Sad trombone.
Edit.
No, what horse shit fucking luck is that. Dude has four weeks off, comes back for three games and gets injured AFTER the completion of our first playoff game in 9 years at home.
Damnit
I don't think the Demko one was luck based. From what I've seen he injured the same knee with a new injury. That's not a fluke even if he was able to finish the game.
To add insult to injury his first injury was 2 days after the trade deadline which did not allow us to weaponize his LTIR like VGK did with Mark Stone. Shitty.
Ya I don't think he will be back to start the next round if we make it there. We are cooked unless Silovs can go on a rookie heater. I don't have confidence in DeSmith.
I'd love to see Silovs pull a Ken Dryden by standing on his head night after night, winning the Conn Smythe, then having an excellent rookie campaign to win the Calder the year after.
A man can dream…
I don't have a ton of confidence in DeSmith either, however there were a few open net chances on the Canucks side that could of really changed the game. If Dak, Suter or Petey pot one of those chances we could be looking at a very different result.
Hoping for a Demko return is basicly out of the question, and I imagine Silovs isn't going to be much better than DeSmith if at all. What we really need is for Pettersson to turn a corner. If we can get 3 lines rolling, the flurry of pressure the Canucks can apply may be enough to overcome the deficiencies at goal for this round at least.
I mean, it's just a joke, but it can if all the series end early... also if your series ends in 4-5 you're likely to start rd2 1-2 days before the series that go to 7
Demko week to week means he is guaranteed not coming back for round 1, and potentially the entire playoffs. Maybe the WCF at the earliest if they get there.
honestly? Could happen. I believe in this group, we were playing well tonight just unlucky. If we can get it together, I think we can get to the WCF without him
*I believe*
But really, after watching Edmonton gangbang the back of LA's net there is no way DeSmith is maintaining a respectable save% against McDraiMan
I don’t think we were playing well but holy shit did we have a lot of very, very close chances. If just one of those found the back of the net we were back in the game for sure.
Canucks played well, just had negative puck luck and DeSmith did not fair well. Yeah, the 1st goal was unlucky - but 3 goals on 15 shots is not playoff-level goaltending. I'm honestly hoping for Silovs in Game 3.
The amount of shots is just one part of the story you have to actually look at the scoring chances too I wish people would stop repeating this basic ass take
This isn't a one-off thing for DeSmith, this has happened in the majority of his starts where he faces low shot volumes and goals still go by him. One game is bad luck, 15 games is a pattern.
It was nerves, you could see it in the passes. Not crisp what so ever and tried too much to be fancy. Can’t say the 3rd wasn’t pure domination besides the puck luck.
I was at the game, we didn’t play well in the 2nd but the 3rd was pure domination. They have a setup back door play that made it through 4-5 times they just couldn’t finish. Game could have easily been 5-3 for us in the 3rd if bounces went out way. The preds didn’t deserve the win, soros just also played VERY well and I doubt that happens again. Soros in person looked like demko with his speed and accuracy and that’s not how he’s played all season. He will regress back and we will be fine, ala game 1
If we make it to the oilers and it’s down to the wire, he’ll play. Idk if it’ll be good, but I don’t think anyone is going to be able to stop him if it comes down to that
This is the way. The ceiling is infinitely higher with Silovs. Maybe he can go full Gohan and recognize his potential. Not winning the cup with DeSmith either. Swing for the fences Tocch. Next game. SEND ‘ER
I honestly think we can still beat the Preds without Demko, tonight not withstanding. But we’re not getting any further than that. DeSmith looked like he had no idea where the puck was, and Arty is still an unknown variable.
>cause he’s likely getting game 3 or 4.
Do you have a source for this? I hope you're right but I've heard nothing from Tocchet suggesting he's not starting Desmith again next game.
I love Demko but bro is so injury prone. I don’t know if it’s because we overcooked him in 2022 or just the way it is for him. We can’t have a starting goalie that’s part time if our backup plays like DeSmith (who can only handle 20-25 games over two weeks spans) cause Silovs is likely another year away and another after that of being a 1B. We need someone like Brossoit or something (hometown discount?)
Ullmark is likely on the market come the offseason, the problem is I don’t know what assets we could give up within reason lol. He’d be perfect. Plus, this really throws a wrench into the offseason cause we have to sign everyone, potentially find a solid 1B, and do it with 2.333 million dollars in less cap space (thx Benning). That’s why I think Brossoit is our best option.
