The Vancouver Canucks were discombobulated for much of the evening. Emotional, occasionally undisciplined, even sloppy — particularly on power-play breakouts. Travis Green described his team as not having a “clean” game, while Elias Pettersson said him and his line played “too cute.”



Honestly, I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out how they came away from St. Louis with two points.



This is a team that overplayed their fourth line in the first and were punished for it, permitted two goals against 49 seconds apart in the second, and, technically speaking, wasted a two-minute five-on-three power play in the third period, Bo Horvat’s game-tying backhand through a goalmouth scrum crossing the goal line only after both Blues power plays had expired. Technically, it was an even-strength goal.



Technically, and in fact, Thursday night’s contest was a strange one.



It took the Canucks seven shooters to...