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hwy19man · 03-11-2022, 10:08 PM

The Canucks score three times in less than five minutes to start the third period, 3-2 Canucks.

howard_the_duck · 03-11-2022, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Eichel: 4G, 4A, 8P in 12 games. VGS: 4-7-1

Toffoli: 7G, 5A, 12P, in 12 games. CGY: 9-2-1

Well, one is coming off a major surgery. Not the fairest of comparisons but I’m happy with Toffoli and certainly prefer the acquisition cost.

hwy19man · 03-11-2022, 10:09 PM

Bo Horvat has the tying and go ahead goals.

direwolf · 03-11-2022, 10:13 PM

Wow, the Canucks might actually make the playoffs at this rate. Honestly, seeing them leap-frog the Oilers would be hilarious.

JackIsBack · 03-11-2022, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by hwy19man

the canucks score three times in less than five minutes to start the third period, 3-2 canucks.

wow!

hwy19man · 03-11-2022, 10:23 PM

The have played Pacific Division teams 14 times this season and only have five victories.

Macho0978 · 03-11-2022, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by direwolf

Wow, the Canucks might actually make the playoffs at this rate. Honestly, seeing them leap-frog the Oilers would be hilarious.

Oilers and Vegas. Star and preds as wild cards. IMO that’s best case scenario for the flames.

JackIsBack · 03-11-2022, 10:28 PM

Washington - Vancouver = tied now

hwy19man · 03-11-2022, 10:31 PM

Kuznetsov with the natural hat trick,
second power play goal for him.

JackIsBack · 03-11-2022, 10:32 PM

Canucks with a power play coming up.

Vansmack · 03-11-2022, 10:34 PM

I thought a natural hatrick was 3 consecutive goals.

JackIsBack · 03-11-2022, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Vansmack

I thought a natural hatrick was 3 consecutive goals.

I think you're right. He had 3 consecutive goals for Washington, but Vancouver scored in between.

Washington just won in OT on a breakaway.

dino7c · 03-11-2022, 10:45 PM

Canucks were terrible after the tying goal...had a PP but refused to shoot

Garrett did raise a good point, you get a penalty for a hit to the head and the player was down hurt for a bit then out there for the PP? Shouldn't they be in the quiet room? Said player scores the game tying goal

CorsiHockeyLeague · 03-11-2022, 10:47 PM

So, how does concussion protocol work here? Because Kuznetsov took a high hit from Myers, and then went down to the ice and held his face for a few seconds. Myers got 2 minutes for an illegal check to the head. And then Kuznetsov was immediately out for the power play and scored the game tying goal.

I'm... not sure that should be a thing that can happen.

activeStick · 03-12-2022, 12:30 AM

Recently my Vancouver friends in a chat group were talking about the points back they were of a playoff spot and I said in no uncertain terms they're too far back and had virtually zero chance to make it. I'm sorry...

JackIsBack · 03-12-2022, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by activeStick

Recently my Vancouver friends in a chat group were talking about the points back they were of a playoff spot and I said in no uncertain terms they're too far back and had virtually zero chance to make it. I'm sorry...

Can't blame yourself, usually the within a few points of a playoff spot at American Thanksgiving is the breaking point. Who could have predicted that Edmonton would fall (all us here I know) so rapidly after their start, not to mention Vegas and even Minnesota. Nashville has won three in a row, but before that, Vancouver made up room on them too. Anaheim had that winning streak, but since then has fallen off substantially - all while Vancouver and Us have surged ahead, us getting to first while Vancouver has come within 2 points of a playoff spot (they don't have the tie breaker).

djsFlames · 03-12-2022, 03:03 AM

Van and Edm have already lost almost too many games for 58/59 games in.

23 reg losses gives you little runway. Historically hardly any teams that qualify have any more than 30 regulation losses in order to hit that 93-96 point mark.

Which means VAN and EDM can only lose roughly another 7 in regulation in 23/24 remaining games. It will be more of an uphill battle than they realize.

That's why so often if you're out of a spot after the ASB the odds aren't in your favour.

A lot depends on whether or not Vegas continues to plummet, which would change things. Because then that opens the door for that third divisional spot to be up for grabs to a worse team than normal since a central team can't claim that spot.

Every other division has elevated, but the Pacific is a special kind of bad.

Enoch Root · 03-12-2022, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by dino7c

Canucks were terrible after the tying goal...had a PP but refused to shoot

Garrett did raise a good point, you get a penalty for a hit to the head and the player was down hurt for a bit then out there for the PP? Shouldn't they be in the quiet room? Said player scores the game tying goal

Garrett was just being the whiny bitch that he is.

Just because a person gets hit in the head, doesn't mean they are concussed.

But every single time the player is fine and plays on the PP - and especially if they score - the defending team whines that they shouldn't have been on the ice.

Moneyhands23 · 03-12-2022, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by djsFlames

Van and Edm have already lost almost too many games for 58/59 games in.

23 reg losses gives you little runway. Historically hardly any teams that qualify have any more than 30 regulation losses in order to hit that 93-96 point mark.

Which means VAN and EDM can only lose roughly another 7 in regulation in 23/24 remaining games. It will be more of an uphill battle than they realize.

That's why so often if you're out of a spot after the ASB the odds aren't in your favour.

A lot depends on whether or not Vegas continues to plummet, which would change things. Because then that opens the door for that third divisional spot to be up for grabs to a worse team than normal since a central team can't claim that spot.

Every other division has elevated, but the Pacific is a special kind of bad.

Vegas just looks like Ness tho. Just not sure if they won't suck more than Vancouver. Saying that Vancouver has a lot of tough games right after the deadline.

JackIsBack · 03-12-2022, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by djsFlames

23 reg losses gives you little runway. Historically hardly any teams that qualify have any more than 30 regulation losses in order to hit that 93-96 point mark.

It's interesting you look at losses, I do too when comparing top teams but I never took it down to looking at who makes the playoffs in the middle, I think it's something I'll look at now always. It's amazing how a positive goal diff is such a great predictor of who makes the playoffs, which makes sense if everything must equal - so you tend to get 16 on the positive side and 16 negative, right where the cut off for the playoffs are, but it also shows that blowing a team out, or getting blown out balances out over the season with the good teams doing the former more often then the latter, and with statistics, the more games, the more data points, the more things tend to balance out.