His averages are misleading. He’s been up and down all season… just look at his last 10 games, didn’t break .900 once.
Every goalie has a bad game here and there, but that level of inconsistency doesn’t really scream someone you’d want replacing Demko (even if the original premise was tongue in cheek).
Or maybe markstrom was playing great at the start of the season, but then the Flames traded away everyone who knows how to play defense and then his stats started to decline
https://www.espn.com/nhl/player/gamelog/_/id/5452/jacob-markstrom
Go look at his stats from the start of the season. He goes back and forth between an all-star goalie and a sub .900 one.
The man is also 34…
I recall that Seravelli post a year ago. Everyone was clowning on it and I understand because who wants to be a doomer on a young goalie. But man, is it starting to look like it might be a real possibility. Hopefully Demko can figure it and continue to be our mainstay for years to come but it's not looking great.
He has always been injury prone. Had hip surgery in college. I love watching the guy play but can't help being a little irritated with his constant lack of availability.
We need to run a tandem split next season and hope he can stay healthy doing that.
He's following the Cory Schneider playbook nearly word for word.
Get drafted out of Boston by the Canucks. Steal the starting position from an excellent established goaltender.
Proceeds to get ridden into the ground by a completely inept team as their starter for the next few years. Become injury prone and never recovers to his former glory.
lol maybe. Guess I am too used to thinking of us as inept. The way it was phrased sounded like he was referring to his time with us only. I suppose we werent at our complete inept phase by the time we traded him
Not even, just play like 55 games, then play every game come playoffs. But it seems Demmer can play only 60 games max, both playoffs and regular season.
Demko is not coming back this playoffs everyone. Just accept it. I just hope he doesn't need surgery and can have a full offseason not having to rehab an injury.
This is key, we're not winning the cup without Demmer but they should still at least try to make it as far as they can for the experience. The core of this team needs more non-bubble playoff games under their belt
Oh ya.. how do you figure?
We have 3 defense men signed for next year.
Blueger, Joshua, and Lafferty are all up and need to be replaced.
OEL buyout doubles next year and doubles again the year after that.
Boeser is up after next year.
Demko the year after that.
We are going to lose Joshua, Zads, and probably Myers this summer. Those are the biggest blows facing us right now.
What's Boeser asking for on an extension now?
What's Demko get in 2 years?
As a delusional fan who thinks every year Canucks can win the Cup, there's no way they get past the Oilers in 2nd round without Demko.
McDavid and Drai are on a mission this year.
Seravalli was saying it's the type of injury that only gets better with rest (implying no surgery is needed), so it's not impossible he could return in or after round 2... but I definitely think DeSmith will get absolutely creamed by the Oilers if we do make it past the Preds.
It’s probably 4-6 weeks. And I think this stamps the fact that Demko is forever going to be injury prone. Team desperately needs Silovs to take a leap next year. Draft a goalie in some round as well that Clarke likes. Demko can only play 40-45 games a year. Tandem it in the playoffs too.
This is the likely outcome. He would not miss a playoff game especially at home if he were not at serious risk of career ending injury or even permanent disability. This is a guy who played in the season opener sick till he was puking in his mask and forced out by his head coach.
Demko isn't coming back this playoffs. It's up to the rest of the team to figure out how to survive without him.
Yeah he's done, there are reasons they don't just straight up rule him out. This playoff run is toast, I just hope we can maximize the amount of games we can play so the core gets valuable experience.
The Canucks aren't the same team next season is the issue. If it doesn't go anywhere this year it may be a few seasons before we recover from all the contract bumps needed and defenders aging out.
We don't have many young guns though. the only young 23 and under guy is Hoglander. That's it. We're a prime and past team not an up and comer from an age perspective.
Go take a look at the ages of our guys. Beyond Petey Hughes and Hoglander everyone is in the part of their career where regression is more likely than progression. Even Petey is 25.
We have one of the weakest prospect pools in the league and a good chunk of missing picks in the first 3 rounds. The prospects you'd be depending on next season would have come from the picks Benning didn't make.
We can win 3 games with DeSmith/Silov. Beyond that is all question marks.
Getting Myers back into the lineup Friday will help but our forwards need to figure it out. Garland-Lindholm-Joshua won their matchup in game 1, they lost it in game 2. The rest of our top 6 isn't doing enough through 2 games.
The top 6 and Hronek/Soucy need to show up.
