Canucks Beat Leafs...Again

A little grinchy…yes. Tony G is just a negative nelly…don’t fall under his spell!

The style points consideration? I guess the other team has nothing to do with that right? The Leafs always play hard, they just are not that talented. Does not mean they cannot clog the front of the net and work hard on the boards. Unless our warriors don’t go out and decimate the opposition, we find fault.

Lui wins another, did well, and we focus on the one goal he admitted himself he just missed. Par for the course in this town, but now that disease has moved out of the crease, and we are going to demand perfection all over? Its a game of mistakes…just does not seem logical…but thats just me.

How can you be overly composed? Composure is a good thing right? I get the playing down to your competition, but that did not happen here. The Canucks were the team that forced tough saves from the slot. Rebound saves. Scored a pretty goal and two hard work ones. They controlled the game, T.O just worked hard enough to make it ugly.

 “How little energy”? Really Tony? I did not see a team that was not working hard. Our guys were back checking very well, interrupting any attempts by the Leafs few dangerous guys. They made the supposedly :deep" defense look old, slow, and stupid. They were all over them in their own end at times.

They were working hard. So were the other guys is all! We just have more talent on our team.

Its in their body language Sean? Watching too much of “Lie To Me” are we? Jesus. Detroit does the same thing. I watched them in two games last week get owned by the Hawks and the Kings. Both games ( especially LA…they looked like they gave up. But they have a sympathetic shots guy ( and they were putting it at the net from everywhere…and Quick was good…but the Wings did the same thing Tony accuses our guys of too ) Contrary to their “rep”, they are far from perfect.

It happens.

I will agree on the PP…but even there…saves were made and rebounds cleared away. Its hard to score on any team, any time, when they pack all five guys ( or 4 on the PK) into the front of the net. We did hit two posts on the PP, and forced several good saves.

Some nights you are going to have ugly wins, and some you will have ugly losses. But the one thing I have not been disappointed with, apart from the one game in Minny, and maybe the Hawk disaster at home…is the effort.

Mistakes get made, but just because every game is not suitable for framing in the Louvre does not mean they are not busting their humps.

This game was just one of those games. Lots of spade work along the boards, lots of back and forth without a ton of great chances.

Great teams win. Detroit wins just as many ugly games as they do pretty ones. Consider that the only team with less losses than the Canucks is the Flyers, with 7 in reg, compared to our 8 ( the same number as Detroit ) We’ve played a few less, but Det has only 2 more wins, and the Flyers 4 more. Philly also has 5 OT losses, to our 4 and Det’s 3.

A team that compares favorably to the very top of the league, and is Top 10 ( and Top 5 in some cases ) in most defensive and offensive categories is just fine with me.

Im too drunk to answer intelligently

LEAFS SUCK

GO CANUCKS GO

Only missed a few games to vertigo, mistakes are unacceptable….
gimme a break the guys brain was injured give him a game sheesh.

TOO READ BiTCHY ZAN POST
/dion starts crying
WHO DION KIDDING
DION NO KNOW HOW TO READ

I missed most of the game because I was partying in Toronto, but did catch a bit at the hotel when Hoff scored.

Just going by the highlights and box scores, it looked like a pretty good game. Killed them on the draws and Lu was solid except for the GA. That second goal was beautiful; Tamby’s great work to beat Schenn then Kes’ sick setup for Jank, and LOL @ the idiot (#81) who over-skated the puck in our zone to turn it over.

I found the cut-aways to Burkey pretty funny. We need more gifs to be made.

Nice work by the Green Men too.

By the way

LOVE LOVE LOVE how Tambo torched Schenner on the Hansen goal.

I didn’t watch the first period, but I didn’t see a lack of effort. I thought that that was present during the 4 game slide and the prior few games. I also felt the St Lou game lacked a bit of spark, but last night wasn’t so bad.

Ten things:
1) Lui looked very solid, absent a brainfart. One goal. Whoopdeedoo. This year, he is starting to look like his 06-07 – 08-09 form, where he really picked up in Dec and just rolled right to the end as one of the league’s dominant netminders. In my mind, the only controversy should be playing Schneider a bit more to take some pressure off Lui and give him a bit more rest, while giving the ginger saviour some starts to shake the rust off.
2) The Canucks pressed all night. They didn’t play pretty, but the Leafs are a big team with a decent d-line. I don’t see the problems that Gallagher said. Give some credit to the other teams sometimes. PITB got onto this once, i think its a valid point.
3) The play seemed to be patient play, forcing the leafs to make mistakes. I think we had one turnover the whole game? Nothing wrong with disciplined, patient play, I think it bodes well for the long run.
4) Offence is sputtering a bit. Don’t see a problem necessarily. I remember Section said something about this being normal, that it comes and goes in phases. The Canucks are finding ways to play through it, whereas before, they looked completely useless when the goals were not coming. This is good.
5) The D looked really good. Not one D man looked bad out there. Alberts through to Edler looked poised and confident and everyone played their roles to a T. It seems that this D is starting to really gel and be the Defence that was so hyped early season. I love this. It’s like we continually roll a good pairing on the ice, and that other teams cannot hope to catch a break when the third pairing comes out.
6) That being said, the forward lines are starting look much more 2-way than before. When the D was shaky, it sometimes felt that the forwards were feeling the need to just outscore all the problems, like they did last year. It seems that our forwards are starting to adjust to playing a two way system, getting back and making the defensive play.
7) Kes is looking like a dominant player like Toews. When he is on the ice, it seems that he controls the play. I love it.
8) People will think I am crazy, but I am loving the element that Samulessen is providing. He’s doing his best to play so many different roles that are tossed at him. Sure he isn’t the ideal choice, but he does his best and an admirable job. Doesn’t complain about going from first to third lines this season, tries hard to fill in on the point… I think these sorts of guys will be so valuable down the stretch and in the playoffs.
9) Has anyone noticed how dominant the Sedins were in the third period? Is this because the other team is so tired at the end of the game, or because the Sedins just decided to turn it on?
10) Fourth line in the last few games has looked good. I’ve been loving Glass this season, but Bolduc has really added grit to the 4th line and it seems that Volpatti and Andersson were both playing really well. It seems that Glass and Bolduc give decent grit, checking ability and some scoring punch, and the third man can be rotated to enhance either ability, depending on what is needed. This dynamic is awesome.

I saw the replay though. ’Twas nice.

the avs don’t lose any more
i do not like that
i do not think they are very good… merely decent
so i also do not understand it

I disagree with TG.

I think we controlled that game. The leaf strategy seemed to be:

Step 1. Forecheck
Step 2. ????
Step 3. Profit

They clogged and they attacked, but they rarely looked dangerous. And the few times we broke their clog, we scored.

Wilson is not a dumb coach. He saw the edmonton game, and is aware that our puck possession game is our most dangerous tool to neutralize the opponent. He had his grinders prevent a passing, cycling style game. It worked well, especially on the PK. But we still beat them, because we played well and were in control.