Quote (Secksii @ Aug 5 2020 12:24am)
Toffoli & gaudette is injured/unfit to play, not scratched.
Gaudette was getting caved worse than beagle/shutters line in game 1,and that's with his line being sheltered by 4th. I'm glad they put eriksson back in, he may not have the scoring touch anymore but he does shit right and just somehow buffs horvat even if stats don't show it rofl.
Beagle and Motte are monsters, they spent like 7min on the pk tonight and the team didn't allow any ppg tonight. Beagle and horvat both destroyed on the dot, they're insane. That's beagles back 2 back 70%+ on the dot.
Ferland and Roussel played minimal minutes, I think it was the right call. I'd love to see rousell reunited with virtanen and gaudette. Just not sure if gaudette can handle it. Virtanen only played like 8min, but he brought energy and broke up a breakaway with his speed back checking. I didn't expect him to score any cuz he played with Sutter.
I didn't expect myers to look good, cuz it's a hit or miss with fatenberg, I think green should just risk it and play stecher with fatenberg again and put edler back with Myers. Although I think he played with edler as the game went on, I think myers need to learn that he plays for the Canucks now and the refs will call all those cross checking thst would normally be OK in playoffs in other jerseys jajaja
idk maybe I read too much forum propaganda, people made it sound like Gaudette and Toffoli were scratched as a coaching decision.
yeah Beagle is fine on the PK which he did a lot of, but there were stretches where his line (with Sutter and Motte) started in the o-zone then got hemmed in in their own end hard. maybe he was gassed from all the shorthanded TOI.
the Myers cross-check call on Fiala was weak but he deserved the other ones. mega lazy on the SHG against - which was half Sutter's fault for turning over the puck then playing Parise soft, but Myers stares at the puck while he's in no-man's land and Kunin sneaks behind him. also lots of instances of him straight up losing battles behind the net, and struggling to keep up with the puck being cycled around him. definitively a pariah all game long.
btw, interesting stats - in the 3-0 loss, Myers-Fantenberg and Motte-Beagle-Sutter started the vast majority of their shifts in the offensive zone. on the other hand, Petterson's line and Hughes-Tanev by far bore the brunt of defensive starts. yet, the top guns still were the ones generating chances while Myers in particular got fucking destroyed, despite the sheltering. reinforces all my prejudices against this team... although Horvat had a very rough game, too.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/202008020VAN.html#all_advancedThis post was edited by Hizkuntza on Aug 5 2020 01:50am