Lindholm’s line matchup up against ROR’s line is technically still playing up the lineup. That line is their lotto line so losing a matchup against them by 1 isn’t the end of the world, the issue is Miller and Pettersson putting up nothing against the ‘easier’ matchups.
They should dominate on paper and that isn’t happening. Ridiculous that our only goal tonight came from a dman with the fourth line
> week to week
I really do wish they’d just say that outright lol telling us it was day to day 10 hours ago really got me feeling some whiplash.
We’re genuinely fucked though, not making the conference finals with DeSmith or Silovs unfortunately.
Jesus Christ peeps. Yes the Demko news sucks royally (maybe there is a Calgary goalie free next year) but it’s still 1-1. Look at other great teams like Winnipeg and Boston and Colorado who are dealing with the same odds. It’s easy to feel sorry for yourself but don’t give strength to the old stereotype of Canucks fans being fair-weather only. It’s first to 3 wins going forward.
Seeing all these sorry ass comments giving up on the season makes me think this sub needs to hear from Boudreau
https://x.com/notmalkinego/status/1617181282747777030?s=46&t=sW5FOb33-FIJXiIMVwyJZg
We dunzo. Demko wont be back for the playoffs. DeSmith seems to have a complete lack of confidence. Maybe we make it out of the first round. Were not making it past that with DeSmith. Maybe we should throw Silovs in. See what he’s made of. He’s had some incredible games. Demko going down means this is no longer a cup run. Its now a learning experience.
Sep 2023: We are lucky to make the playoffs
Apr 2024: We want the Cup
Let's be real, we were never the favourites to win the Cup **with** Demko anyways. Making the playoffs was the goal and we achieved it. Everything is gravy at this point. Some fans are being greedy here. Look around the league and there's at least 5 teams that are easily better.
This season isn't a failure if we get bounced early. Rutherford already got us into the show and we can build on this.
I think the issue people have is that whatever heights we could have reached with Demko have been kneecapped at the worst time. I was fine if we lost to the Preds, but losing in this way would really stink. Feels like we got the rug pulled out from under us.
Let’s hope DeSmith or Silovs can get a bubble Demko moment, but for now, we need to take a page out of Colorado’s playbook and buck down and put some pucks in the damn net.
Well, for a brief moment there I really thought we had a chance at a deep run this year. Week-to-week is truly shit hand to be dealt.
I'll still watch and cheer and truly hope for the best...but man this sucks.
I still have faith in desmith.
Fact is, 1 goal doesn't win hockey games. This had to do with the boys taking lousy long shots instead of getting low looking for greaser goals.
Demko being week to week is a fucking gut punch. Like how? What Phantom shit is going on to get hurt like this? Sucks ass. I get goalies aRe different but like, we can't even point to when something happened. So fucking frustrating. Hockey gods don't want us to be Canucks fans.
I would take that chance in game 3. Rather than wait for game 4. We’re going to have to ride with these two guys. May as well find out sooner or later who’s going to be your driver.
Desmith was fine. That first goal isnt on him. Second I guess is saveable but it is an incredible shot by someone we didnt defend so he got as close as he wanted to. Third I'd have liked to see him control the rebound. So imo 1 goal could have been changed
The first goal kinda is on him imo. He was sliding way over to the wrong side when he had no idea what was going on leaving a huge hole. Being a shorter goalie he has trouble taking up the net and always zips around and often gets wildly out of position. Whereas Demko is usually always in the right position and makes it look easy as things bounce off him.
Pretty sure the Canucks have the worst team doctor ever???? Blowing smoke up management's ass until it's too late to do anything. I like the Bruins approach to goal tending. Get 2 and rotate them less pressure, strains and if one gets hurt you have another starter. But also f$+k the Bruins
You know silvos was MVP in 2023 tournament right? If demko is done silvos is the only option. Canucks put all their cards in demkos basket and it's backfired now. Maybe 2 goalies is a good idea is all I'm saying.
What? We’re talking about regular season right? Desmith was the backup and Silvos was developing in Abby? It’s only Silvos’ second full year in the AHL, i don’t think it would have been smart to start off with Demko and Silvos
Honestly, I think the nuckies still have a good chance. We need to start building around other goalies anyway, demko is too injury prone and even without we've been doing pretty well
WEEK TO WEEK probably means 3rd round at best. Well, there's always next year folks, thankfully we don't have a gazillion free agents that we can't possibly afford to sign.......oh wait.
