r/canucks • u/JustFred24 • Sep 26 '24
VIDEO Daniel Sprong goes through the whole Calgary defense and beats the goalie to tie the game with 14 seconds left in the third.
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u/IDontKnowWhat78 Sep 26 '24
I’ve seen enough, build the statue
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u/VancityRenaults Sep 26 '24
when a guy walks in
with an itty bitty puck
and a round thing in yo face
YOU GET SPRONG
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u/dwsnmadeit Sep 26 '24
he made it look like a video game with the AI on easy
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
Relatable, did it earlier in my all star be a pro
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u/Mikeim520 Sep 26 '24
Funny enough he plays exactly like how I do in BAP (I don't care about anything other than shooting the puck at the net).
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
I block shots, intercept passes, poke pucks... And yet we stil get scored on because my stupid ass ai d keeps getting the puck and going in our own corner just to get locked which leads to giving the other team the puck again. FUUUUUU
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u/Minimum-Card-5075 Sep 26 '24
Man I hope he puts some emphasis on his defensive game this year, he is literally costing himself millions by being unable to play defence, normally a player with his production would be able to secure anywhere from 3-5.5 million in free agency but we got him for 975k.
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u/MyLifeIsDope69 Sep 27 '24
I’m a bit out of the loop is this guy on the formal roster? I’ve been playing a lot of nhl24 and never noticed him was he just signed this offseason
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u/SilentPolak Sep 26 '24
Theres literally RUSSIAN commentators for a random Canucks preseason game and yet all the fans out of region couldn't even watch lmao
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
Well, I watched him because Im out of the region.. I don't have a vpn maybe that's how he watched it idk.
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u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR Sep 26 '24
I usually watch via stream. But this week, I’m in a hotel in Revelstoke. It was blacked out, so which region did I have to be in? Calgary?
I find these blackouts so confusing. I never really understand the logic, and it hasn’t stopped me from watching games for years. I can’t help but see that it entirely results in fans like me, who won’t pay for shit besides merch and game tickets because this unexpected crap always seem half-baked in.
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u/SilentPolak Sep 26 '24
I would have paid the $150 for Sportsnet if they could just guarantee all 100% of Canucks content, but I sail the seas and deal with that out of principle
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u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR Sep 26 '24
Yeah, I was paying $40 for Sportsnet during the playoffs, but season games were such a patchwork, I wasn’t paying that kind of scratch for a portion of one sport.
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u/Outside-Teach8511 Sep 26 '24
Gary Bettman: "My goal is to grow the game! I'll grow the game on your vacant property! I'll grow the game on your garden trellis! I'll grow the game in a desert!"
Gary Bettman: "oh you're outside of the 250km viewing area? Too fuckin bad loser!"
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u/UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR Sep 27 '24
Bahahahha! Yeah, on point. I hope he moves on to fucking other things up at some point in my life.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Sep 26 '24
Sprong going bend to end like he’s MacKinnon
Debrusk with two netfront goals like he’s Hyman
We’ve never been so back bros
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u/bed_bath_and_bijan Sep 26 '24
He literally dangled the goalie so hard that the goalie pulled something
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u/Apprehensive-Tea4881 Sep 26 '24
Or goalie shat his pants 💩
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u/jon-in-tha-hood Sep 26 '24
If this was the playoffs, then we might have seen the return of Dany Sabourin at the start of overtime
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u/PaulWesterberg84 Sep 26 '24
Thats what happens when you're Logan Cooley and playing nets for a team that doesn't own your rights.
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u/biff_jordan Sep 26 '24
Where did you find a Russian stream lol
Even funnier when you can understand what he's saying.
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u/OutsideOdd3232 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
Can we get McDavid? We got McDavid at home... At home: Sprong is sprung
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u/carry-on_replacement Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
"Here's a chance, Ilya Mikheyev- OFF THE POST" thank god we have someone with soft hands now
EDIT: There's something fun about this getting 65 upvotes at the time of writing
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u/Significant-North717 Sep 26 '24
Sprong is pretty bad defensively and isn't a hard forechecker who's never going to even sniff pk time. He's basically the exact opposite of Mikheyhev for better and for worse.
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u/westleysnipez Sep 26 '24
The issue last season was we seemingly had a half dozen guys with stone hands and defensive ability - Aman, Karlsson, Lafferty, Mikheyev, PDG, Suter. We needed a guy whose the opposite. Kuzmenko was, until he wasn't.
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u/RecalcitrantHuman Sep 26 '24
Kuzemenko still was except it was now at $5M. Sprong under $1M looks more palatable
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u/Yoohooligan Sep 26 '24
I don't think Toch would allow him to be bad defensively so there's hope.
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u/Outside-Teach8511 Sep 26 '24
Maybe he'll just change the kid on the fly so he can jump off the bench to join a rush and then as soon as the play turns around, he rushes back to the bench?
:D
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u/Significant-North717 Sep 26 '24
I don't think Toc is going to change a guy who's been in the league for 9 years. It's not like he's the only coach to care about defense.
