Rick Tocchet Reacts to Vancouver Canucks Series Loss vs. Edmonton, Lessons From Canucks Year
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Rick, as an Oilers fan... you are an awesome coach!
Of course he is, he's good for a soundbyte but he made it easy for you guys with an incorrect strategy.
Agreed! Oilers fan here. He's a class act!
Disagree his players don’t show up and as a coach that’s his job
Ditto, as I an Oilers fan I am impressed with Rick he did a great job with the Canucks this season.
Have u heard of Operation Slapshot? Good coach, terrible human
No quit in the team but no start in the team either. Can't expect to win when you show up for one period.
Rick knows that. The players are crushed right now and he knows it's not the time to dogpile on 'em.
@@meowza wah
Canucks didn't have enough scoring depth without Boeser and Petterson invisible the entire series.
that was the problem. the inability to even shoot the puck, never mind scoring. they kept passing it around without shooting and whenever they shot the puck it was either blocked or snatched away from them
More specifically, we could not bring the puck up the ice through the neutral zone, either using tape to tape passing or stick handling the puck up the ice. Secondly, we are very poor along the boards. Address these two things and we're already a much better team.
But what's alarming is we could not do either of these things whether 5 on 5 or with the man-advantage.
They do have scoring depth, they just didnt show up like it was playoff hockey until they woke up in the 3rd period... U cant win in the playoffs if u only show up for one period
Inability to shoot the puck to the net was one of the main issues in this year’s Playoffs. EP40 was another huge issue.
they had the depth, just seems they went ghost sadly
Been a Canucks fan since I was a kid, Still reppin my team W or L. Go Canucks Go
Just don't burn the city down!
Go Canucks Go
@@thruxt0677 not even in Canada
@@johnnybaxter1953 Go netxt year !!!!!!!!!
Games are 3 periods long. They may not have quit, but they sure as hell never started.
Trying to find their game without boeser and all the line changes.
👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
That game felt like it was 6 periods.
Rick T... one hell of a coach. From an Edmonton pov,, he is awesome!
I feel Tocchet could've called a timeout just to WAKE THEM TF UP.
He was outcoached plain and simple
it's almost like they were resigned to losing
@@fastfootedone PETEY IS the NUMBER 1 guy to blame guy never showed up once
@@MrLos1999out coached ??? Went to game 7 dumb dumb dumbest
@@MrLos1999 Petey was +2 on the series
Nurse was a -9
I know which contract I'd rather have
Canuks, your my heroes. Happy to see great Playoffhockey hockey back in Vancouver, and hope we can get the cup one day
Coach of the year
Coach of the year lmfao. This.giy is the biggest joke in the NHL
@@Bbbbbvggtttttfcdeewwhahah what m8?? Where does that even come from? Tocchet is one of the most respected guys in the league. He played hard as a player and coaches hard, the team respects him, the league respects him. Tf you on about? 🤡
@@Bbbbbvggtttttfcdeewwbro what happened to your brain, all good bro
Not even close. Poor leadership cost this team games 6+7
The Canucks were dumping the puck into Edmonton's zone and peeling off to the bench for the entire first period. That's the coach telling his players to keep the shifts short which generated no scoring chances or O zone time. That was a horrible strategy. It should be dump and chase not dump in and head to the bench.
He’s as great in person. Often get the chance to have a chat with him in the elevator and he remembers every detail and super engaging.
Absolutely love this guy. Great coach . A players coach getting the best out of each individual. Inspires them to play for him. It’s his leadership . That’s the kind of guy you want at the helm.
made me proud hate loss but love what tocchet has and this team has done in his time i beleive management will make adjustments and they will be better .
realistically, it's very hard to imagine them being better next year. Huge Nucks fan, but let's be honest, they played WAY over their heads for 50 games and when they came back down to earth, we saw more accurately what they are. They were essentially a 500 team (or a little better) the past 4 months. Not sure how they get better when they are going to lose Lindholm and likely one of Hronek or Zadorov. Maybe they can get a good package for Silovs, but I think next year might be disappointing for some people. (and that's not even including the fact Pettersson is a shadow of what he was in the first half).
