I guess one of the positives to take from all this is that they will not be facing the Jets in the qualifying round and that none of the Wild goaltenders are near the caliber of Hellebuyck.Most of the power play units in the short exhibition season have looked rusty, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see the Canucks’ unit suffer the same fate.
We already saw a playoff version of him during the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) playoffs, and he came away with If not for the Vezina-caliber goaltending of Hellebuyck, he probably would have found the net at least once.
Wednesday’s highly unusual exhibition game in July between the Winnipeg Jets and Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Place in Edmonton promises to be much more intense and full of action. Copyright © 1999-2020 Vancouver Canucks Limited Partnership and the National Hockey League. The biggest thing to come out of this game was the fact that he was getting chances and looked dangerous all game long. Roster The Vancouver Canucks played against the Winnipeg Jets for the 1st time in months and predictably lost. He feels good, his agent feels good, it was a feel-good story"Just like death and taxes, a loss to the Jets is becoming an inevitable event for the Canucks. Tickets Community Go to vanbase.ca The Canucks did play a solid game and there were some positive standouts among the troops.
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It’s starting to become predictable, play well enough to win but ultimately get beaten by a hot goaltender and some opportunistic scoring.Having said all that, this was just a meaningless exhibition game with no impact to be had on the standings or overall playoff picture.
Game 3 – Flames at Jets – August 4 – 5:45 PM Central. Let’s see a 6-5 slobber knocker. There was one sequence where he narrowly missed burying his patented one-timer and appeared to be saying to himself, “I missed it by that much”.We are starting to become familiar with Pettersson’s alien-like tendencies, so it’s hard to imagine that he’s only 21-years-old and not at all close to his ceiling yet. Bar down might be a common saying going forward. Game 4 – Flames at Jets – August 6 – TBD *If Necessary Miller, Tyler Toffoli, and Bo Horvat didn’t look particularly dangerous.
They were hard and physical on the forecheck and eventually buried a goal after an excellent wrap-around try by Gaudette. Except for a near-miss by Pettersson on a slick one-timer, the first unit of Hughes, Pettersson, J.T. We haven’t seen goals in forever and in an exhibition game, who cares? Brock Boeser is the guy to watch tonight. Game 2 – Jets at Flames – August 3 – 1:30 PM Central.
Here are a few takeaways from that exhibition game.