Canucks Talk Whiteboard: It’s All a Lie
Nov 18, 2025
The hosts react to a chaotic Canucks loss and dissect the discrepancy between team performance and statistics. They explore the unsustainable nature of the Canucks' risky play and delve into goaltending issues that mask defensive problems. A notable discussion centers around Quinn Hughes' significant impact on team performance. The duo also evaluates playoff odds as the season progresses and considers lineup changes due to injuries. To wrap up, they highlight upcoming matchups and players to watch in the NHL.
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Results Mask Underlying Decay
- The Canucks' strong results recently are being driven by unsustainably high shooting luck and goaltending, not actual play quality.
- Thomas Drance warns that underlying metrics show they are getting outchanced and territorially dominated and this won't hold long.
Glass-On-Table Analogy For Team Fragility
- Drance uses a child-and-glass analogy to illustrate risk tolerance and imminent failure if not fixed.
- He compares Vancouver's fragile play to a squirming kid near a glass at the table about to crash.
Team Crumbles Without Quinn Hughes
- Non-Quinn Hughes minutes are catastrophically bad and drive the team's poor five-on-five performance.
- Drance calls it a new low despite a high-quality blue line and says the ice is tilted against Vancouver.