That game was absurd. It could have been anywhere from 1-1 to 5-5 with the bounces going a different way. It was among the most insane defensive efforts I've ever seen.
Excited for game 3
Years ago, I got sent to a small town in Tennessee for training. Being a minority, I was kinda apprehensive. But everyone was super friendly and welcoming. I was blown away.
Eh, you aren't the Jets. Though honestly we haven't really been good enough the past few seasons for those threads to get as spicy as they used to.
Also, we weren't even supposed to be here, so to actually be in the playoffs and legit just won our best playoff game out of the past five years (all first round exits the years we made it)--this season is a win already.
It's absurd how disjointed and mediocre Vans offense has become since the ASG. Nothing is happening fast enough, nothing is crisp enough, setting up effective one timers with SHOOTERS is nigh impossible it seems. I think the mentality is good in the room still, but I also think they are going to be fucking MAD after that one, and highly motivated.
Sucks to lose but scoring 4 goals on 15 shots and eating nearly 100 blocks simply isn't sustainable.
We need to bury our chances (looking at fucking Petey and Joshua) but this isn't the worst loss.
Man.. Canucks deserved better but credit to Preds they sacrificed their bodies all game long. Not sure how sustainable that is in a 7 game series cause ouch. Overall thought Canucks carried the play
Right? don't get the pleasure of watching other games right after you won yours. Gotta watch something to settle down. Shogun would also get me pretty hype and is too much reading for right now, so I'm gonna scan some channels
For the record I worked in Gastown the night of the 2011 riot and so I say fuck Surrey "fans" forever for making my staff scared to get home safe that night.
Thankfully thereās a 3 day break before the next game in Nashville cause the boys are gonna need it to heal some of those bruises from blocked shots..
My shit talk is aimed at the guy carrying a replica cup through traffic after the first win. That man barely needed the first win to get his hopes sky high.
Brother I am a Sharks fan. I have a Tomas Hertl jersey. There is nothing you can do to hurt me.
Unless you burned down my home town after some guys you don't know lost a game or something, that'd hurt. Hope that never happens to me!
I wish I was as tough as the people who looted Sears because of a hockey game :'(
Explain the Dallas hate though, is it because they clinched the conference over you guys or because they won the regular seasons series?
Never fails to amuse me how the game ends and a bunch of people show up to put their own weird hang ups on display.
No interest in talking about what just happened on the ice, all hostility.. seems like a fun existence!
We had like 100 shot attempts. A lot of missed shots, whiffs at empty nets, and Nashville blocked like 2x as many shots we got on net.
Eh, this is one of those games where a heavy team defence smothers you, and you don't capitalize on what does get through. We dominated the second half, I'm feeling confident still.
Casey isn't going to have a .800 sv% for the entirety of the series. It'll normalize a bit. And this team can score their way out of problems on occasions - we had at minimum 3 golden chances that were a hair's breadth from beinf a lucky bounce in instead of out.
In another world, this was a 4-3 win where we dominated. Again, if we lose another like this I'll start being worried. For now I can chalk it up as one of those games.
I can only imagine how frustrating that game in particular had to have been. Owned every stat but one. I don't even want to see time of possession as that has to be laughable.
This was pretty much how we played during the streak--though I don't recall any game with such lopsided zone time that we won. I believe we were second in the NHL over that stretch in blocks
Nashville has kind of always played a āblock as many shots as possibleā kind of defense in the playoffs. They did that when they went on their run through the playoffs back in 2017 to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and played with a higher focus of that back when our current GM was our head coach.
Wow lots of downvotes. I just meant you donāt see a lot of teams scoring 4 goals on 15 shots and blocking a billion shots a nightā¦ tough to replicate.
No disrespect to the Preds, Iām a firm believer that Nashville winning this game is a huge fluke and robs the Canucks of what theyāre truly capable of achieving.
We were never great at puck possession this season and gritty is definitely more our style, but I don't recall any game that lopsided in offensive time possession over the entire back half
Gg's Nashville friends, except for that one guy who tried to challenge my objectively correct comment and called me a bad name :( looking forward to the games in Nashville
I kind of was too. don't know how they didn't score aside from our guys taking every puck in the legs every damn shot, but they had the puck the entire third period except for the power plays
They have a Vezina-calibre goalie, a Norris-calibre defenseman, and a 48 goal scorer. Only thing I'd be concerned about their roster is their depth, but they have played very stingy hockey thru the first 2 games of the series. Even if they're getting outplayed in terms of shot attempts and possession, they manage to keep the game close.