I never changed my expectations for this team, which were low from the beginning of the year. They far exceeded that, so in my opinion the season was a major win.
It looked like they were playing scared....I hope they can all take this a learning lesson to do better next season. I'm glad to see the final push at the end, they almost came back...I will give them that...Next year boys! Go Canucks Go!!!
Rick, why do your guys always turn up their game last 3 minutes. Too little too late. Also game 6 no show is inexcusable.
yeah they only perform when theres 5-10 min left. why aren't they able to perform the first 50 min of the game?
It was bumanship like no other!!
Give the guy some time to work with the new management to fix that, right now he is working with what he got.
@@michaelnygondh5014 That is true, BUT nearly 6 periods of fraidy cat hockey? 4minute PP and no shots, then throwaround like puck is on the string for last 5 minutes> WIERD AND INEXCUSABLE. SORRY.
@@johnbraun814 The Canucks were the most improved team this year, had the third best season and the fifth best playoff with two all-star players out I think there's plenty of upside here. Yeah they got outshot but they tend to have high shooting percentage and focus on quality over quantity. Also give some credit to the Oilers they keep a lot of teams to the perimeter and have had the best shot differential in the West all year.
Heading into this series it seemed obvious the defining factor would be powerplays - Edmonton's is electric and Van's has sputtered for months - and that was a massive factor. Not getting a shot for a 4-minute pp while surrendering a breakaway won't win in the playoffs - the air left the building - and the series was done.
Exactly .. I was so pissed .was huge .. Gave oilers lot of pump .. and took air out of nucks . through the entire 1st .. game 7 you score when your given a gift like that .
The building was insanely loud the whole time. But i get what you mean.
Peterson should ask for trade to TO. He’d fit in with that soft ass underperforming core
It was a great series, way to go Edmonton and Vacouver future is looking bright
Really disappointed by the team, they only played well in game 5.
yeah it feels like they didn't put in their entire effort into winning a game. it feels like a few lucky shots and silovs got them this far
@@Manjot-qz4xm this is true all silovs the rest flukey and half ass shifts oilers put in shift after shift
The Canucks have a great package and have a very positive future.
One hell of a year
Great season, exceeded expectations. A young core got their feet wet in the playoffs and not without battling thru their fair share of adversity. I think the coaching staff did a hell of a job this year, and there feels a much bigger sense of optimism going into this offseason than the last few. Lots to look forward to. 👍🏻
I’m a big Canucks fan. I’m proud of them. On that note. I said earlier in the season when they were playing great I said they can’t continue to have low shots on goal to be successful. It will come back to haunt them. It did.
Overlooked MVP for series is Ian Cole, who scored 4 goals on Canucks.
Yup😂
Preseason predictions oilers to win the cup Van not to even. Make it , coach of the year easily . More point shots and Would’ve like to see a better break out for pp.. the dump back leaves guys stuck on the line not in motion when they roll 3 high blue line … good season boys
First Star Coach Tocchet and Coach of the year, 2nd Star Arturs Silovs, 3rd Star team Canucks.
No way Silovs all the way. Toch outcoached. the rest duds in particular Hughes and Petey
The only person who showed up in home game 7 was our rookie goalie. What a shame.
good playoff experience for Vancouver
Loved Tocchet as a player. Good coach. Says it like it is . Shows respect for opponents in stead of blaming refs as most canuk fans did. As a Oiler fan officiating has been poor throughout the playoffs in all the series. Tocchet should be .coach of the year. To all ccanuk fans congrats on a good year and a tough series. I think you have a good core but some over paid over rated players. Always tough signing under achievers to long term contracts that hurt the team with salary cap issues.Oilers have had similar issues with that. Need to trade them or buy them out. Gl with that.
