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Jan 22, 2023

The Vancouver Canucks organization treated coach Bruce Boudreau incredibly poorly and their fans did their best to make up for it.  As the trade deadline approaches, some big names will be available. The Oilers have a 6 game winning streak going and their schedule looks favourable for the next little while. 

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Banter -  Houston / Soltex shoutouts - Glenn, John,s

Title Player - Mike Christie (412 GP)

Mike Christie -> 74-75 California Golden Seals Charlie Simmer -> 87-88 Penguins Doug Bodger -> 88-96 Sabres Rob Rau

Mike Christie -> 81-82 Kings Jim Rutherford -> GM Penguins 2014 Dan Bylsma Coach -> 08-13 Matt Cooke

Mike Christie -> 84-85 Bruins Ray Bourque -> 99-00 Bruins Joe Thornton -> 01-02 Bruins Eric Manlow

Mike Christie -> 80-81 Canucks Stan Smyl -> 90-91 Canucks Robert Kron -> 00-01 Bluejackets Serge Aubin 03-06 Atlanta

Feedback - Linnaea Bee was unaware that we expect her to check our work

News

Canucks make Boudreau coach while publicly looking for new coach - Rick Tocchet

Scathing Thomas Drance article

https://theathletic.com/4112347/2023/01/21/bruce-boudreau-vancouver-canucks-dysfunction/

Deadline

Bo Horvat on the blocks

Jonathan Toews - will Blackhawks trade him?

Ryan O’Reilly ?

All Star - Players voted in

Metro Division

Ilya Sorokin

Artemi Panarin

Adam Fox

Atlantic Division

Andrei Vasilevskiy

David Pastrnak

Auston Matthews

 

Central Division

Connor Hellebuyck

Mikko Rantanen

Nathan MacKinnon

Pacific Division 

Stuart Skinner

Leon Draisaitl

Bo Horvat

LEAFS - Tampa nipping at heels

What do they need at deadline

OILERS - Big 5 game winning streak

Campbell coming around

Deadline?

Guess the 5th

Team of the Week - Calgary Flames

Predicted: Mike 1st / Dale 2nd

21-16-9   51 Points -

5th in Pacific / Tied with COL for 2nd wildcard but COL has 2 games in hand

Fancy Stats

CF% 55.2 (2) SF% 55.9 (3) GF% 51.96 xGF% 53.67 (6) SH% 7.79 (24) SV% 90.73 (25)

PP% 19.86 (24)  PK% 82.1 (6)

Huberdeau 31P in 43 Games - not meeting expectations

Lindolm - 41 P in 45 GP - who was zooming whom last year?

Markstrom - .895 in 32 GP last year .922

Career avg .911

Vladar - .907

Summary:

Good underlying numbers.

Can Markstrom bounce back?

Do they have the offence?

 

Crazy Stat

Hot / Not

Metro NJD 7-1-2 / CBJ 3-7-0

Atlantic BOS 8-1-1 / DET 3-6-1

WPG 7-3-0 / ARI 1-9-0

SEA EDM 7-2-1 / VAN 2-8-0

DOPeS

Mike Matheson - $5k parking ticket