is playing just terrible hockey everywhere. THe canucks can win by playing 20 minutes. Pretty much explains the difference between the two teams.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Southern_Canuck wrote: Luongo improving his save percentage with a scintillating 0.884 in this one. Meanwhile Schneider sits on the bench with his 0.935.

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Simple solution: keep opponent to 15 shots or less.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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dhabums wrote:
Southern_Canuck wrote: Luongo improving his save percentage with a scintillating 0.884 in this one. Meanwhile Schneider sits on the bench with his 0.935.

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Simple solution: keep opponent to 15 shots or less.
And have to score 4 goals? Better keep them to 10 shots.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Mondi wrote:
RoyalDude wrote:
mathonwy wrote:Great save Luo... Sturm almost gets burnt by Nugent-Hopkins..

Sturm is god damn useless out there.
Sturm is fucking awful.

Samuelsson is DUH out there.

Hansen is in need of some serious vitamin B shots

Why isn't everyone on the team skating with meaning and desire like Chris Higgins this year so far?

Malhotra is useless.

Bieksa is back in Dumbville again.

And Lou-Flop-O belly is flopping the ice again.

Nice fucking punch Volpatti returned with.
You're being a bed-wetter. You always hammer this team, but give them more than 4.5 games.

Sturm is an older player, coming off surgeries, he's on a new team. GIVE HIM 10 GAMES before passing judgment.

Samuelsson is one only 2 or 3 Canucks who has a nose for the net and will fire the puck, he is a useful cog in the machine.

Malhotra is not useless, the guy wins pretty much every draw he takes. Again he's an older player coming of a SERIOUS injury. Give him 8 to 10 Games before passing judgement.

Not sure where you are going with Bieksa.

I'll give you the Luongo stuff, but not based on tonight. Luongo is certainly overrated and overpaid but tonight's goals are not on Red Light Roberto.

Just take a few breaths, think about last season and note the similarities in the personnel, the coaching staff, the management and even the start. This team will be 100+ points and in the playoffs, fear not.

(And if we miss anyone, its Christian Erhoff.)
Hey Eternal Optimist Bed Shitter, nice job in the face off circle from your Mancrush Malhotra against the kid Nugent Hopkins. HE SUCKS LARGE!
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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dhabums wrote:
Southern_Canuck wrote: Luongo improving his save percentage with a scintillating 0.884 in this one. Meanwhile Schneider sits on the bench with his 0.935.

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Simple solution: keep opponent to 15 shots or less.

Well, according to his salary, 15 shots shouldn't be a problem for this Star-Studded Goaltender. LOU-FLOP-O
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Malhotra is 73% on faceoffs through 2 periods.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Higgins is a monster. Salo with two goals???

Geezes. Ehrhoff who?
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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I never thought I'd ever see something more creepy than how MaGuire fawns over 18 year old kids. And then CAME Mark Lee.



Amazing how quick the Oilers break down when you get precisely two good shifts in a row down low in the Oilers zone.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Afraid I'm going to have to rely on all y'alls analysis of the game... Drinking game tonight is a shot of wild turkey every time Ryan-Nugent-Hopkins' name rolls off the drooling tongue of Mark Lee.

Been BLIND drunk since the ten minute mark of the first period.
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Paging Jannick Hansen. Pretty much useless so far this year. I guess he missed AVs doghouse last year and wants to return to it.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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20 minute canucks > 60 minute Oilers.


A victory for the canucks on Nugent-Hopkins day.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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tantalum wrote:
Amazing how quick the Oilers break down when you get precisely two good shifts in a row down low in the Oilers zone.
Well that's exactly it. The Canucks have (again) been 70% awful in this game. But this is the kind of game the Canucks would win last year. We'd stink the joint out, and still win the game.

Higgins was great. Salo was great. Sedins were themselves (pretty darned good). The rest of the team was meh, but you could see they're getting back into the swing of things. They're realizing that it's not going to be a cakewalk back to the finals, that they might have to block a shot or take a hit to get a win against a weaker team. The fact that's coming 5 games in can only be a good thing going forward.

Execution and timing is still a problem. But it will come with more games and the return of an important (re: Selke) player or two...
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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With all the shot blocking in the third it was almost as if the canucks simply said "enough of this shinny crap, let's show those kids what being in the NHL is all about". It was a good third period until a couple of tense moments at the end.

Those kids are very good players but the Oilers are SOOOOOO far away from being competitive as a team.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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tantalum wrote:20 minute canucks > 60 minute Oilers.


A victory for the canucks on Nugent-Hopkins day.

Ahem, RNH/Gretzky day.
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Re: GDT: Oct 15: Canucks @ Oilers - 7pm - CBC, 1040

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Sloppy game again as the team still hasn't realized that the season has started. Oh well - take the 2 points and move on.

I'm trying to be patient with Sturm, but he's making it very hard.
Does anyone get excited when Hansen gets a breakaway?
The more I watch Luongo, the more I want to watch Schnieder.


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