Rick Tocchet says that he felt he had to give Elias Pettersson better linemates.
“We watched video together, he’s energized.”
“That’s my job. I’ve got to help the kid out too.”
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showing off a new power play unit featuring Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Rick Tocchet and Sergei Gonchar.
A lot of star power on this unit, could be something here.
Brock Boeser is off blood thinners and has resumed contact training.
It will still be a situation to monitor throughout this season. The forward says that he will need to be careful on flights this year.
Can wear compression gear and use the Normatec to help.
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J.T. Miller's first period of the 2024-25 NHL season:
- Skates in 800th game
- One assist
- Two shots
- Two hits
- Pissed off the entire Calgary Flames organization
- Fought 6-foot-5 Anthony Mantha...and took him down
Not bad.
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Conor Garland says he's been in constant contact with Dakota Joshua.
"He's one of my best friends off the ice...He's a great guy, he's gonna get through it. We talk a lot and right now it's not about hockey. We're just enjoying each other's company."
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“That was probably the loudest building I’ve ever been a part of,” says Carson Soucy.
He’s wearing a Hockey Talks hoodie with the Rypien badge today ❤️.
Says it was hard to fall asleep last night with the adrenaline.
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For those interested in what books
#Canucks
captain (and newly-revealed bookworm) Quinn Hughes has on his bookshelf, I got an advanced screening of the Amazon series and stole a peek.
Here is a list of 14 titles I saw. There were more but they were hard to make out.
What about these two guys tonight for the
#Canucks
📷?
Dakota Joshua: 1 G, 2 A, 3 PTS, EIGHT HITS
Conor Garland: 1 game-winning-goal
This duo has been magic for the team all season.
Conor Garland says his on-ice chemistry with Dakota Joshua is partly a product of their strong friendship away from the rink.
“I sit with him on the plane after some games…we’re pretty close friends…when my wife lets me go out to dinner, I go out with him.”
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Quinn Hughes says that Roman Josi joined his summer skates in Michigan recently and he got the chance to pick the
#Preds
D-man’s brain.
Hughes called Josi “one of the best players in this generation.”
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Not confirmed but it seems like
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Quinn Hughes along with brothers Jack and Luke from the
#NJDevils
could be the cover athletes for EA's NHL 25.
This official reveal trailer is unlisted but live on the game's YouTube channel right now.
#NHL25
Rick Tocchet on Arturs Silovs' famous pink dress shirt after tonight's series-clinching victory
"That shirt is so ugly there's only one in the world...that is only ugly shirt but I love it."
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(
@NHL_On_TNT
)
That wasn't a game where the
#Canucks
were dominated and got lucky to win.
That wasn't a game where the Canucks goalie stood on his head and stole them the win.
That was a game where the
#Canucks
dominated the
#LetsGoOilers
and deserved ALL OF THAT WIN.
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goalie Arturs Silovs takes the ice this week as he tries to qualify Latvia for the 2026 Olympics.
Starting August 29, Latvia will compete against France, Slovenia, and Ukraine to earn a spot in Milan.
He's never had a SV% below .915% in an international competition.
"You can change the game with a hit, a goal, a fight," said Nikita Zadorov after the game about his hit on Roman Josi.
"That was an important moment for our team I thought, I got the guys going on that particular thing on Josi."
"That's my job."
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Thatcher Demko will be rocking a new zombie-inspired mask for the
#Canucks
this season.
It also features the Rocky Mountains and an image of Demko as a kid in a Roberto Luongo jersey.
The design is from a collaboration between the NHL, NHLPA, and Apple. You can see photos👇.
Vincent Desharnais said that Rick Tocchet and Adam Foote gave him a call after the
#Canucks
offer came in free agency.
He accepted the offer within an hour after chatting with the coaches and seems very excited to play for them.
"I feel like I could've made a difference," says Brock Boeser about GM 7 vs
#LetsGoOilers
.
"I'm crushed. I wish I could've been out there with the guys. Obviously 1 goal game I'm sitting there and saying, 'I could've scored in this game."
"I had to protect my future"
The
#Canucks
scored four goals in the first period, we had a fight, and there were plenty of other highlight plays.
The best part was still watching 6-foot-8 Tyler Myers try to make his way back to the bench after losing a skate blade 😂😂
“He’s our best D-man, arguably our best player,” says Nikita Zadorov about Quinn Hughes and the physical punishment the captain took last round.
“He’s a tough boy, he can handle it.”
