This Canucks Start is Concerning // Canucks After Dark

This Canucks Start is Concerning // Canucks After Dark

Good evening, Vancouver. Welcome back to Kucks After Dark. It is Monday, October 13th. It is Thanksgiving and we’re really hoping three games into the season, our first show after a couple of actual Conucks hockey games that weren’t preseason that we’d actually have a good idea of of maybe what this team might look like under new coaching. Maybe maybe we were hoping for a little something better, but we’re here regardless. Uh we made it to today. Clay survived 24 hours. Uh and as always, he’s here with me. How are you feeling today? Uh happy Thanksgiving, Parker. I know we were rooting for you this morning, but uh I did mention that you had family commitments, which was all good. My daughter, uh Kayla filled in. She’s not as smart as Parker’s pucks, but she did just fine. So, but thank you. I And thank you for asking. I feel fine. I had a good nap after the game. I probably could have slept during the game and I actually slept a tiny bit afterwards. So, I actually feel good um doing going to do the show. Looking forward to being with you and talking about Yeah. Uh a game that we probably should have won, which we did. A game that we probably should have lost, which we did. And then today was probably the most disappointing of the three just because there’s no reason to be as bad as we were. But I know we’re going to talk about that for sure. Yeah. Yeah. It was even one of those ones where I I didn’t even watch this one on time because I was like, “Oh, it’s on Prime. I can just hit start from the beginning and I’ll start it like an hour late after the baseball and then I’ll and then I’ll just be able to to skip the first intermission was my plan. Skip commercial, skip the first intermission and keep up with it. And uh yeah, it was it wasn’t the uh it was not the prettiest game I’ve seen them play. Um nor was uh the other night, Saturday night, that was also, you know, a a pretty ugly game. But it was one of those ones where, you know, after the first game, which I guess was was that Thursday. Um, they looked they looked, you know, a little maybe a little slow start, but but it was a fine game. They ran over Calgary in the third period. That was great. And then they came out flat against Edmonton. And after that, I’m sort of thinking to myself, I’m not sure what your sort of vibe was. Um, obviously you had a full day to talk about about those two games sort of. Um but but my sort of vibe was okay well they lost to one of the best teams in the league in Edmonton and Edmonton’s just fast and good and and a problem. Um but they they were they were they could have done something in that game, right? they they could have gotten something out of that and then they and then against Calgary, you know, they yeah, they won and they won 5-1 and it looked good, but they came alive in the third period against a team that was somehow on the second night of a backto-back where they put their back their starting goalie in for both games and he looked like he just was gassed, right? So, I’m sort of coming into this game like, okay, here’s sort of like more of a fair litmus test, right? This is a team that was the, you know, second wild card last year, but we’re a better team than that. Obviously, they’re one of the best teams in hockey in the back back half of the year. Um, under under, you know, really good coaching and and took took Winnipeg to the brink. Um, but that the Canucks just looked like last year’s team tonight. It’s it just looked the exact same. Yeah, you set that up really well, Parker. That’s kind of what I was hinting at, right, with the we we won the game that we should have won backto back home opener, all the hoopla and all-star or good goalie that was probably shouldn’t have played. And then Edmonton’s Edmonton you we let’s give them props. They were the Stanley Cup finalist two years in a row. So technically they’re the best team in the West like by far and away. And that Parker, you nailed it. That’s why tonight was so frustrating because this is going to be one of the teams that we’re likely going to be battling for a wild card spot, right? If if we don’t finish top three, which we hope they do, but if if not, then you’re battling among four or six teams for for two wild card spots. And St. Louis looked like a much better team. The you know, Snooker looks awesome. He’s a rookie, right? He looked awesome. Um he’s scoring his two goals and and yeah, our power play does not look good. We only got a couple one chance but um and then we give up actually a power play goal for the first time this season. So there you know you love some things. Um I I thought the fourth line Sherwood was great. The fourth whole fourth line was really good actually and foot had to mix up the top two lines to just swap the centers and stuff. So um yeah we will see. We will see what happens. Um just as the connects were two and one or three and 0, we wouldn’t be we’d be joking about planning the played route but realistically we wouldn’t be. But it it’s it’s a little concerning already. It’s a little concerning already because yeah, it’s not like we’ve played a murderer’s row and we’re going to preview the road trip. It’s not it’s not brutal. It’s not brutal. So, they got to come back three and two at least even this thing out for sure. Yeah. And if they had won tonight, it would have been a and if they had if they had outplayed St. Louis like St. Louis St. Louis outplayed the Canucks tonight. We would have been like, “Okay, that’s that’s better.” Right? That’s what we were sort of hoping for, right? 35 shots is what St. Louis ended up having, right? I would have looked at that and been like, okay, you know, they they had a solid game. They beat a team that they should be able to beat. Um, but, you know, it wouldn’t be, yeah, we wouldn’t be all in on, hey, this is a brand new hockey team and they’re going to be successful and and yada yada, but it’s the and again, you can look at the standings and be like, you’re one and two to start the season. Who cares, right? It’s three games. Three games is not enough, especially from a like points perspective, right? Having six points after three games versus two points. A team start can start 0 and three. It’s not great, but it doesn’t mean they’re going to, you know, be be a terrible hockey team all year, right? You know, you look you look at some of the teams that, you know, maybe haven’t started off too hot and, you know, like, oh, the Lightning are also one and two, the Leafs are also one and two, right? That that doesn’t mean it’s not, you know, a perfect indicator of future success. But the problem is the the hope for the change that we were hoping to see from particularly one guy and one coaching staff and that’s not what we saw tonight and not so far I should say. Yeah. And um Parker, I guess it’ be no surprise to you if I told you that the biggest talking point throughout my 24-hour stream was Elis Person, right? And his uh and his salary and you know, revenge tour, time to get going, all those things. And they’re all true. They’re all true. I I want so badly to see him succeed. And today, you know, he had his moments. He had a couple chances. He did I think he had a nice hip check on Shen if I’m not mistaken in the neutral zone. Yeah, that was kind of good, actually. That the first time I said, “Whoa, he did gain 13 pounds of muscle.” Like, that was pretty good. Yeah. But not the giveaway in the offensive zone that led to a goal. Um just a bunch of misplays and just didn’t look dangerous out there, right? There wasn’t like he for sure will get the puck and he’d be moving and he’d be creating chances and you know when the puck you didn’t get which almost had a hattick. Do you remember when he actually yeah there’s a giveaway the one I remember is the giveaway in the St. Louisa and he had a quick wristster snapshot that when by the way