Its hockey Iron, all threads about hockey inevitably go to trashing.. I go to school near toronto and my favorate team is the Vancouver Canucks... talk about recieving disparaging remarks. And don't wash your hands so quickly about the trashtalking, you asked me about how my "knucks" did last year with a emotacon. I just took queues off about where this thread was going.
Secondly, the canucks are acknowledged as the most exciting team in hockey, and if not the best team. Its is virtually the only team that doesn't play one of the three trap styles (especially the dreaded 1-2-2 that minny and New Jersey plays) instead going for a defensive lock system, Its defence is used as a potent offence and its has full of just offensive talent.That means there is waay more scoring in a vancouver game. Jason King our rookie already has 6 goals, and we had two 100 point scorers last year, Burtuzzi and Naslund. You are right its early in the season, but its been 15 games already, you can definately pick up some trends. Canucks had a 10 game win streak last year and a 14 game unbeaten streak. As to my comment about having the best record in the last year and a half, go and check it, its true. Thats not baseless statements, it is based on factual informations. Now for this season they started off with a 9 game unbeaten streak and have 10 wins... I'm sorry but I think the canucks are the best team in hockey at this point, and looking at the statistics I may well be right.
If you are talking about the game 6 collapse of the Canucks, the nucks didn't give a game of it. I think after going up 3-1 over minny they let their foot off the gas petal and did so after going up 4-1 in the second period of game 7. Most days Minny just traps all day, and once or twice a game takes advantage of a team's mistake and goes and scores a goal. Thats the way the trap works, wait till they make a mistake and capitalize. And the trap is really hard on goalies, since they don't see much offence and then get a flurry of it. It makes for boring hockey, and the NHL sufffers because of it. Look at scoring this year... its waay down, and other than die hard supporters of hockey, the game is boring to watch. I guess I'm lucky because the canucks don't play that system and goes out to score as many goals as possible. Trapping teams (and Im singling out minny and New Jersey because they are the worst offenders, but almost all teams use varations of it) just make the game unpalatable to watch.