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Garland jokes that he might be the worst player to ever get his name chanted, then:
"That's the reward of playing in a Canadian market, in a big market like Vancouver....If the environment is anything like that in the playoffs this is going to be a cool place to play."
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Arturs Silovs has played some big games for Latvia at the World Championships over the last two years. Different calibre of players on a bigger ice surface, but he delivered under pressure as an underdog.
Combined 9-5 record with a 1.96 & .929 SV% along with a 🥉.
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“It was an injustice not to pull out the win for him,” says Jake DeBrusk about J.T. Miller.
“He gave it everything he had tonight and, myself included, [we] need to be more like him that way.
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“Really excited for him, I think he deserves it,” says Quinn Hughes about his brother Luke getting nominated for the Calder Trophy.
Says that he thinks Luke’s rookie season might be better than his own.
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#NJDevils
"I can't overpay one single player and Nikita Zadorov was extremely good for us in the playoffs and a character guy," says Patrik Allvin.
"We did our best and he decided that he wanted to go somewhere else."
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Jonathan Lekkerimäki firing home some one-timers today.
The second shot 😳😳
That’s D-Petey at the top and pretty sure that’s Aatu Räty on the other flank.
Future of the
#Canucks
.
Phil Di Giuseppe is emotional postgame as he discusses his wife Maggie's pregnancy.
His son Sam was born last weekend.
Said that it's been hard with his job and it's been a tough pregnancy. Mentioned they had a lot of family coming in to help.
"It takes a village."
♥️
“If they had a Stanley Cup for the fans, they’d be right up there,” says Rick Tocchet about the
#Canucks
fan base.
The team worked hard all year to earn the right to host tonight’s game.
Some
#Canucks
milestones to look out for next season:
- Quinn Hughes to set franchise record for pts by a D-man (76 away)
- Tyler Myers 1000 career games played (5 away)
- Nils Höglander 100 career points (10 away)
- Brock Boeser 500 career games played (21 away)
Jake DeBrusk says that after skating with the guys a few times it's really started to sink in he's a member of the
#Canucks
.
"It's like your first day of school again. It's one of those things where I'm just trying to get straight As."
"I want to stay, I want to be here and build off of what just happened," says free agent Dakota Joshua.
Repeats that he wants to be in Vancouver.
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first goals of the season:
2024: ??
2023: Conor Garland
2022: Elias Pettersson
2021: Oliver Ekman-Larsson
2020-21: Bo Horvat
2019: Alex Edler
2018: Elias Pettersson
2017: Bo Horvat
2016: Daniel Sedin
2015: Jannik Hansen
Who do you think gets the first goal tonight?
Five years from now these playoffs may be remembered as the Arturs Silovs breakout party
The Latvian established himself as an NHL regular and wowed fans nightly with highlight-reel stops.
Enjoy some of his best saves from the playoffs below.
(📽️:
@Sportsnet
)
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"I was battling for the guys," says Arturs Silovs about a few big saves he made at the end of the game.
"They did such an amazing job today and in my mind I couldn't let them down."
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Here is a recording of the full NHL 25 trailer posted by EA Sports which has now been taken down.
It includes pre-order details for NHL 25.
Couldn't get sound but I have subtitles on.
#EASports
#NHL25
#Canucks
#NJDevils
Derek Forbort wore No. 28 with the
#Bruins
last season.
That number is unofficially retired in Vancouver and no one has worn in since Luc Bourdon.
Forbort did the right thing and will be wearing No. 27 this season with the
#Canucks
.
❤️
Daniel Sprong is 11th among all players in 5-on-5 goals-per-60-minutes over the past two years.
He's just ahead of Zach Hyman, Artemi Panarin, and Mikko Rantanen.
He scores even strength goals at an incredible rate and the
#Canucks
need wingers who can score.
(min 500 mins)
The "ref you suck" chants coming from the
#LetsGoOilers
crowd is close to the loudest I've heard from this relatively tame crowd tonight.
But I was told
#Canucks
fans were the ones who focused on the officiating?
One thing that stood about this
#Canucks
team was the belief they always had in each other.
For a group with rumours of a divide in the dressing room not long ago, it was wonderful to see.
"I just love this team man, I just love that we don't give up ever."
(📽️:
@Canucks
)
Quinn Hughes just spoke to the media with a visible gash on his cheek.
Says he hasn’t had a chance to watch the clip and all he knows is he felt he got hit in the face on the McDavid high stick.
He’s right.
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Tocchet says Filip Hronek has been "excellent" and praised the work put in this summer by the D-man.