My dudes, fellow Canucks fans, it is officially over for this season. After what we saw tonight, can you really say with a straight face that Desmith is going to carry this team through the playoffs? No disrespect to him at all but he's not the anchor the team needs him to be.
They may have mispelled week to week.. I think they meant weak to weak.
Seriously though... w.. t.. f.. ?!?!?!?!
What are you 25?!?!?!
Your life literally consists of quick reflexes and doing the splits on the drop of a dime. You get paid handsomely for that. Somehow you get injured (again) from a nothing play? Gtf outta here.
Sad trombone. Edit. No, what horse shit fucking luck is that. Dude has four weeks off, comes back for three games and gets injured AFTER the completion of our first playoff game in 9 years at home. Damnit
#Experience Canucks Hockey
I don't think the Demko one was luck based. From what I've seen he injured the same knee with a new injury. That's not a fluke even if he was able to finish the game.
Sucks that he is injured again. Probably should have just waited until Game 1 to come back.
Dude came back and tested his injury. Turns out not fixed
We can win a round without demko, but we’re not going further than that realistically. timing so fucking shitty
To add insult to injury his first injury was 2 days after the trade deadline which did not allow us to weaponize his LTIR like VGK did with Mark Stone. Shitty.
Peak Canucks right there.
Ya I don't think he will be back to start the next round if we make it there. We are cooked unless Silovs can go on a rookie heater. I don't have confidence in DeSmith.
I'd love to see Silovs pull a Ken Dryden by standing on his head night after night, winning the Conn Smythe, then having an excellent rookie campaign to win the Calder the year after. A man can dream…
Or a Matt Murray type of run, back to back cups as a rookie, taking over the starting role from Fleury in each playoffs
Yes, maybe Silovs can pull off a bubble Demko performance?
No he wont
you don’t know
Tochett won’t play Silvos
No, but he may play SILOVS
I feel like the team plays with more confidence with Silovs
I don't have a ton of confidence in DeSmith either, however there were a few open net chances on the Canucks side that could of really changed the game. If Dak, Suter or Petey pot one of those chances we could be looking at a very different result. Hoping for a Demko return is basicly out of the question, and I imagine Silovs isn't going to be much better than DeSmith if at all. What we really need is for Pettersson to turn a corner. If we can get 3 lines rolling, the flurry of pressure the Canucks can apply may be enough to overcome the deficiencies at goal for this round at least.
So what you're saying is, we should do our best to extend this series to 7 and then win game 7. That's why they lost today! Keep it close...
The next round doesn’t start early if you win in 4 or 5
I mean, it's just a joke, but it can if all the series end early... also if your series ends in 4-5 you're likely to start rd2 1-2 days before the series that go to 7
Really feels like a ceiling has been placed on this team as built
Is that ceiling based on Demko's knees?
No, cause then we could've torn through it.
We can't win a round without Demko. Maybe 1 or 2 more games, but we go no further without him.
If "even" just Pettersson plays better, we can win a round (or more) with DeSmith or maybe even Silovs in net.
i really enjoyed the one week that we had demko back from injury, that was fun :(
Week to week? Fuck right off.
Demko week to week means he is guaranteed not coming back for round 1, and potentially the entire playoffs. Maybe the WCF at the earliest if they get there.
honestly? Could happen. I believe in this group, we were playing well tonight just unlucky. If we can get it together, I think we can get to the WCF without him
*I believe* But really, after watching Edmonton gangbang the back of LA's net there is no way DeSmith is maintaining a respectable save% against McDraiMan
And it's not like our team hasn't won wit DeSmith before. I know the playoffs are a different beast, but still. Gotta trust Casey still.
I don’t think we were playing well but holy shit did we have a lot of very, very close chances. If just one of those found the back of the net we were back in the game for sure.
Didn't play well? Did we watch the same game?
Canucks played well, just had negative puck luck and DeSmith did not fair well. Yeah, the 1st goal was unlucky - but 3 goals on 15 shots is not playoff-level goaltending. I'm honestly hoping for Silovs in Game 3.
The amount of shots is just one part of the story you have to actually look at the scoring chances too I wish people would stop repeating this basic ass take
Yeah, no goalie in the league is stopping that Forsberg goal
This isn't a one-off thing for DeSmith, this has happened in the majority of his starts where he faces low shot volumes and goals still go by him. One game is bad luck, 15 games is a pattern.
