Are the Canucks okay after the league forced them to play the first back to back in league history?
Lol never heard so many excuses in my life
B2B fatigue? I don't know. They looked like the Canucks I've known for the last 2-3 years.
One dimensional Hughes a tire fire defensively? Boeser shooting into the goalie's crest? Pettersson only a factor on the PP, otherwise getting pushed around physically?
They were about as advertised.
I think every one just got a preview of what they'll regress to on a regular basis by season's end, more than a "contender" having an off night because of emotional exhaustion, or whatever they're going on about.
Wow, that was a surprisingly spirited effort by the Flames. I didn't expect them to take over the game like they did. I definitely expected more from the Canucks with their current record and all, but I suspect they were out of gas with travel and games played recently.
Without a doubt, this is has to be the ideal line up going forward as virtually all the lines pulled their weight yesterday, Huberdeau probably played the best game I've seen from him in a long time and surprise surprise, it happened with Backlund as his centerman. I honestly have no idea why it took so long to put these guys together and why so many people were so fixated on a Huby-Elias duo. I thought they looked horrible together from right from the start dating back to last year and it's kind of annoying how much higher up the standings this team would be if everyone wasn't so fixed with the 10-28 combo.
Props to Pospisil and Zadorov for bringing the jam tonight. Haven't seen the kind of moxie since Matthew Tkachuk was here. A few jabs to JT Miller's mug, basically showing zero respect and zero fearlessness, love it. Zadorov really driving up that value too. That one shift where he leads the rush and drops it back to Huberdeau for a one timer then skates hard down and crushes Pettersson on his back. Have to think rival GMs are watching and salivating at the idea of this behemoth doing that for their team.
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Pospisil is what I love about hockey. Hopefully they don't lose him like they lost Hathaway.
You have to worry about him with his concussion history and style of play though. He did everything he could not to fight last night, but eventually, someone will make him fight.
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Sorry, I'll probably get around to it tomorrow morning sometime,
Haven't really had much time lately for anything other than work, eat, sleep
After doing hundreds of games over the past years, I think a reprieve is just fine! To be honest, very impressed with how you’ve haven’t said “ f it, I’m done”
Thanks for all your work, hope to see more!
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Sorry, I'll probably get around to it tomorrow morning sometime,
Haven't really had much time lately for anything other than work, eat, sleep
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After doing hundreds of games over the past years, I think a reprieve is just fine! To be honest, very impressed with how you’ve haven’t said “ f it, I’m done”
Thanks for all your work, hope to see more!
Maybe you need a backup! (?) Much as we all enjoy the ATLs....you also need time for a life.
There are a LOT of fans here who are cheering for the Canucks judging by the jersey assortment I'm seeing. Some haven't been worn in 29 years I bet. I'm seeing some classic CCM jerseys.
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I'm going to this one. Lfg.
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Lots of blue in the stands! Love to see it!
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At the game! Nosebleeds but it's nice to be at a nucks game
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I'm at the game and I'm amazed at how many Canucks jerseys I'm seeing. It's awesome! Let's go!!!
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Calgary full of Texas wannabes
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Texas of the North
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I have never seen any city try to force an identity as hard as Calgary larps as a dude ranch. It really is something else.
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This could be one of those games where the Flames have the upper hand..especially after the Canucks had the roller coaster game last night...Flames are 3-1-1 in their last five, and have been playing well, despite all the off ice drama.
Markstrom, who was outstanding in the 2-1 win against Montreal , will be in net.
So I'm predicting a Flames win, but hoping that we smash em.
Big Z Leaving an impression
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Zadorov has been the best flame so far
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He’s a real good skater and is poised with the puck
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Zadorov is such a real nice skater
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we should trade for zadorov after the first period, and have him join us in the second.
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I'm hoping during the first intermission we will hear a Beauvillier for Zadorov trade announced. Then by the second period starts the players will have changed jerseys, and be playing for their new team.
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Zadorov and Tanev should just sneak on our plane after the game
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Zads on our blue line would be lovely.
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Future canuck zadorov
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I honestly would love to have Tanev back with the Canucks. He should of been a Canuck his entire career, but how much does he have left in the tank? Honestly think Zads would be the better mold for our team right now, and fit into our age group.
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I do not ####in want Zadorov on my team ####in gutless coward just elbows Petey in the back of the neck
Weegar ties it up
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nooooooooooooooo
they activated the D
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Respectfully get Juulsen off this team
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That was just a nice goal
Sometimes you take a chance in the offensive zone and it happens
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Bad gamble by Hronek but ehh. Can't blame him either
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I think DeSmith lost his net on that one, that's too far out to score that cleanly on the short side. Replay isn't great so not sure if friedman got a stick on it.
