The Vancouver Canucks' home opener was a rollercoaster with the Canucks doing most of the coasting.
The first game of the season can lead to all sorts of overreactions. There’s a tendency to make grand, sweeping judgements about the entire season to come based on how a team performs on opening night.The Vancouver Canucks utterly dominated the first period of Wednesday night’s home opener, out-shooting the Calgary Flames 15-to-5 and out-scoring them 4-to-1. More than that, the Canucks were flying in transition, creating more rush chances in one period than seemingly all of last season.
“There’s really not much for me to rip on those guys,” said Tocchet. “They know what happened tonight and we’ve got to move on…A couple of players even said it: a little too much summer hockey.” “We just got too comfortable,” said Brock Boeser. “I think we thought it was going to be easy. They just out-competed us those last two periods — everyone could see it. We know it’s unacceptable, so we have to learn from it.”“Anybody can beat you at any time if you’re not ready,” said Tocchet. “You’ve got to respect the game.”
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