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Pregame Prophet

Extra motivation playing ex-teammates like Markstrom, Tanev and Leivo. At least that's what you'd think.

But have a gut feeling we might be looking at a 'shutout game' and it won't be Holtby with the goose-egg.

Resident Media Hate Train

We are stuck with Rick Ball? ####!

How do we end up with such ####ty game callers?

#### THIS MOTHER ####ING ANNOUNCER

Sportnets would never please us like that! They barely give bieska screen time!

Still don't understand why anyone would hire Cassie Campbell or Rick Ball

Why does Alberta go out and manage to get the worst commentators

I’ll Be Missing You

PK was the difference in this game... Specifically ours sucked without Tanev... And theirs was great...with Tanev.

Gonna be weird facing marky and tanman

Gonna be wierd seeing Leivo in a Flames jersey. Marky and Tan Man too

I’ll always love you Marky and Chris but why’d you have to go to CALGARY? Imagine choosing to live in Alberta, couldn’t be me.

I love you Marky and Tanev but also #### you.

TBF, Marky had 36 million reasons to go to Calgary.

Arggggggh...Tanev in red......

Oh, NOW you sing Tanev's praises? once he leaves? ##### YOU SPORTSNET

Took Tanev moving to the flames for HNIC to give him any credit.

Block by Tanev, saved by Markstrom.

Sigh.

When did Tanev turn into Quinn Hughes with the way he's been skating and making passes tonight jfc

Losing Marky and Tanev is one thing. Losing them to Calgary is another thing.

Another entirely screwed up bull#### thing.

Gillis would never have let this happen.

These are gonna be hard to get used to
“Shot block by Tanev”
“Great save by Markstrom”

Tanev legit trolling us.

There would be nothing more insulting than a Chris Tanev goal

And Marky shutout

Fetch the Whipping Boy…(s)

https://twitter.com/user/status/1350210935416229888
oh no no no no

Why can’t Eriksson just f*** off.

I'm just holding on to the hope that this doesn't actually mean Eriksson is getting into the lineup.

Loui: I am inevitable

Eriksson was slow as hell last season and in the post-season. From all accounts, he was barely able to keep up in scrimmages.

The league has gotten faster. Adding Eriksson to the slugs we have in Beagle, Pearson, Sutter and Roussel seems like a recipe for disaster.

You have a tiny Tyler Myers and a larger Tyler Myers to choose from .... who you gonna take?

(answer is, neither. They both suck ).
Trick question.

The best way to get Virtanen`s attention is to let him watch from the press box while Bailey gets shifts with Pettersson. Otherwise known as the `wake up call`.

virtanen actually makes me want to be a fan of a different team

Waiting for Jake to do one thing correct

Virtanen is sooooooo stupid.

Horvat gains control after a puck battle and is behind the net, and just starting a breakout and Virtanen blows the zone and is out at center expecting him to make that pass through like two Calgary pla

Subtraction by Addition

Hamonic on the top pair is much scarier than a sheltered Myers.

Yeah you can talk about the perfect hockey trifecta of

SIZE

SPEED SKILL

but none of that really matters when the shadow 4th dimension appears

INTANGIBLES

Canucks PK is garbage. Trash from Hamonic

Can we get a refund on Hamonic?

Would rather have Stecher.

Travis Hamonic is not an NHL player.

Look at the trifecta of Beagle, Sutter and Hamonic getting owned.

Poor Hamonic needs a few days to get his skating in order.

#### pass from Hamonic

Dumb pass Hamonic

Forever a Meme Sam Bennett

So Sam Bennett Is not 18 anymore?

18-year-old Sam Bennett who is only 18 years old is now 24…

24 yr old Sam Bennett takes an 18 yr old’s penalty

thank god for 24 year old sam bennett

18 year old Sam Bennett.

Oh no 18 year old Sam Bennett what did you do?

You get that pull-up yet Sammy!?

Really Tilted Ice

Sure it's only 3 games in but I think it’d be real cool if the team showed up to win… Calgary is all over them. ####ing calgary.

Flames all over the Nucks

Well we can't kill a powerplay but at least we can’t score on one either. Canuck life.

Well we look like trash so far

A Few more games watching this mess and we will all be drinking. This just might never our worst team ever! Benning sucks old dirty socks.

Maybe since Marky, Tanev, and Leivo are on the ice the boys are confusing this game as a practice

If I'm Green, I am sounding off in the intermission.

Let’s all take a moment of silence for the trash bins in the Canucks locker room right now. Greener is going to Hulk out

If this is how imobile and slow our defense is gonna be all year might as well pack it in now. Let’s hope these guys get into shape soon or we’re f***ed.

