The Vancouver Canucks beat the New York Islanders 4-1. Kiefer Sherwood scored a hattrick, Thatcher Demko continued his solid play. The Quinn Hughes (less) Canucks with Zeev Buium Marco Rossi and Liam OHgren sotrm on with their third straight win.
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They genuinely played a great 60 min game, pretty much everyone looked good tonight, great effort, fast, lots of chances. Losing a game like this would be extremely demoralizing for everyone.
Our star goalie and all our centermen got injured at the same time. Any team would plummet.
Fk team tank, it doesnt garuntee a good pick so let's enjoy some wins and fresh faces having fun
Thatcher Demko going to carry this team into wild card PO spot by himself…
It's not confusing… Trade Sherwood while he's hot for a 1st round pick and trade Thatcher Demko for a package similar to Quinn Hughes trade. Lots of teams need a elite goalie and would pay up!! Demko is too old to keep with the route Canucks are taking. Timeline doesn't line up for both them anymore!!!
Wow! What a time to be alive
We’ve always had good people, it’s just that they didn’t really have a chance to play because Hughes and Patterson had been playing until they drop! It was a coaching problem all along. Now that these guys have a chance to play more, they shine. Hope when Patterson gets back, he’s not overplayed with too much defensive duty. He should be offensive and his stamina kept for that purpose.
You don't play to lose!!!.
It's because they have nothing to lose. It's relaxed
I said it months ago, when Hughes is out they play more like a team
Canucks are going to play themselves out of a top draft pick [facepalm]
Watch now ep40 comes back and they go on 5 game losing streak. Lol
Canucks finally traded away the problem.
Now what happens? It’s either you turn this season around and play like Colorado or you get mckenna.
Quinn is a quitter he quit on the team. When your leader quits on you its deflating. The new guys want to win and want to be here.
6 points out of the playoffs with 2 games in hand. Its Revenge time and I want the wild round 1. You Keep Sherwood until the deadline and then you keep him if in the playoffs at the deadline.
Imagine if the Canucks could off of a trade of EP40 and Hoglander to the Buffalo Sabres for Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch? They would add size and grit to the lineup AND get out from under EP40’s contract.
Crazy they are without their best 2 Center too.. pety and chytil..
There are no theories or any magic to this at all. The Canucks are just sticking to what they do best year after year and that is to Never Tank to the basement or come anywhere near to getting better odds at draft picks and at the time win a few games to keep their diehard fans hope on life support.
They want to win Demmer gets injured…they wants to lose Demmer goes on a streak
Why are you confused? Quinn slowed down the break out, he slowed down the offensive possessions puck movement. I don't remember how many times I yelled at the screen 'JEEEEZUS, pass, there's a man open!!!' only to see Hughes skate himself in circles and go around the net or try a stupid bank pass. The difference is we dumped a soft#1 defenseman who quite frankly quit on his teammates and replaced him with a hard nosed, no nonsense puck mover who has an absolute BOMB of a shot in Hronek. Canucks went from having an anchor on the team, to now finally someone actually anchoring the defense. The look of the team is different because the distribution is spreading out.
In the upcoming weeks we will see Hronek start to really establish himself as a legitimate #1 guy… and his D partner Zeev is already looking like a legit 2way defenseman, the way he separates body from puck, and a easy chip play to let the forwards get up ice and do their thing… Quinn would have slowed down the play skated in a few circles and the forwards would have lost track of their positioning and the play would have died with a dump in while the forwards are either changing or completely out of position.
If anyone remembers 2 years ago, Hronek broke two opposing players legs within a few days of one another, (NYI and New Jersey) with his slap shot, both times the Canucks scored… the 2 years since, Hronek has quietly disappeared because Hughes stopped using him as an outlet. Not sure why, but this has become painfully obvious for the past 20+ games, the Canucks turned into a 1 man show and hockey is a team sport, no matter how good you think you are.
And also Demko of course needs to stay healthy. He is our true MVP.
