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CanuckJohnny · 07-27-2023, 06:52 PM

Canucks eliminated in six games

After going down by three games in their series against Minnesota Vancouver found some push back and won the next two, with stellar play from Ryan Miller, an injection of energy from Jannik Hansen, steady offense from Radim Vrbata and a two goal game four performance from Nick Bonino that was capped off with his overtime winner.

In Game Six they just didn't have enough and looked overwhelmed by a better team. Yannick Weber went down with a lower body injury and the team played a chunk of the game with five defensemen. There was no real offensive push aside from the Sedins and Vrbata. Ryan Miller was good but not great, and they needed him to steal this one to have a chance.

Dale Hunter sounded discouraged in his Press Conference post game, "it's frustrating, you know, we were close, I feel like we could've had something here. We lost some good depth guys at the deadline, those were tough. It stings a lot right now, I feel like we had a better chance. I don't want to talk about it a whole lot right now guys." Linden has taken some criticism after trading away valuable roster players mid-season, only to see them contribute in the postseason for other teams (Matthias and Sbisa for San Jose) or even have success in a series against Vancouver (Dustin Jeffrey) while the Canucks languish for a lack of depth scoring and NHL level bottom six wingers. In his presser Linden said, "we have a lot of evaluating and discussing to do. This loss hurts for all of us, and what we want to do is take some time and make intelligent decisions about our future and direction. We will be conducting our exit interviews next week and then our staff will be working together on our vision for the offseason. Our goal is to get better as an organization, to set ourselves up for consistent playoff success, and we are going to keep moving towards that goal."

07-27-2023, 06:52 PM	#39
CanuckJohnny All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2022 Posts: 554	Canucks eliminated in six games After going down by three games in their series against Minnesota Vancouver found some push back and won the next two, with stellar play from Ryan Miller, an injection of energy from Jannik Hansen, steady offense from Radim Vrbata and a two goal game four performance from Nick Bonino that was capped off with his overtime winner. In Game Six they just didn't have enough and looked overwhelmed by a better team. Yannick Weber went down with a lower body injury and the team played a chunk of the game with five defensemen. There was no real offensive push aside from the Sedins and Vrbata. Ryan Miller was good but not great, and they needed him to steal this one to have a chance. *Dale Hunter* sounded discouraged in his Press Conference post game, "it's frustrating, you know, we were close, I feel like we could've had something here. We lost some good depth guys at the deadline, those were tough. It stings a lot right now, I feel like we had a better chance. I don't want to talk about it a whole lot right now guys." Linden has taken some criticism after trading away valuable roster players mid-season, only to see them contribute in the postseason for other teams (Matthias and Sbisa for San Jose) or even have success in a series against Vancouver (Dustin Jeffrey) while the Canucks languish for a lack of depth scoring and NHL level bottom six wingers. In his presser Linden said, "we have a lot of evaluating and discussing to do. This loss hurts for all of us, and what we want to do is take some time and make intelligent decisions about our future and direction. We will be conducting our exit interviews next week and then our staff will be working together on our vision for the offseason. Our goal is to get better as an organization, to set ourselves up for consistent playoff success, and we are going to keep moving towards that goal."