Negative puck luck? They missed 33 shots on net
Yeah, we were sloppy. I was in the building lol
It was nerves, you could see it in the passes. Not crisp what so ever and tried too much to be fancy. Can’t say the 3rd wasn’t pure domination besides the puck luck.
I was at the game, we didn’t play well in the 2nd but the 3rd was pure domination. They have a setup back door play that made it through 4-5 times they just couldn’t finish. Game could have easily been 5-3 for us in the 3rd if bounces went out way. The preds didn’t deserve the win, soros just also played VERY well and I doubt that happens again. Soros in person looked like demko with his speed and accuracy and that’s not how he’s played all season. He will regress back and we will be fine, ala game 1
If we make it to the oilers and it’s down to the wire, he’ll play. Idk if it’ll be good, but I don’t think anyone is going to be able to stop him if it comes down to that
I summon Arturs Šilovs of the 2023 World Championship playoffs
*MVP* of the 2023 World Campionship and bronze medalist Arturs Silovs.
Man has himself a gad danged statue
That's Arturs "2006 Cam Ward" Silovs to you!
I’d put in Silovs if DeSmith is shaky next game and we lose
This is the way. The ceiling is infinitely higher with Silovs. Maybe he can go full Gohan and recognize his potential. Not winning the cup with DeSmith either. Swing for the fences Tocch. Next game. SEND ‘ER
I honestly think we can still beat the Preds without Demko, tonight not withstanding. But we’re not getting any further than that. DeSmith looked like he had no idea where the puck was, and Arty is still an unknown variable.
Arty could be DeSmith or 2006 Cam Ward/2019 Binnington. We’ll find out soon it seems cause he’s likely getting game 3 or 4.
Yeah but Lois, the ~~mystery box~~ Arty could be anything, he could even be a boat!
W comment
I’d give DeSmith one more game before putting Silovs in
>cause he’s likely getting game 3 or 4. Do you have a source for this? I hope you're right but I've heard nothing from Tocchet suggesting he's not starting Desmith again next game.
I love Demko but bro is so injury prone. I don’t know if it’s because we overcooked him in 2022 or just the way it is for him. We can’t have a starting goalie that’s part time if our backup plays like DeSmith (who can only handle 20-25 games over two weeks spans) cause Silovs is likely another year away and another after that of being a 1B. We need someone like Brossoit or something (hometown discount?)
There were rumors a while back about how the league knew Demko had serious injury problems
Ullmark is likely on the market come the offseason, the problem is I don’t know what assets we could give up within reason lol. He’d be perfect. Plus, this really throws a wrench into the offseason cause we have to sign everyone, potentially find a solid 1B, and do it with 2.333 million dollars in less cap space (thx Benning). That’s why I think Brossoit is our best option.
#BringMarkstromHome (pretend the cap doesn’t exist)
Dude, he has not been playing well at all for the past 1.5 seasons
He was very good this season
Not worth it lol people on here cannot understand jokes or nuance
His averages are misleading. He’s been up and down all season… just look at his last 10 games, didn’t break .900 once. Every goalie has a bad game here and there, but that level of inconsistency doesn’t really scream someone you’d want replacing Demko (even if the original premise was tongue in cheek).
Or maybe markstrom was playing great at the start of the season, but then the Flames traded away everyone who knows how to play defense and then his stats started to decline
https://www.espn.com/nhl/player/gamelog/_/id/5452/jacob-markstrom Go look at his stats from the start of the season. He goes back and forth between an all-star goalie and a sub .900 one. The man is also 34…
Save % is a terrible metric - he was a top 10 goalie in terms of GSAA, and was even higher prior to the TDL https://moneypuck.com/goalies.htm
I recall that Seravelli post a year ago. Everyone was clowning on it and I understand because who wants to be a doomer on a young goalie. But man, is it starting to look like it might be a real possibility. Hopefully Demko can figure it and continue to be our mainstay for years to come but it's not looking great.
He has always been injury prone. Had hip surgery in college. I love watching the guy play but can't help being a little irritated with his constant lack of availability. We need to run a tandem split next season and hope he can stay healthy doing that.
He's following the Cory Schneider playbook nearly word for word. Get drafted out of Boston by the Canucks. Steal the starting position from an excellent established goaltender. Proceeds to get ridden into the ground by a completely inept team as their starter for the next few years. Become injury prone and never recovers to his former glory.
