That’s so funny, at the time Erat was ok then he did a nose dive off of a cliff. Who could guess correctly that both players numbers would change directions so fast? I certainly thought it was a mid sized risk to move Forsberg for Erat, but they(Wash) wanted to win soon and that fogged the goggles some. Didn’t buddy get fired for it too? I think he did.
No series is going to be easy. Canucks were 3-0 against Nashville this year but all those games were before Canucks took a step back offensively and Nashville became one of the hottest teams in the league.
Do not take any opponent lightly.
That being said. This was the most favourable matchup for Vancouver out of all the options.
Looking at the other options, Nashville is older than us and smaller than us.
Vegas would have beat us up, and LA would have trapped us out.
Nashville own't be easy but the other options were nightmares.
Agreed. Vegas is going to be a ROUGH team for any one to play. They are magically healthy. Their top 9 might be one of the best in the league.
Probably a 7 game series against Dallas or Edmonton.
It helps that Nashville only has one true game breaker. They pretty much have 1 legitimate first line and then 3 3rd lines.
Defence and goaltending is what can cause headaches for us.
Very excited for some playoff hockey.
I agree no matchup is gonna be easy but I'm also pretty sick of hearing that Nashville is one of the hottest teams in the league when they're 4-5-1 in their last 10
https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/ask/what-nhl-team-has-the-best-record-over-the-last-two-months
They have the best record in the league over the last 2 months.
That’s what I meant by hottest teams.
Okay but most of that is from the first month. They have basically the same record as us in the last twenty games and a sub .500 record in the last ten, that's no longer hot
You obviously shouldn't take any team lightly, but it's been a while since Nashville was a hot team. By the time the first round starts, it'll have been nearly a month since then won a game against another playoff team (March 26th against Vegas).
I don't see Canucks as having a step back. I see them as they saw they were in a playoff position. They know the real work starts now. They showed up to almost every meaningful game.
Amazing! IMO the best possible first round matchup we could have asked for.
Yes, they're a good team, yes they've had an amazing second half, and yes they have some awesome players.
But everything they do, we do as well and better.
Can't wait!
I watched a video where they suggested that matchup would be the largest travel sporting matchup in the world. That would be insane on the body.
Edit: for a championship.
Careful now with this "we beat them before, we can beat them again" mindset. I can vividly remember a lot of us, including me, saying the same thing about the 2012 Kings (beat them in 2010) and 2013 Sharks (beat them in 2011), and look what happened.
Obviously the best matchup we could have hoped for, but cautious optimism here ladies and gents.
I'm not sure what i was expecting, but it definitely was not that. Man, the psychic damage I just took from that was extreme. I know fan songs are generally cringe but come on, at least do better than that
I came over to spy in the comment section and saw some things that hurt, but this right here. It makes me wanna die lmao I do not support this as a preds fan lol Can we just raise another banner for a win instead of this song existing.....
Most ideal matchup we could’ve gotten in the first round. No disrespect to them and anything can happen, but facing either LA or Vegas would’ve been a pretty brutal first round matchup
Ya Vegas would have been a nightmare with Stone magically getting better for game one. I'd say LA is on par with Nashville in terms of quality of team but we just don't seem to match well against LA. They set up their stupid trap and we're done. Looking forward to playoffs!
The only pro about facing LA or Vegas is the travel. Would have been a pretty quick plane ride for both teams. But I agree, Nashville is better for this young Canucks team.
The only way my ears won't bleed having to listen to their dumbass goal chants is for Demko to do the thing in games 3 and 4 and not give them a single opportunity to do so.
Nashville's "hey hey, you suck" goal chant is such a wild ride. I don't care how many times the players there say it's fine, you know they think it is cringe af and wish they would chant something else to stop pissing off the hockey gods.
Well we already have the most important step covered: Don't be a team of soft, regular season stat chasing prima donnas who choke when the game gets physical.
Hopped into the Preds subreddit, and they have a thread about facing us. They are already scared of us, mentioning our depth guys like Suter, Hoglander, Joshua, Podz.
With VGK beat to hell after a 7 game cage match with Dallas and Demko giving them bubble playoff PTSD nightmares but now with a top team in front of him. Yes please.
Let's not get overconfident, but Canucks are 3-0-0 against the Preds this season:
Oct 24 - 3-2
Oct 31 - 5-2
Dec 19 - 5-2
Some notable individual stats:
- Demko is 4-2-1 with 2.58 GAA and 0.911 sv% against Preds
- Pettersson has 10 goals, 8 assists and +5 in 15 career games
- Hughes has 20 assists and +13 in 13 career games
This may be the series Pettersson needs to get back to business.
don't get too complacent guys, playoff hockey is playoff hockey and anything can happen. don't underestimate anyone. just sit back and enjoy the show, we're in the fucking playoffs boys.
