Dabura

They won't. They'll be on the road so they'll have the crowd behind them. (*rimshot*)

Canucks score. 4-1. Game is probably over. Unbelievable.

Yes. Very.

Canucks score. 3-1. This is pathetic.

Being outskated, outworked, outsmarted, outplayed. Unacceptable effort.

Canucks score. 2-1. Wake up, Wings.

Need to be more decisive in the d-zone.

There is no one in the lower bowl seats.

Green with his tenth assist of the season. 11 points.

End of 1st. Tied 1-1. Too sloppy. Need to tighten it up and bear down.

Every time Kronwall pinches, my butt clenches.

MANTHA! Snipe!

Horvat scores. Canucks lead 1-0.

Great heads-up setup by Frk. Would've been a sweet goal.

Helm and Nielsen are a good PK combo.

Wings to the PK.

Yes plz.

LGRW

I'll always do the HYPE! jams, but I feel like I need to add another shtick to my talent stack. So I'ma try something new here tonight: oddly specific predictions. Larkin with two goals and an assist tonight. One of those goals is a power play goal, the other is an even strength goal. He gets the assist on an Abdelkader goal.

Complacency kills.

You've doomed us. You've doomed us all. Witkowski.

Eh, debatable. Howard got us into the playoffs in the lockout-shortened season. Nyquist overachieved for us the following season. DeKeyser was an ok pickup, Kronwall was an ok stopgap 1D, but we needed to do something to seriously address the loss of Lidstrom and Rafalski. I guess Ryan Suter was Plan A. I'm not sure there was a Plan B. We should've acquired Brent Burns in 2011, but we didn't.

I mean, to be fair to Holland, I can think of some decent reasons why he might be gun-shy. You've hit on some of them here. But, at the same time, we're about five years removed from losing Lidstrom and Rafalski, we've done very little to adequately fill that combined hole, and our D group continues to be our Achilles' heel. I like some of our prospects and I think Green was a great pickup, but I'm not counting on any of our prospects becoming stud NHL defensemen within the next few years and Green is probably gone after this season. It's a depressing situation and I feel like it could pretty easily be turned into a significantly less depressing situation with a sneaky-good move or two. But Holland, for whatever reasons, doesn't seem at all keen on making a relatively big move for a defenseman, unless it's a veteran UFA signing. Our D continues to degrade. Something has to give. I think Holland is fully capable of swinging a good trade for a good defenseman. I think he just doesn't want to. I think he's waiting for something perfect to fall into his lap. That strategy -- assuming that's the strategy -- has allowed him to build up what's becoming a pretty solid group of forwards, but, again, our D is suffering. It's frustrating.

Jared Spurgeon is one option. The Kings were rumored to be interested in AA and they may be looking to move Jake Muzzin. There are numerous prospects who could easily become top-three NHL defensemen within the next three years and probably wouldn't cost an arm and a leg to acquire, e.g. Haydn Fleury, Jake Bean, Dante Fabbro, Travis Sanheim, Julius Honka, Thomas Chabot. I think you're coming at this from a "No one's going to give us a P.K. Subban" perspective. And you're right. But there are other options. It doesn't necessarily have to be a proven all-star defenseman.

HYPE!