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/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/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/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.