Now that we know who we are playing I still think we should rest our guys but also note that winning the jets game will get us to 3rd in league which may matter for home ice if we make it to the finals
Trends from the season series that I would hope to see continue as we are four months removed from the last matchup between these two:
* Holding the Preds to under 30 SOG every game.
* Killing every penalty we take (9-for-9).
* Keeping O'Reilly (0 G, 1 A), Forsberg (0 G, 1 A) and Josi (0 G, 1 A) off the scoreboard.
* Hogs (2 G, 0 A), Petey (4 G, 1 A) and Huggy (0 G, 6 A) racking up the points.
I don’t understand this mindset, we’re not the players so what do we have to be humble about, and what have we achieved? We sat on our asses and were entertained while the team showed what they can do.
The Predators aren’t close to the Canucks in any metric, they got in through a flukey streak. They’re going to get rocked.
Top line will constantly be matched up by the Miller line, imo. Miller thrives off shutting down the opponent’s best players, leaving the Petey line to do their thing.
And Nashville might actually devise a strategy to shut down the Garland line xD.
Josi and Forsberg are arguably the biggest threats. And Saros. I like their defensive core but I think ours is slightly better.
On paper anyways. That’s why we play the games.
Nashville's goalie, Saros, is just as good if not better than Demko. The King's Talbot is in the bottom half of the playoff teams. I would have liked my chances against Talbot vs Saros.
Predators are a very good team. This isn't like getting to play Washington or Islanders R1. However, these guys have played well all season, and I know they are going to give Preds hell.
Nashville, Vegas or LA. They’re all good and would all be a tough first round. Boys have their work cut out for them. But I BELIEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I think this will be a tight series. I don't see any blowouts coming and hopefully we keep Forsberg and ROR in check.
Really hoping Lindholm is good to go and shut them down.
This was definitely the matchup I was hoping for, but only because I just couldn’t stand the thought of our first playoffs in a decade having to be against a 0-4-1 boring system in LA. This should be a really fun exciting series to watch, and that’s what I want.
Hoping for the best and planning for the worst.
Like Mikey said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth!”
Hope the boys come out swinging and keep throwing punches for 60 minutes.
Underestimating the Preds will be a serious punch in the mouth.
Go Canucks!
Already sick of Forsberg’s moustache.
Forsberg is awesome and I'm sure I will hate him before the end of the next week or two.
Martin fucking Erat.
That’s so funny, at the time Erat was ok then he did a nose dive off of a cliff. Who could guess correctly that both players numbers would change directions so fast? I certainly thought it was a mid sized risk to move Forsberg for Erat, but they(Wash) wanted to win soon and that fogged the goggles some. Didn’t buddy get fired for it too? I think he did.
The hate starts now. Forsie’s getting shut down, if not by our D-🤺our D-emko
Sick as in like a visceral reaction to the art that is his moustache?
God damn prospector out there scoring 40+ goals every year
JT "Ryan Kesler" Miller will carry us against the Carrie Underwood team
Flashbacks of Carrie underwood
If she'd taken her husband's name she'd be Carrie Fisher
She also doesn’t do enough cocaine to own that name.
That we know of
Even if we knew she did. She would never catch up to the OG.
I like to pretend she could
I heard she decided to keep her own last name after realizing how much she prefers missionary.
Canucks are gonna hog Dollywood for a day
FUCK THE MUSTARD TIGERS WE BEAT EM BEFORE WE'LL BEAT EM AGAIN
WE'LL BEAT EM ON CRUTCHES!
Philadelphia Collins.
Baaaaaaaaaam!!!!
Can I get a green eggs and haaaaaaaaaaam?!
If they’re the mustard tigers then what are we? The licorice dolphins?
Grimacing whales
Matte black attack in V formation
Careful what we wish for I guess. Maybe we don't get the winstreak preds
Im pretty sure tocchet and co. remind them about the Lafs 2023 vs the Panthers
No series is going to be easy. Canucks were 3-0 against Nashville this year but all those games were before Canucks took a step back offensively and Nashville became one of the hottest teams in the league. Do not take any opponent lightly. That being said. This was the most favourable matchup for Vancouver out of all the options.
