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W-GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:22 am
by rats19
Must win

4-3 nucks

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:49 am
by Cornuck
Ratpower arrives just in time for our last, desperate shot.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:27 am
by donlever
As it is the Isles and all....

....two years ago had someone suggested the Canucks would be playing a key, late season game with none of Miller, EP or Horvat in their lineup....

....how many would have believed it.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:22 am
by Megaterio Llamas
It sounds like Demko will be back on the net tonight.

https://x.com/FarhanLaljiTSN/status/1904957458088673771

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:28 am
by 5thhorseman
Makes sense. He looked good last game apart from the first goal.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:47 am
by JelloPuddingPop
Hughes had a comment last game about how the team plays much more structured/focused in front of Demko too (In a Captain, "everyone is great on this team" type of way).

Can't seem to find the exact quote - but telling for sure.

Hopefully he brings out the best again. This is going to be a low-scoring, check em into the dirt type of game.

-1 Van, -4 NYI

Van wins on aggregate.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:27 pm
by Meds
Isles are gonna be coming out pissed off at the way they lost their last game on a badly blown call by officials and Toronto. Roy's response in the post-game: If Toronto is afraid to overturn calls made by officials on the ice while monitoring games, then we don't need Toronto.

The boys will be in tough methinks.

11 games left, 5 points behind STL for the last WC spot but holding 2 games in hand. 1 point behind Calgary who are playing well and have a game in hand on the Canucks.

I think they have to nail down a 8-3 record from here out to get in. That would give them 94 points, pretty slim margin of error. With 4 games against the likes of Dallas, Winnipeg, and Vegas (x2) in the remaining stretch, I don't see them winning more than 7 games. Likely they will surprise us in one of those outings but they will certainly shit the bed at least once against Utah, San Jose, Anaheim, and Seattle.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:52 pm
by JelloPuddingPop
Mëds wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:27 pm Isles are gonna be coming out pissed off at the way they lost their last game on a badly blown call by officials and Toronto. Roy's response in the post-game: If Toronto is afraid to overturn calls made by officials on the ice while monitoring games, then we don't need Toronto.

The boys will be in tough methinks.

11 games left, 5 points behind STL for the last WC spot but holding 2 games in hand. 1 point behind Calgary who are playing well and have a game in hand on the Canucks.

I think they have to nail down a 8-3 record from here out to get in. That would give them 94 points, pretty slim margin of error. With 4 games against the likes of Dallas, Winnipeg, and Vegas (x2) in the remaining stretch, I don't see them winning more than 7 games. Likely they will surprise us in one of those outings but they will certainly shit the bed at least once against Utah, San Jose, Anaheim, and Seattle.
That's a very fair assessment - but one could also look at it with some rose colored glasses:

Think STL takes the 1st WC slot, VAN, MIN & CAL all battle for the 2nd WC spot.

Combined, those teams are 15-11-4. Not world-beating, CAL is certainly playing well - and own 6 of those 15 wins but all three could limp along and lower that bar to 93/92 Pts? A 7-4 (7-3-1) record might be doable. Losses to Dallas(OT), Winnipeg, and Vegas (x2) - win out the rest?

You're telling me there's a chance!

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:12 pm
by donlever
Why so eager (for my interests sake)?

To watch 4 or 5 more games on a general enjoyment basis?

To assess how players react to a more intense environment?

Or because we think once in there's a chance?

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:19 pm
by rats19
For me whilst all the above is in there…. It’s because I’m a fan… good or bad..

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:27 pm
by Chef Boi RD
That was a good trade Lou pulled off getting centre prospect Callum Ritchie for old man Brock Nelson. Also managed to squeeze out a conditional 1st in 2026 and a conditional 3rd in 2028. Ritchie was ranked 19th on Button's Top 50 NHL-affiliated prospects list back in November.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:31 pm
by JelloPuddingPop
rats19 wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:19 pm For me whilst all the above is in there…. It’s because I’m a fan… good or bad..
Perfect answer.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:47 pm
by Megaterio Llamas
There's no media coverage of the team on the road anymore.

45 minutes until puck drop and no one has a lineup anywhere on twitter.

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:50 pm
by 5thhorseman
The Cinderella story begins now!

Re: GDT: Nucks @ isles mar26/25 4:30 pst SN

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:59 pm
by Cornuck
Canucks projected lineup

Jake DeBrusk -- Pius Suter -- Brock Boeser
Jonathan Lekkerimaki -- Teddy Bleuger -- Conor Garland
Drew O'Connor -- Nils Aman -- Kiefer Sherwood
Dakota Joshua -- Aatu Raty -- Linus Karlsson

Quinn Hughes -- Tyler Myers
Marcus Pettersson -- Filip Hronek
Derek Forbort -- Elias Pettersson

Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: Victor Mancini, Arturs Silovs
Injured: Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Elias Pettersson (undisclosed), Nils Hoglander (undisclosed)