Coach Rick is the real deal and off season he will get the pieces to get better and better is all he can do players win championships
It's not that the Canucks lost, it's HOW they lost.
What RT did with this team in such a short time period is just fantastic. Retool and come charging back next year...
Tocchet was out coached by Knoblauch in games 6 and 7 didnt adapt to what Edmonton was doing especially on the zone entries and zone exits and the team couldn't generate any pressure and didnt test a shaky Skinner at all and never played a full 60 minute game.
I'm not just saying this because the Oilers won and I'm trying to be nice, but as an Oilers fan, I have to say that I've watched all 7 of Tocchet's post-game interviews, and I have to say, this guy is great. No disrespect to Kris Knoblauch, but If the Oilers ever get a chance to hire Tocchet, they should do it in a heartbeat.
The Canucks had to play more conservatively because demko was out… they play much more freely when he is on the ice.
If he doesn't win the Jack Adams it would be a legit crime
Canucks were just scared to play their own game, no initiative, no control.
Went the distance this series what a great year. Last couple games were rough but I was glad they at least made a game out of it.
If canucks didn’t score 2 and lost with 0 goals. A riot was possible. There extreme effort late in the third made us proud and avoided it
Vancouver does love to riot.
No way. Anybody that would riot over that just want to riot.
We had a great run, demko wasn’t there silovs did amazing for a rookie, petterson was out even tho he was on the ice. I’m not mad. It’s the game, we had a good run😢
He did what he could with whay he had. The team lacks scoring talent.
Petty was a bit of a playoff bust. And individually, Garland is one of the best yet hes no Draisitl.
They have no powerplay either. Tocky worked those guys hard. But can only do so much.
It took Edmonton's stacked team 7 games to beat what most said were an underdog team that was without Demko (who they rely on when they slump, more than most teams) without their top paid athlete performing, and a very tough loss with Boesser. Was great to see ppl rally behind Boesser from both teams. Rick Tocchet deserves a statue somewhere in Rogers arena.
Forget the end start that with the game
7:57 Question voice lowered via the witness protection program. 😂
why?
@@I_Eat_Bass7 And jeopardize that brave reporter/witness? Never! Away with thee, criminal! 😂
Maybe next year we could get a shot on goal in a 4 minute advantage Maybe next year we will have players that realize they may never get this far in the game again
anyone can be a hero in the playoffs, everyone has to contribute to SOG and it has to hit the net, quality over quantity is what Tocchet said. Petterson was inexcusable.
They played the shit out of Hughes! He looked bagged in game 7
I would have pulled the goalie during that power play with 14min left in the third when they were down 3-0.
Almost thought they'd try it tbh. 😅😅
Good observation, so coaches want their team to set the tone early and often. When your boys are flat use the timeout and chew them out end on plea to deliver the goods! Oh if does work juice your line with a superline best you got
Hard to soft pedal the loss when the game stats are right there to be seen by everyone in the media room...tough sell
Rick ,doing ,better than last Coach they have,Let face someday had to loss ?And guys made it the final!
since the gutless "reporters" won't do it, I'll ask some real questions: "Rick why wasn't the team ready for a huge game on home ice?" -- "Rick, how come it took 50 minutes for the guys to start competing?" "Rick what's been wrong with the power play, especially considering you have Quinn Hughes, JT Miller and Elias Pettersson on it?" "Rick, do you think it might be a good idea for management to go out and get some wingers that can score?" - You're welcome.
It hurts because game 6 we mailed it in. We should have had two shots to win not just one.
Oilers were in total control. They literally handed a goal to the Canucks on a silver platter. It was only close because the Oilers seem to shoot themselves in the foot. Great series nonetheless. Great team.
Pettersen= 11.2 million disappointment
yeah no way he's worth that much. he's good at regular season, but cannot generate during playoffs
Dollar Store Sedin for sure.
Your mother= didn't swallow
Disappointment.....
