CANUCKS ARMY GDT# 10 – CANUCKS @ STARS

8 years ago

Living in the glory of Tuesday, the Canucks will put that big win behind them and head on over to the confines of the American Airlines Arena to face the Stars. Everything’s bigger in Texas and another win would sure be monumental for the Canucks. Injuries to Brandon Prust and Dan Hamhuis have triggered call-ups to Brendan Gaunce and Alex Biega; the young guys just keep on coming. Let’s hope the wins do too!

BROADCAST INFO

TV: SPORTSNET VAN

RADIO: TSN 1040

PUCK DROP: 5:30 PM

LINEUPS

The injury bug has crept its way into the Canucks locker room with Hamhuis and Prust staying home as Gaunce and Biega get the phone call. Jared McCann turned a few heads in his last outing making it tough to keep him out of the lineup. Jake Virtanen was no slouch and we’ll continue to see looks. Adam Cracknell sure wants to slot back in, but Gaunce has done well on the farm, so he’ll get his NHL debut.

Richard Bachman (Turner Overdrive) may get his first start of the year. Don’t mess it up Richy!

Vancouver Canucks lines courtesy of Dailyfaceoff.com:

LW	C	RW
Daniel Sedin	Henrik Sedin	Radim Vrbata
Sven Baertschi	Bo Horvat	Jannik Hansen
Alexandre Burrows	Brandon Sutter	Jake Virtanen
Brendan Gaunce	Jared McCann	Derek Dorsett

Defensive Pairings
Alexander Edler	Chris Tanev
Ben Hutton	Yannick Weber
Luca Sbisa	Matt Bartkowski

The Stars hope to continue their dominance of the Canucks with a star heavy lineup of Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin, Jason Spezza, Patrick Sharp and Valeri Nichuskin. Dallas came back to further embarrass the Ducks on Tuesday being down 3-0 and winning 4-3. This team is for real. Hey even Ales Hemsky is there, totally forgot! Kari Lehtonen should get the start.

Dallas Stars lines courtesy of Dailyfaceoff.com:

LW	C	RW
Jamie Benn	Cody Eakin	Tyler Seguin
Valeri Nichushkin	Jason Spezza	Patrick Sharp
Mattias Janmark	Radek Faksa	Ales Hemsky
Antoine Roussel	Vernon Fiddler	Colton Sceviour

Defensive Pairings
Alex Goligoski	John Klingberg
Johnny Oduya	Jason Demers
Jyrki Jokipakka	Jordie Benn

REASONS TO WATCH THIS GAME

Might we see TWO 60 minute efforts in a row? Oh yes my friends, yes we will. Its giant-killing season right now for the Canucks and beating the Canadiens AND the Stars would be all kinds of awesome. I think you should watch for that reason.
Has Jared McCann’s 2 goal performance given him the final boost in Willie’s confidence to put him in a permanent Canucks locker stall after game number nine? There’s a good chance it has. He looked great and I could stop there but my goodness he’s diversifying his portfolio by doing it at both ends of the rink. Did I just make an investment reference? I think I did and you should not take stock tips from me. We can talk about that later.
If Richard Bachman does indeed get the start this evening, how will the team perform in front of him? Do we know enough about him to feel “confident” in his talents? He had a shutout with Dallas once? Maybe this is a spite start. It isn’t really fair to Ryan Miller to play him in both games of the back to back. If they did for some reason, why in the heck are they bothering to keep the warm bodied Bachman? He is a subpar backup, possibly even par. A below par effort in front of him would be welcome.
I think I got that wrong, it should be.. you know what, nevermind.
Jamie Benn or Tyler Seguin is probably gonna do a number on the Canucks but there is an off chance we get to see a 2010-11 Canucks/Stars matchup and we steal a barn burner. That is a reason to watch this game. Cory Schneider is not in net though sooooooo….and I think Mike Smith is not the same Mike Smith anymore, and he also does not play for the Stars either. This could be a real mess and I can’t wait!
Chris Tanev looked pretty pissed off against Montreal when he didn’t score on his set up. That has to have put the Tan Man in a Hulk-like rage and now we’ll find out a whole other side of the calm, cool, collect Tanev. He’s ready to score a boat load of goals and you know what’s better than that? NOTHING! Well if Ben Hutton did the same thing we’d be pretty jacked I’m guessing.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

This is pretty great, @tseguinofficial. #SeguinSelfie
https://t.co/FBF3IVoNiI
— NHL (@NHL) October 28, 2015

MY TAKE

If I predict they lose, they win; predict win, they lose. I’m torn. I want to believe in blue. I mean, we are all Canucks am I right? I know they play for this so I’m going with the Canucks lose in OT. We aren’t the 3 on 3 team I thought but at the same time it’s pretty close. Canucks lose in OT, Virtanen continues his murder count and yes my friends, Jared McCann scores a real kind of goal tonight. I dunno, I could be wrong.