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Garland overskatting that puck is the reason why i dont like him in top 6
Popsicle Friendship Tour
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Pospisil seems to enjoy blindsiding guys. He'd better keep his own head on a swivel tonight.
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Popsicle needs to eat his teeth
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Someone ring the bell on that guy
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Popsicle thinks andrew tate makes some good points.
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I don't need a win, just would like to see popsicle's face rearranged.
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Please ####ing score just to spite this ####head pimple popsicle
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Who the #### even is this ####in pest?
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Pospisil sounds like a drug
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Just wanna see popsicles face caved in at this point
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#### the flames #### Coleman #### popsicle
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Hrudey liked it.
I have to say Pospisil is the new guy to hate on the Flames. One of many.
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Pospisil has absolutely been a huge factor for Calgary.
Come on
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Idk what the hell a Pospisil is and the only thing that pops up when I Google the name is a tennis player, but I don’t think Jimothy Timothy is a man he wants to #### with.
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How is that not a penalty
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Get ####ed Poopoosil
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Pospisil being a bitch
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We need a popsicle on our team. Someone who can throw borderline hits play on the edge, piss off the other team, draw penalties and take coincidentals.
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Dirty ass play.
Cowtown never disappoints me with their antics
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You just don’t intentionally knock a guy off-balance like that skating at that speed toward the net/boards. Especially when the puck isn’t there and he isn’t expecting it. Really dirty play.
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Posposil is a dangerous dirty player. Too much Steve Downie reckless #### he’s pulled in the A
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Pos gonna get f***ing rocked tonight
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Guy is a dirty player, have watched him go over the line multiple times for Wranglers vs. Abbotsford.
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Man this popsicle kid is a #####, first the miller thing and now this, and when he’s finally forced to answer the bell he just hugs him lmao
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Dude literally gave Garland a Rock Bottom and People’s Elbow and it was crickets from the refs
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Calgary is allowed to throw hits to the head with no penalty hey? Bull####
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Ugh. Flipped to the Flames broadcast for a second. They were gushing over Pospsil and praised his dangerous hit as "something they really liked to see". Par for the course from Calgary.
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Pospasil bullying us
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Popsicle doesnt wash his balls in the shower.
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Stick to tennis, Pospisil.
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Jesus christ man they need to actually just break this popsicle guys ####ing legs
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Popsicle was the one hanging on for his life. Didnt even take his gloves off.. Coward
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Hugs him like a coward
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Popsicle is a plug .never heard of him ..playing dirty
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Cheap chickenshhit punk
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Popsicle better keep his head up for the rest of the game. Someone's going to smash that plug straight back to the AHL.
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Man, #### that Pospisil guy. He was so good at being a pain in the ####in ass.
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Good just f***ing mug him, take the penalty, and move on
At a second glance, Pospisil did not eat enough fists there. Hronek should have taken his moneys worth
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yeah, as much as I hate him, he's done a great job of getting under the skin of the right players
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Sort of plays like how Ferland did.
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if they do take the L, instead of chasing the 4th liner, take a run at Lindholm or Andersson
Dube on the Doorstep
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Garbage defending led by Juulsen and a trash goal to allow by De Smith.
f*** Juulsen though.
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That’s an ugly one
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Juulsen just gives the puck away.. idiot
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Juulsen, thanks for coming out, send him down and get somebody else or make a trade if you want to take this season seriously
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Just a sequence of errors from a sleepy team on a B2B.
Should be a wakeup call for the team and the coaching staff. Should see a rotation on D callups next game.
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Thats another stinky.
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I cannot bare to watch another shift of Juulsen alone let alone just burdening Hughes with him. It's just brutal
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I never want to see Juulsen play for the Canucks again
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Seriously, I could make a 5 minute montage of Juulsen mistakes from the past 2 games
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… and Juulsen turns the puck over again on a horrible sequence and the puck goes in the net. Waive this bum.
Hanifin ends the 2nd with a bang
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Back to back game team looks gassed. Should have called a time out there though.
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Guys, I can feel their fatigue through the screen...
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Not a good game
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They look absolutely dead. Not feeling another two goal comeback
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Yaaaaaa I’m gonna need the Canucks to wake up here
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lol Juulsen
What a waste of a roster spot
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This is getting ugly.
I will say that, gassed or not, this team can sure allow buckets of shots against. Seems like games in which they're not at their best all look like this: being outshot by a 2-1 margin or more.
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Boys getting #### kicked
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canucks got forechecked to death in the 2nd period with the long change.
Should have done something earlier rather than waiting for Posiscle to run Hughes again after running Miller.
Kind of like the Philly game, can't allow any team to start playing downhill hockey and not try to change the momentum.
A big hit, a fight, hell Desmith needed to change his equipment - do something to try to change the momentum.