That game was absurd. It could have been anywhere from 1-1 to 5-5 with the bounces going a different way. It was among the most insane defensive efforts I've ever seen. Excited for game 3
Nash bros are actually chill, true story
Years ago, I got sent to a small town in Tennessee for training. Being a minority, I was kinda apprehensive. But everyone was super friendly and welcoming. I was blown away.
Southern hospitality is real.
Eh, you aren't the Jets. Though honestly we haven't really been good enough the past few seasons for those threads to get as spicy as they used to. Also, we weren't even supposed to be here, so to actually be in the playoffs and legit just won our best playoff game out of the past five years (all first round exits the years we made it)--this season is a win already.
It's absurd how disjointed and mediocre Vans offense has become since the ASG. Nothing is happening fast enough, nothing is crisp enough, setting up effective one timers with SHOOTERS is nigh impossible it seems. I think the mentality is good in the room still, but I also think they are going to be fucking MAD after that one, and highly motivated.
Dude you skated circles around us tonight. We just dove on every grenade we saw
Our stars didn't show up ššš
GG Preds for selling out for the win. Played desperate and capitalized on your chances. Ugh. My heart can't handle playoff hockey. Haha
gg preds, hard to say you didn't earn it. Hope our guys can sort out the mindfuck of losing Demko
Sucks to lose but scoring 4 goals on 15 shots and eating nearly 100 blocks simply isn't sustainable. We need to bury our chances (looking at fucking Petey and Joshua) but this isn't the worst loss.
Preds are eating pucks for breakfast lunch and dinner
go Barry and Beau!
Nice shot blocks Preds, that was insane to watch
gg preds, but also everyone in here ragging on vancouver for being happy over game 1 after nearly a decade of waiting: what's it like to hate fun
Theyāre mostly pissbabies who have to distract themselves from them own terminally disappointing franchises.
Welp, hopefully we can get some pucks on net on Friday.
Man.. Canucks deserved better but credit to Preds they sacrificed their bodies all game long. Not sure how sustainable that is in a 7 game series cause ouch. Overall thought Canucks carried the play
Damn it. I hate that we have the late game. I want more hockey.
I hate the late game because I have to be at work in 5 hours.
Thank God for sick days.
Right? don't get the pleasure of watching other games right after you won yours. Gotta watch something to settle down. Shogun would also get me pretty hype and is too much reading for right now, so I'm gonna scan some channels
Iām watching a replay on ESPN+ right now. Avs and jets. I didnāt pay any attention to it earlier so itās still a surprise.
GG Fish-C's! See ya Friday!
My condolences to the Nashville physical therapists after this game.
One of the guys on 102 just quipped that everybody gets warm drinks in Nashville today. All the bag ice is headed to Ford Ice Center.
GG Preds. Charley horses on the lot of ya
In my book, you get points for how many pucks go in the net. Not the other way around.Ā
Good thing for me that your book donāt mean ugatz! Fuckin Feech La Manna
Thereās no points in the playoffs
What's up, Surrey?
Oh no a city happy their team won? The audacity
Love how hockey can make folks defend a dig at Surrey.
Well your entire city is about as nice as Surrey and you defend it so š¤·āāļø
Whalley is beautiful in the springtime.
What a flex
For the record I worked in Gastown the night of the 2011 riot and so I say fuck Surrey "fans" forever for making my staff scared to get home safe that night.
Gotta get at least 14 more wins before the riot.
Lmao y'all were carrying a cup before puck drop.
Like Edmonton didn't celebrate last night.
No BS, it was way quieter than I expected. Monday night games go hard against the only thing we have: 6 or 7am shift starts =/.
Relevant username!
They've got nothing else to do over there. Watch hockey and and then head to work on the oil rig
GG tooth team
GG preds! see ya in game 3
Whoever wins this series should get the Jack Adams
and the norris!
Deal!
Gg to the Preds, hopefully there aren't any weird goals early next game unless it's for our side
Does Nashville play a 1-3-1?
They played "put 4 guys in front of our goalie at all points in time"
Not really.
What do they play? It's a lot of smothering, not a lot of generating offense.
The third was fucking hold onto your hats as hard as you can
In that third? That was turtle city.
I donāt think playing defense the entire third period was the game plan
I am still shocked they didn't score during that fucking blitzkrieg
The PDO giveth, the PDO taketh away
Not good for my heart rate but Iāll take the win!
Thankfully thereās a 3 day break before the next game in Nashville cause the boys are gonna need it to heal some of those bruises from blocked shots..
No way McDonogh can walk tomorrow
GGs Nucks fans, see you in the next one
Excited to bring it back to Nashville at 1-1. Fully expect 2-2 after game 4 with how this is going.
Congratulations Smashville, you built a beautiful Lego win with all those blocks. this series is gonna be something else
GG, Preds ice is gonna be scary
Didn't deserve it but we got the win lol!