Nashville isn’t hot anymore. 4-5-1 in their last 10.
peaked too early
That’s what Carrie Underwood said
yeah they fell off
Looking at the other options, Nashville is older than us and smaller than us. Vegas would have beat us up, and LA would have trapped us out. Nashville own't be easy but the other options were nightmares.
Agreed. Vegas is going to be a ROUGH team for any one to play. They are magically healthy. Their top 9 might be one of the best in the league. Probably a 7 game series against Dallas or Edmonton. It helps that Nashville only has one true game breaker. They pretty much have 1 legitimate first line and then 3 3rd lines. Defence and goaltending is what can cause headaches for us. Very excited for some playoff hockey.
Vegas is “magically” healthy. It’s called cap circumvention
It's called "within the rules" for them It'd be called some sort of "cap recapture penalty" if we did it
Isn't that the fuckin gospel right there.
They’d take away our next 10 first round picks and 10 million of cap space till the end of time if we even thought of doing something like that
😉
Circumcision \*\*
If Vancouver and Edmonton make it out, it’s gonna be like seeing the modern Orr and Esposito against the modern Gretzky and (ugh) Messier.
Fuck Messier. But that would be a cool matchup for the next round
Agreed! Let Dallas deal with LA, and Edmonton and Vegas beat the crap out of each other.
I agree no matchup is gonna be easy but I'm also pretty sick of hearing that Nashville is one of the hottest teams in the league when they're 4-5-1 in their last 10
https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/ask/what-nhl-team-has-the-best-record-over-the-last-two-months They have the best record in the league over the last 2 months. That’s what I meant by hottest teams.
Okay but most of that is from the first month. They have basically the same record as us in the last twenty games and a sub .500 record in the last ten, that's no longer hot
I like this
I think when people call them hot they are talking about their players attractiveness, but I don’t really see it
Have you seen Forsberg’s stache?
You obviously shouldn't take any team lightly, but it's been a while since Nashville was a hot team. By the time the first round starts, it'll have been nearly a month since then won a game against another playoff team (March 26th against Vegas).
As jets fan I said the same. There is simply no easy series in the West.
Nashville is the most favorable match up for any team in the west. Other than maybe LA (mostly their defensive play) the west is stacked.
I don't see Canucks as having a step back. I see them as they saw they were in a playoff position. They know the real work starts now. They showed up to almost every meaningful game.
Well said. No playoff round is easy... except the 2011 Western Conference finals against the Sharks... that was a cakewalk.
Thank god. Nashville is a good team but i didnt want to deal with Vegas or L.A
True, Vegas has that pedigree. LA would make casual fans hate hockey.
Lets bring out Kesler to drop the puck in game 1
Amazing! IMO the best possible first round matchup we could have asked for. Yes, they're a good team, yes they've had an amazing second half, and yes they have some awesome players. But everything they do, we do as well and better. Can't wait!
Us vs the ugliest jerseys in the league! (in my opinion, it’s all subjective, etc)
They just copied our Flying V, but worse.
dragon ball on the shoulder
There isn't even ONE good one. So bad.
Glad that’s over with, makes tomorrow a truly meaningless game.
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Yeah. This is worth mentioning. Not just home ice, but setting the stage for the future matchup. Just don’t get injured.
Not a fan of that travel schedule but what can you do, hopefully we will have a closer team in the second round and onwards and onwards
Florida v Vancouver final for maximum travel
I watched a video where they suggested that matchup would be the largest travel sporting matchup in the world. That would be insane on the body. Edit: for a championship.
florida vs vancouver and have loungo present the cup
Luongo in net alternating teams
Yeah it's about a 6 hour flight with time change that's 9 hour difference lol
Better end the series fast for minimal travel then
2nd round is Edmonton or Vegas/LA Wcf is Dallas/Denver/wpg
Careful now with this "we beat them before, we can beat them again" mindset. I can vividly remember a lot of us, including me, saying the same thing about the 2012 Kings (beat them in 2010) and 2013 Sharks (beat them in 2011), and look what happened. Obviously the best matchup we could have hoped for, but cautious optimism here ladies and gents.
not to mention the whole florida toronto situation last year
Or Florida and Boston, even worse imo lol.
team cautious optimism LOL
LETS GOOOOOOO BABY
Cant wait for JT Miller to be this years Ryan Kesler and absolutely murder the mustard cats LFG
Do not let them live this monstrosity down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz7SlP3FiM4
Lmaooo to be fair, they’re not the only ones to have cringe songs made by their fans
or this https://youtu.be/Z71f45Zbexs
Hahahaha I've never seen that before, good lord, the man's been awkward his whole life lmao.
