
Anyways about the game, Volpatti seems to fair quite well in fights for a guy who's not that big. I'm starting to like his game and can see why we kept him over Victor O.
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RoyalDude wrote:OK, so I have had a decent look at Booth, no way in hell this guy has the skill set that Mason Raymond has, not too mention, that the guy simply does not know how to read the cycle. It seems like he just doesn't know where to go in the offensive zone.
He 's playing like shit, but faceoff ability and the fact he's a center still make him more valuable to the team than Ebbett right now. The coaching staff seems to believe he needs to get his conditioning back and can play his way out of this. The jury is out on whether that's the case.Again, why is Malhotra not scratched?
They play us hard because we're the perennial top dog in the division, but we beat them more often than not. We've been porous on the back end and have made some over-ambitious pinches when we were down, but there's no need to wet the bed over this performance. We could have easily scored three goals in the second period. It's disappointing, but the way you and SC are moaning about it you'd think we were hemmed in our zone all period.As per usual, the Wild just love beating us and we just seem to have no push back against these guys the majority of the time.
Yep. The Canucks didn't show up tonight. No backside pressure from the forwards coming back, D making all kind of dumb pinches and no support from the forwards when doing so. Bieksa... ouch. Sedins were un-inspiring. Kesler, invisible. Burrows and Lapierre were the only guys that played well, imo. The Canucks were just out-hustled all over the ice. When the Wild are out-shooting you 2-1 you're playing like garbage.Rumsfeld wrote: They play us hard because we're the perennial top dog in the division, but we beat them more often than not. We've been porous on the back end and have made some over-ambitious pinches, but there's no need to wet the bed over this performance. We could have easily scored three goals in the second period. It's disappointing, but the way you and SC are moaning about it you'd think we were hemmed in our zone all period.
Shi'ite Muslim, Rummy, you are the voice of reason.Rumsfeld wrote:RoyalDude wrote:but there's no need to wet the bed over this performance.
Yeah, cuz Raymond was a stud last season.RoyalDude wrote:Hey Rummy, what you think of that pass by Booth to send the Minny player on a breakaway and then how Booth ices the puck when he didn't have to right after. The guy is dumb. He ain't no Raymond. He's got Sopel-itis.
Maybe the Flames just softened them up for the WildIsland Nucklehead wrote:Rumsfeld wrote: It's pretty obvious this team hasn't got their minds fully into the season yet. They play a couple good games (and even half the Flames game they weren't very good, the Flames were just that bad), and then lay out a stinker. They'll figure it out, but it's painful to watch such putrid effort.
You know what's really weird, I don't even remember trading Raymond for Booth. I should probably lay off the weed...Island Nucklehead wrote:Yeah, cuz Raymond was a stud last season.RoyalDude wrote:Hey Rummy, what you think of that pass by Booth to send the Minny player on a breakaway and then how Booth ices the puck when he didn't have to right after. The guy is dumb. He ain't no Raymond. He's got Sopel-itis.And people said Booth's shooting percentage was bad....
There must be some way you can blame Ballard for that goal.Southern_Canuck wrote:Wow, Bieksa with a straight giveaway to Cullen who skates in and scores Minnesota's 4th.
You won't see a worse play by our defence than that all year, I bet.
I think the Canucks caught a case of the fail from the Flames the other night.
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Teams have the book on the current incarnation of the Canucks. If they're PP isn't firing it's a green light to take runs. I liked the low-bridge by Ballard. Take a run at me, will ya? Lapierre has really impressed me. He's not only fighting his own battles this season, but fighting other peoples' as well.griz wrote: What's with the thuggery at the end by the Wild? Times like that I wish we had Gino Odjick.
This is classic Bieksa. He's very casual out there and when you're getting this kind of Bieksa it's painful to watch. The "other" Bieksa, the pissed off version, is absolutely essential to this teams' success, imo. We lack that physical "meanness" back there. Will we get that this season? I think we will eventually. He was our best d-man in the playoffs, and him and Kesler (until injured) were the only ones to actually raise their level of play.Meds wrote: Bieksa needs to snap out of it, learn how to shoot and how to pass, or go get a fresh start somewhere else.
Agreed. They haven't impressed me. The Wild PK totally figured them out. Let them sit on the outside. Don't chase them into the corners to let their cycle go to work. They tried the cute slap-pass/tip about 84 times and it never clicked. The Wild gave them that and they never tried anything else. They need to simplify things, pass to open a lane, get it towards the net. This cute garbage didn't work in the playoffs, they need to start figuring the KISS principle.The Sedins need to put it together and quit with all the cute bullshit. Everyone is waiting for it. Tonight Minnesota was just waiting for Henrik to make a pass, and they were right there to take it. That was true of every little "cycle play" that this team made. The Wild were just right there to turn it around on them.
I think we saw the line-juggling start in the third period. It's like the fellas are too comfortable out there. As if the game is going to come to them. That confidence was fine last year, when they earned it. Someone needs to tell them that they didn't win jack shit last year, and it was LAST YEAR. They haven't earned anything this season and until their effort matches their skill level, they probably won't.Vigneault needs to figure this team out. If he already has, then he needs to figure out how to coach a different system and start getting more (or is it less?) creative.
Sturm was pretty close, but obviously Manny didn't have a good off-season and it's showing. I think Kesler is in the same boat. Neither one of them has looked up to standard.Malhotra is junk. I have never seen a $2.5M player as useless as he has been.
The Sedins really like this one, and it does work and look nice some of the time. They do it far too often and I'm amazed their still getting away with it at all. Not sure why the second or third line feels the need to try it. We need to diversify the attack. The second line has wheels to spare and should be driving wide and to the cage every chance they can.Our zone entry needs to change. It can't just cross the line and then pull up and look for a pass. It can't be enter the zone with a defender shadowing you and then make a 4 foot pass to the winger for a give-and-go when said winger is going to receive the pass about 1/2 a second before the passer's shadow arrives to check him. It's a useless play and it's not working.