Iced Tea
10-13-05, 3:55 AM
Where to begin.
It was an awful effort by everyone.
The offense was non existent, even from Naslund. Bertuzzi was either floating around, trying fancy passes or looking totally lost. Macguire was right; Bertuzzi needs to get angry and become the dominant force we know he can be. The long imposed exile from the NHL has turned Bertuzzi into a pussycat. Maybe he's going to anger management classes and learning to channel his anger. A soft and cuddly Bertuzzi spells doom for the top line. Also Morrison keeps getting removed from the top line because he's underperforming as well. The A S S line had some energy on the powerplay but overall, they were non effective. The 3rd and 4th line didn't play much because of a constant stream of both teams' players to the penalty box.
The defense's effort was the near opposite of the impressive outing against the Red Wings. They got caught several times by the speedy Wild players and got burned.
Why Brookbank was dressed, is beyond me, he did nothing except bump Cloutier on one play, reminded me of Sopel.
Cloutier sucked bad. Sure his defense let him down on several of the goals but at least 2 goals were softies that he should have stopped.
The Wild played quite well, clogging up every passing and shooting lane. They deserved to win and get the shutout.
At least with the Canucks staying in Minnesota for the Friday game against the Wild, Crawford and the rest of the coaching staff can smarten the Canucks up and hopefully Friday's game has a totally different result. One good thing is this was only the 4th Canuck game of the season.
It was an awful effort by everyone.
The offense was non existent, even from Naslund. Bertuzzi was either floating around, trying fancy passes or looking totally lost. Macguire was right; Bertuzzi needs to get angry and become the dominant force we know he can be. The long imposed exile from the NHL has turned Bertuzzi into a pussycat. Maybe he's going to anger management classes and learning to channel his anger. A soft and cuddly Bertuzzi spells doom for the top line. Also Morrison keeps getting removed from the top line because he's underperforming as well. The A S S line had some energy on the powerplay but overall, they were non effective. The 3rd and 4th line didn't play much because of a constant stream of both teams' players to the penalty box.
The defense's effort was the near opposite of the impressive outing against the Red Wings. They got caught several times by the speedy Wild players and got burned.
Why Brookbank was dressed, is beyond me, he did nothing except bump Cloutier on one play, reminded me of Sopel.
Cloutier sucked bad. Sure his defense let him down on several of the goals but at least 2 goals were softies that he should have stopped.
The Wild played quite well, clogging up every passing and shooting lane. They deserved to win and get the shutout.
At least with the Canucks staying in Minnesota for the Friday game against the Wild, Crawford and the rest of the coaching staff can smarten the Canucks up and hopefully Friday's game has a totally different result. One good thing is this was only the 4th Canuck game of the season.