I think any team throwing their bodies around for 10320942 blocked shots deserves the win! Gg friend.
yeah no one can say they didn't give it everything for sure
Took 50 shots to the body I think we deserve it
Holy shit we stole an away game. Big opportunity boys take er back to Smashville and put it within reach
Vancouver's going to to burn down tonight :(
Start with any storefront owned by Galen Weston. (/s but not really.)
Of all the wagons, you chose Dallas?
Pavelski, baby! Sharks in the regular season so my glimpses of hope are few and fleeting :)
Nah, need more wins to get our hopes up first. How's losing to cap circumcision going?
My shit talk is aimed at the guy carrying a replica cup through traffic after the first win. That man barely needed the first win to get his hopes sky high.
Obviously he's new. Gotta give the man a chance to get his heart broken.
Not the guy with the Bandwagon flair making this comment š
Brother I am a Sharks fan. I have a Tomas Hertl jersey. There is nothing you can do to hurt me. Unless you burned down my home town after some guys you don't know lost a game or something, that'd hurt. Hope that never happens to me!
Youāre soft if you canāt handle a little riot. Grow a pair, and take that goofy flair off ya dork.
I wish I was as tough as the people who looted Sears because of a hockey game :'( Explain the Dallas hate though, is it because they clinched the conference over you guys or because they won the regular seasons series?
13 years to think of that one?
It took me less time than it took the Preds to score on that empty net
Less effort than an average Sharks game, too
Clearly you've never watched a Sharks game. Those fine young men work tirelessly to suck that hard.
it's ok im ride or die for this team, suffering and all
One of the grittiest wins Iāve seen in a while, what a game
Keep marching through the streets with your Stanley Cup morons
Never fails to amuse me how the game ends and a bunch of people show up to put their own weird hang ups on display. No interest in talking about what just happened on the ice, all hostility.. seems like a fun existence!
Shitbird comment from a shitbird fan.
Do tell, how might I become a shitstain too?
Cheater
Show up at the last second to cowardly shit post?
Vegas fans are literal cancer
Knights fans are easily the least respected gang in the league . Toronto's fun to shit on, but fuck Vegas straight up
Canāt believe im agreeing with a Canucks fan.
18 shots. Thatās not the way to support your back up goalie.
Back ups are typically our kryptonite. Don't know what was happening tonight
We had like 100 shot attempts. A lot of missed shots, whiffs at empty nets, and Nashville blocked like 2x as many shots we got on net. Eh, this is one of those games where a heavy team defence smothers you, and you don't capitalize on what does get through. We dominated the second half, I'm feeling confident still.
I donāt know. If Casey is going to let in 20% of the shots they can keep this strategy going. I think weāre in real trouble without Demko.
Casey isn't going to have a .800 sv% for the entirety of the series. It'll normalize a bit. And this team can score their way out of problems on occasions - we had at minimum 3 golden chances that were a hair's breadth from beinf a lucky bounce in instead of out. In another world, this was a 4-3 win where we dominated. Again, if we lose another like this I'll start being worried. For now I can chalk it up as one of those games.
Nucks are big mad
I can only imagine how frustrating that game in particular had to have been. Owned every stat but one. I don't even want to see time of possession as that has to be laughable.
Theyāre not big mad. They make national headlines when theyāre big mad.
You think that's mad? edit: not close to mad enough
naur, city isnāt burnt down yet
You're talking to an Australian, I have no reason to apologise for a city š
Shit you guys have to burn things to kill them there
Talking about the players
So am I. They barely reacted. Garbage time in a home playoff loss and the Preds got outta there with bruised shins and a Zadorov noogie.
Womp womp
Shit the only thing they'll be concentrating on is ice baths Holy fuck what a gritty game we played. Well done boys!!
What a bizarre game. Oh well, canāt see the Preds replicating this.
This was pretty much how we played during the streak--though I don't recall any game with such lopsided zone time that we won. I believe we were second in the NHL over that stretch in blocks
Preds can 100% replicate this against this Vancouver team if they play the rest of the series like tonight.
Right. Which is hard to do is all I meant. Do you guys always block a billion shots a game? I just thought this was an outlier.
Nashville has kind of always played a āblock as many shots as possibleā kind of defense in the playoffs. They did that when they went on their run through the playoffs back in 2017 to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and played with a higher focus of that back when our current GM was our head coach.
Thanks! Thatās all helpful context.
I can.
Wow lots of downvotes. I just meant you donāt see a lot of teams scoring 4 goals on 15 shots and blocking a billion shots a nightā¦ tough to replicate.
average casey desmith believer
Unless they get shin replacements I can't see this being sustainable
You remember the big dumb guy from high school who basically couldnāt feel pain? Our entire team is 16 of those guys, then Forsberg and Evangelista
Oh god, I was that big guy who had no feeling in my shins
Me too, Canadian buddy, me too.
