“I just feel like when teams push on us, we kind of stop executing, and it kind of snowballs.”
That was the accurate summary from JT Miller after the Canucks 2-1 loss to the Washington Capitals.
And if I thought I could get away with it, I would file this story with that quote and simply call it a night. I don’t think I could summarize the game better than “The Canucks stopped executing,” but apparently Quadrelli expects me to dive deeper than that. Maybe toss in a Goonies reference or two. Perhaps drop a Milli Vanilli song lyric. Then end it by talking about a very niche Nintendo game that very few people will remember or know about.
But you know what? I’m not going to do that. I won’t be David’s little puppet! Because right now, he’s got to do what’s right for him. Because it’s his time. His time! Up there! Down here, it’s my time. It’s my time down here. That’s all over the second we ride up Quadrelli’s bucket.
Unfortunately it felt like Canucks thought the game was over at this point as well, as their sense of urgency kind of faded away as the game progressed.
Which to be fair, it did kind of feel like Washington was keen to play along. I don’t know if they were trying to dope the Canucks’ rope, but it certainly felt like the first twenty minutes offered little in the way of pushback from the Capitals.
If I were forced to hand out credit in this game, I would say this goal was a good example of getting shots on net, something the Canucks failed to do in spectacular fashion as the game wore on. It was something Rick Tocchet spoke of when the game was done.
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