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Well.

Where to start.

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I mean, this game was always going to be a tough win for the Canucks.

They were missing Horvat.

Missing Baertschi.

Nobody was expecting the Canucks to take the Predators by storm in this one.

Hell, even when the game started slipping away as the Canucks drifted into their hockey coma, it still felt like the recap was going to be a gentle one.

You know the kind, the “Well, they tried their best, they aren’t that good of a team, they have injuries” kind of recap.

The kind you tell your kids about, about how sometimes you just can’t win them all, and gee, isn’t that Brock Boeser kid a dashing young fella they should look up to?

Then suddenly halfway through the third period, this one got real ugly, real fast.

We’re talking wet rice left in the sink for a week kind of ugly.

The kind of stench you’re not sure you’re ever going to be able to wash out.

You’ll be sitting on the bus a week from now, convinced people can still smell this game on you.