leave it to the new guy<\/a> to explain why the Canucks continue to trend downwards.<\/p>\n\u201cWe were really disconnected first and second period,\u201d Marco Rossi said.<\/p>\n
At least Rossi is trying to do his part. He picked up an assist on the only goal of the game by Filip Hronek. He\u2019s now on a five-game point streak, picking up 10 points in that stretch.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, it\u2019s not rubbing off on the rest of the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe play too cute,\u201d he said. \u201cWe play too much on the outside. We\u2019re not going enough into the inside, the dirty areas. That\u2019s missing in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pretty honest assessment from a guy who\u2019s played a grand total of 20 games with the Canucks.<\/p>\n
But even Adam Foote, who\u2019s had the best seat in the house to witness one of the most discombobulated seasons in Canucks history, offered further insight into why this team is losing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have struggled in second periods because we get caught,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not skating.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s talking about the fact that the Canucks often get back to the bench too casually, something that they\u2019ve been burned on a lot with the long second-period change.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get caught in our end easily, and we have a hard time stopping cycles. Once we get [the puck] out, you\u2019ve got to change, and they\u2019re right back down.\u201d<\/p>\n
The changes were really weak, like, they weren\u2019t even proper, we didn\u2019t dump the puck deep enough and push them back to their own end.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to generate offense when you\u2019re in your own end, and you\u2019re having these changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canucks have been bad all year, but especially in second periods. Their goal differential in the second frame is -39. The next worst team (which is a tie between the Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks and the Blues) is -21.<\/p>\n
But, the fact that Foote is talking about sloppy changes in Game No. 69 might say all you need to know about this Canucks season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was arguably the Vancouver Canucks worst performance of the season. Sure, they only lost 3-1 to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-555256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}