[GDT] Vancouver Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers | May 20th, 6:00PM PT | Round 2, Game 7 (Series tied 3-3)

[Dumb Nuck]

It's one game, anything can happen, Skinner is in net, go Nucks, who's reffing?

[PhillipBlunt]

for Brock 

[trek604]

I hope we win tomorrow. Being realistic I don't think we'll make it to the cup but just eliminate the smug oilers. Then I can safely book my work trip to Edmonton without them being insufferable.

[Rocket-68]

13 minutes ago, Captain Kirk said:

Was thinking we had a chance with a full lineup now not so much.......Sigh. I'm getting old and don't know how many more years i have guys, been cheering for them almost 40 years and still no cup, i'm starting to think it just wasn't meant to be in my lifetime?

We will host the chalice in your lifetime and mine. I believe it will be this year and until the final buzzer sounds will continue supporting our team.

 

Go Canucks Go. Game 7 for Brock! SCF for the rest of us.

[bishopshodan]

2 minutes ago, Dumb Nuck said:

It's one game, anything can happen, Skinner is in net, go Nucks, who's reffing?

yep .

skinner sucks.

pepper that meal. 

[I_AM_CANUCKIAN]

1 minute ago, Rocket-68 said:

We will host the chalice in your lifetime and mine. I believe it will be this year and until the final buzzer sounds will continue supporting our team.

 

Go Canucks Go. Game 7 for Brock! SCF for the rest of us.

Whatever Rocket-68 said.  I'm down!

[Jaimito]

I missed the Tocchet joke today.  It wasn't on the video. 

 

 

 

With Boeser out, Canucks must rely on trademark resilience in Game 7

 

Courtney Jacobsen |

May 19, 2024, 10:42 PM

 

VANCOUVER — Rick Tocchet started his Sunday afternoon meeting with the media by dropping a bomb.

 

"Before we start, (Thatcher) Demko is starting for us tomorrow."

 

He doubled down, too, before relenting.

 

"I'm joking."

 

This was the affable head coach's way of diffusing tensions after the Vancouver Canucks failed to close out their second-round series in six games, thus forcing a winner-take-all Game 7 at Rogers Arena on Monday night. Likely not how the team envisioned ending their second-round series, but it's the high-stakes situation they find themselves in after a 5-1 pounding from the Edmonton Oilers.

 

Tocchet's message to the team after that dismal Game 6 was to stay the course. As a coach, he isn't going to drastically change the way he manages the bench. Stick to the strategies and systems that have made this team so successful through the regular season and the first round.

 

Two hours after Tocchet left the podium, that task became a lot taller.

 

It all comes down to this. The Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers will play a winner-take-all Game 7 on Monday night with a chance to advance to the Western Conference Final.

 

EP Rinkside's Irfaan Gaffar first reported that forward Brock Boeser would not be available for Monday's Game 7. Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman confirmed that it was due to a blood clotting issue that is, thankfully, not life or career-threatening.

 

The Canucks have often used the word "resilient" to describe themselves, but that mantra has never been put to the test more frequently than this post-season. An early injury sidelined their Vezina Trophy-finalist starting goalie, thrusting backup Casey DeSmith and then third-stringer Arturs Silovs into the Canucks' first real playoff spotlight since 2015.

 

They weathered that storm, advancing to Round 2 and playing a hard-fought series against an Oilers team who many believed were too tough an opponent for this Vancouver squad. Now, they'll be asked to do it again, this time without their playoff points leader.

 

"The good thing about Game 7 is it's one game, right," J.T. Miller said, before the news about his linemate broke. "We just have to put all our energy and focus on that game."

 

Boeser's ailment is not just a loss for the player himself — who has overcome tremendous hardships in his personal life and is enjoying his most successful regular and post-season in the NHL yet — but for the team as well. The longest-tenured Canuck, Boeser is popular with this roster and his contributions on the ice cannot be overstated.

 

The good news? The Canucks have seen adversity, and they've been able to rise to the occasion. This is the first time these playoffs that they are facing elimination and they have yet to lose back-to-back games this spring.

 

"The moment can't be too big for us. It's something we need to embrace," defenceman Ian Cole said. "Game 7 is do or die at this point, so we're going to need to flush everything that's happened up to this point."

 

"This group, we're fighters," Carson Soucy added. "Right from training camp, we came in with the mindset that this year was going to be different. We've kind of showed that throughout the year, the ups and downs, we're going to come back next game ready to play."

 

 

Though lacking playoff experience as a group, the Canucks have individuals who have been in this position before — Cole won two Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Miller appeared in five playoff runs before joining the Canucks and just last year, Soucy played in Game 7s in back-to-back rounds with the Seattle Kraken.

 

Playing in front of an energized home crowd in Rogers Arena, those veterans know what it's going to take to win.

 

"It's always going to be stressful and, in some regards, anxiety-inducing, but if you can approach it with the right mentality, you can kind of use that as a performance booster," Cole said. "It's a very fine line between hitting that flow state, if you will, and being nervous, so we're going to try to handle it as best we can.

 

"I think everyone's aware of the opportunity that we have. I mean, we're in a Game 7 against, you know, an extremely good hockey team that no one gave us a chance to really be in the series with, so we're in a good spot."

 

Each game is a fresh slate in the playoffs, so with sights firmly set on Monday's showdown, Saturday's disappointment is in the rearview. If the Canucks want to have a fighting chance at meeting Dallas in the Western Conference Final, though, they need to remember the staples that got them to this point, especially in the absence of a top-line winger.

 

"You've done it all year. Just replay those good things in your head. That's really what it comes down to," Tocchet said.

 

They know what it takes to beat the Oilers — they've done it seven times this season. But the final win is the hardest to achieve and Edmonton will be just as hungry for it. To win Game 7, the Canucks will need urgency and heroics from up and down their lineup.