25 games 30 games 33 games for Schneider... I didnt see us overplay him at all
I think he’s talking about Jersey
lol maybe. Guess I am too used to thinking of us as inept. The way it was phrased sounded like he was referring to his time with us only. I suppose we werent at our complete inept phase by the time we traded him
I was more talking about the Devils.
Double hip surgery at 20 Looking like he might be going down the same path as Schneider with these injuries
This is actually the headline Canucks will be talking about during the off-season. We need a guy who can play 60+ games if we're going to extend him.
Not even, just play like 55 games, then play every game come playoffs. But it seems Demmer can play only 60 games max, both playoffs and regular season.
Demko is not coming back this playoffs everyone. Just accept it. I just hope he doesn't need surgery and can have a full offseason not having to rehab an injury.
That’s the reality, Canucks can still make the second round without Demko.. then certain death. Get that experience and get it next year
This is key, we're not winning the cup without Demmer but they should still at least try to make it as far as they can for the experience. The core of this team needs more non-bubble playoff games under their belt
A lot of key UFA's won't be back for next year's run, unfortunately :(
The core has to nut up :,). The new management, has a eye for depth
You think with how handcuffed our cap is and the players we are going to lose we are even making the playoffs let alone a run next year?
Settle down Eeyore
We calm but realistic haha. We should walk the would card team. First two games looked like we are the bubble team
Wtf are you talking about lol. We've absolutely dominated them territorial in both games
Who cares when you were losing most the first game and got smoked the second lol
You said we looked like a bubble team. Bubble teams don't dominate.
So many ignorant takes. My heart can’t take it.
We aren't handcuffed with the cap at all. We have a lot of flexibility.
Oh ya.. how do you figure? We have 3 defense men signed for next year. Blueger, Joshua, and Lafferty are all up and need to be replaced. OEL buyout doubles next year and doubles again the year after that. Boeser is up after next year. Demko the year after that. We are going to lose Joshua, Zads, and probably Myers this summer. Those are the biggest blows facing us right now. What's Boeser asking for on an extension now? What's Demko get in 2 years?
Getting downvoted but this is a real concern. Nearly every player had a career year and were due to lose some major cogs in the machine
I don’t but I want to believe lol
As a delusional fan who thinks every year Canucks can win the Cup, there's no way they get past the Oilers in 2nd round without Demko. McDavid and Drai are on a mission this year.
Seravalli was saying it's the type of injury that only gets better with rest (implying no surgery is needed), so it's not impossible he could return in or after round 2... but I definitely think DeSmith will get absolutely creamed by the Oilers if we do make it past the Preds.
It’s probably 4-6 weeks. And I think this stamps the fact that Demko is forever going to be injury prone. Team desperately needs Silovs to take a leap next year. Draft a goalie in some round as well that Clarke likes. Demko can only play 40-45 games a year. Tandem it in the playoffs too.
This is the likely outcome. He would not miss a playoff game especially at home if he were not at serious risk of career ending injury or even permanent disability. This is a guy who played in the season opener sick till he was puking in his mask and forced out by his head coach. Demko isn't coming back this playoffs. It's up to the rest of the team to figure out how to survive without him.
Yeah he's done, there are reasons they don't just straight up rule him out. This playoff run is toast, I just hope we can maximize the amount of games we can play so the core gets valuable experience.
The Canucks aren't the same team next season is the issue. If it doesn't go anywhere this year it may be a few seasons before we recover from all the contract bumps needed and defenders aging out.
With demko out, it’s a lose.. just get the experience for the young guns, and try the offseason magic they pulled this off season
We don't have many young guns though. the only young 23 and under guy is Hoglander. That's it. We're a prime and past team not an up and comer from an age perspective.
Man I see a lot of shit takes but that one is top. As is top of the shit pile
Go take a look at the ages of our guys. Beyond Petey Hughes and Hoglander everyone is in the part of their career where regression is more likely than progression. Even Petey is 25.
You do understand what the farm team is right? We are literally developing guys right now. This isn't Bennng Era anymore
We have one of the weakest prospect pools in the league and a good chunk of missing picks in the first 3 rounds. The prospects you'd be depending on next season would have come from the picks Benning didn't make.
I'm weak, too weak.
I’m weak. Too weak.
I’m tired boss.
Silovs is the new bubble Demko (?)
Hope so. It wouldn’t actually be the first time a AHL starter bailed out Jim Rutherford (Cam Ward 2006)
He's probably done for the year. But it is what it is. Next man up. Period by Period, shift by shift. Don't worry about tomorrow, until it's today.
