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Canucks Army Postgame: Lifting the Iron Curtain
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J.D. Burke
Mar 17, 2016, 03:14 EDTUpdated:
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The Vancouver Canucks don’t have an awful lot going for them this season. They’re not making the playoffs and barring a Toronto Maple Leafs style collapse, they’re not getting into the top three of the draft either.
So it’s kind of understandable that the city is losing its collective mind for a 21-year old third-round pick that just completed an 11-point season in the KHL. In a season most would describe as lost, sometimes it’s the little things. Or in the case, the towering things. No pressure, Nikita Tryamkin.
The Canucks as a whole didn’t give Tryamkin the warmest of welcomes, putting in another listless effort and dropping a contest in front of the dwindling Rogers Arena faithful. They built a lead early, Henrik Sedin scoring a firesale goal on a broken play in front – assisted by, you guessed it, Tryamkin. The Avs took control from there, with Mikkel Boedker netting two of his own to help build the Av’s two-goal lead, on route to a 3-1 victory.

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Quick Hits

  • So, how did Tryamkin fare in his first game? I liked some, if not most of what I saw. It’s just one game, so I don’t want to place too much stock in my observations to this point. I don’t know how much of this was the bag-skate yesterday or exhaustion on the whole, but his skating was nowhere near what I was sold on. Again, though, it’s just one game.
  • Translating for Tryamkin, and perhaps taking a shift or two of his own tonight, was Andrey Pedan. The last time we saw Pedan was during a brief, but encouraging stretch in December. Pedan led all Canucks defenceman in Corsi For tonight, with a glowing 63% mark. Looked good through the neutral zone, too. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Canucks took a long look at him down the stretch. Will need to clear waivers next season, so they better get a good luck at what they’ve got while they still have the option to send him down.
  • This happened…
  • Didn’t expect to see Alex Grenier taking shifts with the Sedins. Not in his second game of this call-up, anyways. The line as a whole had their teeth kicked in at even-strength, but Grenier has the lowest mark on the entire team at 39%. Didn’t think they looked that bad. By my recollection, Grenier had at least one ten-bell chance in front. I’ll say this much about Grenier: he seems to like going to the front of the net. That trait can get you places on this team.
  • Wasn’t a banner night for Linden Vey. Not by any means. Vey led all Canucks centers in ice-time, eclipsing the 18-minute mark. Was invisible at his best, and looked awful on the Avs insurance goal in the third. Getting walked by Andreas Martinsen is never a good look, but this… this is something.

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