Best Canucks on the ice have been the former canucks

Mony on the PP

Meh Remember the days when the canucks could kill a penalty?

Wait why is Calgary skating around on the PP? I thought you had to stand still the whole time?

Yeah.. Tanev would have covered the front of the net there.

Looks like teams have scouted our diamond pk formation from last year and know how to exploit it.

that looked way too easy

Power Kill

What an absolute #### show

this has been painful. canucks playing like they are hungover.

Too much f***ing passing.

Cant convert on a 2 man advantage...always a bad omen

Chris Tanev is still a shot blocking machine.

We look lost and discombobulated out there.

Edler isn't fast enough to cover Myers and vice versa.

Hamonic is a day late and a dollar short again.

Tanev owns the PK.

5 on 3 and we only get two decent attempts...

not gonna win games going 0/11 on the powerplay the last 2 games.

#### that was infuriating to watch. Wtf was that, why were they playing so close together. They made that way too easy to defend and get in the way of passes and shots. ####ing spread out and move the puck and force the defenders to move around. Smh

Can someone actually tell me the last time we scored on a PP? Did we in either EDM game? I feel like our PP has been such #### for so long.

Stolen Starter

Will be very interested how Markstrom does. Theoretically we know all his weaknesses

Seeing Markstrom in a Flames jersey makes me want to vomit.

Really hope Markstrom goes “thanks for the 36 million lol” and ####s the bed till retirement

Thank Benning for letting our goalie and best defender get away. Am i the only fan super pissed at this crappy gm? SErioulsly, how can any true Canuck fan be pleased with this mess?

marky * cries in swedish *

It would be the most Canucks thing if Marky shuts us out tonight

Markstrom being gifted the easiest shutout of all time by this dog#### effort

"Glove save by Markstrom"
I couldn't help but get excited to hear that, and then I realized he's not on our team anymore....

oh look
Sutter can’t score on Marky

Marky come back please we didn't mean it

I think they shut us out tonight.

damn, imagine Markstrom only having a couple of shutouts with us over 6 years then getting one against us on our very first meeting

If you told me the Nucks never scored on Marky in practice I would believe you

This is a carbon copy of last season when Calgary shut us down in game 2 of the season.
So we just gotta have a captain ceremony for the home opener and dunk 8 goals on Price

A SHUT OUT?

A Markstrom shut out?

We’re actually gonna get shutout by marky? Are you kidding me? What the hell

WHO THE f*** LETS THEIR #1 GO TO A DIRECT COMPETITOR?

Dube Dube Doo

Holtby’s “let the puck hit me” style is reminding me of Ryan Miller years. And what a coincidence, so is the rest of the team.

Just tuning in. Calgary up by 2. Are we down by the same amount?
Seriously though, have we been this flat looking all game or Markstrom killing it?

garbage garbage garbage

We're just outclassed by the Flames tonight.

A team that scored cause they actually shoot on their PP? Crazy

horrible time for a goal against. powerplay continues to struggle which is unacceptable and our PKers are getting penalties which needs to stop

A 2 nil deficit is hardly insurmountable but no argument that the guys have to be better

The lack of a preseason makes me a bit more patient than most I guess. I'm sure more than a few teams are still shaking off some rust

Chucky with the Dagger

God damnit I was so stoked for tonight... Bought a nice 6 pack, actually made myself poutine - like proper fries, home made gravy, fresh curds. I'm now getting sad drunk, #### me this is depressing

And that is a crappy end
To a sucky end.

That was incredibly prescient to pass that off rather than just go full tunnel vision and shoot.

This team sucks

That replay of the CGY PP goal just shows Edler leaves Tkachuk alone the entire time and Hamonic gets the blame from the fanbase on that goal.

Man this feels like a looooooooooooooooooong period

The Price is Right

How about that Markstrom, huh...

Lmao Holtby. Good lord.

That third goal was not good. He dropped the puck and Ratboy slammed it in. He was definitely not happy with himself.

But to be fair the team in front of him were more interested in generating Corsi by the looks of it.

Giordano and his diving antics. Never changes.

I don't think there's another team in the entire sport who plays the same ####ty defensive system that the Oilers do.

The difference between having a goalie and not.


Kosko did all he could and quite frankly it was amazing that the flood gates didn’t open sooner. Horrid defence tonight and no jump in the oilers. They got beat soundly to every loose puck and this was a well deserved loss.

What a f***ing team.

the fact that we no show like this so often the last year while also having performances like the one against Vancouver make it even more frustrating.

This team is way too awful to be thinking they can ever coast like this.

I was honestly thinking we were going to be a middle of the pack defensive team this year, but at this point our best dman is the guy we signed to be a number 7, and the rest can’t be bothered to pretend like they care.