Bennington it’s funny um you know how much I want us to light him up all the time especially him for a reason that except when he’s playing for team Canada but I he’s got a good glove. You got to give him that like uh I don’t and I’m not sure if that was a scout though or if he was kind of flashing at them but they kept shooting into his glove and I get it. Usually if you’re the other side, you’re trying to get a a rebound off, but then shooting it as pads or something. I don’t know. May maybe maybe I’m over simp flying, maybe it’s a lot harder than I’m saying, but I just keep remember just go Yeah. And he’s Yeah, he’s a really a goalie. That’s that’s the frustrating part, right? Um you know, and you look at it and if you’re just I I haven’t pulled up Natural Statrick and I will cuz I’m I’m actually quite interested for all three of those games. Um, but like it’s it’s not like they like they had 29 shots, which by their metrics last year is good, right? Um, but it didn’t feel it didn’t feel like a ton of them were from super dangerous areas, right? Um, you know, they there was a lot of point shots. Um, you know, I want to take a look at the heat map here. Um, yeah, the Blues had a lot more great A’s and that’s really what it felt like. Maybe maybe I’m phrasing it wrong. Maybe the Conucks didn’t have like a real lack of high danger chances, but it felt like they gave up a lot tonight. It felt like there was a lot of times and same in the Edmonton game where the opposition was just able to get to the middle of the ice and able to get to the front of the net and create chances. Um, and that’s, you know, that’s concerning because, you know, you’re going to your goalenders are going to struggle um to to even put up a nine hard save percentage if if all those shots are coming from that spot of the ice. Yeah. Uh, no, that that’s a really really good point and yeah, let me know when you when you pull up those stats. I’d love to I’d love to hear. Uh, yeah, it’s, you know, in the first period I’m not sure if you noticed this when you did your your catchup watching, the Conucks had like maybe two, three, but definitely two prolonged instances where they had decent pressure on St. Louis. But then my son Sean text me and he goes, “I don’t like how the the way the Cucks are losing all their 50-50 battles.” And that’s true, especially in their own their own end. And Lankin, yeah, he wasn’t amazing. He wasn’t brutal. You can’t blame him. But uh yeah, he didn’t just maybe after two days of two games of excellent Demco, it was a lot different just to see Lankin in the net. Yeah. Yeah. And I don’t think Lankanin was terrible. Um you know, he’s obvious he’s not That Demco, right? And that’s to me if I look at this first week of the season and you told me pick a bright spot, it is Thatcher Demco. And with Kefir Sherwood has three goals in three games, it was still Thatcher Demco. Um because he was unbelievable against Edmonton. Like he was he was fantastic. And every single save he made I was scared. I was like please please get up. just keep getting up because if like I don’t he’s not I just if he’s going to be facing 37 shots a night, you know, 37 shots against on on um on Thursday’s game uh or sorry, Saturday’s game uh and then 35 shots against tonight, right? Sure, 18 against Calgary. That’s that that was, you know, the one-off there. That was just a low event game. But, you know, allowing 37 and 35 shots, you know, it’s Yeah. it’s not not going to be very sustainable. Yeah. And you know what’s crazy? We we I know the kind of the theme is we’re comparing to last year is what were the two bright spots last year was Lankin and Sherwood, right? Coming out of the gate and this year’s Demco and Sherwood. So, um we need more bright spots. That’s my point. I guess we need more bright spots. Yeah. So, looking at Yeah. Yeah, I’ve got well I’ve got sort of the the analytics numbers for tonight. Um before you do that just yeah speak of bright spots just want to highlight Adam who becomes a supporter himself and then uh brings five other supporters along and Rosario, Mike, Derek Adequately Caffeinated and Matter. So thank you Adam and welcome all new supporters. Mhm. Thank you very much. Yes. Yeah. So looking at tonight’s game, uh, high danger chances were 1612 in all situations in favor of the Blues in five five on five, 15-9. Um, so that’s, you know, they they were outplayed in that sense. Expected goals actually pretty even. Um, in both all situations and five on five. Um, but of course, you know, that’s I’m not even too concerned about the goals they gave up or like, hey, like they kind of played on the same level as as St. Louis tonight and I I think genuinely like if I don’t have the deserve to win ometer or whatever in front of me it was probably like 6040 right they it’s probably a game that you play that game you know 50 times the Canucks probably win 20 times um but the problem is it’s it’s the individuals that were impactful right that’s that’s the the biggest concern to me because I look at um you know Elas Patterson obviously is the big one um and if you look if you were Looking at his on ice metrics from tonight, like they weren’t bad. They were pretty plain. Like they were, you know, shot attempts were even. Uh shots were even, scoring chances were mostly even, hidander chances were mostly. Like everything was in a vacuum pretty even. But you watch that game and you’re like, “Yeah, that’s just a player out there, right? There wasn’t there wasn’t any anything being created.” Um you know, you compare that to like a Connor Garland, right? where again his analytics numbers tonight when he was on the ice, you know, they were in his favor, but not hugely, but you know, you he was more noticeable out there as he always is. Um, yeah. So, that’s again, I’m not concerned about losing two of the first three games. Um, but I’m concerned about who is showing up in those games because if Kefir Sherwood wasn’t playing tonight, this game is not even close. You’re right. Four shots, five hits. He was uh Yeah, he was very, very good. By the way, Russell says, “Clay, how are you still awake? Didn’t the Conucks put you to sleep?” And Russell, you might have missed the intro. I I basically said that and Parker and I were joking about even before the show is, “Yeah, I had a good nap after my stream. I probably couldn’t nap during the game. Gail drove to and from the game. Like, I was just a zombie today to be honest with you.” uh so this is aside from my stream and of course spending time with my lovely wife. This has been the highlight of the rest of my days hang out with Parker interacting with someone keeping me awake even and I would just imagine how much more of a better mood I’d be in more awake I’d be if the connects had one to be honest with you. But yeah, thank you Russell. Thanks for asking. Oh yeah, you’re right about Sherwood. He’s so he’s so good and you know he’s got the the two syllable name first and last name so easy to cheer for, right? You probably heard it on the key for Sherwood Connor Garland. Yeah, it was nice. It was good. It was really good. Yeah. So, do we do we want to go sort of game by game? Um, I mean, or do we want to just sort of talk about some themes or some individual players like, you know, first impressions from from some players? I don’t know necessarily how we want to uh how we want to run through this cuz I don’t think we need to relive like the Flames game for example. Right. Yeah. I I think let’s get let’s finish off with this game because we’ve already spent like seven minutes on and it is good like seven, eight minutes. Let’s finish off our thoughts. any other lingering thoughts on this game? And then I think we can go general instead of breaking down Calgary, breaking down Edmonton because this one’s so fresh and it’s actually a game day and then uh yeah, we talk about general trends and use pull examples maybe from those two games. But I I think that’s good. And