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This is the messiest perfect we’ve ever seen. Untidiness is a nice problem for the Vancouver Canucks to have.

Despite their limited attack, stretches of uninspired play and a pair of third-period deficits in their two-game, two-night opening weekend of the National Hockey League season, the Canucks are somehow 2-0 after rallying from three goals down Sunday to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Brandon Sutter’s overtime winner.

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It was also Sutter who scored in a shootout the previous night when the Canucks, mostly dismal in the first 50 minutes, came back late to beat the Calgary Flames 2-1.

So the Canucks are still perfect. Let us repeat: the Canucks are still perfect. And only 80 games to go.

“It’s obviously a good start, but there are some areas to clean up,” Canuck winger Derek Dorsett said after setting up Ben Hutton’s tying goal late in the third period.

“I think we can be a lot better. We’ve got some new guys and we’ve changed some systems stuff through the neutral zone and in the D-zone, too. So there’s going to be a work in progress. We’ll learn. Anytime you get points in this league, it’s important. And especially, coming off the year we had and everyone counting us out already, we wanted to make sure we had a good start.”