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Game Preview & Gamethread #78: Canucks vs Stars

April 8, 2025
- Westy

CANUCKS (35-29-13) at STARS (50-22-5)

8 p.m. ET; Victory+, SNP

Two years ago, the Canucks finished with 83 points as Rick Tocchet finished the year as the coach and the team went 20-12-4 under him and there was hope for the next year. And the team over-achieved last year to such a degree that it made us drunk with dreams of championships. Well, we all should know how to hold our liquor by now. The Canucks have been a hot mess for most of the year and offensively inept.

The Canucks are 2nd to last when it comes to shots for per game, which has led them to being in the bottom third of goals for. As the kids say, you got to shoot your shot to have a chance at success. I guess Taco doesn't have the same ideology. Boomers....or Gen X...whatever. The special teams are actually better this year, so you can look directly at the 5 vs 5 system that Taco has used. Team speed is nullified when the coach wants them to all get into defensive corners.

Speaking of team speed, the Canucks face Dallas today and the Stars are a team that have continuously adjusted their roster to be fast and stay fast. Dallas seems destined to face the Avs in the 1st round and have a long shot of 1st in the Central if they win out and Winnipeg losses all of theirs.

If the Canucks don't get a point today.....they can officially get a tee time on April 17th.

Game Day Chatter

Game Day Lineups

Canucks projected lineup

Nils Hoglander -- Pius Suter -- Brock Boeser

Conor Garland -- Teddy Bleuger -- Jake DeBrusk

Dakota Joshua -- Aatu Raty -- Kiefer Sherwood

Drew O'Connor -- Max Sasson -- Linus Karlsson

Quinn Hughes -- Victor Mancini

Marcus Pettersson -- Filip Hronek

Derek Forbort -- Elias Nils Pettersson

Thatcher Demko

Kevin Lankinen

Scratched: None

Injured: Nils Aman (undisclosed), Filip Chytil (concussion), Noah Juulsen (lower body), Tyler Myers (undisclosed), Elias Pettersson (upper body)

Stars projected lineup

Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Mikko Rantanen

Mason Marchment -- Matt Duchene -- Mikael Granlund

Jamie Benn -- Wyatt Johnston -- Mavrik Bourque

Evgenii Dadonov -- Sam Steel -- Colin Blackwell

Thomas Harley -- Ilya Lyubushkin

Esa Lindell -- Cody Ceci

Lian Bichsel -- Matt Dumba

Casey DeSmith

Jake Oettinger

Scratched: Oscar Back, Brendan Smith

Injured: Miro Heiskanen (knee), Nils Lundkvist (shoulder), Tyler Seguin (hip)

Status report

The Canucks reassigned forward Jonathan Lekkerimaki to Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Tuesday. … Stars coach Pete DeBoer said there will be a game-time decision among the forward group; if a forward cannot dress, Back is expected to dress and take a spot on the fourth line.

Game Day Battle Hymn.

Since this might be the last game with meaning....it only seems fitting.

Go Coconuts Go!

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