then but by that time it’ll be halfway through the show and then we can look ahead kind of thing. Sounds good. Yeah. So so for tonight’s game, I mean that’s I I think I’ve I’ve sort of said most of my piece, right? like Garland and Garland and Sherwood showed up uh you know Ratu um playing with Sherwood um you know that that line was the line that showed up um like the broad you so you were at the game today so you didn’t see the broadcast I was so it was the prime prime broadcast um so it’s obviously all the sort of neutral neutral observers um but like they they could not stop raving about the Kefir Sherwood line and they could not stop trash talking Alias Patterson really over and over that giveaway they brought it up probably six different times throughout the broadcast like look he’s here you know he lost the puck here again just like before what he like they were they were hard on him uh and I think rightly so right like I I like like it was it was very clear that that he wasn’t having a good night um like that was that was the big the big theme tonight um you know Braden Coots I I you know I think it’s going to be a nine gamer I think we right on that that front. I just not yet. Um and and you know like again just sort of looking at who played tonight, right? Like Lear Maki just never really got many chances. Um Evander Kane has not looked fantastic to start his his career here. Um yeah, but yeah. Anything else stand out to you in this one? Yeah. You know what stands out, Parker, is um I’m just looking at the the highlights real quick is or the visualizer is um you know how they they made a big deal about um the the swarming defense, but then the kind of the the activating the fourth man, the first Dman offense, right? And it’s high risk, high reward. And yeah, the I I guess what I’m getting at as two of the goals like I I get it that the PD giveaway we’re talking about the first goal, right? Uh yeah, in in the St. Louis zone. Yeah. Right. Right. And then so it it wasn’t like they scored right off the rush, but they they had a wide shot and they they got the rebound, but yeah, obviously they they don’t get in that zone without that turnover, but I’m thinking of the the second goal where they went straight up the gut, right? because Mancini pinched kind of and then it it led to um kind of the scramble play that that Shen scored. So that was straight up the gut and definitely the fourth goal where where Hughes was very aggressive and then u we had four guys down trying to swarm the net and then it left for like a twoon-one with against uh Heronic and then Kane was trying his best to get back but that’s then he got he fell and then fell into lank. That’s not why they scored but it so I’d say two of the four goals not including empty were be because of that aggressiveness yet uh I think they’re still figuring it out I guess. Well, they’re also they’re also just not they’re just losing puck battles, right? Like the the big thing like that that first goal um you know you again it’s a great play by by Snuggard, right? Like he’s he’s a really good player, but if you like there’s a point where he comes out, he just gets around Marcus Patterson and gets sole position in front of the net, right? Like just has the front of the net to himself. Nice little play to corral the puck and take the shot, right? It’s a good goal, but he should never be in that spot with that time. Um, that Braden Shen goal, right? The second goal. This one was really frustrating to me because yeah, Mancini just doesn’t know there’s a guy behind him. Hughes does a good job to catch up and and disrupt the guy at least enough. But even then, like Shen is able to sort of peel off and get time and space to himself. And then his pass back or not Shen, Cyro, I guess that is, but it goes the pass to Shen was Andro Connor Stick. Yes. Like that was that reminded me of like a if you’re watching like football and a throw goes and it goes right to the linebacker and he goes to pick it off and he just like tips it right to the receiver. Good point. He just he had it. It was a quick clear and it’s a twoon-one the other way. If Okconor takes this turns, fires to Sherwood, it’s it’s Sherwood and Coots the other way. Um twoon-one, but he bobbles it and it goes right to Shen who who fires it. And it’s just it’s stuff like that where it’s like you just have to clean that up. You can’t afford you know St. Louis is is a team that capitalizes on mistakes, but you know, you’re going to face and Edmonton, you’re going to you’re going to do that against Colorado. You know, you’re going to get punished over and over if you’re if you’re losing those those free wins. Yeah, great point. And I’m not piling on Okconor. Uh but even on the power play goal and I get it, you’re outmanned, but it was twoon two behind the goalender and then he was late to pick up Bavic who snuck in right and then he in front of OK Conor and then it was a bang bang play. It slid across the crease. Lankin has no chance and then Snugguru gets his second. Um speaking of hatricks, I thought he was going to get one for sure because that was so early that was so early in in the in the game where I thought uh oh he’s he’s going to get it for sure. So, um, yeah, that that O’ Conor Koot Lucker Macki line, no more, please. Um, if if if it means putting Kane back there, putting Baines back up on the second line, then do it because, uh, Koot Macki and Okconor, they’re getting hemmed in time after time after time. I don’t know if it’s uh they’re small. I don’t know if it’s because they’re they’re they’re inexperienced or maybe a combination of both. Uh but then then do you want to break up Brains Rat Ratu and uh Sherwin because they were our best line by far and away as you mentioned. Yeah. I don’t know. We don’t have enough good players right now. No. And everyone’s healthy. That’s a good point. Except for Yeah, you’re right. You’re right. Pretty much. Um but yeah, I think that was the frustrating part with with this game is is so many of these goals, really all of St. Louis’s goals developed quickly, right? Like I think, hold on, let me let me verify this. One, two, yeah, three, four. All of St. Louis’s goals on the visualizer, which only goes back like 10, 15 seconds, start in St. Louis’s zone. So, they are all mistakes made in the offensive zone or or to an extent, right? and then just a quick play down the ice and somehow in these quick transitions getting someone in a grade A scoring position right in front of the net by themselves essentially like every single one of their goals um was just someone allowing someone else to get to the middle of the net. Um, and that’s just something that just has to get cleaned up because like, you know, you look at, okay, Lanken allowed four goals on whatever it was, 34 shots. It’s not a great night Sisley for him, but like those are goals that not not a lot of guys are going to save a lot of the time. Yeah. Yep. Yep. No, I uh I thought Yeah, I I’m not I can’t actually blame him on any of the four goals. A couple of them were bang bang. uh first goal uh the one Snooker’s first. Yeah. He just turned around kind of whipped it in right from the slot. Well, yeah. He sort of came out. He cut out in front and then like coralled it with sort of a little tow drag. Um and I don’t think I don’t think anyone’s really expecting him to to even get that puck. But the fact is that, you know, he’s just standing there with the two defenseman off to the side. Yeah. The the fourth goal to me, Parker, is the backbreaker because you have Sherwood who scores and then crowds back into it. He’s pumped. Beautiful move. I I was actually thinking I wonder if every Yeah, every any any every every international team is going to watch that now. Has a scouting report on how to beat uh Jordan B on on a breakaway. But and then the crowd’s in it. He’s pumped. And then just 90 seconds later, 90 seconds later, um and an aggressive play and it goes the other way and