@@TheLemps2012You're a dummy, you should look into where those 🐈 were at this point in there careers. They almost packed up their purses and left for Sweden. Thank god they stuck around so they could get to one Stanley cup and disappear on their team.
He played alright in the bubble playoffs but really bad in this one. Hopefully he works on playing with less time and space over the summer or Canucks in trouble.
Man, I really hope Petey spends the time in the gym this summer working on his strength and conditioning. Him being so weak on the puck, made it very easy for the opponent to take advantage of him and render him basically useless during this tournament and Being the top paid player on the team next year comes with expectations and resposibilities and i would hope to see a better Peterson come next season. Overal though im pround of the team for their efforts and im excited for the start of next season.
No quit? Never started in the first.
First ended 0-0 js
I'm firm on whoever won this series is gonna be the cup winner 🏆
I love my Oilers 🇨🇦 but in Dallas, I think they have a ridiculously deep and formidable opponent.
😂😂😂 not a chance they beat dallas
@@g-wagonsg-wagon3693 Dude, “not a chance” = 0% chance. No series has ever been a 0% chance. More like “not likely”.
Vancouver nor Oilers would beat Dallas or Florida
I wouldn't sleep on the east.
More shots on the goal increase the chance of scoring. Oilers did just that, if you compare the shots on average of 7 games they out shot Nucs and majority of games was 1 goal game so something to think about imo although I'm not qualified to give any advice, just my observation.
Love my Italian coaches!! Should be coach of the year .. Pete Deboer is the best coach but has a loaded team that’s unselfish
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Why not pull the goalie in the end of the 2nd period when we are on a power play already? Just a thought!
What kind of effort was that, coach thinks they played their asses off. I wish I had a boss like this who thinks a shit effort is fantastic
😂
Oilers definitely skated much faster than the Canucks.
this guy just did a giant rip i can tell lol
Rick Kuzmenko bit you in the ass , here is why prime example is Brock going down , Peterson a no show you could have used his 40 goals, Lindholm js not the answer, Makaev enough said
The fundamental training need to be improved so they can skate faster and with better endurance. That was the difference. The Oilers was skating faster and had more endurance.
Rick Tocchet crushed Andrej Kuzmenko to set the point. Good job!
Well, they took 3 games from a stacked team. It's pretty good
I thought the Oilers only have 2 good players.?
They are only a stacked team when they win when they lose everyone says they are a two man team… so which is it?? 🤷
@@Thenorthelect
Let's not tarnish the reputation of Oilers fans here.
@@algrundau9441
Boeser was out so they're the stacked team tonight.
Fire him for his stupid line matches
I blame Soucy for this series loss for three reasons:
1) His one decision in Game 2 allowed Connor McDavid to have a breakaway for which he scored to tie the game 3-3 in the 3rd period with the shots nearly even (we could have held on for the win if it weren't for this play). McDavid broke free because Soucy decided to deliver an open ice hit along the Oilers' blueline against Hymam instead of retreating toward his own zone. He also took out Mikheyev with the same hit who was within reach of Hyman on the backcheck. Had he decided to retreat, then it would have been a a 1 on 2 (Hyman vs Soucy and Myers). Myers was partially to blame too because he tried playing the bouncing loose puck for which he missed and McDavid picked up the puck past him and the rest was history.
2) Then in Game 3, Soucy earns a suspension by crosschecking McDavid in the face after the game had ended. This then forced the Canucks to bring in Juulsen to play in Game 4 (see point #3 below).
3) In Game 4, Soucy's repalcement, Juulsen, deicdes to perform the same play as Soucy from Game 2. And this time he took out not only the puckhandler Ekholm, but his backchecking teammate Mikheyev (that's twice already that we disrupted our own backcheck while giving the other team an odd-man rush). Then Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid sprung on a 2-on-1 and scored to make the game 2-0, for which we lost the game 3-2. Also of note is the fact that Juulsen's hit left Tyler Myers as the only defender against the 2 on 1 and Myers was completely gassed at the end of his shift. So there were two reasons why Juulsen should not have done what he did. Firstly, his defensive partner needed to get off the ice and had no more energy to defend adequately and secondly there was freaken Connor McDavid rushing up the ice against your defensive zone!!!
