Dakota Joshua

So instead of talking up Elias Pettersson as being an absolute dominant hockey player just starting to showcase his earth-crushing powers, we're all debating ...

But now you almost have to check someone’s impact on the team’s salary cap before you make a comment on anything. I want to believe that this is this generation’s Mario Lemieux fake out on the pass to Paul Kariya, seen here in a 14-second clip inexplicably set to Van Halen’s ‘Jump’: He knows Da Bomb is one of the hardest plays in any sport to stop, so why not adapt it to hockey? Which is why it wasn’t too surprising to see the Canucks hemmed in their zone on that same shift that Miller laid out the huge hit, with JT circling the middle of the ice, looking like someone swapped out his stick with a giant tree. I love that on the penalty kill he’s out here dropping hot at the airport, trying to take out a squad by himself. Riley Stillman gets the pass and unfortunately, the moment’s too big, but it’s still a good example of how Kuzmenko can create things out of nothing at times. You’ll notice of course that Garland goes into his mini-sticks hockey mode by dropping to both knees, as is tradition, but just misses on converting the pass into a goal. It’s science, and it upsets me that the Canucks refuse to follow the science. I’m sure Drance has a stat that will show just what a tenuous run the Canucks have been on as of late. JT Miller makes a pass on the power play in which he takes a look before he sends the puck to Quinn Hughes? Dakota Joshua almost powers the team to a victory with a hat trick before Big Money Save On Darrell makes a call and cancels his third goal? Like they make a list of pros and cons of pushing for the playoffs and going out in the first round and they walk away thinking “not Rachem” and nobody knows what to make of it?