The coach also said he's been impressed with Hronek being more of a vocal leader.
Tocchet texted Hronek personally after the first day of camp to give him props.
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Brock Boeser says he's going to let contract negotiations with the
#Canucks
play out as he enters the final year of his deal.
"Coming off the blood clot, I think I got a lot to prove."
"I thought Vancouver played really tight," says
#LeafsForever
Auston Matthews when asked if the
#Jets
are the toughest stick checking team they've played this year.
A shoutout from one of the best for the
#Canucks
Sprong says the lack of interest in free agency caught him by surprise.
Sounds like he’ll be a motivated player for the
#Canucks
this year.
Called it “a wake up call” and fuel for the fire.
Quinn Hughes talking postgame about the impact of Rick Tocchet and the belief he's instilled in the
#Canucks
.
Hughes says the coach has helped get "the stink" from previous years out of the team.
Patrik Allvin won't lock in Arturs Silovs into the NHL backup job next season but says that the young goalie is "a good candidate to be on the big team next year."
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“This is a really loud building and when the fans get into it, it feels like the ice is tilted at times,” says Leon Draisaitl about Rogers Arena.
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#LetsGoOilers
“Brock is a great person. Him and I have gotten really close over the last five years,” says Tyler Myers.
“Never mind the hockey side of things, great guy to have in the room and he will be missed.”
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The easiest change the
#Canucks
can make which 100% gives them a better chance at winning:
Play Quinn Hughes more.
His average TOI has decreased in the playoffs. He's played more than 26 mins just once (OT game) in this series.
Unleash the beast.
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GM Patrik Allein confirms Dakota Joshua has been skating in the mornings with Thatcher Demko and coach Jason Krog.
Both are skating which is a good sign.
Patrik Allvin and Rick Tocchet sat down with Arshdeep Bains this morning to tell him he was being sent down.
"It was tough," said the
#Canucks
GM who went on to describe how pleased he is with Bains.
"We still have a couple of days before opening night. Things could change."
Scoring chances with Quinn Hughes on the ice at 5-on-5 tonight:
Canucks 11 - Oilers 3
Scoring chances without Quinn Hughes on the ice at 5-on-5 tonight:
Oilers 18 - Canucks 5
#LetsGoOilers
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Quinn Hughes turns 25-years-old today. The defenceman has been unlike any other in
#Canucks
history.
His ranks already in the franchise record books among blueliners:
- 2nd in points and assists
- The three best seasons ranked by points
- First ever Norris Trophy winner
“That was really fun,” says Dakota Joshua about facing a PP unit made up of NHL legends.
“I know that they like when they get a chance to show off their skill again.”
“That helps a lot.”
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Arturs Silovs has a history of showing up in big moments.
He won MVP at the 2023 IIHF World Championships after leading Latvia to a bronze medal (their first ever).
Finished the tournament with a 2.20 goals-against-average and a .921% save percentage.
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players who scored at least 15 goals last season:
Brock Boeser
J.T. Miller
Elias Pettersson
Nils Höglander
Dakota Joshua
Conor Garland
Quinn Hughes
Jake DeBrusk
Daniel Sprong
Danton Heinen
and Pius Suter scored 14...
There's a lot of scoring depth on this team.
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FA projections by
@AFPAnalytics
Lindholm: 7 yrs x $8m
Hronek: 7 yrs x $8.3m / 3 yrs x $6.5m
Joshua: 3 yrs x $3m
Blueger: 2 yrs x $2.5m
Cole: 2 yrs x $3m
DeSmith: 1 yr x $2m
Zadorov: 4 yrs x $5m
Lafferty: 2 yrs x $1.75m
Myers: 2 yrs x $2.7m
Nikita Zadorov's desired number to stay in Vancouver is less than he could get on the open market per
@FriedgeHNIC
on today's episode of 32 Thoughts.
Says he thinks
#Canucks
will need to move to Zadorov's number as he's offering them a discount.
"I'm excited to get home and see my wife and dog," says Conor Garland.
"It's tough being away from them for four days."
He was also very complimentary of Penticton and the love from the fans.
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It was a series to forget for Elias Pettersson but he came up with a big play at the right time.
He moves his feet and wins the puck battle to keep the play alive.
He's going to need to be a lot better next round but it's an encouraging sign.
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“They’re really good at blocking out the noise” says Rick Tocchet about this
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team.
“I give them a lot of credit…it’s been a cocoon in the dressing room.”
Praised the team for creating a safe environment.