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It’s another Nucks 1 game win streak!
Not just a normal (and infrequent) 1 game Nucks win streak.
Your Vancouver Canucks have just beaten the #1 team in the NHL! Woooooooo!
Sure the Laffs had to beat the Oil last night, get on a plane or bus (they’ll say it was a bus) and get back on the ice and play a different team - a team only 1 spot above Ottawa - and embarrassed 3 times last month. So there’s that.
Despite the huge advantage the league leaders had on paper and on the ice, the Nucks had a better goalie and rested players who might have accidently absorbed the structural process that Green and all the volunteer couch couches of NM had been explaining. For weeks. And weeks.
THE DEMMDERFUL
Paddy stacking student of Garret crease cooking.
3RD IS A GO! pic.twitter.com/fWxQpCTmxV
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 5, 2021
Demmer played so good against the #1 team, the highest scoring team in the NHL, that getting and keeping a lead seemed a possibility that wasn’t out of the realm of precarious expectation.
All Demko to open the middle frame. pic.twitter.com/tSu8J8QAUb
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 5, 2021
DOUBLE-BARRELLED SHOTGUN
With Petey out of the lineup, the Jake we always power dreamed of displayed the power forwarding promise Jake is capable of. Every 25 games or so.
Jake gets the 1st goal of the game (which is important for uh... timeline reasons)
Mid-1st, #Canucks lead 1-0 thanks to Big Tuna pic.twitter.com/udGDBJIJl8
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 5, 2021
how Jake is that...
technically a laffs own goal — copey
Jake gets the 2nd 3rd goal of the game, breaking the tie - and get this - on the power play!
You know what to do @Canucks fans... pic.twitter.com/047BdTzLpK
— NHL (@NHL) March 5, 2021
BO-LISHISH 3RD
For the 1st time in nearly forever (or longer - feels longer), the Nucks kept the lead in the 3rd. And extended it. Yeah... I’m probably making it up.
Capt’n Bo knows tho.
1️⃣0️⃣th goal of the season for @BoHorvat and the #Canucks lead 3-1 with six to play. pic.twitter.com/0CtRol4OkO
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 5, 2021
The game thread was more impressed with this spurt of play since free rumballs.
holyee shit
that was the best straight 8 mins the nucks have played all year
and ends in a Cap’n Bo goal
and great pass EDler — copey
The small issue I have with this... is well... why are we getting so giddy if the Nucks play a solid 8?
Maybe because we haven’t seen the Nucks play a solid straight 8 minutes in the 3rd pretty much all season.
It was the surprising novelty.
The tantalising possibility of closing out a game. Win a game against the best team in the league. A team no team in the North can beat, but the lowest ranked teams in the North.
GAME NOTES
Coach Green: Note to self:
Structured Game
Demko all the way
Rest Petey a little longer
No penalties — Atty
For the 1st time this season, in their 27th game, the Nucks broke their own record.
Smashed it by 1 goal. 1st time this year the Nucks have won a game when scoring 4 goals or less.
Landmark achievement.
Which Jake almost under-achieved with an over-achieving hattie on the EN attempt.
Winning 3-1, opens the gates to winning 3-2 or 2-1. Maybe. Some year.
Beat the Laffs at home with the 2 Johns to highlight the best game of the week.
GAME STATS (Robbing the Foliage)
SOG | FO% | PP | PIM | HITS | BLKS | GVA | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maple Leafs
TOR
|
32 | 46% | 0/2 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 8 |
Canucks
VAN
|
28 | 54% | 1/1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 3 |
SHOT COUNTING (So many against in the 1st!)
Period | TOR | VAN |
---|---|---|
1st | 15 | 7 |
2nd | 10 | 12 |
3rd | 7 | 9 |
Total | 32 | 28 |
PLAYER STATS (Jake breaks tired goalies)
# | Forwards | GP | G | A | P | P | +/- | S | PIM | PIM | SOG | HITS | BLKS | GVA | TKA | FO% | TOI | PP TOI | SH TOI | PP | GW |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6 | B. Boeser | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19:09 | 1:02 | --:-- | 0 | |||
9 | J.T. Miller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 22:14 | 1:02 | 2:00 | 0 | |||
13 | J. Hawryluk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8:04 | --:-- | --:-- | 0 | ||||
18 | J. Virtanen | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 15:10 | 0:12 | --:-- | 1 | |||
20 | B. Sutter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 17:00 | --:-- | 2:02 | 0 | |||
26 | A. Roussel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:15 | --:-- | 1:59 | 0 | ||||
36 | N. Hoglander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:03 | 0:12 | --:-- | 0 | ||||
53 | B. Horvat | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 17:16 | 1:02 | --:-- | 0 | |||
56 | M. Michaelis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:16 | --:-- | --:-- | 0 | ||||
70 | T. Pearson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:50 | 1:02 | 0:31 | 0 | ||||
83 | J. Beagle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10:03 | --:-- | 1:27 | 0 | |||
96 | A. Gaudette | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 12:55 | 0:12 | 0:01 | 0 |
# | Defense | GP | G | A | P | P | +/- | S | PIM | PIM | SOG | HITS | BLKS | GVA | TKA | FO% | TOI | PP TOI | SH TOI | PP | GW |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 | J. Benn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:11 | --:-- | 1:22 | 0 | ||||
23 | A. Edler | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21:16 | --:-- | 1:42 | 0 | ||||
27 | T. Hamonic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:28 | --:-- | 0:56 | 0 | ||||
43 | Q. Hughes | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21:17 | 1:02 | 0:01 | 0 | ||||
57 | T. Myers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21:32 | 0:12 | 2:46 | 0 | ||||
88 | N. Schmidt | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19:13 | 0:12 | 1:13 | 0 |
# | Goalies | GP | REC | GA | SV | SA | S | EV | PP | SH | SAVE-SHOTS | SV% | PIM | TOI | GAA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
35 | T. Demko | -- | 31 | 32 | 26–27 | 5–5 | 1–1 | 31–32 | .969 | 0 | 59:48 | ||||
49 | B. Holtby | -- | 0 | 0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | --:-- |
Embracing the pressure of the home presser.
Post-game availability expected to include Virtanen, Michaelis & Demko, followed by Coach Green.#Canucks | @TheProvince https://t.co/SlfRMA1HrJ
— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 5, 2021
This game was the confidence boost we needed. And probably the Nucks as well.
Of course, we have experienced these little boosts over the past 26 games - just not very often.
Can we trust this result? With this game, have the Nucks turned the loose losing corner? Can the Nucks string together another 2 game winning streak? (Technically, the Nucks had a 4 game win streak when they swept the 3 game Sens series and won again in Winningpeg).
You know what they say... if you have to ask... you can’t afford it.
Oh well... 1 game win streaks are a better alternative.
But what if they do mulch Leafs on Saturday? Uh... don’t let that minuscule mathematical prospect play off your Nucking thoughts.
Just enjoy this single, most important win over the most important team in the league, the universe and beyond.