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BEST SAME AS IT EVER WAS

In the height of the Boeser euphoria, everything seemed possible.

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Dreams were big.

Playoffs were mentioned. People didn’t laugh.

Well, not everyone.

Quietly, however, in a corner of this universe of ours, there were whispers.

Maybe all of the good times weren’t sustainable.

Maybe the Canucks were riding percentages. At the time, they had the second best even strength save percentage in the NHL and were loaded at the top with goal scorers whose shooting percentages were into the 20s.

These were among the things which were going to regress. And this is what that regression looks like.

You can point to Guddy and Sutter being out all you want, and people have.

But the Canucks have lost three in a row with them in the lineup before and will again when they’re back.

This is not a team that’s going to clear out rinks like a collection of 6-foot-6 bouncers vacuuming people out of the bar when the lights go on following last call.