Lindholm had 5g 5a in 13 games wtf are you guys taking about he wasn’t good ??????

Mikhaev hasn’t scored in 60 games! Give petey a linemate who isn’t snakebitten next year, plz!

Just came here to read the comments. My takeaway is, Vancouver played a heck of a series but they didn’t adjust and relied on their formula during the regular season. GSAA and unreal shooting. I hate it when markets make excuses for their team. The oilers beat them and if this or if that or if another thing happened. It doesn’t matter. Ultimately the better team won this year but I expect Vancouver to come back stronger next year.

Pettersson only had 6 points and 1 GOAL. Hard to win when your best players struggle to hit 0.5 points/G.

I have to imagine losing Boeser so unpredictably played a big role in why they lost game 7. It’s not the fact they lost him it’s how they lost him in my opinion. The power play probably lost them the series. They had the man advantage in parts of the game and they were utterly putrid during it. Like they could hardly enter the zone when the game was in its closing stages 6 on 5, and the 4 min power play they had barely generated anything. And of course, Edmonton’s power play was insane and always is insane. So what lost them the series? I’d say failing to capitalize on their opportunities on the man advantage and not generating enough shots on a pretty shaky Skinner.

Silov is going to be an amazing goalie. Hopefully he can learn from Demko and become a starter at some point.

If only we had Toffoli, Tanev and Kessel!

The canucks shot totals were not good, 100% agree. But you cant say the shots they did get weren't high quality. The team's strategy is literally hold onto the puck and wait for a better look rather than a low percentage shot and risk losing possession. Their high danger chances to SOG ratio was high.

Brock being out KILLED team morale. That's why they came out flat. Took a few periods to forget he was gone. Same as avs with the big Russian.

Face it. When the team with the worst percentage of shots on net for every try taken plays the team with the best record for shots on net for every try taken, it's almost impossible for the worse team to win. In the end it was all the shots the Canucks took that went wide of the mark that sunk them. They had almost as many tries as the Oilers, and they did not show any quit. The Oilers are just better defensively than most people give them credit for. The Canucks work ethic was definitely there, but the skill level is not.

Demko is a bigger loss than most realize. The Canucks play a more aggressive attacking style when Demko is in net (2-1-2). This is how the generate offense is by heavy and aggressive forecheck during the regular season. There is a higher risk of a rush chance going back the other way, and they have more confidence playing this style with Demko in net knowing he could make the save to bail them out. When DeSmith/Silovs is in net, the Canucks play the conservative style (1-2-2) which saw their offense drop off in production. The reason why a lot of Canucks wins were comebacks in the playoffs is they play a conservative style (1-2-2) when the score is tied or they have a lead. Once they trail and getting late in the game, they go back to the aggressive (2-1-2) style. If the Canucks had a healthy Demko for this playoff run, the story could really be different. However, I don't see them getting by Dallas even with a healthy roster because the lack of quality top 6 winger will always be their downfall.

Speaking as a Canucks fan, nothing really went wrong, except for the Demko and Boeser injuries. The Canucks overachieved in the first half, came back down to earth and while they didn’t play their best games in 6 and 7, they had some luck go their way. As well as Tocchet did, maybe they need to adjust to a slightly more offensive style while maintaining that defensive structure. But we’ll see. This is the first time in 10 years that they’ve been any good, so expectations should have been a bit more tempered. They were good not great and things had to go their way for them to keep winning. It’s a close league. Canucks fans who say they should have beaten the Oilers easily are homers. I’ve been a fan since 1990 and I knew to get this far, they’d have to have some luck. That luck ran out when they played a team with 2 of the best players in the world that finally learned to play some defense and they got a couple of key injuries. I’ve seen Pettersson excel in the playoffs so I’ll hold my judgment for next season. Queue the racist comments about “lazy” Swedes. I’m sure Peter Forsberg has something to say about that, as well as a couple of guys named Ulf.

Wtf...Lindholm was amazing? I know Adam watches the games but do the others? Tocc just won jack Adams. And yes, PP needs to clearly need to be figured out.

Missing Boeser was a huge part. Lindholm did great. His positioning was great in the playoffs and he made a number of really impactful shots, goals, and assists. Decent on forecheck too. Petterson was screwed by having nothing on his line. It was him vs the world. Series would have been 4-1 or 4-2 if Ian Cole didn't get as much ice time, and if Juulsen wasn't given the chance to throw for a hit. And as others said, Demko in net means the Canucks play more aggressively + save more of those goals that Silovs missed but were technically saveable. Also Big Hog is looking great, and if he can get some more consistency, he'll help these lines a fair bit.

What went wrong? No Demko and no Boeser for game 7, might have lost game 7 anyways with Boeser, but we would have won the series with Demko, but he's injured and that's the game so oh well. Also Canucks did not play good all playoffs, so there's another huge reason, not once did they look like the team in the first half of the season, yet they still brought it to round 2 game 7 with Edmonton winning the series by the smallest of margins possible, game 6 aside. Next year ya just need to the team to realize what playoff hockey is like.