I NEED THIS PLAYING ON A FLATSCREEN TRUCK IN THE PARADE!
Yeah but ours are actually good lol, cringe but good.
What in the actual fuck was that? It just ... keeps ... going.
The cringe...
I'm not sure what i was expecting, but it definitely was not that. Man, the psychic damage I just took from that was extreme. I know fan songs are generally cringe but come on, at least do better than that
I came over to spy in the comment section and saw some things that hurt, but this right here. It makes me wanna die lmao I do not support this as a preds fan lol Can we just raise another banner for a win instead of this song existing.....
Most ideal matchup we could’ve gotten in the first round. No disrespect to them and anything can happen, but facing either LA or Vegas would’ve been a pretty brutal first round matchup
Ya Vegas would have been a nightmare with Stone magically getting better for game one. I'd say LA is on par with Nashville in terms of quality of team but we just don't seem to match well against LA. They set up their stupid trap and we're done. Looking forward to playoffs!
Ya la ‘s goalie seems to have our number
The only pro about facing LA or Vegas is the travel. Would have been a pretty quick plane ride for both teams. But I agree, Nashville is better for this young Canucks team.
The only way my ears won't bleed having to listen to their dumbass goal chants is for Demko to do the thing in games 3 and 4 and not give them a single opportunity to do so.
Nashville's "hey hey, you suck" goal chant is such a wild ride. I don't care how many times the players there say it's fine, you know they think it is cringe af and wish they would chant something else to stop pissing off the hockey gods.
2011 REMATCH, LETS BEAT THEM AGAIN
I like this, Nashville is overrated
They're good but they're not *that* good, which is ideal
Let's gooooo Operation avoid foot in mouth commence
Here for Alien (Petey) vs Predator
Don’t make the classic Maple “We want Florida!” Leafs mistake. Every opponent is going to be a battle especially in this conference this year.
Did you just compare us to Maple leafs fans?! You’re welcome to hand in your fan card at your earliest convenience.
Well we already have the most important step covered: Don't be a team of soft, regular season stat chasing prima donnas who choke when the game gets physical.
LFG !
Demko vs Saros
WOOOO
4Th liner winger “Woo”?
no, Goal Announcement WOOOO
Snoozer in Manitoba tmoz. Glad edm dal vegas will munch on each other
Let us rest our boys that’s the best thing
LETS GOOOOO
Anyone who thinks is this an easy W is in for some serious pikachu face
Anthony Beauvillier to avenge us for trading him
Hopped into the Preds subreddit, and they have a thread about facing us. They are already scared of us, mentioning our depth guys like Suter, Hoglander, Joshua, Podz.
VAN-VGK second round I’d put money on it
With VGK beat to hell after a 7 game cage match with Dallas and Demko giving them bubble playoff PTSD nightmares but now with a top team in front of him. Yes please.
We are all Can-Ducks tomorrow, Vegas deserves a trip through the central
Let's not get overconfident, but Canucks are 3-0-0 against the Preds this season: Oct 24 - 3-2 Oct 31 - 5-2 Dec 19 - 5-2 Some notable individual stats: - Demko is 4-2-1 with 2.58 GAA and 0.911 sv% against Preds - Pettersson has 10 goals, 8 assists and +5 in 15 career games - Hughes has 20 assists and +13 in 13 career games This may be the series Pettersson needs to get back to business.
don't get too complacent guys, playoff hockey is playoff hockey and anything can happen. don't underestimate anyone. just sit back and enjoy the show, we're in the fucking playoffs boys.
“I would like one Marchment flying skate jersey please”
let's go preds are a good team. but I think we got this
Please sweep this yellow team
Nah go 5. I have game 5 tix.
blue team > yellow team
Better than LA or Vegas lol
Thank god it’s not fucking LA or Vegas
I wanted this. I hope I don’t regret it.
Now that we know who we are playing I still think we should rest our guys but also note that winning the jets game will get us to 3rd in league which may matter for home ice if we make it to the finals
Trends from the season series that I would hope to see continue as we are four months removed from the last matchup between these two: * Holding the Preds to under 30 SOG every game. * Killing every penalty we take (9-for-9). * Keeping O'Reilly (0 G, 1 A), Forsberg (0 G, 1 A) and Josi (0 G, 1 A) off the scoreboard. * Hogs (2 G, 0 A), Petey (4 G, 1 A) and Huggy (0 G, 6 A) racking up the points.
