Thomas Drance on the Canucks two game road trip, Miller/Pettersson and more
Thomas Drance from The Athletic joined the guys and recapped the Canucks performance in Utah and Vegas and also touched on the Miller/Pettersson dynamic.
It really isn’t a wild stretch to think a publicly guarded Gen Z manchild who is basically emotionless unless he’s big mad is more than likely the issue here. He gets butthurt over everything.
When Pettersson came into the league he was an offensive genius. Now he’s a defensive genius. Defence wins cups. By the end of January the Canucks will be fighting for top spot in the Pacific division.
thomas everything you say is a guess, NOT ONE FACTUAL PIECE OF INFORMATION. Pure guessing. The only stat that matters is wins and losses. The rest matters never. just a bunch of statistical baloney
Petey & Miller will get it together they are professionals and there’s still plenty of time left in the season. Maybe they can fight in the 4 Nations and squash it. What we should be concerned about is the D-core. They don’t have talent to even possibly be good enough. We need to make some trades to upgrade D then I’m confident forwards & goalies are good enough.
3:06 With THIS team? LOL! 2-0 just means the other team is spotting them a couple.
7:52 If it's a real thing, given Toccs is old enough to be their dad, he needs to take each one into his office and have "the talk." And it should not be polite. These boys need to experience some discomfort.
Few thoughts… I have a tough time believing that EP is a Tocchet type player. I'd imagine he wasn't a big fan of the re-signing. His comments / behavior towards Petey's game at the end of last season reflected this. Miller obv is a Tocchet type guy. And I wonder how Petey's resigning affected him. His play and numbers were much better, but EP was now making the huge bucks. Fast forward to this season and EP still not playing like an 11.6 mill guy. I'm guessing Miller has an 'F This' attitude this year and Tocchet is struggling with who he aligns with. Tocchet probably frustrated with PA as well for not giving him what he thinks he needs to be successful. So I don't believe this is as easy as two players not getting along. I think there's bad vibes all around.
Wasn’t a fan of miller calling the goalie to the bench with those defencemen on the ice. Get the puck up the ice/ dump it in. Change the d , pull the goalie and work ! Miller isn’t the coach. Let the players play and the coach, coach
Went downhill end of playoffs. This grumpy old man Miller culture is tanking the team (not only EP – check the stats). When you’ve muted your emotion and no one can smile, you’ve already lost.
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Drance kinda seems like a jew
JT Miller 0 shots, Petterson 1 shot. Not much different the previous night. Management hopefully can find a reasonable solution.
Petey put up 15 points in 10 games when he was the guy when JT was out. 120 point pace, somethings gotta give here.
Does JT have a no move clause?
The problem is that we are on a losing streak while teams right behind us in standings are threatening our wildcard spot on winning streaks.
Now to be known as Dino-Dancer 😁
It really isn’t a wild stretch to think a publicly guarded Gen Z manchild who is basically emotionless unless he’s big mad is more than likely the issue here. He gets butthurt over everything.
When Pettersson came into the league he was an offensive genius. Now he’s a defensive genius. Defence wins cups. By the end of January the Canucks will be fighting for top spot in the Pacific division.
I am loving drancer this season. Not negative, just honest reporting
thomas everything you say is a guess, NOT ONE FACTUAL PIECE OF INFORMATION. Pure guessing. The only stat that matters is wins and losses.
The rest matters never. just a bunch of statistical baloney
we need offence, dump Petey and Miller for speed, youth and size just what other teams do when they seriously want to go deep in the playoffs
Drance was 7 years old when JPark came out?? I was like 20 and he looks 10 years older than i do….lolol
how did we go from 649 to this :/ i feel like the obvious thought is petey just can’t take the JT criticism and JT is just doing JT things
Petey & Miller will get it together they are professionals and there’s still plenty of time left in the season. Maybe they can fight in the 4 Nations and squash it. What we should be concerned about is the D-core. They don’t have talent to even possibly be good enough. We need to make some trades to upgrade D then I’m confident forwards & goalies are good enough.
3:06 With THIS team? LOL! 2-0 just means the other team is spotting them a couple.
7:52 If it's a real thing, given Toccs is old enough to be their dad, he needs to take each one into his office and have "the talk." And it should not be polite. These boys need to experience some discomfort.
8:54 Factually incorrect.
9:23 I can agree with that. It does boggle the mind.
They play a 'cute' game
Few thoughts… I have a tough time believing that EP is a Tocchet type player. I'd imagine he wasn't a big fan of the re-signing. His comments / behavior towards Petey's game at the end of last season reflected this. Miller obv is a Tocchet type guy. And I wonder how Petey's resigning affected him. His play and numbers were much better, but EP was now making the huge bucks. Fast forward to this season and EP still not playing like an 11.6 mill guy. I'm guessing Miller has an 'F This' attitude this year and Tocchet is struggling with who he aligns with. Tocchet probably frustrated with PA as well for not giving him what he thinks he needs to be successful. So I don't believe this is as easy as two players not getting along. I think there's bad vibes all around.
Wasn’t a fan of miller calling the goalie to the bench with those defencemen on the ice. Get the puck up the ice/ dump it in. Change the d , pull the goalie and work ! Miller isn’t the coach. Let the players play and the coach, coach
Canucks will have a better season next year.
Went downhill end of playoffs. This grumpy old man Miller culture is tanking the team (not only EP – check the stats). When you’ve muted your emotion and no one can smile, you’ve already lost.
Canucks seriously need some sort of jolt of life, they look dead.