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Going into the game, knowing Petterson was out and having been shut out in 3 of 4 games, I knew the Canucks would struggle on offence. I gave them a chance with newly-acquired third string goalie Hutchinson starting and with how the Leafs have played recently. While the score was 5-0, I did see some positives from the Canucks. I was impressed by the D's ability to collapse to the front of the net, poke the puck, and prevent the cross pass in the slot. I was getting frustrated watching Kapanen, Kadri, etc attmept cute plays only to have the puck checked away. I was kinda hoping to see Demko play even though Markstrom wasn't bad.
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I only watched the first 2 periods (had to go after the 2nd), but Hutton-Gudbranson was getting fucking torched and Pouliot-Stecher wasn't faring much better.
Cherry said he'd have been out of the AHL if he got walked like Pouliot did. He was better in the 2nd period, but not a lot better.
I see Gudbranson ended up a -5, Hutton a -4. Not surprising, honestly.
Edler-Tanev looked like their usual competent selves.
Always enjoyed Bieksa as a Canuck. Too bad we couldn't enlist him for some help on our D. God knows we need it.
You'd have to think a 37-year-old Bieksa that hadn't played organized hockey until the Spengler Cup this season is, at best, a marginal upgrade on our bottom pairing.
What we really need are two more legit top 4 dmen. Bieksa ain't it at this point in his career.
It was kind of telling the other night, Ron MacLean said “Bieska” and “Lulongo” during HNIC which seemed to me like he was calling out Grapes for intentionally mispronouncing them both. Which he would. He’s a character and he knows it. His shtick has worked well for his career so why stop now.
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Stecher was even more impressed by another play he witnessed from the bench. He couldn’t remember who it was against, but Pettersson had the puck at the opposing blueline.
“Someone was coming at him, and I was saying to myself, ‘Dump it in, dump it in.’ Then he looked right at the guy, who backed off and gave him room to make a play. I asked him about it later. He said, ‘If I look down at the puck on the ice, he can charge right at me. But if I look at him, he has to respect that I could go right past him.”
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