I know that mistakes are mistakes, but these are fundamental mistakes, similar to if your Accountant thought 1 + 1 = 3, for that reason these two players need to be dealt.
I wouldn't blame one person like that because you can always add things up by taking into account all the chances the forwards was missing and such, goals that were supposed to happen if not this and that, things that would have even it out. You can also go as deep as into small details such as, if the player before Soucy didn't do that, then the situation that happened for Soucy would have never played out.
Petey played with scrubs for most of the playoffs. You can't have Ilya Mikheyev and Sam Lafferty playing with him if you want him to produce.
This summer you have to teach Pety how too body check this going in ass first dosen't work on a 4 check
They couldn't have got there with out him.
One of the aspects which was dumb throughout was dump and chase, cede possession, try and play board battles in the corner vs bigger, stronger players. It's like Rick Tocchet turned the entire forward group into a bunch of Rick Tocchets. Except a bunch of midgets and guys who grew up on kale and whitefish instead of red meat so they're 5'8-5'11 vs a bunch of 6'2 210lb Canadian dudes on the oilers. We were small, and passive and playing a perimeter game all playoffs. We need size and pace on the flanks, big two way wingers, like 3-4 Joshua types.. only better. Our core two in Hughes and Ep40 are small and got abused in the playoffs, we need to insulate this weakness with more grit and force, North South players who can get to the net and cause havoc.
4 minute poweplay and nothing. What a sad effort and result.
Tochet was out coached because they showed up in last 8 minutes. That's on the coach. And he should've benched Petey at some point to send a msg and never did. Went soft. They had it. Or should I say Silov had it
Two utterly pathetic efforts two games in a row. A complete reluctance to shoot a puck in both. Predictable loses follow. Well done.
No Cup team here...Overachievers all year!!
Need to buyout mikheyev, let hronek leave, sign silovs, zadorov,
Joshua, get rid of casey desmith, let lekkerimaki make his nhl debut next season, trade ep40, and get 2 top line centers via trade.
This needs to be corrected. Too many passengers. They gotta go.
I wish journalism required some type of competency exam.
These questions are useless.
What would have been your questions?
Why weren't you yelling at your players to shoot the puck? 2 shots on goal after the 2nd period. 0 shots on goal on a 4 minute power play. You get 2 goals with 4 minutes remaining and then you don't take a shot for the last 4 minutes. What did you think was going to happen? The last 2 losses are on you. Your the one that has to motivate your players.
Shot blocks? YOU DIDN'T SHOOT THE PUCK!!!
Next man up. Pety says "No Thanks"
i seriously don't know whats gotten into him. he looked like a feather compared to the tall and fast oilers players
It’s good that the European, non-Canadian Vancouver team didn’t win.
Hey Rick, screw you for trying to sell this as if your team didn't just come out for game 6 and 7, and not even try for the first 60% of both those games. Screw you for putting trash cans like Mickhaev and Lafferty in, and trying to ruin prospects like Podkolzin and Kuzmenko. Screw you for refusing to play Hoglander on the PP and rolling out trash cans like P. Suter instead. Screw you for continuing to play Ian Cole, who literally scores goals for the other team this playoffs. I'm so sick of these 🐈 going out there over the years, not only leaving their stellar goalies out to dry, but also giving them zero chance to win by being 🐈 who are too scared to even shoot the puck. Oh and if they do shoot, there are only two options. Miss the net, or shoot right at the goalie and defenders.
