Thoughts From Canucks' Dual Losses To Flames

Given I was one of the folks that voted to keep Alberts, it’s nice to see him doing what I thought he could. A nice, simple game without the excessive running around he did last year. And if B.MO. (you can take that to the bank!) pulls through, I’d even be okay bumping Hansen to the fourth line to start the season. I have a thing for smart players.

Thanks for posting this – I wasn’t looking forward to going through 400+ comments at the end of the evening to see what happened. Missed the whole night with rehearsals, damn it! Frikkin’ pantomime… Still, might be worth it – a couple really quite attractive women in the cast: a twenty-something singer and her forty-something mom. Hm.

Never thought “Lacks girth” could be used as a compliment.

Overall I was pretty impressed by what I saw between the two squads. For the first game it’s hard to get too worked up about it either way because I’m just so fucking happy hockey is finally back!

Oilers scouts were at the game in Calgary last night. Rumour has it they are interested in SOB.

From the Calgary game (damn getting up at 5am in Ontario), but I liked a lot of what I saw.
As been said above, Lack seemed very confident and poised. Great positioning, getting low on screens, quick movements. I would feel comfortable with him as our backup now. You can’t really blame him for the one goal he let in either, it was pretty much a perfect 2-on-1.

As for that 2-on-1, Ballard really got burned on it, which I didn’t like. I don’t know how he played in the 3rd, but I didn’t see too much of him in the first two. Alberts and SOB on the other hand seemed to be on fire (except for that one AA shift). There were many times I saw SOB make nice passes across the zone. It doesn’t surprise me people would be interested in him.

I was also really impressed by the PK. They did a very good job of cutting of the lanes and not allowing the Flames to get it to Iginla (which seemed to be the main goal), especially for that 45s that Lack was lacking (har har) his stick. Hopefully that’s a good sign that maybe the PK will improve this year.

I wish I could have seen some of the Vancouver game, it sounds like BMo was putting on a show.

It always feels good to win…

Yeah, especially when you’re playing the B team

I decided to go to the game at the 11th hour.

Shirokov was not impressive, at. all. I mentioned on Twitter that he was shooting from every ridiculous angle possible, looking like how I play (like a stat packer) in NHL11. I dig the aggressiveness, but you got to get in the tight spots before shooting meaningless shots.

The rest of the team on the other hand had the reverse problem – they barely shot at all until midway through the third.

BMo was easily the best Canuck forward out there, drawing multiple penalties and showing off speed and poise.

I felt like Malhotra was like a 3rd d-man out there, the way he covered the point. His offense leaves something to be desired, but I like how his game will supplement the Canucks. Thank God he’s not our first line center.

Holy crap can Lee Sweatt skate. Burrows is bang on with the Mason Raymond comparisons, he just needs that finish now.

Oresovich’s fight was extremely disappointing, I don’t even know what the hell he was doing, looked more like he was trying to engage in a patty cakes combat. And the refs just let him have it.

Schaeffer was largely invisible. He’ll stick around, but all signs point to him being cut at some point during this camp.

Bieska looked disinterested and kind of bored. So bored he decided to act like Alberts all night and take dumb penalties.

Cory Schneider kept them in this game, period.

Oh and David Shantz is my new favourite player.

Ow my head hurts, where’s the tylenol. STOP HONKING ALREADY.

It’s still odd to see Morrison in a Canucks uni…along with Bieksa still in one….now my head hurts.

It wasn’t just the 2-on-1 that he allowed to become a 2-on-0, he just didn’t look good at all defensively. Still, it’s just the pre-season and this could just be a blip, but it was not an impressive game from him at all.

saw good defensive play from SOB. Ballard not so much. Great goal by Rosa. Lack is fucking awesome should be signed to a 15 YEAR DEAL TO LEAD US TO THE PLAYOFFS.

What a goal by Iggy though, that was pure snipe.

Oh well, the Flames iced a team of 70% NHL talent, we sent most of our rookies and just a couple vets. Among those vets being Hordi WEARING A FUCKING “A” DO NOT WANT DO NOT WANT. And they only beat us 3-2.

Only caught the end of the Vancouver game. Great play by Torres. Through the legs pass to the point, point man shoots it, Torres puts in the rebound. That was pretty much the only good part of the game in Vancouver besides the saves by Schneider and B-Mo’s play.