 

"We preach the crest. It's the Vancouver Canucks, it's not individualism around here," Tocchet said. "A hero to me is, it could be as simple as getting that puck at a certain time. I know it sounds funny, but it's a good change. It's a blocked shot."

 

It takes a village — the Canucks, of all teams, know this well. They can bend in the absence of Boeser, but they can't break. They've beaten adversity once, now they have the opportunity to do it again.

 

 

 

 

[AnotherCanucksFan]

Just read about Boeser. Like it wasn't enough of a kick in the nuts to lose Demko TWICE, we lose Boeser for our Game 7 and one chance to get to the Conference Finals. The last time we got to the Western Finals was in 2010-11 - the year we went to the Stanley Cup.

I can't wait another f#cking 13 years until we get this far again!!!!

 

F###################################CK!

 

Who is going to pair with Miller now that Boeser is out?

[Jaimito]

4 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said:

for Brock 

 

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/99/9970b36a89286ccf4fa7fdb4b395ce7203b6a06a18076573136e1581ca715f6d.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

[Dumb Nuck]

I knew I should have posted this before the last game and regret not doing so but here it is: Hey @-dlc- put on your lucky underwear.

[Slegr]

7 minutes ago, Dumb Nuck said:

It's one game, anything can happen, Skinner is in net, go Nucks, who's reffing?

Like we really have to ask who’s reffing.

Our boy Keith S is waiting.

[Dumb Nuck]

Just now, Slegr said:

Like we really have to ask who’s reffing.

Our boy Keith S is waiting.

Yeah, that scares me, such a huge lump of shit.

[gwarrior]

Gotta roll with the punches and find a way to win. 

[Vancan]

18 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Bingo. And as a person who had a stroke 8 years ago. It can be due to many things.

Mine was High Blood Pressure, and type II diabetes.

Basically my body was telling me to take care of myself better.

Blood clots can also happen from impacts. Hockey players are in a high impact sport.

So unless you are a Doctor and have Brock's results from testing. Maybe stop the diagnoses.

 

 

Never will happen nowadays, and not because they think there doctors, or know it all's. Its because they get sucked into all the social media crap and reading media manipulation. Most people can skip over the click-bait, fake news shit, but some fall hard for it. Thinking the internet is going nowhere so this is life. 

[mmkk]

Are you serious Sutherland is reffing another Canucks game 7??? That pos shouldn't be allowed to ref another Canucks game. Someone should dump a whole bottle of laxatives in his drink before the game.

[Cromeslab]

No discussion on what ifs do or die game 7 lets fukin go!

 

GO CANUCKS!!!!

[NucksNation]

1 hour ago, -dlc- said:

To the rocket scientists here.

 

You know what can cause blood clots? Sitting for too long (on an airplane, bench, wherever).

 

So let's not be unqualified doctors and diagnose this. We have no idea and it's a shame that Brock's going through this and we'll lose him. But the last thing we need is the anti vaxers using this as an in. Don't bother....Canucks organization has NO TIME for that crap and neither do we. Just ask that weirdo singer we used to have.

 

 

You know what else causes blood clots? The Vaccine. The fact pple like you are trying to pretend it doesn’t is pretty fucking weird considering I know multiple pple with major issues from having g multiple vaccines confirmed by their doctors. That weirdo singer? Seriously? Correct break it to you but he’s clearly a lot smarter than you. But what do you expect  from an old woman obsessed with Miller who has a family and kids and spends her life on a message board arguing with literally everyone. Talk about weird.

[NucksNation]

4 hours ago, Pears said:

Please shut up this has nothing to do with vaccines. 

Oh did they tell you that? What are you all gonna do in a few years when the truth comes out like it already is? 

[Hogs and Podz]

Petey has to be a difference maker...  He's an emotional guy.   I think Boes,  his buddy, being out because of unfair shitty circumstances, he'll be dialed in.   I can see this being Petey's best game of the playoffs.  

[Sergiomomesso]

Let’s go boys. 
 

Hope for a repeat of game 5. 
 

[Hogs and Podz]

1 minute ago, NucksNation said:

Oh did they tell you that? What are you all gonna do in a few years when the truth comes out like it already is? 

Look...  I chose not to take the vaccine...  But that doesn't give me,  you or others that did the right to be a total douche bag.   Shut it.   You're not convincing anyone that you know anything except being a prick...  

[Chicken.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

please win

[Breadnbutta]

Miller's line plays a dump, dig around the boards and cycle around to look for a slot shot. It's very effective if done correctly.

 

I could see Karlsson replacing Brock as he is very good along the boards.

 

Originally in an earlier comment I mentioned that this could be Lekeremakis time to shine but it's probably not wise to throw a rookie in the top 6 in game 7 lol. 

 

So I'd say Karlsson or Raty 

 

We have seen enough of Mikheyev, this is a top 6 role, we don't want to mess up the chemistry in the top 6

 

I know the 2 I mentioned are also rookies but I don't think Lek has ever even played on NA ice.

Edited May 20 by Breadnbutta

[Toni Zamboni]

LFG!!!

[Dumb Nuck]

10 minutes ago, NucksNation said:

You know what else causes blood clots? The Vaccine. The fact pple like you are trying to pretend it doesn’t is pretty fucking weird considering I know multiple pple with major issues from having g multiple vaccines confirmed by their doctors. That weirdo singer? Seriously? Correct break it to you but he’s clearly a lot smarter than you. But what do you expect  from an old woman obsessed with Miller who has a family and kids and spends her life on a message board arguing with literally everyone. Talk about weird.

Can you take it to the appropriate thread, I’m here supporting my team, I don’t give a shit wether you got your shots or not nor your logic for the choices you made.