Thomas Drance
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Thomas Drance
@ThomasDrance
Senior Writer @TheAthleticNHL covering the Vancouver Canucks. Co-host #CanucksTalk on @Sportsnet650 catch us 12-2pm M-F. Author, hockey writer, former PR guy.
Vancouver, British Columbia Beigetreten Temmuz 2010
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Liam Öhgren outmuscling Nathan MacKinnon to set up a two-on-one and a shorthanded goal. Pretty impressive sequence, that. #Canucks
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@NiqVelji @miketgould Their depth is well ahead of Vancouver’s, but neither side has the elite top end in their prospect pool yet.
I would also say that it’s relatively clear that Gridin is currently the most dynamic U23 NHLer on eithet team.
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@miketgould How does Calgary have a “significantly better” prospect pool.
Van has higher chance of Sten/Mckenna
Zeev is the best young piece on either team
Willander > any Flames u22 player not named Parekh
Calgary is 4 years into the post Tkachuk/Gaudreau, that’s AWFUL
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The difference is that the Canucks were already really bad pretty much every year they had Hughes. They only made the playoffs twice when they had him, whereas the Flames have had farther to fall.
Now, we're here, and Calgary has a significantly better pool of future assets.
Niq@NiqVelji
@FlamesNation @GMCcanada You just named a bunch of middling prospect on a team that hasn’t made the playoffs since 2022 LOL. Van just left their Hughes window 3 months ago and had similar pieces to Cgy who left their Gaudreau/Tkachuk window in 2022 😭😭
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@MikeMartignago I was listening on my walk out for something good and real btw, and all it was was a bunch of Avs fans talking about how the O hit early in the second period.
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Brock Boeser completes the hat-trick with a high difficulty 160 footer into an empty Avalanche cage.
#Canucks are going to do the thing. It's 8-6 Vancouver in the mile high city.
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#Canucks retake the lead on the very next shift. Marcus Pettersson from Brock Boeser.
7-6 with 5:39 to play. What a crazy night of hockey this has been in Denver.
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6-6, Sam Malinski.
The Avalanche have clawed their way back from a 6-2 deficit. #Canucks
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Brent Burns makes it 6-5 with a point blast.
6:39 still to play, #Canucks still leading. A once-every-five-year type upset hangs in the balance.
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#Canucks are on the verge of pulling off one of the biggest betting upsets in recent memory at +380.
Arizona was +450 back in 2022 when they beat the same Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in a shootout.
Colorado was -550 in that game, -450 tonight. #GoAvsGo
Grady Sas@GradySas
#GoAvsGo are -450 favourites tonight. Puck line is -2.5 (always -1.5 unless it’s a mismatch like this). And yet, #Canucks (+380) are 3-1-1 in their L5 vs. Colorado and have covered the +2.5 puck line in six straight games. @PlayNowSports
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Avalanche score 14 seconds into the third period to cut the #Canucks lead to 6-4.
Can Vancouver hang on?
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This has been genuinely incredible. A stunning result through 40 minutes.
#Canucks up 3 with a chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets in years.
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@mikeinthevalley I'm shocked by this one, and I generally think goalie interference is predictable.
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@ThomasDrance I'm convinced the NHL is just flipping a coin in the war room at this point.
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Wow the goal stands. That's a stunner. I thought that was about as open/shut as it gets.
Thomas Drance@ThomasDrance
Avalanche appeared to score a 6-3 goal, but after a lengthy wait, the #Canucks have challenged for goaltender interference. I'd expect that to come back.
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@canucks__43 the overheard. Contact is made as Lankinen attempts to move in the direction that the puck beats him. Kelly was deep in the blue too.
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@ThomasDrance What angle are u watching cuz there was hardly any contact
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Avalanche appeared to score a 6-3 goal, but after a lengthy wait, the #Canucks have challenged for goaltender interference. I'd expect that to come back.
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Brock Boeser beats a set goaltender off of the rush, and that's going to do it for MacKenzie Blackwood.
13 saves on 19 shots faced and it's 6-2 for the #Canucks.
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@jwhalen19 not at all, glad to see him do some dynamic stuff.
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@ThomasDrance How pissed are you that willander looked great on that play?
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Nice passing sequence off the rush from Rossi to Willander to Boeser and it's now 5-2.
#Canucks might really do this thing.
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Thomas Drance retweetet
Canada really sent a 6’2” stay-at-home defenseman to the moon. Gotta clear the crater. Gotta get rockets deep. Gotta fly a full 685,000 miles. You just can’t teach size
Bruce Arthur@bruce_arthur
Canada has the biggest astronaut, let’s go
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MacKenzie Blackwood is having a tough one tonight.
Second time a #Canucks forward has beaten him clean five hole. Has just 9 saves on 13 shots faced.
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@ThomasDrance They may not drop back in the draft by winning late games this year, but they certainly can convince management/ownership that their young guys have arrived and it’s time to accelerate out of the rebuild…
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The #Canucks were +150 to cover a +1.5 puck line entering tonight's game.
They're now up 3-1 after a Jake DeBrusk power-play goal, set up by Elias Pettersson.
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