Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment
Nucks Fan Rebuild & Retool Center - Come For The Banter - Stay For The Disappointment
This Canucks team has forgotten how to lose. 4 wins in a row. Now they face their old coach, who abandoned them to coach an average team.
7:30 p.m. ET; NHLN, NBCSP, Prime, TVAS2
Game Day Chatter
So just like the rest of the games on this roadtrip, the Canucks are worse than their opponent in the majority of the categories above. This road trip had the Canucks face bubble teams in the east and so while people are giddy with the 4 game win streak, the Nucks really haven't faced a really good team.
Looking through the tweets and the sky of blue, there is a lot of Tocchet and the Canucks could have gotten more for Quinn. Funny enough, there are some Wild fans that think Hughes isn't that good. Canucks Army is saying Sherwood is worth.......................... a 1st round pick. I love Kiefer and he is having a fantastic year and I would love for management to find a sucker....team that would make that trade, but wake up. Sherwood is not worth a 1st round pick. But there will be some "fan" who complains when the Canucks trade him for a 2nd rounder.
Game Day Lineups
Canucks projected lineup
Evander Kane -- Marco Rossi -- Brock Boeser
Jake DeBrusk -- David Kampf -- Conor Garland
Kiefer Sherwood -- Aatu Raty -- Drew O'Connor
Liam Ohgren -- Max Sasson -- Linus Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson -- Filip Hronek
Zeev Buium -- Tyler Myers
Elias Pettersson -- Tom Willander
Thatcher Demko
Kevin Lankinen
Scratched: P.O. Joseph, Nils Hoglander
Injured: Elias Pettersson (upper body), Filip Chytil (concussion protocol), Teddy Blueger (lower body), Derek Forbort (undisclosed)
Flyers projected lineup
Trevor Zegras -- Christian Dvorak -- Travis Konecny
Denver Barkey -- Sean Couturier -- Owen Tippett
Matvei Michkov -- Noah Cates -- Bobby Brink
Carl Grundstrom -- Rodrigo Abols -- Nikita Grebenkin
Cam York -- Travis Sanheim
Emil Andrae -- Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler -- Rasmus Ristolainen
Dan Vladar
Samuel Ersson
Scratched: Nicolas Deslauriers, Garnet Hathaway, Noah Juulsen
Injured: Tyson Foerster (upper body)
Status report
Pettersson and Hoglander participated in the morning skate, but neither forward will play. Canucks coach Adam Foote said Pettersson is close to returning and could play as soon as the first or second game after the holiday break. ... Dvorak will play after missing a 5-4 shootout loss at the New York Rangers on Saturday because of a lower-body injury. ... Vladar is expected to start after not dressing Saturday because of an upper-body injury; Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said the goalie would be a game-time decision. ... Philadelphia reassigned goalie Aleksei Kolosov to Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League.
Game Day Battle Hymn
Special request from Jimmi today. Chris Rea passed away today and one of his better known songs was "Driving home for Christmas.", which the Canucks will be doing if they lose today.
Go Canucks Go!!
A Merry Christmas from all of us at Nucks Misconduct!