Mikheyev's stick is where scoring chances go to die. Literally anyone was a better choice than Mikheyev in an elimination game.

Jesse ... Demko in net CHANGES COMPLETELY the Vancouver offense; they don't have to play passive, or tenative, or whatever, to protect the kid Silovs. So, the offense you say didn't score, so a change of goalie wouldn't have mattered, is a complete falacious argument. The offense explodes knowing they're not worrying about Demko, who, no matter how well Silovs played (with ALL that defensive systems help!), is one of the best G's on THE PLANET. Demko would have meant Canucks forwards (and even D jumping into play) would have been heading UP ICE, not playing the 1-2-2 protection scheme. Vancouver lost their BEST PLAYER after the 2nd game of the playoffs; they still made it to within 2 goals of the West Final. Pretty good. They would be playng Dallas now if Demko hadn't gone out. Cheers!

Lindholm was very good, can't ask more from him

You can tell Jesse actually watched game 7. When Steve and Adam have takes on oilers you can see their hatred come through. Nothing wrong with that, just makes them biased. Also a lot of their takes you can tell are from highlights or articles. I know Adam watched every game but anyone with eyes could see he wanted Canucks to win badly lol You guys need to give Jesse more room to shine.

More shots. Play 3 periods of hockey. If they really wanted to they can out play any team in the league. Their last period play against the 🛢 s . And preds proved that . When they get desperate, they can play . But they need THREE PERIODS.

These guys clearly just read the headlines of news articles about the Canucks and never watch more than a minute of their games…”wHaT wEnT wRoNg fOr vAnCoUvEr?” Nothing went wrong, key injuries plagued the team and we had too many passengers in the last 2 games (Mikheyev, Cole, Lafferty, Soucy) we’ll be stronger next year

The Kuzmenko trade is what went wrong for the Canucks.

Canucks need more canadians. Mark spector is right.

Demons loss was what went wrong

What went wrong? Demko not being there. Look at how this series was played. First 5 games (Van won 3) were all 1 goal games. Demko being there swings one of those losses. He's an elite goalie and Vezina finalist this year. Oilers were done in 5 had Demko been healthy.

Comparing Matthews to Pettersson lol. Matthews can't put up playoff points on a 30+ mil line.

boeser was a big loss. pettersson is a big loss also. don't know who that is wearing his jersey. some deadwood needs to go. mikheyev will never score again. the oilers felt desperation in the last 2 games that the canucks couldn't manufacture for themselves. this team won't have the same success next year.

The Canucks were outplayed for 2 straight series surviving on incredible puck luck.

Canucks had a higher xGF in game 7 believe it or not. Demko would've saved half the goals that were scored by the Oilers in the series.

the canucks didn't generate shots the entire playoffs. you can't score goals if you don't shoot the puck

Demko can't score goals lol. The canucks offense or lack of it was evident. 17 shots in game 7? Demko can't solve that. Silovs was fine.

I love how the canucks fan say oilers are a one player team but now they all complain cause their one player didn’t play game 7. This coming from a neutral fan of both teams

The only game canucks looked better in was gm5, they're lucky it went to 7

The only reason Boeser wasn’t trade is cause we couldn’t find any takers

-Missing Thatcher Demko. Silovs played incredible for a young third stringer thrown in, but he was a step down and let in a softy once a game that Demko would have saved. Also the Canucks play looser with Demko in net. -Relative inexperience of their group. Not too high not too low has been their MOnall year, but playoffs are a different beast. Each game gets harder. Edmonton elevated their game in GM6,7 and Canucks couldn’t match.

It wouldn't have went to 7 if they had Demko, would have been Canucks in 5

Hey Stephanie 👋 Dingle Nuts ! The Oilers was always winning this series

not enough can't be said about Edmonton's goaltending and how atrocious it really is as in that game 7 Skinner faced 5 shots and let in 2 goals on those 5 shots

What went wrong for the Canucks? Their puck luck ended after game 5. Straight up Edmonton was better at every position except goal for the entirety of the series except for game 5. You expect to win a series where you are the best team in one game out of 7. The only reason this goes 7 is because the Oilers got bad goalie performance in the first 3 games.

Nothing went wrong , the better team won.

Not enough talk about the biggest fraud in the league.. Quinn hughes. Coming off a Norris caliber season and he was an absolute ghost all series. Complete black hole on defense too, not sure how people can defend this guy anymore. Bouchard was 10 light years better than Hughes.

Canucks had the worst power play in the playoffs, it’s the reason why they lost the series, if they get 5 pp goals? Canucks win the series, they gotta switch something up with it, the 2nd unit gets 30 seconds max on the power play.

I wonder what excuse(s) nucks fans use next year.

Boeser missing a game is more than offset by Henrique missing almost the entire series. The big deal was no Demko for sure even tho Silovs played very well.

Lindholm was great, Joshua not so much

Coaching lost for the Canucks. Period. Zero strategy changes. Literally. Edm figurednout Van and predicted nearly every single at before it even happened. Forced plays by the canucks × 1 million. Ridiculous

You guys are wrong. Demko. It's a different series.