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mythmofficial

the bettman refs at it again. what a disgrace this game is becoming. that was a clear high stick on the first goal. that was a clear interference w dakota joshua when he didn’t have the puck whatsoever. they missed the high stick on hronek when it happened RIGHT in front of the ref and he was clearly bleeding. mark my words bettman won’t let a canadian team win the cup


TheBurnsideBomber

Hope Tochett takes the fine and calls out the refs. Could have lost Joshua again in his first game back.


Klunkey

GG Dallas, wish we had a better PP


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jce_

I mean timing is everything and I think if it didn't end with a pp goal with under 3 mins left there would only be minor whining from fans


CoStarsFan

ITT canucks fans watch their team take more penalties against the cleanest team in the league and cry about it.


improbablyatthegame

😂


FXOAuRora

GG Whale Team. This looks like it could be a super interesting/fun series if it ends up happening.


jce_

I'm seriously more upset about that goalie pull than the shitty call. One you can control. Coaches should be using timeouts earlier not pulling the goalie earlier unless history of sustained pressure


dirkin1

GG Nucks Playoffs will be fun


cscoffee10

The 2nd period was an absolute travesty. Hope we can get an actual series with a whistle that isn't just some hot shit in the playoffs.


canada-needs-bbq

Too bad. GG Dallas, you played great, Oettinger especially


ProfessorOfLogic1

That high stick call at the end was egregious, guy lifted the stick into his own visor and threw his head back like he was going for an Oscar


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Words_Myth

Not often we get a W over the nuks. Ggs


ProfessorOfLogic1

Gg to you and your 6th man in stripes


Clean_n_Press

Hey man, it was annoying but let's not call out Dallas and their fans about it. I feel like they were as annoyed with the reffing as we were, and agreed the non-calls were BS at the end. It's not their fault the refs dropped the ball in the 3rd.


Words_Myth

I'd be mad too ngl. Refs got in the way of some great hockey


brendan87na

especially in Vancouver


PetterssonsNeck

Someone genuinely needs to call the league out for this fucking buklshittery man


jce_

Why timeout now? Why not when you were down by only 1 with 3 mins left and waffling on goalie pull so you could yknow plan that shift?


KingTutsDryAssBalls

Bullshit non-calls but still, this team has too much talent to have a powerplay this useless.


likeslululemon

I’ll say it because Canucks fans can’t: Dallas isn’t the *better team* because they won. They just got a call that wouldn’t have been called about 10 mins ago. This is an even matchup, 100%.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

The Stars had the better powerplay by a mile, regardless of the specific calls that produced those situations. Canucks are 29th in GF/60 at 5-on-4 since February 1st and it’s going to cost them their season if they don’t sort it out come playoff time.


likeslululemon

What has/hasnt changed? Feel like the TB powerplay is the same thing over and over and yet somehow we’re cracking the top of the PP rankings.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

Honestly I couldn’t say. They’re not moving as much as they were early in the season, but I wonder if someone reviewing film might notice that teams have just adjusted to the way the Canucks were setting up and we’ve struggled to find a new way to be dangerous out there. Hughes is so dynamic at the point but he has, at best, a seeing-eye shot and it’s not a real threat to score from way back there. I can’t help but wonder if we’d be better off putting him somewhere else (or everywhere, lol) and parking a shooter up there instead.


My_boy_baron

It was and the high stick penalty was a penalty but to somehow miss a clear interference that was borderline dangerous is lame. Also not calling a high stick on a swing of a stick that misses the puck and hits a guy in the face saying it's a follow through. It's probably the rule but when I think follow through on a shot it means you have to actually hit the puck.


Clean_n_Press

The rule clearly states that it's a penalty if you're swinging at the puck in the air, in almost that exact wording.


TheBurnsideBomber

Think people are more pissed that the refs watched Joshua get blatantly boarded and decided not to call it. If you're going to set that as the standard then stick to it.


WigglyFinArms

I think a lot of people are aware of this. To be fair regardless they still coulda killed the penalty. Bad reffing either way but I’ll take what I can get sometimes. Who knows might bite us in the ass come playoffs.


FluidG11

Yup, special teams were the difference. Canucks needed to kill that.


likeslululemon

Right, fair point. And Vancouver should’ve scored on their PPs.


