WHAT WENT WRONG FOR THE VANCOUVER CANUCKS? Let's Discuss…

[@Orangejuicer297]

Nothing "went wrong" for the Canucks. They won the Pacific. They made the second round. They went to game 7 with a 3rd string goaltender, leading scorer out of the playoffs against one of the most stacked and talented teams in the entire NHL. This doom and gloom posting is just pathetic. They were not meant to win, did not stand a chance of winning, and had an amazing season that exceeded expectations.

[@thedailydegen]

Agreed, can't play 10 minutes a game and hope to win.

[@SportsMuppets]

But Vancouver sure did play that style and game ..They have never given a full 60 minutes in years ..2011 was the last 60 minute games bye the canucks it seems ..

[@Meatball_07]

First nhl dman with 20 points in 2 rounds in nhl history, yeah he severly out played hughes lol

[@derekanderson6102]

Bouchard > Hughes. It’s a discussion now

[@johnl6277]

They crapped rhe bed when they needed to win the most. Well said. Not the first time this franchise has done this either, with or without playoff experience. Dumping instead of shooting pucks on net wouldn't get it done. Passing and losing the puck instead of shooting on the pp wouldn't get it done. These aren't built from experience; these are simple hockey logic.

[@Seriously_Unserious]

The Canucks played their game for the first 5 minutes, and the last 15 minutes. The oilers played theirs for the middle 40 minutes. What went wrong? What I saw was a Canucks team that changed their play style after the all star break. Something happened at that point where they stopped doing those controlled breakouts from their zone they'd been doing in the first half of the season that creates rush opportunities and momentum swings in their favour, where they could get the puck to the other team's zone under control and apply pressure post rush, pressure that leads to penalties, pressure that leads to goals and the other team getting caught on their heels. Pressure that wins games. What happened is the Canucks went away from that and started getting too cautious, dumping the puck down and giving it right back to the other team to try for re-entry and continuous pressure for long periods. That's time when the other team's applying pressure, keeping the Canucks on their heels and getting chances to score, drawing penalties. That's one change I saw. The other change is in the offensive zone, the Canucks stopped using their talent to break ankles and create high danger chances. They become too content to stand around taking perimeter shots and trust they'll get a lucky bounce to get their goals. 1st half Pettersson was making moves to gain the slot, get past those blockers and create clear lanes for himself, he was forcing the defense to back in too much out of fear of his dangles and moves and creating openings for his line mates, he was creating multiple options for his team. If dangle-slot-shoot's a no-go, he can dangle-slot-backdoor or dangle-slot-pointshot, or dangle-pass or whatever. Quinn Hughes when he'd break ankles would do it and drive to the middle, and take a shot or draw a crowd to himself and then dish it off to a forward or Hronek for the power one timer. 2nd half he'd cautiously dangle, break an ankle and go down the boards, eventually getting angled into the wall and stuck banging around the boards until inevitably the other team finally comes up with the puck. As a whole, the Canuck's zone time pressure was in motion offense. Everyone was moving around, changing positions, confusing the defense and forcing players out of position. Either somebody would get too tiered and slow and couldn't keep up any more, or would get confused and cover the wrong guy and leave another guy wide open, or would panic and get running around and coughing pucks up, something would happen. Last half the Canucks would stay outside the defensive box and try to hope for a bounce in front. The Canucks movement early on would either stretch the defense out too much, or get them too concentrated in one area and either way, create openings for themselves. Early Canucks vs Nashville meatwall would have found ways to give that guy doing down for the block the Dirty Dangle and then gotten behind him and converting a perimeter shot into a higher danger slot shot. Or would have dangled, and drawn 2 or 3 players in and passed the puck to an open wing or point for a one timer. The Canucks have a very talented team, with a few gaps Alvain and Rutherford can hopefully fill this off season, and build upon what they've got, and hopefully Tocchett and the Canucks can find a structured defensive system that does not stifle that creativity and talent the team has and allow this team to play to their greatest strengths, using their hands to gain the slot and make life hard on the other team. Use their talent to gain controlled zone clears and break outs where they can shift the momentum back in their favour. The best defense is to be in the other team's zone applying pressure.

[@chrisj4910]

You articulated my thoughts perfectly. Out coached. Zero changes to strategy. Forced plays over and over. Their system was exposed and 100% predictable. Leading to dump and chase with no utilization of skill or speed. Whatever just a disappointment i suppose

[@alvin8287]

Edmonton wanted it more and it showed, that’s it.

[@alexanderstark5192]

Evan bouchard did severly outplay hughes...

