It's one thing to lose a meaningless game. It's another level of meaninglessness to get shutout in a meaningless game. For only the 2nd time this sick and twisted season, the Nucks were kept off the scoreboard.
Nucks haven't scored a goal since early in the 1st period. Last Saturday.
Pete's drive to triple digits didn't get out of the VIP parking lot at LAX. That's tough and probably the fault of the 2 Johns who were pumping Pete's tires.
Not the only ones...
Is tonight that Petey gets his 100th point?
Westy
And...
Petey gets the hundy tonight...
Chicky
We're all to blame for watching the point meter and not the tank clock.
At least the Nucks played cautiously enough in the 1st to keep the tie. No score after 1.
There was some fisticuffs and the Nucks got a PP. And weren't scored on. That's the next best thing to almost getting a goal.
Finally in the final 5 minutes of the 2nd, the Nucks perform a little down-low board-shy TireFire dance. Got a 9.5 from the LA judge. And a goal against.
Nucks down 1 after 2. Not a big deal.
The big deals were the big hits - especially Josh's decision to put a defender into the net, rather than the puck. Textbook Tocco hockey.
Doesn't matter.
Nucks are ready to launch their season long legendary comeback kids narrative. If only they weren't listening to the Vienna Boys Choir during intermission.
That and Tank Commander Myers had different orders to follow. From Chaos Command. Had a chance to clear the puck under pressure or make a game-sealing pass up the middle.
This needs to be repeated: Tyler Myers is a mess
Westy
2-zippers LA with 16 mins left for the Nucks to play. Mainly their own end.
Finally the Nucks decided to try some extended o-zone time - with some spectacular moves from Huggie's puck-on-a-string show with nothing to show for it. Then with Deals watching from the bench, he watched Pouty pot the EN.
Gotta say, I had more fun filling out my taxes today than watching this one…
Rob Scott
Nucks lose 3-0. Well done.
How well? Well... Tonight's Selke winner and the only forward on the Nucks who didn't receive a +/- of minus-1 was defensive liability, Kravtsov. Talk about lucky line changes and spreading out the workload.
Not important. What's important is this was the 3rd last time we get to hear from Cheech and the power food groups. He was presented with a fine bottle of Cali wine. Which unfortunately was not filled with ketchup.
CHEECH EATS LA
GAME STATS (nothing to see here)
| SOG | FO% | PP | PIM | HITS | BLKS | GVA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canucks VAN | 20 | 42% | 0/2 | 12 | 38 | 15 | 6 |
 Kings LAK | 28 | 58% | 0/1 | 14 | 19 | 15 | 6 |
SHOT COUNT (not much to see)
| Period | VAN | LAK |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 7 | 5 |
| 2nd | 7 | 11 |
| 3rd | 6 | 12 |
| Total | 20 | 28 |
PLAYER STATS (nothing to see here)
Forwards - Krafty Kravy defensive forward
| # | Forwards | GP | G | A | P | P | +/- | S | PIM | PIM | SOG | HITS | BLKS | GVA | TKA | FO% | TOI | PP TOI | SH TOI | PP | GW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | B. Boeser | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 18:43 | 3:17 | --:-- | 0 | |||
| 8 | C. Garland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:03 | 0:39 | --:-- | 0 | |||
| 9 | J.T. Miller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 18:05 | 3:17 | 1:00 | 0 | |||
| 15 | S. Dries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 10:55 | --:-- | 0:06 | 0 | |||
| 18 | J. Studnicka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 12:07 | --:-- | 0:26 | 0 | |||
| 34 | P. Di Giuseppe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:05 | 2:01 | --:-- | 0 | ||||
| 40 | E. Pettersson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 20:40 | 3:17 | 1:28 | 0 | |||
| 72 | A. Beauvillier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:34 | 1:15 | --:-- | 0 | |||
| 81 | D. Joshua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:06 | --:-- | 0:22 | 0 | ||||
| 88 | N. Aman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 14:32 | 0:04 | 0:36 | 0 | |||
| 91 | V. Kravtsov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:22 | --:-- | --:-- | 0 | ||||
| 96 | A. Kuzmenko | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:07 | 1:27 | --:-- | 0 |
Defense - Old and New Playing Tired
| # | Defense | GP | G | A | P | P | +/- | S | PIM | PIM | SOG | HITS | BLKS | GVA | TKA | FO% | TOI | PP TOI | SH TOI | PP | GW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | A. Hirose | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16:49 | 0:31 | 0:52 | 0 | ||||
| 43 | Q. Hughes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:26 | 3:29 | 0:26 | 0 | ||||
| 44 | K. Burroughs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:41 | --:-- | 0:28 | 0 | ||||
| 48 | C. McWard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17:04 | --:-- | --:-- | 0 | ||||
| 57 | T. Myers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16:11 | 0:43 | 1:33 | 0 | ||||
| 74 | E. Bear | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 21:15 | --:-- | 0:43 | 0 |
Poor DEALS
| # | Goalies | GP | REC | GA | SV | SA | S | EV | PP | SH | SAVE-SHOTS | SV% | PIM | TOI | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | C. Delia | -- | 25 | 27 | 24–26 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 25–27 | .926 | 0 | 59:15 |
ROAD REPRESSIVES
Dries had 1/3 of a Howe Hattie. Turns out in this game, the 3rd most important part.
Deals gets zero run support from the Nucks and zero run support in the presser.
RikTok Tiking down the Tok clock. Now with words 'n stuff.
Down to the wire. The thin little Bedardian wire. With the Sens getting a win tonight, the math says - yes, I know, math doesn't speak to most of us - math says the Nucks can't finish any worse than 11th in the CB lotto. Sure, it's like a 1% chance. But 1% is better than 0% - just ask the Nucking PP tonight.
Still be better to finish 8th from the bottom. It's a false hope, but until the weekend, we're or at least me are clinging to it.
Tomorrow it's off to Disneyland and Thursday, final road game, final game of the season in the most prestigious college hockey arena in the desert.
What are the odds of that sort of schedule?
Blech.
And the scheduling gods truly hate Vancouver. First 5 games on the road, and the last 3. Jesus.
copey
Speaking of odds... this was the best result I could generate: CB on CBJ.
Can the Nucks make the happiest place on earth the happiest loss so far?
Let's find out.