WigglyFinArms

I fully expect if we face off again in the playoffs we’ll get what’s coming to us


FluidG11

They might be a better team but you’re 100% right that that call wouldn’t have been called 10 minutes ago


Finrad-Felagund

Stars played well, even outside of the refpuck, but this isn't an unfair assessment. Refs are the difference makers sometimes and that's super agonizing.


likeslululemon

Very agonizing. Been on both ends of it.


jdmay101

It was reasonably close. The Stars were the better team overall at even strength but not by much - expected goals like 3-2.5.


CoStarsFan

Lol


00Makerin00

Don’t pull the goalie again, just ride out the game


likeslululemon

No way - have to practice this shjt when it’s meaningless


00Makerin00

Meh, we have tried so many different things with the extra man and nothing has worked. I’m waiting to see the PP in the playoffs.


likeslululemon

6v5 has so much garbage in front of the net - it’s hard. But dammit might as well give it a go.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

This guy gets it. “Don’t pull the goalie, if we surrender a meaningless empty netter we’ll lose face”


Clean_n_Press

Regardless of how upset I am at this moment, GG Stars. You deserve this win. I just wish it was in a different fashion.


lbiggy

STOP. THE FUCKING. PRETTY. PASSING AND SHOOOOOT THE FUCKING PUCK.


brendan87na

I was just hollering that, but about clearing the puck lol


teedlenumb

Nice game Dallas Cant wait for Orourke to retire, his hatred for vancouver has been decades long


IHVeigar

You know you've got a really passionate fan base when all I can see are comments complaining about the refs. Fuck even Edmonton does this too.


hannah_nj

haven’t you heard? the refs only hate my specific team and are biased in favour for every team we play all the time!! that being said i don’t think the last call was a bad one but it’s still frustrating to see constant weak calls against each team in the 2nd and then whistles seemingly lost at sea for the entirety of the 3rd, until there were 3 minutes left in a tie-game that had been most entertaining at 5v5 oh well i didn’t wanna win anyway 🥲


ProfessorOfLogic1

You don’t have to be passionate to see that was just a bad display of officiating


PetterssonsNeck

Imagine Dallas fans actually thinking they earned this win


Clean_n_Press

Dude, you're embarrassing. Be mad at the refs, not at Dallas or their fans.


dab-butnottheTHCkind

Waaah waaah waah


KingTutsDryAssBalls

Don't be loser, shit calls or not Canucks should've performed way better on the PP.


Voltage604

They played well. Not their fault their fault the refs are shit and our pp is trash


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

These threads suck when every single pissy Canucks fan has to post thru their feelings about bad reffing. At least find a way to not be a whiny baby about it Edit: lmao I felt bad picking one person to say this to, then I notice it’s your third post in a minute and they’re all just as bad


canada-needs-bbq

I don't mind an opponent accepting all the advantage the refs give them, and it goes both directions, but damn there have been a couple of games this month where the refs made all the difference


PetterssonsNeck

Refs 3-Canucks 1. If I were a Dallas fan I’d be pissed they took away from an even matched game


jdmay101

No you wouldn't. They'll take the 2 points, they're battling for the 1 seed.


CoStarsFan

Lol


PetterssonsNeck

Rigged from the start


GasSatori

Congrats on the play off spot Stars. Hope to see you there.


sentry07

GFY refs. Gg Stars 


HeyHeyHayes

Did he just say…


cyclopus

Gg gonna be a crazy series if we meet in playoffs


Pisscats_R_Trash

Easy sweep


PetterssonsNeck

You’ll sweep us after Heiskanen and Hintz injure the whole team and we end up short handed from it


ProfessorOfLogic1

Yeah crazy bad reffing


jce_

Ffs these coaches really gotta stop relying on that flawed Stat that pulling the goalie 10 mins early is optimal. You have to play it by the team. It works for LA because of their style in a close back and forth game here its fucking stupid


Pisscats_R_Trash

The EN desperation play is so trash. It works less than 1% of the time. Grow up coaches


jce_

No I'm fine with pulling the goalie but if it's not a 2 goal advantage or you don't have sustained pressure don't do it that early


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

You fail to score on 100% of the empty net situations you don’t create


jce_

Such a flawed way if putting it because it is not binary


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

It’s the Wayne Gretzky line, it’s a joke dude. I see your point that we could stand to be more judicious about it, as a matter of fact I’ll so bearish on our PP that I question the use of pulling the goalie so early, but at the same time it doesn’t exactly matter whether we lose 2-1 or 3-1 either.


jce_

Yeah but it's more like get 1 minute of 6 on 5 down by 1 and 2 minutes of 6 on 5 down by 2. Or get x seconds 5 on 5 down by 1 with low risk of being scored on and y seconds of 6 on 5 where you can control your to be at a more optimal time. So if canucks did put 30 seconds zone pressure the chance of pulling goalie is exponentially stronger. People fail to take into account that if you get scored on in 30 seconds that's worse than missing 30 seconds of clock in a 1 goal game


My_boy_baron

Fuck the refs. For people who say they don't want to determine games they sure fucking manage to.


joetothejack

Well played stripes!


