2023010103
VAN wins, 1 – 3 .
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Just a great game I’d be thrilled if we looked like that in the regular season
Matt Colorado will ask for a trade after getting smoked twice and seeing nobody sticking up for him lmao.
Soucy take my knee
Fuck markstrom hope he gases out early
Bluger is really fuckin good. Loved our bottom 6 and PK
Lol pissed off Markstrom was the highlight for me
Welp, hope the regular season looks pretty much exactly like that… that was a clinic.
Excellent fucking game. Quenched a lot of my concern.
Except the Soucy injury reared the biggest concern we’ll have this season. Our AHL depth is *bad*. Calling any of them up is not a good situation to be in.
Pretty solid game. PP looked good, could of had one or two with a bit more luck. Really hope that soucey is all good, though
PDG is the real deal
PDG is so gonna make the team. 🍕
The number of turnovers the Canucks capitalized on today was amazing
So…how bad is the Soucy injury?
Myers at 69 seconds. Never forget.
Really good game. Two of our top 6 were sick but Garland did a good job defensively on the line to cover for Kuz. Blueger is a beast and I honestly think our PK/D improvement could be huge. Myers shockingly had a great game. PDG is really showing up for us and I hope we see this from him in regular season.
Gonna need to see the Garland/EP/Kuz line one more time when they’re healthy but third line wasn’t as aggressive without Garland so he might be back on it for opening night.
It’s so refreshing to have a true bottom 6. Not just defensive plugs that eat minutes, but legitimate secondary scoring depth that still kill penalties and and hold things down defensively
Someone please tell me Soucy’s gonna be okay…please!
Plan the parade
Bottom 6 guys were incredible. We’re so good at clogging up the middle now and their breakouts were just getting smothered. Our PK looks siiiick. Our PP looks saaaaad
Go back to our old PP if we must they were 6th in the league last year.
Over all vvvvvv Impressed with how everything came together.
PDG deserves his spot. Well earned.
GG Calgary
Plan the parade, we’re winning it all!
Kuz showing support, nice cause he wasn’t all 😀 tonight
Important thing now is the update on Soucy
((the [doctor on twitter](https://x.com/harjas_grewal/status/1710504516641304901?s=46&t=7fabqgtgp69dNA1d51vxFw) who “predicts” and explains the injuries to NHL players looking at the plays doesn’t have really good news and hopefully he’s very wrong))
So that’s what functioning team systems looks like. Tons of praise for Suter and Bleuger tonight. Hronek was solid, Hughes was Hughes, Demko made some big saves. And wtf we didn’t have to rely on our power play to score, the secondaries got goals. Hell even Juulsen looked good. Cole looks like a seasoned vet.
And there was no panic! That was the biggest take away, the team seems poised. Tocchet is getting this shit straightened out thank god.
There were moments were the Flames looked lost, similar to how the Canucks played all last year. Cautiously optimistic guys.
It’s really refreshing seeing how we can effectively plug up the neutral zone, actually steal the puck, advance into their zone, and actually get some good rushes and time in the offensive zone!
Our defensive system looked really good. Taking away pucks, short passes, then instantly attack. Bottom 6 looked good now. Suter, Blueger, Aman, Joshua, Beauvillier, Studnicka. Hoglander might have to sit awhile unfortunately.
Pretty whelmed with the pre season. Can’t be too mad, but kinda have PTSD from our slow start last year. Hopefully we get our shit together in our first game.
I think the biggest takeaway here is despite the Soucy injury, Myers just barely cracked 18 minutes; 4th among defensemen, and just 7 seconds more than Juulsen. Evidently, it was one of Myers’ better games.
PDG: Solid Depth Piece
DiGiuseppe is a player. Definitely deserves a spot with that production
Does anyone happen to have the stats on how much time the puck spent in our end of the ice? Felt like it was at least 60/40 our way.