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BEST SPIN

When it was over, Henrik would call it a good game.

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And maybe, all things considered, it was.

No Horvat. No Baertschi. And no offence. At least, none from the veterans.

The Canucks were still a few minutes away from getting it to overtime, and that’s with three lines centred by Nic Dowd, Sam Gagner and Michael Chaput.

I’m unsure how many games a team would win over 82 with that trio at centre, but I’m going to guess the answer isn’t 50.

Maybe not 30.

So if you’re looking for moral wins, nearly getting the Flames to OT with this roster may qualify.

But the Canucks are going to need to find ways to make this work. Tonight they did not.

They fell apart much like a paper bag slowly collecting drips of water. In the third, the bottom collapsed, and left behind was nothing but a soggy, sloppy puddle of goo.

The Flames had 23 shot attempts in that third. The Canucks, six.

“It’s going to look like this,” Henrik said, predicting how the next six weeks or so will go.