Demand for #Canucks tickets as low as it was in the 'Keenan years' https://t.co/xk7H8N9JOL pic.twitter.com/qwHYSaaVDK — NEWS 1130 (@NEWS1130) February 16, 2016

🎥 Sacrificing his body at one end of the ice, scoring on the other: https://t.co/zsIQAe0dDY #mnwild pic.twitter.com/0YGfqgtE0d — Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) February 16, 2016

Biega + Bartkowski have played just about 308 minutes together at 5-on-5 this season. The Canucks have been outscored 5-13 in those minutes. — Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) February 16, 2016

The Minnesota Wild snapped an eight-game winless skid with their 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday at Rogers Arena.Here are your highlights:The way Minnesota has dominated Vancouver, it's hard to believe that the two teams were actually even in the NHL standings heading into Monday night's game. But the Canucks bring out the best in the Wild.Remember how they seemed to score at will in their 6-2 win over the Canucks in Minnesota back in December? That's the only time all season that they've managed six goals in one game. On Monday, they managed five goals from five different scorers.If they played Vancouver 82 times a year, the Wild would be easily leading the NHL in scoring with an average of 5.5 goals a game. In real life, Washington leads the lead at 3.30 and Minnesota's 21st at 2.50.The Canucks, by the way, have sunk to 29th, scoring just 2.3 goals a game, ahead of only the New Jersey Devils.My point in all of this? Things are looking bad at Rogers Arena—really bad.If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I lived through the great decline of the late '90s as a season-ticket holder. I've been hoping that the Canucks' proclaimed rebuild-on-the-fly plan could work because I didn't want the team to plumb those depths of the standings again—leading to empty seats and a general malaise about hockey in our city.We're now there, says longtime ticket broker Kingsley Bailey.I haven't seen anyone wear a paper bag over their head yet, but we have 15 glorious home games still to play!After Monday's loss, the Canucks are six points behind Nashville and Colorado for a Western Conference wild-card spot, and seven points behind San Jose for the third Pacific Division spot.Vancouver's next opponent, Anaheim, moved into second place in the division on Monday after a wild 6-4 win over Calgary. The Ducks are surging, having won eight of their last 10 games, and are now only five points behind L.A. for top spot in the Pacific. Sports Club Stats says last night's loss cut the Canucks' playoff chances nearly in half. They went into the game with a 21.6 percent chance of getting to the dance, but that has now dropped to just 12.5 percent.#TankNation, of course, sees Vancouver's odds of dropping in the standings improving, but they've got some tough competition if they actually want to move down from their current position, 23rd. Here's how the bottom of the league looks right now:23. Vancouver Canucks - 56 pts - lost last two games - 3-5-2 in last 10 games24. Ottawa Senators - 56 pts - lost last three games - 3-7-0 in last 10 games25. Calgary Flames - 53 pts - lost last two games - 4-6-0 in last 10 games26. Winnipeg Jets - 53 pts - won last game vs. Edmonton - 4-6-0 in last 10 games27. Buffalo Sabres - 52 pts - won last two games - 4-4-2 in last 10 games28. Columbus Blue Jackets - 52 pts - won last two games - 6-2-2 in last 10 games29. Edmonton Oilers - 50 pts - lost last game in OT - 3-6-1 in last 10 games30. Toronto Maple Leafs - 49 pts - lost last game - 3-6-1 in last 10 gamesOnly Buffalo and Columbus have earned more points in their last 10 games than Vancouver. As badly as things are going, moving down might be tougher than we think!One guy who has done his best for #TankNation over the last two games has been Matt Bartkowski. He has been unlucky but also had an amazingly rough night on Monday—on the ice with Alex Biega for all four Minnesota Wild goals at even strength.He couldn't even defend a hobbled Nino Niederreiter on Minnesota's last game of the night.If Niederreiter was Canadian, this highlight would probably be on Coach's Corner next week. With the game well in hand and less than three and a half minutes to play, the Swiss forward makes a gutsy block of a Sven Baertschi shot, then picks himself up and gets back into the play instead of heading to the bench—and was rewarded with his 10th goal of the year.It's been awhile since we've seen a Canuck make a heart-and-soul play like that to get to the net, hasn't it?Apparently the fancy stats do not support my (now more theoretical than realistic) fondness for #44 Bartkowski and #55 Biega together as my "Wayne Gretzky" defensive pairing.At the other end of the defensive spectrum, where would the Canucks be right now without Ben Hutton? After unexpectedly earning a spot with the team out of training camp, Hutton is actually Vancouver's best rookie story of the year. He has moved into Alex Edler's spot on the top pairing and, now, on the first power-play unit and played 23:16 on Monday night—tops on the team.The Canucks' two goals last night both came with Hutton on the ice for the power play. It's the first time in five games that the power play has connected at all and just the fourth time all season that it has clicked twice in one game. If you can't remember the last time it happened, that's because it was a loooong time ago. Vancouver scored three power-play goals in that glorious 6-3 home win against Chicago back on November 21.Hutton's 16th point of the year came on a gift from the hockey gods to Henrik Sedin, whose centring pass was deflected into the Minnesota net to make the score 3-2 midway through the second period.All is quiet today at Rogers Arena. It's a team day off, since the Canucks' next game will be against Anaheim on Thursday—and the Ducks are in Edmonton tonight to face the Oilers.We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what Willie has planned to try to slow down Ryan Kesler and his cohorts.