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BEST CONTROVERSY

If you’ve followed the Canucks long enough, closely enough, you feel like you’ve seen it all.

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Then something happens that takes your breath away because your mid-section has just been bodied by disbelief.

Amidst the dying days of a disastrous season, something spectacular happened.

The same week the two best trades of the Benning era went down, one of the prospects acquired, Goldy, blew the d-zone early and scored one of the most electric Vancouver goals of the entire season.

It was a morsel of real live entertainment and enough to feed a city of fans who hadn’t seen anything like it in weeks, maybe months, maybe longer.

For a franchise admittedly focused now entirely on the future, it was a glorious instant of speed, skill and promise. It was everything they could have hoped for. And then, in one unbelievable tug, the coach pulled the rug out from under all of us.

Following his beauty of a goal, Goldy sat on the bench with 7:17 left in the second period and never really got up again.