Canucks News N Notes 23-24 Playoff Edition

[Strangelove]

I want the Oilers to lose to the Stars for many reasons.

"To see Mark Spector cry"... is working its way up the list.

[Meds]

Spec ain’t wrong…..and I can’t stand Spector.

Miller
Boeser
Garland
Joshua
Hughes
Myers
Lindholm
Zadorov

Those are the guys who were effective in the playoffs. Note that only 2 of them are European.

Pettersson
Suter
Blueger
Aman
Hoglander
Mikheyev
DiGiuseppe
Lafferty
Cole

Those are the guys who consistently didn’t do much and were on our various shit lists at one point or another. Note that only 3 of them are North American.

Also, The reply below Spector’s tweet is kinda funny. I wonder if he realizes that his list of Euro examples didn’t all play together on the same team…..

[5thhorseman]

To be fair, the effective players you listed are top 6 F and top 4 D. So you would expect that.

Miller
Boeser
Garland
Joshua
Hughes
Myers
Lindholm
Zadorov

And the ineffective players are mostly bottom 6 and bottom D pairing. So you wouldn't expect them to be potting a lot of goals (only PDG and Suter did, from memory).

Pettersson
Suter
Blueger
Aman
Hoglander
Mikheyev
DiGiuseppe
Lafferty
Cole

[Picker of Cherries]

I won’t write off Pettersson yet. I remember people saying Yserman and Sakic would never lead their teams to cups when they were young…until they did. Something has been wrong with Petey since the all-star game. Don’t know if it was physical or mental. He did not do well in these playoffs. He started playing a bit better near the end. Hope he’s learned and he puts his issues behind him the next time he is in the playoffs.

[Chef Boi RD]

I won’t write off Pettersson yet. I remember people saying Yserman and Sakic would never lead their teams to cups when they were young…until they did. Something has been wrong with Petey since the all-star game. Don’t know if it was physical or mental. He did not do well in these playoffs. He started playing a bit better near the end. Hope he’s learned and he puts his issues behind him the next time he is in the playoffs.

IMO, it’s a combination of maturity, the lack thereof and as the season wears on so does his strength and conditioning. Year after year Petey shows up to camp in very good condition but with his body type he may suffer some wear over the long haul of the season. Needs to figure that out. If it’s not an injury he had its concerning, hopefully he figures it out.

[Meds]

To be fair, the effective players you listed are top 6 F and top 4 D. So you would expect that.

Miller
Boeser
Garland
Joshua
Hughes
Myers
Lindholm
Zadorov

And the ineffective players are mostly bottom 6 and bottom D pairing. So you wouldn't expect them to be potting a lot of goals (only PDG and Suter did, from memory).

Pettersson
Suter
Blueger
Aman
Hoglander
Mikheyev
DiGiuseppe
Lafferty
Cole

Right. So the ineffective guys are your depth players. Spector said your depth can’t be Euros.

[dbr]

Like Barbashev, or Burakovsky, Jan Rutta, Ondrej Palat, Carl Gunnarsson, Oskar Sundqvist, Christian Djoos Jakub Vrana Carl Hagelin Patric Hornqvist Kimmo Timonen Teuvo Teravainen Viktor Stalberg Michael Frolik Michal Handzus Tomas Kaberle Tomas Kopecky Miro Satan Petr Sykora Ruslan Fedotenko Mikael Samuelsson Andreas Lilja Jiri Hudler.. how does anyone win a cup with depth guys like that.

Why the fuck is anyone taking Dollarama Don Cherry seriously?

[Lancer]

Spector is just trolling. Playing to his own mongoloid audience. Like others have said, he just invites more fans to cheer against the Oilers - who are already whining enough to get on reasonable people’s nerves.

Keeping making your team easier to hate, Spec. Just don’t cry when no one rallies to your team.

His take is hilarious. By his logic Patty Marleau should have won a couple cups already.

Fucking clown, like all the other Coiler homers and half the TO media gang.

[dbr]

And, there it is.

Thomas Drance
@ThomasDrance
Elias Pettersson says he's been playing with a bad knee since January.

"The longer it went, the more pain I felt," Pettersson said.

Doesn't require any procedure this offseason, just time to rest. #Canucks

107 point pace (per 82 gp) over his first 55 games, 47 point pace (per 82) over his last 40 including playoffs.

[Cornuck]

Elias Pettersson says he's been playing with a bad knee since January.

So in January, it was pretty much confirmed we would be in the playoffs, and they didn't rest him.....

[dbr]

Yeah who knows. I guess if it got worse as he went they probably didn't realize he could use the rest until Demko and Lindholm were already injured.

on Boeser:

Jeff Paterson
@patersonjeff
Boeser says a shot block in Game 1 vs EDM led to a bruise that caused some complications and led to clotting issue

Jeff Paterson
@patersonjeff
Boeser says he asked if he could play in Game 7, but understood the risks were too big

Dan Murphy
@sportsnetmurph
Brock Boeser only mentioned the blood clot issue that kept him out of R2 game 7 in his post season avail but he was also playing with a broken finger sustained from practice prior to R1 game 3. #canucks

[Raile]

Elias Pettersson says he's been playing with a bad knee since January.

So in January, it was pretty much confirmed we would be in the playoffs, and they didn't rest him.....

This is both great and frustrating to hear.

I stick by my thoughts from the other week that it was both a physical injury and between his ears though. Likely frustrating for him that try as he might it was only getting harder for him to regain his form if the injury was getting worse, leading to increasing frustration.

[Cousin Strawberry]

I smell what might be bullshit on the knee. (Maybe it was sore or something but no excuse worthy of that performance)...The raisin would've gone full Golden knight and ltir'd that shit and added at the deadline if there was an actual injury hampering his play

It sure sounds like EP had a bruised coconut and nothing more

[theman]

So, if Petey had a knee injury SINCE JANUARY, why did bother taking part in the All Star game? Canucks should have used that injury as an excuse to give him a good amount of time off.

[Raile]

right because injuries have never been mis-managed