Vancouver didn't show up for the last two games playing hard for the last five minutes as a joke and to sit here and say all they did well good teams don't do well good teams do better Canucks biggest problem they believe Edmonton is a better team Edmonton is in their heads always has been always will be, and you can't win series when your so-called superstars don't show up
this game 7 performance is inexcusable -- tochett got outcoached badly
How was he outcoached ? This is on the players
@@johnnybaxter1953 wow where do we start? how many shots per period / per game did we consistently get... how were our players lining up on offensive rushes or defensive stands? How did our powerplay look let alone how ugly our entries were. It will ALWAYS fall on the coach -- Rick Tocchet got completely outcoached especially in the final two games there. No debate. We got outplayed and outcoached.
@@sinarazinator3550 Our coaches made adjustments based on who we had available
Yes we were outshot but that was a part of our strategy to keep the Oilers to the outside. With Demko it may have been different
The powerplay has been bad all year long but coaching only goes so far..when you have a powerplay that skilled, the players need to figure it out
Tocchets adjustments between games were excellent and one of the reasons we pushed it to 7
The coaching staff will learn from this just like the players will
Honestly Vancouver Canucks always doing great ,at the beginning,,But comes the reality,thier not that good,
They played absolute TRASH.
As a coach he didn't get them moving there skates faster, finishing the checks, putting the puck on the net, and winning the battles against the boards.
Not enough offense. The oilers kept coming in waves. You can never be a champion that way.
canucks deserv to lose that game more than any team ever deserved to lose!!
14 hots after 2 1/2 periods
ZERO GOALS!! AT HOME!! after down multiple goals for over 2 full periods!! PAThEtiC!!!
SHAME ON YOU!
NO EFFORT!
NO OFFENSE!
Badly ouplayed, outshot, and outworked ,at home in a game seven is Unacceptable.
Fire coach, rebuild.
this franhcise is suffer from Maple LEafs "Loser" mentality if i ever saw one.
Canucks are a bust. The team does not show up for first two periods. Lots of changes needed for the next season. Canucks need fast skaters and grit.
To much passing.no offensive.Garland is faster than Pete.goalie help a lot other wise the score is way higher.
i won't be renewing my tickets for our company next year. There is some clear collusion with BETWAY and nonsensical, no shows for over 5 periods of hockey? Start playing with 10 minutes left in game is bizarre and stinks. NHL = WWF
What a very lame way to end a magic season. This no show brought to you by Betway. This was an engineered and staged loss.
barely beat a 3rd string goalie im thinking STARS are smoke your azz
So be it. At least they get to play against them. Unlike your golf club. ⛳️
@@schrempskynate8944 haha well i see your intelligence is lacking so i say it again barely beat a 3rd string goalie and your 10 1st round top ten picks are gonna get exposed for the shit team they are lmfao
Had a great first full year as head coach after Boudreau got his walking papers. I’m curious to see if his “new” brand of coaching will continue to spark his team or if they get tired of his style. I’m leaning toward the latter. Let’s be honest, the Nucks were faltering toward the end of the season. The shine has already come off….
Facts bro we were 37-12-4 thru 53 games and 13-11-5 last 29. We simply continued on this mediocre pace in the playoffs and the handbrake hockey got us bounced onto the golf course
i agree, i for one am sick of their 5 on 5 pk style gameplay. they play like they have a man down at full strength too much. maybe a part of that was because of not having demko but we will see next season
@@TheFlukeDude I’ll grant you that not having Demko for a large chunk of the 2nd half of the season hurt them. Dude was having a torrid season.
WHAT
FANS WERE NON EXISTENT!!
I was there game 5 game 7 was nothing
We had no shots
No hits
No forecheck
No heart
Not urgency until 9 minutes in the third
Fuck me Silovs Garland and wow Petterson showed up tonight
Fucking embarrassing for two straight games
We DID NOT OLAY OUT ASSES OFF
GAME 5 we played our asses off
I’m embarrassed
What a bunch of bullship!!!
They did not play. Game was rigged!!
trash
Why will none of these people admit that the Oilers can play a good defensive game, and that the difference in shots the first two periods was not the result of lack of TRY by the Canucks players? They played as well as the Oilers allowed them to play.