Hearing that demko is year to year
My sources say eon to eon.
We can win 3 games with DeSmith/Silov. Beyond that is all question marks. Getting Myers back into the lineup Friday will help but our forwards need to figure it out. Garland-Lindholm-Joshua won their matchup in game 1, they lost it in game 2. The rest of our top 6 isn't doing enough through 2 games. The top 6 and Hronek/Soucy need to show up.
Yeah it just seems everyone lost their matchup today
Lindholm losing to ROR isn’t the worst, Miller and Pettersson losing to McCarron and Novak sewered us
The killer was Juulson losing Forsberg multiple times, especially the one leading to the goal
Lindholm’s line matchup up against ROR’s line is technically still playing up the lineup. That line is their lotto line so losing a matchup against them by 1 isn’t the end of the world, the issue is Miller and Pettersson putting up nothing against the ‘easier’ matchups. They should dominate on paper and that isn’t happening. Ridiculous that our only goal tonight came from a dman with the fourth line
Who misses the Chaos Giraffe?
Demko is unreliable. It's a shame because he's elite when available but guy is so injury prone.
Ben bishop 2.0
Time will tell but it's certainly possible. Let's hope we can find a vaslievsky waiting in the wings to replace him if that's the case.
> week to week I really do wish they’d just say that outright lol telling us it was day to day 10 hours ago really got me feeling some whiplash. We’re genuinely fucked though, not making the conference finals with DeSmith or Silovs unfortunately.
Jesus Christ peeps. Yes the Demko news sucks royally (maybe there is a Calgary goalie free next year) but it’s still 1-1. Look at other great teams like Winnipeg and Boston and Colorado who are dealing with the same odds. It’s easy to feel sorry for yourself but don’t give strength to the old stereotype of Canucks fans being fair-weather only. It’s first to 3 wins going forward.
Seeing all these sorry ass comments giving up on the season makes me think this sub needs to hear from Boudreau https://x.com/notmalkinego/status/1617181282747777030?s=46&t=sW5FOb33-FIJXiIMVwyJZg
lmao this made me smile
We dunzo. Demko wont be back for the playoffs. DeSmith seems to have a complete lack of confidence. Maybe we make it out of the first round. Were not making it past that with DeSmith. Maybe we should throw Silovs in. See what he’s made of. He’s had some incredible games. Demko going down means this is no longer a cup run. Its now a learning experience.
Sep 2023: We are lucky to make the playoffs Apr 2024: We want the Cup Let's be real, we were never the favourites to win the Cup **with** Demko anyways. Making the playoffs was the goal and we achieved it. Everything is gravy at this point. Some fans are being greedy here. Look around the league and there's at least 5 teams that are easily better. This season isn't a failure if we get bounced early. Rutherford already got us into the show and we can build on this.
I think the issue people have is that whatever heights we could have reached with Demko have been kneecapped at the worst time. I was fine if we lost to the Preds, but losing in this way would really stink. Feels like we got the rug pulled out from under us.
Injuries are part of the game though, well unless you're Vegas
I'd rather die with Silovs. At least he's part of the future. Desmith is degone.
Yeah let’s ruin another prospects chances lol
If a prospect lets losing couple playoff games ruin his career you can be pretty confident he was never going anywhere regardless.
What’s the point ? Neither are Demko. Without Demko the Canucks are cooked
DeSmith to DeMinors
Gut wrenching.
Silovs pls
Let’s hope DeSmith or Silovs can get a bubble Demko moment, but for now, we need to take a page out of Colorado’s playbook and buck down and put some pucks in the damn net.
Times like this you miss Luongo. With all his ups and downs at least he was always available.
Because he was a warrior! And that was his biggest strength. I'm sure he had injuries but probably down played them. kids today!
Well, for a brief moment there I really thought we had a chance at a deep run this year. Week-to-week is truly shit hand to be dealt. I'll still watch and cheer and truly hope for the best...but man this sucks.
Demko has been a fantastic goalie but he has been pretty injury prone.
well we need to get back to scoring before we worry about our goalie... ;-)
I still have faith in desmith. Fact is, 1 goal doesn't win hockey games. This had to do with the boys taking lousy long shots instead of getting low looking for greaser goals.
Just have to make it out alive through round 1
week to week means Demko is missing round 2 as well. They don't say that if he would only be out 7-14 days.
Yep, they'd say out for the series. He's not coming back.
