TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson stepping up to lead the Canucks to victory over the Oilers to take the 3-2 series lead, if Edmonton should go back to Calvin Pickard for Game 6, Vancouver’s penalty kill coming up big, and what the Oilers need to do to avoid elimination.
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His best game of the playoffs, no doubt
Still not up to his usual standards but his best game of the post season and he made a difference so baby steps.
Canucks vs the refs all match holy fuck
Definitely better than perviously, but he still killed our power play with turnovers multiple times. Gonna take a lot more to justify that contract
Miller is the real deal
Craig don’t give us those fake smiles u clown
Craig button is a Wiesel
This guys a church mouse now
Pickard was excellent but the canucks shooting was off so we'll see if this continues or ? It does seem each team takes a breather in the game following a win
Button is a sellout now. Guy is two faced
RIP Dutchy
Pettersson the difference maker, a huge factor tonight, go Pettersson go.
Will VCR finally get some respect from om TSN
GO PETTERSSON
McDavid and Drai looking pretty worn out…
I'm delighted to be a huge Craig Button fan – his learned observations, knowledge and ability to explain the complex organic nuances of a play in a method that makes it plain for everyone to understand? That's why he's a teacher, a mentor and a genuine hockey genius. GO CANUCKS GO! 🤟🦄✨♥️
series would have been over tonight if the nhl didnt suspend soucy
If Pettersson carries his play over to Saturday, Edmonton will have their hands full. McDavid and Driasaitl can only carry the team so far and on Saturday, if the Canucks continue to play the way they played tonight, it'll be game over for the Oilers.
Unsung hero for the Canucks Rick Tocchet. He fostered an atmosphere of trust and respect with the players over the season so that when he publicly called them out after game four they took it to heart. Then he made some genius lineup adjustments. He took out forwards Lafferty, Mikhaev and Linus Karlssen and put in Hoglander, Podkozin, and Giuseppe. That traded speed for grit and sandpaper. Then he put Pettersen with Lindholm and reunited the line of Garland, Joshua and Blueger. Once the game got into a flow the Canucks took over and gave the Oilers no room to get going. It seemed like just a matter of time until they scored and they finally did.
The entire team played great tonight.
Meh
Garbage…. Miller made him look good.
Go Canucks Go
EP is obviously playing through injury. Clearly not 100%
Button choking on the Canucks win😂
Bring back Skinner
Hmm not with the money.
did anyone else see Draisatle lose his cool as he walked in the tunnel from the bench to the dressing room after the game? This loss got to him
I hope he can step it up a bit more now . He has a tendency to hold up when a hit is coming . He has been. Invisible on the PP . He shouid be getting points every game . Unfortunately reminds me of Marner in a lot of ways so if he can buy in more he could help the Canucks win this series .
Petterssons charging penalty was comical.
The one guy whi voted JT for Selke a couple of years ago was onto somethin after all😅
isnt it clear pettersson is injured and playing at 85%?
Not counting any chickens. The fourth win is always the hardest.
Look what EP can do when he’s not playing with 4th liners. Go figure.
Miller definitely made up for the last game. Excellent preesure on pks. Though Cole is trying his best to hand this series to Oilers 😅.
That charging penalty was a terrible call!
Edmonton PPs had way too many passing plays.
Petterson was playing so bad that any improvement is great.
How does Pettersson get a 'charging' penalty nearly standing still. Officiating needs attention. Got to be able to challenge some of these calls. Millar was great.
Hronek. I would also like to mention how fucking nasssssssty Hronek looked last night. Absolutely on his horse all game. It was like early season Hronek.
lets go petey chants definitely helped his confidence
That was no lucky bounce off his skate, that was on purpose. Petey does things that mere mortals can't. Canucks in six. GCG!
Pette was huge defensively. As a canucks fan i think they should start skinner…. he's clearly the better goalie from the canucks perspective. That drisidle guy is washed too, they should scratch him 😉