They’re calling him the Saskatoon Schmeichel.
Even as the Vancouver Whitecaps bow out of the MLS is Back tournament in the round of sixteen on penalty kicks by a score of 0-0 (1-3), the feeling around the team has shifted dramatically over the course of these last two matches.
In any other year and at any other tournament, losing your reigning MVP would probably have the opposite effect. Yet since Maxime Crepeau was forced out of the Seattle Sounders match a week ago, the Vancouver Whitecaps have been a different football team.