it’s 4-2 and they don’t look back. It’s It’s too bad cuz uh we were feeling good in the arena for 90 seconds. Well, yeah. Yeah. that fourth goal where where Hughes comes in off the wing and yeah, it really is felt like he’s and we felt it in the third period when the Canucks were down taking a lot of the shots himself. Yeah. Instead of trying to find the option um like skating in there. He’s got Kane and Heronic also on the point. So, I don’t know if he’s thinking, well, I’m covered. But Kane also comes down um and he takes a shot and the rebound comes out and he takes the long way around the net and you know it’s that point it’s two twoon one kind of threeon two like it’s kind of a weird broken rush the other way but they’ve got numbers. Um and then yeah the third period when especially when the goalie pulled um felt like he was just trying to throw it at the net. He was throwing it into skates. He was throwing it into shin pads. Like that’s not what Quinn Hughes normally does. Uh, and that was, you know, kind of kind of jarring, but you’re right. A great point because it was his shot and we’re not blaming him. It was his shot that got blocked and Neighbors just golfs it in from his own blue line. Well, I I I didn’t I didn’t like that shot anyways, right? I I genuinely don’t think that that shot was the play because you have there’s still two and a half minutes left. You’re down by two, right? Like, it’s not you need to score, but it’s not like you’re taking a buzzer beater from the blue line, right? you have you have other options there um on that pass over um you can fire it try to fire it across to to Laramaki and he had made a couple of his passes on that shift already um but yeah you just it’s just a it’s just a play that you can’t make at that point you can’t you can’t just give up the give up the puck right you know what’s really interesting Parker is Kevin Woodley was one of my guests and he he’s awesome right because he he he has all he always talks about clear sight analytics right he’s got all these all these uh stats proprietary stats but I think this one might even be common knowledge, but he was talking about how the the way say percent, you know how we were talking about safe percentages being down last week when we were doing our prediction show and he was actually giving examples. He was talking about the great how much better the probability is when you go cross ice once and how much better it is even when you go cross ice twice and we just do that all the time. The other thing he was talking about was um the the high percentage when a uh a blue liner shoots not as clapper when no one’s around, but when there’s at least one or two uh kind of layers of screen and how that’s a very high percentage shot now. And we’ve seen Hughes be able to do that. So I’m I’m speaking to your point is I like it much better when Hughes darts around a little bit, eludes guys, and then knows that he’s got traffic and then he does that wrist, right? that hard wister through, not the the one T when when he’s not even waiting for guys to get set up. And I get it. You’re right. Maybe he was kind of rushing it. He’s still at 3 minutes, but they were down by two. So I I kind of get his mentality, but still still. But like on that play, like I’m looking and I’m I’m only I’m not even looking at the video. I’m just sort of looking at the at the chart of where everyone is when he when he gets that puck. But like I I don’t hate I mean he had space like by the time he gets that puck, you know, he’s he’s you know inside the blue line a bit sort of on the half wall, but he’s probably got 10 ft between him and and Neighbors, right? That’s a lot of room for him to make a little fake and cut into the middle. He could do a fake and then tap it down to Heedle, who can who can drive the side of the net cuz Heedle has a lot of space and can try to just huck something at a Vander Kane and hope it bounces in. um or fire it across to Lecher Maki or um you know go back to Heronic because um I guess BJIvich was also coming down at that time already and giving space up there. Like there’s just so many better options there that normally he makes that right play. Um but he just again I didn’t really feel like Quinn Hughes was himself tonight. Yeah, that’s a great point. That’s a really good point. Yeah. And one other um defense I want to talk about is Mancini. It was his first game of the year. He comes in for Forbert and therefore they swap everything out. DPD plays with Meyers and then um Marcus Person on the left plays with Mancini on the right. And I I found Mancini like I’ve always said he’s high risk, high reward. I didn’t think he was great tonight. He he he’s the only defenseman that wasn’t actually officiate uh officially credited with a giveaway, which is surprising cuz I remember two or three times where he gave away the puck and he had to scramble like mad to get back into the play. I don’t think there’s any that hurt the Canucks, but um uh yeah, I didn’t think I thought Mancini had a quite an an even performance. He wasn’t the minus three that Hughes was, but uh yeah, did you notice that at all? Yeah, analytically too at five on five, him and him and Marcus Person were sort of a black hole uh out there um with a 23% expected goal percentage. Um you know, they and it’s not like they like offensive zone like they started half their shifts in the offensive zone, half in the defensive zone. So, it wasn’t like they were just getting and that not like they would be giving Mancini a ton of defensive zone starts anyways. Um, but yeah, while he was on the ice, eight shots for or eight shot attempts for 17 against. Um, shots were actually a five uh in St. Louis’s favor. Um, but yeah, he just I he looked I don’t know, he didn’t look great out there either. Um, there were some being made. Who were our best Cory guys tonight? Um, from an expected goals percentage um, side of things, it’s I mean it’s the it’s the three, right? It’s it’s Bane, Ratu, Sherwood. Um, you know, Elias Person’s actually up there and I’m wondering what that’s from cuz all of his other metrics were really flat and but this is just on ice, right? That’s not necessarily what you have an impact on, but maybe there was like a right I don’t know. Maybe there’s a something that should have just been a goal that someone didn’t score on or something. I’m not sure. Right. Um or it could just be an anomaly because it’s just a one on the expected goals force side. But um from an actual Corsy percentage perspective, yeah, it’s Bane’s Ratu Sherwood at about 67%. Uh Kane, Garland, Heedle were around 58%. Uh and then it gets, you know, then then Leeraki, Coots, and Okconor were at about 11%. Yeah, that that’s not a surprise. While they were on the ice, three shot attempts for 20 to 25 shot attempts against. So they got demolished at five on five. Oh my gosh. Uh one bright spot. I’m not just looking for bright spots, but um if we’re gonna I think Pey went three and 15 against Edmonton in the face zone didn’t tonight face off dot tonight. He was 58%. I don’t know what that works out to be, but at least that’s good. It’s a Ratu that only went 42%. So there’s your 100% combined, but I didn’t think it would be 58 PD and 42 Ratu. Uh that was concerning. Uh that Edmonton game when he couldn’t win a faceoff. That was that was not I was not feeling good about that. It’s Yeah. Yeah. Again, there’s there’s got to be a little leash cuz it’s been three games. But yeah, I need to see something different to have, you know, any you know, the last last last three years we’ve had a reason like that we could at least wrap our heads around, right? It’s like, okay, well, at least at least there could be this excuse, right? Yes. Um all the excuses are gone at this point. Um, so we need to see something different soon. And you and you hinted at this really quickly. Uh, Coots 11 minutes. Um, it’s not six or seven minutes, but it’s not 14 or 15 either. So, yeah, as as