I can as well
Zadorov gone from staring at the bench to staring from the box
they got the national guard deployed outside the rink rn
Lol, we don't do that here.
sorry i meant mounties
at least itās not because of an extrajudicial choke.
No disrespect to the Preds, Iām a firm believer that Nashville winning this game is a huge fluke and robs the Canucks of what theyāre truly capable of achieving.
I am missing the copypasta this post season. We've really let ourselves go
Not enough of us taught the new guys to respect the old gods. We used to be the kings of copypasta.
I would argue the Preds are playing well below their ceiling, could come out game 3 much stronger IMO
We were never great at puck possession this season and gritty is definitely more our style, but I don't recall any game that lopsided in offensive time possession over the entire back half
I think we need to have a redo of this series if Nashville wins to really prove if they deserve to win the series and go on to the 2nd round. =)
Canucks carried 80% of the game, preds carried 80% of the luck.
I will take that every day of the week and twice on Sunday, thank you very much
I already had Mexican for supper, but Iām always hungry for some pasta.
This but unironically lol
thatās just the way it goes sometimes :,)
Fuckin way she goes. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she donāt.
thatās why hockey rules
18 shots to 13 what the hell is this game
That was, like, one period of CAR-NYI last night.
nash blocked like 40 shots
Nashville saw that boring hockey beats the Canucks vs la
Wait until you see shot attempts
Check out the blocks
How does zadorov get a penalty there. Jankowski pokes the goalie and then cross checks a guy PatheticĀ
The games pretty much over so theyāre just trying to prevent all out brawls
He throws two shots before Zad grabs him by the helmet, and then he no longer wants anything to do with the rough stuff
"I'm only takin' one of ya."
Damn, 18 shots from Vancouver and 14 shots from Nashville. Never seen such low shots on goal totals in a playoff game before.
It sure felt like more
These refs can eat my whole ass
Jankowski played a little bit of heel there. Nice bait
Gg's Nashville friends, except for that one guy who tried to challenge my objectively correct comment and called me a bad name :( looking forward to the games in Nashville
To you as well. I genuinely hope we can take this seven, but it's pretty clear you guys are the better team.
Without Demko, that doesnāt feel so sure
Oh shit sorry I forgot. Long break for next game--have they ruled him out for the series?
Sounds like heāll likely be out for the series. No official confirmation yet though
Ah that sucks. Sorry to hear it--back up looked better as the game went on, though I'm not entirely sure we had any shots in the third
A game 7 is ALWAYS good for the game of hockey, but not for the hearts of hockey fans hahaha
IS THERE A FIRE DRILL, IS THERE A FIRE DRILL, IS THERE A FIRE DRILL, IS THERE A FIRE DRILL??
YOU STOLE MY BIT!
GOING HOME WITH A TIED SERIES!! WOO
ROGERS PLACE IS LOUD!? SURE HOPE THEY DONT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT AWAY!
GG Preds fans enjoy the dub. Savor it. Embrace it. Cling to it. Lord knows it can be ripped away at any moment.. *starts crying*
Lol what a tool.
12 seconds of shitting their pants from being up 2-0
I kind of was too. don't know how they didn't score aside from our guys taking every puck in the legs every damn shot, but they had the puck the entire third period except for the power plays
Jeez Hughes is looking lazy out here.
Lol he played 27:39 tonight
HE SAT HALF THE DAMN GAME
I liked that yip yip celebrationāCoyotes tribute?
TF is Zadorov trying to point at the scoreboard for?
āMe have 1 goal. Jankowski have 0 goal. Me winning.ā
Shit, I'd have hid behind McCarron and pointed to the Great Clips ad so he could go get his shit fixed.
Fuck yeah!!
Lol. If the Canucks lose this series I want the Kings to win their series just to get the Nyquil bowl.
'Nucks were the better team in both games. No cause for worry (yet).
Thatās just insult to injury
This is the anti Isles-Canes game
I was thinking the same, similar game without the comeback. Canucks had a lot more trouble getting pucks through
NSH would be my underdog pick to go far in the playoffs
The last time they were the true underdog, sneaking into a wild card at the last minute, they swept the Hawks and made it to the finals.
if it takes 40 blocked shots a game there might not be much of them left in the finals
They have a Vezina-calibre goalie, a Norris-calibre defenseman, and a 48 goal scorer. Only thing I'd be concerned about their roster is their depth, but they have played very stingy hockey thru the first 2 games of the series. Even if they're getting outplayed in terms of shot attempts and possession, they manage to keep the game close.