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BEST BENCHING

Travis Green had been the head coach and dealing with media for six weeks and that’s six weeks he hadn’t, by an unscientific count, answered a single question about Loui Eriksson.

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Well, that has changed. Amazing what can happen in a day.

In a game the Canucks desperately needed third period goals, the man paid $6 million to score them played 10 seconds in the final 11:26.

How significant is this development?

Enough to distract most from the fact Jake Virtanen sat out virtually the entire third period. He played seven seconds. In 20 minutes.

Honestly, I think most expected Virtanen to get squeezed out of games the Canucks were losing late. Heck, it happened in the freaking preseason.

Normally it’d be a talking point. Except … did you hear about Loui?

No one expected Eriksson to be sat like an Elf on the Shelf, not this early, because if they did a lot more people would have been discussing that contract in the past month.