Do the Vancouver Canucks Have A Goalie Downside?
TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joined Jay Onrait on SportsCenter to debate the Vancouver Canucks and their goalie points after blowing a three-goal result in the Calgary Flames on Wednesday evening.
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Jay Onrait: So the Canucks blow a three-goal lead. There’s quite a lot of concern about Thatcher Demko; understandably, he’s out. We don’t understand how lengthy he’s going to be out. We don’t understand how lengthy the Canucks are going to carry him out. The priority after that Silovs efficiency extra involved now as a result of Silvos appeared nice final yr.
Craig Button: “Yeah and you bought to watch out about taking one recreation and overanalyzing, after all, however I’m it in the way in which it occurred. And positively, Arturs Silovs is available in and, now, you’re anticipated to get in there and provides them good strong goaltending.
What do you inform, preserve the opponent exterior? Properly, the Canucks did do this. Look the place these targets are from.
Prime of the circle is excessive, they usually beat up excessive. And once you’re a crew, and also you’re saying, we’re not going to offer you something inside, we’re going to offer you the whole lot exterior. I imply, the Huberdeau purpose was proper on the internet. However all in all, you understand, this recreation fell aside for the Vancouver Canucks on the again of Arturs Silovs
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Like you possibly can’t be given up these forms of targets that they had. They’d a grip on the sport, after which, after which they misplaced their grip on the sport. Was like a greased pig. They couldn’t come up with the sport once more, after which they in the end misplaced.
However Arturs Silovs, as a goaltender like I can perceive if there have been Grade-A scoring possibilities, excessive hazard scoring possibilities, they weren’t, they usually weren’t. They had been, photographs that should be stopped, and he didn’t do the job, and so he’s going to must play, and we all know he’s going to must play, however definitely you’re not given a complete stage or larger stage of confidence that he can carry the day, and that’s what he’s obtained to point out.”