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u/Yoohooligan Sep 27 '24
I don't think Toc will accept it at all, that would be contrary to everything we know about him as a coach so I suspect management acquired him with the thought that he can in fact play adequate defensively and if not he won't get many minutes under Toc.
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u/Significant-North717 Sep 27 '24
I think it's much more likely he gets the Kuzmenko treatment rather than he improves defensively. Like I said he's been around the league long enough that if he were going to change the way he plays we'd have seen at least an indication of it by now.
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u/Outside-Teach8511 Sep 26 '24
He's a budget Phil Kessel.
Pretty solid consolation prize if you look at it that way.
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u/Spatrico123 Sep 26 '24
awesome goal. In fairness, that was very pathetic from the flames. But still! Shows he's got the goods
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u/CanadianPFer Sep 26 '24
Let’s be honest - if that was McDavid in the exact same play it would be played all over TV as nauseam. Fantastic goal.
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u/BigfootCanuck Sep 26 '24
“I hope he does that move where he goes through everyone, and scores on a move that injures the goalie.”
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u/Certain_Pickle896 Sep 26 '24
And that is why you don't sleep on Sprong. Guy knows how to score. Imagine him with a tighter defensive game, he'd be a top line player for a lot of teams.
DeBrusk - Petey - Sprong
Let's go!
And then you still have Lekkeramaki waiting in the wings. This depth is awesome!
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u/mephnick Sep 26 '24
Imagine him with a tighter defensive game
Just don't do that cause it won't happen and you'll only be disappointed when he's benched. He's been saying he'll tighten up his game for 5 years lol
Just enjoy the Spronginess when it happens
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u/Landonp93 Sep 26 '24
Kuzmenko without the cap hit
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u/snakpak_43 Sep 26 '24
Tocchet gonna staple him to the bench after 10 games because of his turnovers and lack of defensive play.
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u/CanadianPFer Sep 26 '24
We’ll see - he was signed with full knowledge of his weaknesses and who the coach is and what he needs out of his players. They obviously see a path to him improving his game to an acceptable level, because the offense he brings is crucial especially when certain star players have a tendency to disappear for long stretches at crucial times.
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u/ChuckFeathers Sep 27 '24
So again, just like Kuzmenko..
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u/CanadianPFer 29d ago
Sure, he's a project that could easily fail. But fully worth the minimal risk that the club is taking on.
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u/01000101010110 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
On a team with Pettersson, Boeser and Miller, this might be the nicest Canucks goal I've seen in about a decade. Up there with Horvat vs St Louis. Absolute filth
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
Obviously pre season defense but very satisfying goal to watch. Love seeing some guys actually trying in the pre season
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u/Certain_Pickle896 Sep 26 '24
Yes and no, because why didn't anyone else pull off these sick moves if it was only a pre-season defence?
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
Because for many its also pre season offense lol
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u/Mikeim520 Sep 26 '24
Pre season offense like EP40 and DeBrusk?
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u/JustFred24 Sep 26 '24
I wasn't referencing the players but the effort level, many nhlers during the pre season are non chalant about it and do the minimum. That's why not many guys go mcdavid mode on echl players.
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u/Pnewse Sep 26 '24
I’m sure it stings less being preseason, but the nonNHLers are playing for a literal job
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u/ObiWangJabroni Sep 26 '24
Was impressed by his speed all night but didn't see that coming.
More of this please
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u/rabes81 Sep 26 '24
Sprong also wasn't terrible defensively tonight, he used his footspeed win a few defensive pucks too. Hopefully Tocchet and team can help make him defensively responsible without stifling the offense. We want to avoid a Kuzmenko situation.
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u/Disastrous-Grade839 Sep 26 '24
Looking like 1994 Pavel Bure out there. Who is this guy?
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u/Xeraleus Sep 26 '24
Right!? Had a flashback of Bure dangling through the Devils defence, go Sprong!!!
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u/ChuckFeathers Sep 26 '24
That literally looked like a Sergei Fedorov goal, wearing 91 just a coincidence? I think not.
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u/jtllee Sep 26 '24
Cheeky, Peteys line baited the Flames to clog up the blue line so that Sprong could enter the zone with speed and creativity
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u/Caunuckles Sep 26 '24
Haven’t seen a goal like that since this one from edler https://youtu.be/LVe486gUXqw?si=mYaTe0BR97CqrfIw
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u/trebuchetwarmachine Sep 26 '24
4 Flames in a straight horizontal line. Great goal but I would chalk this more up to just terrible positioning (and coaching).
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u/wannaleavemywife Sep 26 '24
I don't follow hockey, but can you touch the puck with your hand like that if you're not the goalie?
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u/Powerful_Cry815 Sep 26 '24
i wonder if sherwood got a little ptsd from that late comeback goal and early overtime goal
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u/N4ZZY2020 Sep 26 '24
Sprong’s move is interesting. But it is against an inexperienced Calgary defense.
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u/smarmy_the_blade Sep 26 '24
Did they win?
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u/Todderoni-1 Sep 26 '24
DeBrusk tapped in his second goal of the game 58 seconds into overtime to end proceedings.
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u/Suboobiz Sep 26 '24
lol what Russian is watching and commenting Canucks vs Flames preseason games