[@Seriously_Unserious]

What Hughes needs to do for next season is get back to what made him such an unstoppable force in the first half of the season - use his talent to attack the slot. He spent far too much time late in the season and into the playoffs dangling along the boards until he inevitably gets rubbed out. He's not a big guy and can't be playing along the boards. He needs to move to the middle more, and attack the open ice with his talent. I also remember early in the season, Hughes and Hronek had a system of crossovers and motion that would often confuse the defense, leading to situations where both wingers would be covering one or the other of them, with Hughes or Hronek left wide open to unload, and they'd use those chances to do just that. Then they got stationary, and playing to the outside too much.

[@chasemackie1104]

This is it right here

[@8888ate]

Passenger pete.

[@OtisDriftwood66]

Well said👏

[@calvincharlie703]

I made up my mind within the 1st period when they had only 2 shots on net to Edmonton's 8-10 shots. All Vancouver needed to do was shoot the puck. When they did shoot the puck. Skinner was not to be found. On the most easiest shots. While Silovs was amazing.

[@xobtar2]

What happen to L.M.F.A.O to skinner starting game 6/7

[@MariAnnMarcy]

Good to see your face … good video

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

I am so glad my Oilers are in the Western Conference Finals and we got the northernmost NHL team in the final four.

[@coachrobwille4176]

That depends though what way you are facing.

[@VisibleEnd]

Can’t wait to watch you fans cry after you get destroyed by a real team. Imagine being 3-2 down in a series to the fraud Canucks with a 3rd string rookie goalie 😂😂😂

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

@@VisibleEnd I wouldn't cry. We made it to the final four, which I am happy about.

[@VisibleEnd]

@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija bro without the face of the league having a cup at this age there is no happy about getting to the final 4. It’s cup or bust and we all know its BUST time

[@alessandroalafriz8162]

​@VisibleEnd Cmon man, I'm a Canucks fan too and even though I don't like the outcome from last night but let's keep it classy. We got further than anyone thought, and we got a bright future ahead of us. Just a bit more depth, Pettersonhas a better playoff year, and boom were cup contenders. Well get em next time chill.

[@SportsMuppets]

You could address Casper the ghost Pettersson.. Then the team being flat-footed game 6,7 of this series ..It was not the coach ..it's on the players ..Letting the oilers getting into the minds Oilers love to bring up that they have 5 cups Vancouver canucks have 0..Calgary has 1 ,so oilers can only pick on teams that have fewer cups .. Montreal has 24 ,Toronto has 13 ..So the oilers can't say anything to those teams about cups ..

[@tonyt5578]

What went wrong? They didn't come to play with a full team. On some nights, some try to do their best which has gotten them this far. On some nights, they just had so called team mates that enjoys scoring for the opponents. And most of all... they had one of the leagues most paid player who did didly for his team.

[@MariAnnMarcy]

Great vid

[@CashMacGregor]

in the handshake line mc highstick probably thanked pettersson for not showing up. i hope he finds a good sports psychologist this summer but i think he has checked out. the moment is just too big for him. a good run for the rest of the team.

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

What happened with EP40?

[@Nickh4929]

​@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavijaep40 is trash in the playoffs. He is a gaming addict and doesn't take hockey seriously

[@Seriously_Unserious]

@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija He did a lot better once he was not saddled with Makeyev, The Cursed One. When he was doing well early in the season was before Makeyev got cursed and was no longer allowed to score. Best thing the Canucks could do is never put Makeyev on a top 6 role again. Find wingers more suited to that role then he is and if they do keep him around, drop him to a bottom 6 role. He has good energy for checking and being a shut down player, but he's not, nor has ever been a scoring player. Same goes for Suter. I love him as a 3rd or 4th line guy, but he's not a top line winger! While the Canucks do have more depth then your average team, they do still have those 2 glaring holes in their lineup that they need to spend the off season patching up. Maybe drop the Makeyevs and the Suters back to the bottom 6 and find a combination that involves Joshua and Garland in the top 6, Lord knows, the Life Line duo's earned a shot at being a top line after last season's performance. maybe put them up in line 2 with Lindholm if they can bring him back, and make The Lotto Line their regular 1st line.

[@artlyc]

@@Seriously_Unserious Many passengers will be gone next year .... Mikhayev (either salary dump trade or buyout), Lafferty, Cole), Hronek if he doesn't get the supposed 7.8mil/season refusal extension

[@aidenemacdonald]

Garland is such a stud! Great showing by him

[@nicholasanderson8075]

Get rid of PD.. He drives me nuts and now he's a eleven million dollar player ---> STAY ON YOUR FEET !!