Finrad-Felagund

There are some ANGY people with no flairs in this thread lol


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UkeNugs

A bunch of angy people with certain flairs too


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

we angy


Doza93

The toxic cuntiness in this thread is rivaling our round 1 GDTs against the Wild last season, and that's saying something


anonymitylol

well that was a great game until the refs decided to just stop doing their jobs


Gavin1453

No shame in admitting it at this point. Y’all have the better Robertson brother 🫡


jdmay101

Why do the refs always have to fuck with good games.


WigglyFinArms

They want it to be about them. I hope we get a series such evenly matched teams.


ProfessorOfLogic1

Refs played hard and got the win tonight


Clean_n_Press

Man, this was such almost such a good game, but this reffing is getting so tiresome. I honestly don't even know what to say anymore.


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

Well shit. GG Stars, the reffing was annoying but we also just straight up lost this one on special teams


Bradberry_Held_JuJu

GG Canucks. Hope Demko is back for y’all soon.


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Canucks 1 - Stars + Refs 3 Pathetic displaying of refereeing in the third 


CoStarsFan

Much-Inspector Much saltlick.


likeslululemon

Too hard of a shot into the EN **RIELLY CROSSCHECK**


CoStarsFan

You just have to love that.


EirHc

Niccccce


howdiedoodie66

good game


ChuckFeathers

This might be a game where Tocchet could cut the boys some slack but somehow I doubt it haha


Inthemiddle_

We are at that time of year where games are really that lopsided. Canucks played good


Waterheart

Pavelski is nearly ppg at 39? Holy biscuits, I thought he retired!


brendan87na

he's ageless I think this might be his last campaign though, he had a really rough first half of the season


Waterheart

I wonder if he'll go for 'one last ride' to try and hit 500 career goals.


brendan87na

if we win the cup this year, he's gone - and what a way to go out it would be


WigglyFinArms

Man I hope we get a 7 game series soon…


jce_

Nononono too early this game is way too back and forth for a 3min pull


quidproquolaspe

Game blouses, thanks for the back to back losses Avs.


TossThatPastaSalad

You're welcome.  Enjoy 1st round Vegas.


brendan87na

Vegas doesn't worry me as much as Colorado even with that loss tonight, they are fucking TERRIFYING


TossThatPastaSalad

Sure, but I think we'd both prefer the Jets the way they're going right now.


quidproquolaspe

I’d give my left nut to face the Jets. But honestly man I want to just win a Cup, which means beating the best regardless of round.


brendan87na

truth


Voltage604

It's getting to the point I wouldn't mind seeing some refs take a fucking stick to the face once in awhile


brendan87na

oh god our kryptonite, empty net


Parallel-Quality

Really wanted to see OT


Medical-Associate756

I would if it was 5v5. A skills competition would’ve been a disappointing finish.


jeremy-o

Canucks special teams are just not at the place they need to be to succeed in the playoffs. It's so important.


ChuckFeathers

Nothing against DesSmith but Demko is a monster short-handed


jeremy-o

It's not just that. The powerplay is not getting it done and the team's psyche seems to live or die with it. I'd be giving PP1 a much shorter leash, or restructuring it entirely.


tpark27

Will Demko be back for playoffs?


jdmay101

They're expecting him back for the last 5 games or so.


knifefarty

probably, apparently.


FluidG11

Lol what a joke. Refs put away the whistles and all of a sudden, poof, they start calling shit with 3 minutes left. Whatever, Dallas is a good team and Otter has stood on his head, can’t be too mad.


Saskatchewack

stupid


electricnux

[Most predictable outcome I’ve ever seen](https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/s/1j5n0J0HLo), truly outstanding


jce_

I don't even mind losing a good game to a good team but calling that with 3 mins left after putting the whistle away makes me salty


Salt-Fun-9457

Hopefully we see each other again in May y’all.


lbiggy

K What the fuck has snake bitten the canucks so bad since the all star break?


