Plays of the Week: February 19th, 2017
By Vanessa Jang
7 years ago
Weekly Features
- Monday Mailbag (J.D. Burke)
- What Would You Do Wednesday (Jackson McDonald)
- Weekly Prospect Report (Ryan Biech)
- Babych Please (Grainne Downey)
- What They’re Saying: Jim Benning Addresses the Trade Deadline (Vanessa Jang)
- Utica Comets Week in Review (Jeremy Davis)
- Roundtable (Matthew Henderson)
- Canucks Army Podcast (Satiar Shah)
Canucks Army This Week
“As LeBrun was wise to point out, the Canucks have to decide what exactly they’re doing, and they haven’t been clear on that — certainly not in the message they’ve conveyed to the media or their fans. At one point, they weren’t open to moving players on no-trade clauses. About a month later, they’re opening the door for just that.“
“It’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen before next season.”
“The Canucks hold five picks in the 2017 NHL Entry draft, with the chance of a sixth if Columbus provides their 2nd round pick. That isn’t enough. Ideally, the Canucks can get proactive and enter this draft with picks that they can use to add to the prospect pool and peddle on the trade market following the expansion draft.”
“I would caution against reading too far into this, though. When one looks at Markstrom’s showing based on different workloads, the conclusion shouldn’t be that he’s an elite goaltender when he plays more often in more difficult scenarios. Naturally, as a backup goaltender, the sample of games played in the four-plus start per twenty days range is going to be small. Enough so that it’s likely inconclusive and doesn’t hold a tonne of predictive value.”
The Games
“Probably one of the easier games this team of refs has manned in a long while. It was fast, open hockey and whether the refs were casual observers or contributing factors, it was great hockey through, at least, the first two periods.”
“Jacob Markstrom looked uncomfortable tonight. He let in a pair of ugly bank-shots in off his body and nearly let in another stinker when he let a point shot trickle through his pads midway through the second period.”
“It took a fair amount of luck, sure. There was the Alexander Edler goal in the first, a knuckle puck from centre ice that fooled Brian Elliott. That’s not we generally call the high-danger scoring chance area. And I’m not sure Ryan Miller holds up under that kind of siege in most instances — though he’s spent much of this season defying logic, so who knows.”
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