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Team is gassed. It’s essentially a 5-game road trip in 8 days with two B2Bs. This was always likely to happen.
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the flames are always ####ing flukey against us. 3 garbage goals.
Hubey Dooby Doo!
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Well that’s game
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You know, there's tons of reasons for the loss, injuries, back to back, hockey randomness, yadda yadda, but I still cannot tolerate a loss to the flames. I mean huberdeau scored on us for christ sake bro
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Really has to be Huberdeau
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Yeah time to turn this off. Not fully blaming De Smith but some of those have beat him clean.
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I turn it on and we’re losing to 4-1 to f***ing Calgary??? Uhhh
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Oh well. Rest the big guys now and let's the bottom 6 grind the rest out.
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I left to get food at 2-1 and it’s now 4-1
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feels like mikheyev went straight from celebrating last night’s win at no. 5 orange to the airport in the morning
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You know it’s bad when that guy scores against you
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Huberdeau scoring is the victory cigar
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You know they ain't playing so well when they make Huberdeau look like his old self.
Lindholm takes the freebie
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Whoops there it is.
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Perfect timing, what a joke
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If you’re gonna beat us it better be 5-2
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Well that was fun while it lasted…
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that's a dive. garland's stick is like paper, there's no way it's bringing down a 6'5 230lb defenseman
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wtf was all that circling around? did they forget we aren’t trying to protect a one goal lead?
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WHO THE f*** ARE YOU PASSING TO JUULSEN
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Has Juulsen done a single correct thing? Seriously everything he does is the exact opposite of what to do
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Are you allowed to take a guy off the ice during an icing if its for the purposes of terminating his contract
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Rough lol the boys were gassed. They had no legs and it sucks losing to the flamers but I'll take a flames loss over oilers loss any day. I like that they seemed to not stray from the game. They tried to push through but the bodies were tired tonight. It is what it is. Get em next time!
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This kind of loss is going to happen but I wish someone properly smoked Pspspsps
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I hate losing to the Flames more than any other team, and it’s not even close.
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Just leave Juulson and Friedman out there by themselves for the last 2 minutes. Rest of team hit the showers.
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
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What a ####ing waste of years Benning was. Seriously I’m not sure there is a worse GM in Canuck’s history.
E: on second thought, he did draft decently, but I don’t even believe that was really him.
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He also created a generation of people in their 20s who defend him because they haven’t yet witnessed a competent GM. If your claim to fame after 8 years as GM is two of five top 10 picks, one trade and absolutely nothing else — you suck and were a failure.
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To be fair to Benning, it's really hard to multi-task when he and Weisbrod share a single half-braincell between them.
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Benning didn’t forget to call our FAs, he was just sitting perfectly still to intercept the braincell.
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Not signing him is one thing but treating him like he was nothing by not even giving him a call is just plain horrible. It’s not like he didn’t overlap with benning’s time either, they spent 6 years together in the organization.
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I will go as far as to say he ruined an entire generation of Canucks fans. Especially those born in BC after 2012. Case and point, when I go for walks in the neighborhood, malls and grocery store, I occasionally see kids wear hockey jerseys and t-shirts. Back in the days, most of them would be Canucks gear, now I see a lot more Oilers, Leafs and on the rare occasion, Vegas gear among kids in BC. There are still those who wear Canucks but it is a lot less than it was 10 years ago. I don’t blame these kids because, they have never witnessed or have memories of a decent Canucks team. All thanks to Jim Benning the incompetent moron.
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We should build a statue of benning. Out of wood. And burn it. Wait, is that an effigy? Cool, #### him.
Scheduled Loss
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Nucks HATE Popisil or whatever his name is lol. He just took a hard run at Hughes
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Canucks look like trash.
Huby somehow invisible again.
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They always seem to suck against the fLames, but could be starting to come back down to earth a bit. Were fortunate to come back against an Islanders team that can't score to save their lives.
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Pooperdeau gets one lol
I always love watching VAN lose, even if it is CGY winning.
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f***ing Canuckles. Roll the world and then come up flaccid against the Flamers. Some things in life are just easy to predict. WEAK.
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Yup, they deserved to lose that game. Clock is nearing midnight. They might drag out the illusion a bit longer with this soft stretch to their schedule but getting stomped by the fLames isn’t a good look for a [PDO] juggernaut.
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Let's bring Snorlax back. Make it a real 2018 throwback.
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Bob Hartley
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Better question: Are Oilers fans player killers?
Yes. If you go by this thread. McDrai who dominated the League and Playoffs for us are now being scape-goated. Ridiculous.
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You would think if you were McDavid, that you wouldnt want the optics of firing Woodcroft and hiring your junior coach. But here we are.
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