This team looks better because it’s not just about stars anymore. When every line can contribute, the whole system works. Hockey is a team game—depth and chemistry matter more than individual names.
THEY'RE MAKING THE PLAYOFFS
I would love to keep Kiefer Sherwood and just build around him.
My take is that Hughes' play style just didn't fit; he's too offensive for a defensive player, and he has always had a problem (in my opinion) with passing the puck, opting to try and make fancy plays instead, and I thought he stayed on the ice too long. I'm not doubting his skills as a hockey player, but he just never struck me as a very effective team player.
What is happening is that Canucks gets players with winnig confidence into their team, something this team has been lacking for ages. These players shows you have to have fun.
No, they are exactly like every other team in the NHL. Look at Winnipeg, these days. As for "deaner" and the rest of the "team tank", combined, you idiots don't know enough about professional hockey to fill a thimble! You're just a bunch of "fair weather fan whiners".
I’m stoked the Canucks team is lighting up this December. Christmas came early. (Team Tank)
Someone call the front office and remind them we need to be losing 3 games for every win we get. We need McKenna!!! Play well and play hard, but make sure we tank.
It's a young team! They've won when Hughes was out! Hughes fighting with Mancini for not passing to him explains the elephant in the room. Team is Better without Hughes! Minny just secured an 2nd round exit! Hughes too weak for playoffs
The last 2 years statistically we played better without the pouter
'Man, this whole "treat the team like a video game and trade everything away" is awesome in the long run? Except who's gonna go and watch a tank team and pay the money for the sake of it? Bullshit. Stop suggesting that players are assets and not people? It's making me hate the NHL – BUMS IN SEATS is A LOT OF REVENUE! MAJORITY FANS THROWING IN THE LOTTERY 1ST RND PICK (which we've never won ever) TOWEL AREN'T GONNA FILL THE ARENA. GIVING UP ATTENDANCE $$$ OVER A LOSER TEAM IS GONNA HAVE VANCOUVER SELL ITS TEAM TO QUEBEC AT THIS RATE.
Why are we trying to trade Sherwood? Guy is such a hard worker.
its now a team effort instead of a system revolving around 1 player.
Keep Vancouver Buffalo. Demko doing is job to keep this team in the 8 thru 12 pick.
Just wait for a big name goalie to go down before the deadline, it happens every year. The Canucks then dangle Demmers. With 50% retention the Canucks could get multiple 1sts+
Maybe the coach has made adjustments
You know that they are gonna play themselves into the mushy middle for about another 5 years, yeah?
No Feet Pete out of line up means we win
I don't agree with trading Sherwood. He's a rare type of player–like a Chris Tanev–that has way more qualities that give you an edge beyond the scoresheet. What you'd get back is almost certainly less than what you're giving up.
Trading Sherwood is really a stupid problem. Sign the guy, who's going to fill his skates. These guy don't grow on trees. Where is Suiter when you needed him. St Louis! Stupid will not get fix with some people in Vancouver.
The puck hogging sandbagger is off the team. In the last 10 games he played for the canucks, he had 3 points and a -9 Gets traded and Vancouver goes on a winning streak. Spoiled little rich brats that refuse to play for the team that made them millionaires. I want to play with my brothers, Glad he is gone, and Miller too, Personal reasons, Like 2 peas in a pod, CUT out the toxic players, who ever they are. Best trade in Canuck history!
So like… what are we???
Someone needs to tell Demko that being a tank isn't the same as tanking, he may be confused
where do you think Sherwood lands? Detroit? Montreal? Tampa? Florida? The east is so open this year it's not even funny.
Had Rossi hit his empty netter, all 3 of our acquisitions from the Hughes trade would have scored in the 3 subsequent games.
Coach needs to tell the players if ya playing well…. YOUR GETTING TRADED!!!
Tanking? The players they just got back would have to be busts for that to happen. Then everyone will complain the Canucks got fleeced & did not do their scouting. No player tanks on purpose. There is self pride & fighting to keep their spot on the roster.
I fucking hate this. Dumb guys run this team