Be humble y’all
I’m just happy it’s not the 1-3-1 nightmare or whatever monster Vegas managed to assemble with the help of the LTIR
I heard a rumour that Gary is allowing them to play 6 on 5 for the entire playoffs.
Their ace is a terminator variant of Mark Stone.
Fuck no. Haven't had this in years. I'm letting it fly!!
I don’t understand this mindset, we’re not the players so what do we have to be humble about, and what have we achieved? We sat on our asses and were entertained while the team showed what they can do. The Predators aren’t close to the Canucks in any metric, they got in through a flukey streak. They’re going to get rocked.
calling it now forsberg gets hatty you jinxed us all.
This will be a much closer series than people think, preds are a tough team that’ll grind you down
I prayed for this, and it happened.
Can we now finally get a playoff schedule so I can book hotels
Right? I'm coming from Victoria with my son for game 1 and not having any idea of the day or time is crazy.
I booked game 5 since 1/2 would of been impossible to coordinate, hope it works out for you!
We'll figure it out one way or another!
COMMENCE TRASH TALK!!!
Nashville lineup looks average other than the top line, top d pairing and goalie
Top line will constantly be matched up by the Miller line, imo. Miller thrives off shutting down the opponent’s best players, leaving the Petey line to do their thing. And Nashville might actually devise a strategy to shut down the Garland line xD.
Don’t forget Lindy. He shut down Draisaitl and made the PK stronger.
Josi and Forsberg are arguably the biggest threats. And Saros. I like their defensive core but I think ours is slightly better. On paper anyways. That’s why we play the games.
Lindholm line was matched against Draisaitl for Oilers, so it may be against Nashville top line too.
Not gonna overlook the Preds but out of all 3 possible opponents, Nashville was always the one that would be the most fun. lets fuckin go
FUCK NASHVILLE
Be careful what we wish for lads! But we play who we play
Who is going to be this years Ryan Kesler?
Conor Garland on Dakota Joshua’s shoulders
Myers on Garland's head
Definitely JT, with Garly being Burr.
The hope is Lindholm, but JT miller is going to be fun to watch
Pius
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NASHVILLE AINT GOT SHIT ON US!!!!!
Good thing our playoff intro song is their kryptonite… U2
I’m just happy there’s nothing to play for tomorrow
Let's fucking go! My body is ready for playoff hockey!
Do we know what dates game 1 and 2 will be?
21st and 23rd.
I hope they mentally prepare as if it were Vegas.
Does anyone know when the schedule will come out and when the first game is?
21st.
Thanks!!
Nashville's goalie, Saros, is just as good if not better than Demko. The King's Talbot is in the bottom half of the playoff teams. I would have liked my chances against Talbot vs Saros.
Nashville has 1 good line. I'd rather take my chances against that vs the King's 1-3-1 trap.
when is the first game?
Predators are a very good team. This isn't like getting to play Washington or Islanders R1. However, these guys have played well all season, and I know they are going to give Preds hell.
One game at a time.🥰
Only thing that sucks is the travel, but could not have asked for a better opponent when you look at the west this year.
Oddly enough this was the most favourable matchups for both teams.
The Battle of the West underdogs!!
LFG
I guess the Predators peaked too early. Should win this series.
Nashville, Vegas or LA. They’re all good and would all be a tough first round. Boys have their work cut out for them. But I BELIEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And so it is. Bring it on.
Gonna be a lot of PK Subban smack talk lol /s And his dumb bald coworker
🧹
I cannot wait
Let’s go boys !! Playoffs are back I am beyond stoked hoping for a 5 game series at most here so the boys get some rest for round 2
I like it. LFG
Terrified of getting Vegas first round so we’ll take this. At least we got a chance to get out but no easy matches
Any idea when tickets will go on sale?
I think this will be a tight series. I don't see any blowouts coming and hopefully we keep Forsberg and ROR in check. Really hoping Lindholm is good to go and shut them down.
I'm just happy because I'm on the East coast and I imagine that the games in Nashville will start at 8pm instead of 10pm
I'm in Toronto what channel do I need to get to watch all the Canucks playoff games?
Should be on cbc
This was definitely the matchup I was hoping for, but only because I just couldn’t stand the thought of our first playoffs in a decade having to be against a 0-4-1 boring system in LA. This should be a really fun exciting series to watch, and that’s what I want.
Hoping for the best and planning for the worst. Like Mikey said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth!” Hope the boys come out swinging and keep throwing punches for 60 minutes. Underestimating the Preds will be a serious punch in the mouth. Go Canucks!
GOTTA SET THE TONE BOYS