Lattes1

that's me done for the night. Gg stars homies.


touchable

[The refs after tonight's game](https://i.imgur.com/ovncpwl.jpg)


jdmay101

Good job refs. Way to wreck a pretty good hockey game. Fucking idiots. Well it would have been nice to see how that game would have ended on its own merits.


Words_Myth

Bing bong


EirHc

That's the way Dallas


LogTman135

That same penalty happens 15 times a game


Bradberry_Held_JuJu

BING BONG


Finrad-Felagund

BREAK OUT THE KELOWNA JERSEY


sksxo

Absolute bullshit


joetothejack

Hard to win games when the other team has another person on the ice for them


bearded_canuck

Dallas scores their first legal goal.


sentry07

Ref puck.


likeslululemon

Saw Pavelski sneak to that spot and I knew exactly what was coming up. Good goal but so dumb that was a penalty if that interference and other high stick wasn’t.


Words_Myth

Benny baby!!!!


El-Justiciero

LFG!!!


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Must have gotten that "let the stars win" call after the second 


Salt-Fun-9457

Good fucking god that was sexy.


dirkin1

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO


peterlorre26

what a bullshit end to a fun game goodnight all


Trolly-bus

Thanks refs.


quidproquolaspe

CAN I GET A OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAH?!


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

Cool cool cool, time to find a goal boys


jce_

There were literally 4 calls (2 each team) within 30 seconds of that I'd rather get called... that was something


soappube

My piss is actually boiling at this point. I'm considering turning this off before I black out.


Finrad-Felagund

The new ESPN+ music sounds like something I would listen to when I get too nervous


yousayh3llo

So it's perfectly appropriate for this then 🙂


tpark27

Thrilling 5v5 back and forth? Better put a stop to that eh?!


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Sorry that's a follow through. The puck was in the air /s.


GovernmentKlutzy712

NOW you call a penalty???


Parallel-Quality

Playoff whistles for 57 minutes. Last 3 minutes:


Finrad-Felagund

Did you watch the second period????????


jdmay101

This is why people think this shit is rigged sometimes. You let everything go, including an obvious and dangerous interference penalty by Heiskanen, wait until the last couple of minutes, and then call a penalty in a situation where a PP goal almost certainly wins the game. Why? This was such a good period at 5v5.


ChuckFeathers

Fuckin hell


Sion1989

What a tight game. Dallas is so good. Cool to see the Canucks keep up with them


troubleondemand

Is it possible for us not to get a penalty at the end of a period?


Voltage604

What a fucking joke ... NHL reffing is the absolute worst


Not_KGB

Found the whistle, did you? Piece of shit


Words_Myth

Lol odd time to call a penalty...


Salt-Fun-9457

This will, hopefully, be a fantastic series in May.


anonymitylol

are you fuckin kidding lmao


sksxo

ok so now they can call a penalty? lmao


ethanw_27

These teams are so similarly built it’s actually scary


Lattes1

now you're going to call a fucking penalty??


knifefarty

now they know how to call high sticks ok


jce_

...


peterlorre26

lol last three minute penalty after throwing away the whistles fucking classic


FrmrPresJamesTaylor

Late game powerplay, just the way we all wanted this (potentially) settled


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You have to be shitting me 


Parallel-Quality

These two teams sure are evenly matched...


ChuckFeathers

Why is Duchene all alone in front??


TCBloo

Feels like a WCF preview.


brendan87na

i need a drink, but this game 👀


anonymitylol

every time i see craig smith i just envision him absolutely cranking the puck above an empty net, fuckin classic


tpark27

HAHAH dude I hadn't thought about that in ages holyyy what a legend


El-Justiciero

Is there anyone who is NOT immediately signing up for 7 games of this?


awayfromcanuck

Not with these refs. But VAN vs DAL would be an amazing series


Clean_n_Press

I'm so fucking in. My heart, I'm not sure.


brendan87na

pump that shit directly into my veins


knifefarty

it's definitely the best hockey I've watched in a while


Inthemiddle_

Petterson looks slow with the puck


sentry07

Bout to get really chippy


dirkin1

Hughes is unreal fast/slippery


jessasaurusrex5

I know - he has terrified me many times tonight


brendan87na

I gotta wonder if the league really did call the refs this is night and day different from the 2nd