we traverse on and now that he he’s played one third of his games, if we think he’s only going to get nine with not a lot of practice time and going on the road and not a lot of practice time. So, um, how much Yeah, I think the writing’s on the wall. At least at least where I’m leaning right now. I’m with you as to what you said. Our nineame prediction might be the only one we get right in our contest. Well, yeah. And I’m, you know, I’m almost thinking, you know, is there does he get nine even at this point? Yeah. Right. Like I I could like I could really I could very well see Lena Carlson taking a spot um in the next game cuz I they got absolutely hemmed in. They obvious he they he can’t play with like Hermaki um and Okconor. I I I really didn’t love Okconor’s game tonight. I think he had one one or two good plays, but just he was just fighting the puck. Um and struggling and yeah, I think I think we’re at that point where he might not even get the nine games cuz it’s not like it’s not like it’s not nine games played, right? It’s nine on the roster. Um I assume. Is it? Yeah. Actually, I’m not sure because the way I hear guys I’m not sure. The way I hear people talking though, they I think it’s it’s nine played. Okay. Interesting. Oh, no. Wait. Well, if you’re on the roster, No, actually, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Either way, I I I just could see Yeah, I could see Carlson taking a spot in the next game. Uh because I think they they need to shake something up there. And if our game our next game’s not till Thursday, right? Back toback Thursday, Friday. Who knows? Maybe Bler’s back by then, too. Yeah, could be. And and I think that makes that would make their call even easier. Um, good point. Yeah. Yeah. Bring in uh Bluger and Carlson and sit uh Coots and one of Licker Macki. Oh, I know. You don’t sit licker Macki. Sit Okconor. No, I’m just kidding. Well, yeah, that that $2.5 million contract for Okconor. I know for two years and a 12 team no trade. Um Oh, he’s he’s fast. How did he get a Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. Can’t tell you can’t tell you that. Okay, we won’t go too doomsday. We’re just trying to be honest. Um especially after we were quite optimistic in our predictions contest last week. By the way, how did you did we end up getting a lot of people? I like not to put I think we were around 60 61 that we ended up with. That’s great. That’s great. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Well, there’s our half an hour on one game. Well, kind of the last three, right? Like we talking about over like the themes and everything like that. Um you know, that first game looked great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. Yeah. And just a quick word about Dustin Wolf. Were you surprised when it was him? Yeah, I was confused. I was very confused. Um cuz like all the analytics um point to like you can have you can have the best goalender in the world and if he plays on back-to-back nights, he will be a below average starter. That’s just that’s just what the that’s just what all the numbers point to. I think there’s exceptions like if you’re talking like playoffs, you know, that’s a different story. Game two of the season. It’s an 82 game grind and you’re saying, “Yeah, get back out there.” H and he just got shelled. Um not doing really not he took a lot of shots, but like he was just you could just tell he had no gas in the third. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Gerald, for looking it up. It said it’s uh playing nine games as opposed to being on the roster. So that’s fair. Weird. That’s fair. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So, and that’s what I’ I’ve heard people say is um they’re using the Shane Wright as the example where you could have them up with the team, but kind of uh Yeah. Not string along is not the right way of putting we’re not talking about like relationship or something. You you know what I mean? Yeah. Yes. And Swervven Irvin uh is it a um monthly membership, Mr. Just a declaration that he’s been a member for 11 months? Thank you, Swervan Irvin. Got to see Irvin at the game tonight, which is cool. Thank you. uh on one of the the occasions where I was awake. Okay. Do you want to preview the next few or do you want you want to talk about anything else about the league or about the team right now? What do you want? Yeah, we talk about the next couple we talk about a couple league things if uh if need be. Um but yeah, um two days off which is good. I assume they’ll fly tomorrow and take the extra day in Dallas. Um, and I think, yeah, just get, this is one of those things where I think getting a good road trip in early is good for the team to an extent, right? You don’t want to start your season with 10 games on the road, but I think after losing a couple games, getting the boys out for a week and just have them just be guys and and, you know, hopefully get a good road trip in could be big as long as they do well. Like I think if they win three of the five on the road trip and get some good camaraderie, I think that could be big. Um but yeah, it’s it’s a it starts off with a backtoback. So Thursday against Dallas, um Friday against Chicago, and then even a quick turnaround after that because they play Sunday morning against Washington. Um so they go that’s basically three games in three and a half three and a half days. like it’s that’s a pretty pretty aggressive uh pretty aggressive scheduling. Uh there’s 36 hours between those those last two games or so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um the the and then when you look at the the opponents I I know we do we’ll say our prediction. Well, we can predict the whole road trip and then we have three games before our next show. It’s not brutal like Dallas obviously a powerhouse. Yeah. And Washington was good a powerhouse last year, right? There was a two first place or like Dallas came second. Washington first, but then Chicago and Pittsburgh, even though Pittsburgh had a good start, Chicago Pittsburgh were bad last year and Nashville is kind of exactly where St. Louis where we expect them to be in that that that uh battling with us. So, it’s not brutal. We we can conceivably go two and one, three and two even. U but yeah, we got to play those games obviously. Yeah, it’s one of those things. It’s it’s two contenders and you know in Dallas and Washington and it’s three teams that should be bad in my opinion in Chicago uh Pittsburgh and Nashville. So you you look at that and you know if if you look at this team as a contender which in its current state isn’t um the way they played the last couple of games but again it’s it’s game three right there’s there’s time to to write the ship and you know new systems yada yada um but I I would look at a trip like this and say well you should win three of them and you’re playing two contenders so you want to at least get a point or two from those games. Um, as it stands right now, 3 and2 trip, I would be like, okay, that’s fine. Gets us to 500. Fresh start back at home. Yeah, if they do do worse than three and two, it’s it’s concerning. Um, but yeah, like they just it’s you just got to get the get your business done against Chicago, Pittsburgh, and and Nashville because those are teams that shouldn’t be shouldn’t be in this team’s realm. Um if this team’s going to do anything be because that first back to back sorry because the trip starts with backtoback Parker is it very uh it’s not oversimplistic to to um suggest that it goes Demco Lenin then Demco Lincoln and then Demco like you could alternate these five games. I think so. Yeah. Um I I think that’s that’s pretty simple. Definitely be Demco Thursday definitely be Lincoln Friday. Um, and then I mean depends it depends how I think this is going to give us a bit of a a an inkling of how much workload Demco is going to get this year because for a normal starting goalie it would probably be Demco Lankan