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Yes, that can mean only one thing folks, a weekend matinee-ish game against an Eastern opponent!

Well, to be fair, Western opponents don’t generate much animosity these days either.

As I was watching this game and recording my 1000th Tryamkin gif (award ceremony next week), I pondered to myself:

“Is there TOO much BFG love on The Provies? Are we getting too focused in on this aspect?”

The answer is no. No we are not.

See, Troy From Richmond gets it.

The thing is, Tryamkin shoving someone down with one hand like an older brother establishing dominance over his younger sibling, that is a top five highlight in most games this year.

Imagine 2011 with social media and gifs on full blast like it is today? You’d need a new data plan just to handle the amount of highlights from those games.

In those days, the Sedins would have five gifs alone created from one shift.

THINK OF THE POWERPLAY GIFS??

Sami Salo slap shot gifs.

Hank Sedin to Daniel Sedin gifs.

Ehrhoff walking the line before walking the line was cool gifs.

Bieksa actually trying gifs.

It would have been glorious.

But this is the 2016-17 Canucks.

They are a team so locked into grinding out games to overtime that they can’t afford such luxuries such as letting Reid Boucher take away minutes from Jayson “Top Gun” Megna.

Rodin on the powerplay? Not so fast, he’s not ready to handle those minutes, especially when the powerplay unit is just days/weeks/months from turning it around.

So we sit back and we watch. We watch the team grind out those points. Grind out those goals. Grind out everything.