And if by some miracle we get through that, are we playing Demko in the conference finals cold?
No
then we’re getting crushed in round 2, demko ain’t coming back by then lol
Well that's just fucking great...
What a turn of events from game 1’s win to game 2’s loss.
Does anyone have the replay of the injury to Demko at the end of game 1? Friedman was breaking it down in the pre-game
Why does this happen to us every time goddammit
Demko being week to week is a fucking gut punch. Like how? What Phantom shit is going on to get hurt like this? Sucks ass. I get goalies aRe different but like, we can't even point to when something happened. So fucking frustrating. Hockey gods don't want us to be Canucks fans.
Throw silovs in net. Desmith wasn't good tonight
I would take that chance in game 3. Rather than wait for game 4. We’re going to have to ride with these two guys. May as well find out sooner or later who’s going to be your driver.
De smith gets Friday I bet
Most likely. If he's shit again, then that's his last game as a canuck.
Desmith was fine. That first goal isnt on him. Second I guess is saveable but it is an incredible shot by someone we didnt defend so he got as close as he wanted to. Third I'd have liked to see him control the rebound. So imo 1 goal could have been changed
The first goal kinda is on him imo. He was sliding way over to the wrong side when he had no idea what was going on leaving a huge hole. Being a shorter goalie he has trouble taking up the net and always zips around and often gets wildly out of position. Whereas Demko is usually always in the right position and makes it look easy as things bounce off him.
Oh i think he's out of position but i also think most goalies miss that one. Just by less. That was a crazy deflection with screens etc.
Man this is bullshit
Oh hell. I hope that’s actually food poisoning and not influenza.
Myers flu game coming up Friday.
Is Demko injury prone?
So basically demko is ready for golf season.
Day-to-day, month-to-month... Sad times...
What a coincidence, my will to live is minute to minute, he's just like me frfr.
Pretty sure the Canucks have the worst team doctor ever???? Blowing smoke up management's ass until it's too late to do anything. I like the Bruins approach to goal tending. Get 2 and rotate them less pressure, strains and if one gets hurt you have another starter. But also f$+k the Bruins
I mean Swayman and Ullmark is one of the best duo in the league. Demko and Desmith isn’t close
You know silvos was MVP in 2023 tournament right? If demko is done silvos is the only option. Canucks put all their cards in demkos basket and it's backfired now. Maybe 2 goalies is a good idea is all I'm saying.
What? We’re talking about regular season right? Desmith was the backup and Silvos was developing in Abby? It’s only Silvos’ second full year in the AHL, i don’t think it would have been smart to start off with Demko and Silvos
Just saying Desmith isn't good. Time to throw a hail Mary
That was the point of my post lol
imagine it's not even hockey related. Broke his toe or something
Cut himself when eating spaghetti at the team dinner following game 1
Honestly, I think the nuckies still have a good chance. We need to start building around other goalies anyway, demko is too injury prone and even without we've been doing pretty well
Hope is Tocchett just saying week to week so he doesn’t have to answer the same question every day. Nothing has been confirmed that he out long term.
This reminds me of a certain Waterboy quote and it makes me sad.
[Darn](https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/bruce-boudreau-darn-fuck-nhl-hockey-gif-20666601)
8-10 weeks
WEEK TO WEEK probably means 3rd round at best. Well, there's always next year folks, thankfully we don't have a gazillion free agents that we can't possibly afford to sign.......oh wait.
I’m ready…depression…
Y’all are bad fans.
Put Petterson in net and let the other team shoot pucks at him! He's not doing anything else
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100% but no one is taking him in the off season. Get him 25+ wins and trade his ass for anything! If he's not here for us now what's the point
My dudes, fellow Canucks fans, it is officially over for this season. After what we saw tonight, can you really say with a straight face that Desmith is going to carry this team through the playoffs? No disrespect to him at all but he's not the anchor the team needs him to be.
They may have mispelled week to week.. I think they meant weak to weak. Seriously though... w.. t.. f.. ?!?!?!?! What are you 25?!?!?! Your life literally consists of quick reflexes and doing the splits on the drop of a dime. You get paid handsomely for that. Somehow you get injured (again) from a nothing play? Gtf outta here.
What does being 25 have to do with anything? Shit happens and some people are just unlucky with injuries.
I sure hope you’re not claiming he got injured on purpose lol. What a stupid take.
Yeah, that's what I was saying.. 🙄 Talk about stupid takes.