[@ProvingBeatle16]

Simple answer really, they didn’t have the playoff experience necessary to make it all the way to the end, they needed a test run to give them that experience and this gave them all that they need to do even better next time

[@rdeh1678]

Dallas will bully the oilers

[@Wihfz]

keep crying🤣

[@ejjs26]

Maybe, but I think the Oilers can put up a really solid series

[@RC30018]

It didn't matter who wins yesterday game Dallas will annihilate either team that team look scary.

[@knucksandboltz9908]

Hey! GIO does this series remind you of the 2017 climb of the VANCOUVER CANUCKS and the LA KINGS on top of the GREAT WALL 0F CHINA where the LA KINGS took a slide down from the GREAT WALL and VANCOUVER CANUCKS climbing the GREAT WALL without their LOGO while the LA KINGS have theirs? Do you remember who the ambassador of the NHL for the CHINA GAMES? Did that occasion on top of the GREAT WALL perfectly predicted that? Did BROCK BOESER just do a DEREK DORSETT exit? Was DEREK DORSETT part of that 2017 CHINA GAMES? What is gonna happen within 2 years that same thing happened 2 years after 2017? The TRUTH is IT IS SCARING ME what is next. Can we SURVIVE it?

[@justinstein4712]

Sucks for the Canucks being eliminating thought there were gonna win the Stanley Cup

[@kolasillers7776]

Pettersson forgot how to play ice hockey.

[@NeilPhillipMelly]

Too busy counting the $$$ from his new undeserved contract to improve his game

[@lucillereyes3169]

Something is wrong ! They should check him out!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@Tubtim7369]

Petterson needs better wingers. Cannot put players who cannot score goals to play with him. Too many missed opportunities will drag down his confidence. Need to reflect mentally why Canucks in multiple games in both series only show up last 10 minutes of the game. They have the talent, skills and dynamics to show up a lot earlier to attack wave-by-wave but they didn't. Is it because they are tired? Inexperienced? Lack of preparation? Defensive structure? Stressful? Coaching? Need hockey psychologist to help players to diagnose and overcome their mental difficulties

[@allenrequieron1316]

all i observed last night game is that all the canucks organization chocked up. from the players as will as the couching staff, they could not anticipate mistakes and didn't correct it. well, its just a game and hope they will make and do the job next season......

[@artlyc]

Power Play will need a major overhaul... too predictable and no finish.... too much passing around and perimeter shooting ,,, need to get more shots through overhaul (you cannot win or score goals if you can't get the puck through)

[@loganprevost9804]

Hughes scored more goals in the first 45 seconds of this video than he did in 7 games against the Oilers.

[@BaoNguyen-bh2rk]

They were overcoached. Tocchet needs to give his best skilled players the green light to break out of "structure". That's what AV did with the Sedins.

[@chelseafcfanisy]

Ran out of gas. Also Mikheyev is useless. The end.

[@CC-of5xl]

Hopefully the Oilers learn their lesson here or Dallas while end them fast. When they play to score they're almost unbeatable at both ends. They have to stop sitting back and just giving the other team the puck when they're leading.

[@anthonyteichroeb917]

Do Edm/Van fans hate e/o more than BOA?

[@visionquest520]

Yah my oilers pulled out the win!! Sorry canucks for your team losing. They made a series of it, played hard had solid goaltending. When you make playoffs you don't really know what you have, now you do. You've made playoffs now you gotta build on your success it useually takes a couple tries noone comes out and just takes it all. great teams get beat before they win. The oilers of the 80's lost to the islanders. The future looks bright in vancouver should make the playoffs next couple yrs just gotta sign a few scorers and maybe a defensemen and depending on boeser maybe a 2nd line center. petey is the big question tho. hughes got a taste but still pretty young.

[@keithwilson4493]

the canucks played till the end and im oilers fan btw

[@Mikegritz]

What a game 7 choke! But I still blame the Vegas Golden Knights cheating made oilers a better team. Nucks are so soft…

[@dougstewart3243]

Rutherford said if everything goes well we make the playoffs, next year they can try to win the Pacific

[@Nickh4929]

They already did win the pacific in regular season

[@kaylanclintc.s2051]

Petterson no show brock Z And garland line was the only one going also Silovs bright azz future but Petterson cud have won the Canucks game 7 alone my opinion 😉

[@Smallerexia]

Canucks have potential, they just need to show up on time, not 50 minutes after

[@vinmangob8555]

It's Hockey.

[@jeniasmackay7931]

Well, Oilers are just better then the Canucks. Easy

[@pauls6416]

Let’s go Rangers

[@deanchar108]

Lame flex