Demco Demco Demco, right? M because you would have the sort of two days off between the Thursday and the Sunday game and then there’s a long turnaround but like it’s a Sunday morning and then Tuesday night and then it’s Thursday night, right? You know, most teams would would start their starting goalie four of those five games. Um and there’s a backto-back right after that that Lank will get one of those starts. Um I don’t think that’s what we’ll see. I think we’ll see Lanin get two of them. Um yeah, and yeah, like like you said, it’ probably be the Friday and the and the Tuesday. Would you have time for this theory? Demco Lankanin Demco Demco Lankanin. So still three and two. So then you go Demco at home Montreal Edmonton. Oh no, forget it’s a back toback. What am I talking about? No, no, the other ways. There are other ways where you you alternate all the way until the Montreal game. No, all the way back to the Oilers game. So then it’s four and three, right? Cuz I forgot it’s back to back at home. Yeah. And and that also maybe gives me a bit of reason to give Demco an extra game in there. um if if you think he’s ready and that way it’s sort of five and two. Um Ah, that’s true. But yeah, who knows? Who knows what they’ll end up doing. Yeah. Okay. Okay. We shall see. By the way, uh someone mentioned that in the province they mentioned it’s opposite. They’re getting a practice here and then Whoops, not this one. And fly out here. Fly the province article Wednesday night practicing Wednesday at some point. Wednesday. That makes sense. Yeah. Well, it’s you it’s one of the I guess with limited practice time it makes sense, right? You want to get a practice in um before the trip. Um I was sort of thinking from a camaraderie perspective, get them out there right away. But yeah, either way, I don’t want this to happen just so our channel grows, but I will donate five memberships every time on the channel until EP40 scores. Okay. Well, either way, we we are fine. Adam, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then Go Conucks go sends a membership and it goes to Jasine. So, thanks Goku and welcome Jasine. Thank you. Well, hopefully Person So before our next show, there will be three games. Before the show after that, there will have been seven games. So, I’m really hoping it doesn’t get to that point. Then we have bigger problems. Yes. And Oh, go Connect. So, gives another membership. And this one, sorry, Jasine got the second one. The first one went to Gerald, which is awesome. So, thank you. Go connect. Thank you. Yes. Um, oh, and he just did one more. And this one, well, very generous. This one goes to Philly T. Three new members, three new supporters thanks to Go Connects. Go. Anything surprise you? Um, we already talked about McDavid’s contract last show, right? Yeah. Yeah. And how dumb it was, how much of a steal it is. Yeah. And then obviously Lane Hudson uh getting signed. Uh getting signed. Was that this morning? Mhm. What a long day it’s been. This feels like days ago. Um, tell me about it. Yeah, eight years, 8.85, $71 million basically. Um, it reminds me a lot of um Hugh’s current contract, right? Yeah. Very very similar vibe. Um, yeah, cuz Hugh’s got what, six by 7.85. This is 8 by 8.85. So, an extra year, extra million sort of adds up to about the same value. Um, Sure. So, yeah, I think uh I think that makes sense. Does does take him to uh to be a UFA, but obviously an eight-year deal, so he’ll be 30. Yeah. Yeah. No, he’s uh Yeah, I’ve seen some projections, Parker, where they’re saying he’s going to be like the fourth or fifth um highscoring defenseman, right, between I see Mars, Hughes, Ruinsky, and Hudson actually as a top four that I’ve seen out there a lot. Yeah, he’s he’s also a wizard on the power play, right? That’s he gets a ton of power play points. Um, right. You know, he’s he’s a good player, especially offensively. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be curious quick. Let’s do this. Power ranking. Seven Canadian franchises. Edmonton we agree is at the top, right? We can just start there. We can do this together. Yep. Right. Winnipeg number two. Winnipeg number two or Toronto. Oh, there’s any of those three could I think you could argue one, two, three. Yeah. Okay. Then man, if we agree that Calgary is the bottom tier, so then there’s this we got to figure out this middle tier of Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver. I I I think it might I think that I think it might be Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa right now. Montreal’s got way better vibes than we do today. Yeah. Yeah. Ottawa. I wonder if they overachieved last year. Well, well, they’re one and two, same as us, so it’s not like they’re Yeah, they were 97 point team. Um, yeah. Yeah, I forgot that they were actually decent last year. Yeah, Montreal is the one that snuck Yeah, Montreal snuck in the playoffs. Ottawa made it because they they they were three seed, right, against Toronto’s two seed in the first round. Yeah, I don’t know. Just kind of curious because um yeah, I I do want Canadian teams to succeed, but not to the point where I’m cheering for one of them just because they’re from Canada. But it’s always fascinating. Like Montreon Auto have been pretty pretty bad for a long time. So Yep. And I just like Calgary to be bad. Yeah. Yeah. Calgary and Edmonton can be bad. Edmonton’s not obviously. They will be at some point and that will be a good day. Yeah. Oh, I hate how we’re tied with Calgary. One and two. Okay. Whatever. It’s early. It’s early. Yeah. One more goes to Sky Train. Alfred, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Um, so let’s uh why don’t we do this? Let’s let’s quickly do predictions on the road trip. We can do 10 minutes of people questions and I think we’re good for the night. Yeah, I’m going to have to go three and two on the road trip. Again, it’s I just just looking at it’s five games and knowing how this team goes, they’re going to win the two hard games and lose two of the easy ones and go three and two and it’ll have the same result. Yeah. Um I I’ll go two and one. So still coming back with five of out of 10 points. And that means after eight games they’ll be well, what’s the math? I guess three four in one. Yeah. So just under 500. Take out Montreal. Oh gosh. So after 10 games it’s Montreal and Edmonton. Oh man. I would love us to be six and four or 54 and one but imagine if we’re four five in one or three six and one. Not good. Yeah. You just got to be in the mix. You got to just get you just can’t drop too far below 500. That’s the that’s the scary thing, right? If you’re 36 and one, it starts to get, you know, it’s a long season left, but you know, you’re you’re playing behind uh behind the eightball a little bit. It’s not where you want to be. Yeah. So, I like your three and two, but I’m going to go two and one. Now, on the bright side, the Pacific Division has started off very slow. Um like the Canucks are two points out of first, right? Um the the Seattle Kraken, it’s been what a what a sports week for Seattle. Yeah. What the hell? Seahawks won. Mariners have been winning. Kraken are 2 and 0. Uh Huskies have been winning. Seattle is Seattle’s flying high right now. Um but they uh they’re 2-0. Vegas is 10 and2. Oilers are 10 and1. Kings are 12-1. Ducks are 1-1. Sharks are 0 and2. Um we’re one and two. Flames are 1 and2. So, there’s there’s one team with a winning record right now in the Pacific Division, and it is a team that I think we’re all sort of assuming will not make the playoffs. Sure. Hope not. Yeah. Yeah. It’s I um after only two or three games, I was actually surprised that there was only five undefeated teams like in in I remember NHL sent out a graphic like actually truly undefeated. It’s just now it’s just Carolina who are 2 and 0 like with no loss over to Yeah, exactly. Carolina and Seattle 2 and0. Everyone else has a loss either in the loss column or the OT loss column. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Some parody. Yeah. Don’t you find that surprising though? After a week, it’s only two teams. That is. Yeah. Because there’s always a couple bad teams that’ll have three. I forgot Dallas. Dallas. Dallas, right? They’ve only played two games, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got it. You got it. And then is there any team that hasn’t won in regulation yet? Sorry. Sabres haven’t won. Islanders haven’t won. Sharks haven’t won. Everyone else has won. Okay. So, three undefeated and three winless. That Okay, I guess that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. So, everyone’s either one some combination of one and two, two and one or one and two or whatever. Whatever. Yeah. All right. Go to the people. Let’s go to the people. Any questions that you guys have for us, you can throw them in the chat. Um, you know, if it’s if we can really go anywhere. The vibes can go anywhere for the next 12 minutes or so. Um, and we’ll start off with why is our best forward a $1.5 million fourthline winger? Clay, what why do you think our best forward is a $ 1.5 million fourthline winger? Because he’s half Japanese. No, I’m just kidding. The um because I’m half Japanese. It it’s isn’t that that uh when Torrell was saying that about David Booth when David Booth is your best or no was David Booth because that was way earlier but the whole point was when Blank is your best player that’s good for your best player but it’s not great for your team. Yeah, when Kev Sherwood is your best player that’s awesome for him because he’s it’s contract season for him, right? He’s playing for a new brand new contract. But yeah, we gota they got to follow his lead. They got to follow his lead for sure. Yeah. Yeah. He’s the only one that’s that’s sort of showed up so far. It really feels like um which is Yeah. Yeah. Like you said, good for him, not good for the team. Yeah. Peter’s look out for me. Clay did not sacrifice his health for this. Well, not just me, a bunch of us, but yes, I just happened to be up the dummy who stayed up for an entire 24 hours. Um they switched you you referenced this. They they switched the top line. They actually uh swapped the two centers. So then PD got to play with Kane and Garland from the second period on, I believe, or at least the third period. And then Heedel played between Bster and Dress. What is the best combination of a top line in your eyes, Park Barker? On paper or realistically? Um, both. Well, on paper it it should be Yeah, it should be Person De Brusk and Besser. Um, but it just doesn’t work. I don’t know why it doesn’t work. I don’t know how it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t work. So now you have to start getting creative. Um, and getting creative is difficult because yeah, do you put Sherwood up there when really Sherwood is, you know, kind of doing his own thing and later like bottom of the lineup and that’s probably for the best. Do you put him with you put Garland back up there because Garland can drive some play? It really feels like everything that you’re trying to doing or trying to do is to fix Person, which is not what Person should need. He should be driving his own line. He should be creating chances himself. Um, it shouldn’t be like, “Oh, he just can’t play with with Besser,” or, “Oh, he can’t play with Kane,” or, “Oh, he can’t play with this guy.” Um, he should be able to play with anybody and get them going. He should be the people he should be the guy that you put people with him to get them going, not the other way around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don’t even know how to answer this cuz um there’s just not a lot of options. I I don’t mind I don’t mind Sherwood giving a shot but not long term but for for a few games because the drop off to him isn’t that big considering he’s our leading point getter right now. I don’t know. I I can Garland work with Pety just to kind of inspire him with his it was interesting to see him with Garland and Kane because Kane is Yeah. In person Parker when you see him I didn’t know he was as slow as he is. Like I I thought he had at least some speed for his for his age and size, but no, he is uh and he had another bad giveaway. I don’t remember. He was on the boards and he tried to whip it. Why does he do that? That’s like JT Miller. Like JT Miller is actually a really good passer, but he give it away a lot too. Yeah. And the thing is like I think Kane has had a couple good chances um early on. Um obviously hasn’t scored, right? I think that’s I think if he’d scored a goal at this point, I think he’d be a little bit of a better like people be looking at him a little bit more positively at the moment. Um, which obviously has the capability of, but it’s it’s looked Yeah, he he has looked slow, especially when he’s playing with Heedle, right? Um, because Heedle’s so fast and it just Yeah, it looks like Kane is in the mud. Yeah. So, Jas, we answered your question by default. Yeah. Uh, a lot of people talk about Sherard’s next contract, Parker. Sher contract prediction. Every goal Sherwood scores means more money. Vancouver can’t afford to. I know remember Dollywall in the summer says, “Oh, he might get three and a half to four million or that seems like a lot. Does it? If he scores if he’s if he scores 20 goals again, 25 goals, right? 19 hits and has 50 points. That’s with a rising cap. That’s going to be a $4 million player. I You’re right. You’re right. Yeah, I’m sure. Wow. Okay, so early early prediction from Parker contract prediction $4 million. Yep. For Hugh Sherwood. Yep, that’s fair. That’s fair. Are you a panicker? Um, more just frustrated than panicking. Um, yeah, you know, it’s it’s just the I I was just ex if they if they had started the season 0 and three, but like some like Patterson had looked really good, Hughes had looked really good, Kane had looked all right, but like ah, we just just had some bad bounces go or or you know, lost a game in overtime or whatever. It’s a different story. And, you know, we we’ve said this the last couple years where we’re past the point of process over results, right? That’s not where we’re at anymore, right? results are are king at this point with a team that needs to make the playoffs and needs every point they can get to get there. Um, but when you’re not getting the results and the process looks the same, right, when we were sort of sold on change, right, we’re sold on, hey, Person’s put on this muscle. He he’s looked he’s did everything he needed to do over the summer. He he looks good under Adam foot, yada yada. Um, and then that hasn’t changed. Um, it’s going to be this more like high-flying, you know, offensive team under Adam Foot. Um, and then they, you know, get 18 shot or 15 shots against the Oilers, right? I’m waiting. I’m just desperate to see something different and we haven’t seen that yet. Um, so I really I I I’m curious to see what happens this road trip. Um, because coming into the season, I didn’t really think three games in I’d be I’d have very strong opinions because normally I don’t. Um, but the fact that things don’t look any different yet, that’s where, you know, it’s like, okay, well, you know, this is what we practiced for. Like, this was what we were sold on and it hasn’t happened yet. Yeah, Jasine, a good question about Demco, but to reference our show from last week, we both predicted he’s going to play appear in uh between 48 and 49 games. I think that was both of our predictions. And if you consider almost all those as starts, then we’re looking at something like a 45 or 46 starts for him. 35 36 starts for for Lanin. And that’s kind of what we both were were talking about. And I don’t think you can afford to not play him because of his health because of how good he’s looked so far. But as Parker said, anytime he spraws out, you just you’re just watching the TV with like kind of like this to make sure that he’s getting up. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, he’s played in two games. He has he has a 944, right? that’s he’s he’s not going to maintain that. But that is um you know he’s already at 4.3 goals saved above expected which is pretty good like he’s already he’s already been worth four goals in his two games he’s played. Um but yeah, it’s you know the the health is the big concern. But yeah, this this team as we saw last year um and as we’ve seen so far this year, um you know, if he only plays in 35, if he only starts 41 games and Lang starts the other 41, this might not this that might be the difference between this team being a playoff team and not. And so that’s something that the staff has to balance is do you just is he actually fully healthy? And if he is fully healthy, then you just have to say, “Well, we’re just going to play you as a full-time goalender.” Um, because that’s what a starting goalender should be, especially one that just got extended for eight and a half million bucks. Yep. Great point, James. I saw you and your family on the screen today a couple times because you’re with Spencer, so nice to see you. Having Coots and Kane on the ice for the power play with five minutes left in a two-goal game was indefensible. Yeah, well, you got to run two units, I guess. Uh, but yeah, I hear what you’re saying. They did not look good and did not look like they were going to tie or at least uh bring up the deficit. Here’s a great point, too. Um Hoglander is not in this lineup and I think we’re we’re already seeing the effects of it, Parker. Yeah, but deathwise. Yeah. Well, and that’s the thing, right? And the question being is is Patterson missing Hoglander um on that front? And again, like I said before, he shouldn’t be. He should he should produce regardless. Um, I think he’s, you know, he’s I, again, he had a bit of an off year, um, last year. Uh, if he, if he gets back to being the player we know he can be, he’s going to be a real asset to this team. Um, and and you know what it does? It pushes Aander Kane down the lineup. It pushes Drew O’ Connor down the lineup. Um, it probably pushes Baines out of the lineup. Uh, nothing against Baines. He’s again, he played fine uh, tonight. um you had a had a bit of an iffy uh game against Edmonton, but um that’s just that’s just good for the team, right? Yep. Yep. Yep. You’re right. You’re right. But you’re going to have injuries throughout the year. Every team does. Yes. You got to you got to play through it. If if you’re if you’re one injury or you have two guys out and it’s your fourth line center and a winger who might be on your second or third line and that’s it, you’re doing better than a lot of teams are healthwise. Yeah, you can always play guys on their off wing, but not that doesn’t mean they’re good at that. So, I don’t see this happening. Gerald’s asking, “Do I see EP 40 with Sherwood and Garland?” Traditionally, those are two right wingers, and I don’t I don’t know. Like, sure, those two guys are buzz saws, but I I think you need those guys in separate lines. I I don’t I don’t see this one happening. I think Garland’s played a little bit of left, but yeah, I don’t Okay, it’s it’s it’s a hard transition. Um cuz in reality it’s like it’s the it’s it’s the same position just on the other side, right? So everything should work the same, but you’re just seeing different angles, right? When you’re coming down the wing on one side compared to the other, just everything you’re used to is now backwards. And when you go try to pick up a puck off the wall, now you’re picking it up on your backhand instead of your forehand. In your own zone, that can be nice because it’s the other way around. Um, but in the offensive zone, it’s it’s just different and it takes getting used to. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Irvin, we did talk about Manidia at least. Um, what I said did did not seem physical enough to be effective. Yeah, I actually I noticed I noticed his good skating, but that often times, and I’m not being sarcastic, it’s cuz he was catching up to the play after a turnover. So, uh, I wasn’t impressed with his first game, but I I he’s young, and I I want him to succeed, obviously. Yep. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, sure. Yeah. No, Sherwood’s a right winger because Well, it he’s a righty, right? Yeah. No. How did he score on his forehand? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He’s right. Yeah. I was overthinking myself. Will we see Kane on the top line in the next five games? No, don’t think so. They might I mean, they might try it for a shift or two. I I I just don’t see it happening. Um Yeah. I think he’s got to do something first. Oh, which so Parker uh traditionally hockey do you do you label the lines um by the center? So technically was the top line for the third period Pey Kane and Garland or was it Heedle, Besser, and De Brusk or does it not really matter like Yeah, I think I think it’s whichever one you’re given the most ice time at five on five, right? Not the actual answer, but no, it’s it’s Person got demoted to the second line, not the other way around. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. Matt Ghost says, “Thoughts on Philly underocket?” What are they like one and two as well? Yeah, with shots on goal. I think I think they are literally in the I think they’re feeling Rick Tag. They they scored five today. Um Okay. On hold on 22 shots. What? So, does that sound familiar? Um they lost they lost 4-3 to Carolina. Uh, and they had 23 shots to Carolina’s 39. Uh, and they lost two under to the Panthers on opening night with 20 shots. So, yeah, that’s Rick talking hockey. They are averaging like 21 22 shots a game, including a game that went to overtime. Right. Right. Awesome. Hey, looking ahead to our future shows, uh there’s no home game for the Conucks on a Monday night until December the 8th. So, projecting a little bit. We might be clear for the next few weeks, which is good. Sounds good. Yeah, we should be here. I haven’t checked my calendar. We should be uh good to go for next Monday night. Checking calendar’s clear. Next Monday night, the 20th uh will be our next show. We’ll have three games to review. Stars, Hawks, Capitals, Gucks will have done something in those games. And that’s as much as I can predict. Um, thank you all for for your questions. Thank you for joining. If you missed any part of the show, you can rewind back to the beginning uh here on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform. It’ll be up in a handful of minutes. Make sure you’re subscribed. Hit the notification bell. Clay, anything else you want to touch on? Yeah, thank you, Parker. You kept the show moving along. I actually did not yawn once. I feel I didn’t have to stifle yawn. I feel good. looking underneath my desk. I got about an hour of clean up to do at everything that happened during the 24-hour last I was just shoved under my desk. So, uh not a pretty sight, but also not pretty was the Canucks performance at Rogers Arena. Horrible segue, I know, but uh it’s early, but we’re not excusing. We’re just being realistic. But yeah, but by next week, we’re not saying it’s early anymore. We’re saying we’re six games in. We’re almost 10% into the season already. So, let’s see what happens on these three games. But, um yeah, never a dull moment with this team. For sure. For sure. Except if you’re watching that game. All right. A no no show. I’d be crazy. A no show for me tonight. I’m going to I’m cleaning up and going to bed. So, but that would be crazy. All right, folks. Get some sleep. Two days off. Um Mariners don’t play tomorrow either. So, nice little reset reset day tomorrow. Um it have a good night everyone. We will see you next time.

ParkersPucks and Canuck Clay review the first 3 games of the Vancouver Canucks season, including a win over Calgary, and two ugly losses to Edmonton and STL.

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