CANUCKS ARMY PRESEASON GDT#7 – CANUCKS @ OILERS
By Always90four
7 years ago
(John Shorthouse voice) In the FINAL game of the Canucks preseason, Vancouver heads to Edmonton, to the newly minted Rogers Place to take on the Oilers. Although the results haven’t changed from last year, the players fighting to make the Canucks have. Troy Stecher has taken the mantle from Ben Hutton as this year’s surprising standout on defense (actually anywhere) while Jack Skille and Tuomo Ruutu have made the most of their PTOs.
The regular season starts for the Canucks next weekend so this is the final tune up to see who’s ready.
Its the Canucks….and the Oilers….NEXT!
BROADCAST INFO
TV: SN360
RADIO: TSN 1040
PUCK DROP: 6PM PT
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REASONS TO WATCH THE FINAL PRESEASON GAME
- Our first glimpse of Loui Eriksson was pretty good. He scored…twice. Maybe the World Cup of Hockey WAS a good thing? The Sedins seemed to benefit from playing with their new linemate right away. Sure, he’s no Radim Vrbata but he’ll do. I sense somehow Jannik Hansen is a sad puppy now that his spot with the Twins is gone. Its ok Jannik, you’ll heal.
- Troy Stecher is probably going to be a Canuck opening night, he just has to. Its pretty rare to see a standout two years in a row come out of pretty much nowhere (as far as mainstream coverage goes). Imagine what Brock Boeser will do when he debuts? Jeez, that’ll be fun. Stecher has been a bright star this preseason and with the addition of Erik Gudbranson, the Canucks defense might actually be ok…..crap forgot Sbisa is still here.
- Jake Virtanen needs a big game tonight. Although his spot may not be in jeopardy, he needs to be our Milan Lucic, our big bear, our brute. Is Milan Lucic any of those things, I really don’t know. Big Country has potential to do great things in a Canucks jersey but he has to show us its coming. Go for broke in the preseason and stand out.
- So Nail Yakupov is gone and Kris Russell is an Oiler…I’m not even mad, I’m impressed. You do you Oilers, you do you. (wow….yeesh….zoinks…..haha their awful….ran out of things here)
- If you don’t want this game tonight, your cable company will scan your viewing choices and deem you don’t care about hockey and immediately blackout the 2017 NHL season on your TV. I’d take this pretty serious, it happened to me in 2012/13.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
I was just going to post the entire Oilers Nation timeline on Twitter but I figure you’ve laughed enough already. Now, how does Sbisa work into all of this?
MY TAKE
Unless something catastrophic happens, the team has been decided. I can’t see Loui Eriksson losing his job so I guess we’re waiting to see about Skille and Ruutu. I think they make it. It’s not going to hurt the team further to bring them along and it motivates Burrows and a few others to keep their game in check. This isn’t the best Canucks team ever, its not the worst but its interesting and the difference from last year is I care a heck of a lot more with this lineup.
DO THE CANUCKS WIN?
We need to believe they do, so yes. A MILLION TIMES YES!
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