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With Botch off to watch his Eagles head towards their destiny of being a Patriots footnote, I had the honour of writing The Provies tonight.

The return of Bo Horvat? This had glitz and glamour written all over it. The BBB line together again, finally!

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Who knew what tales I could weave, discussing the heroic Hobbit-like tale of the BBB line setting out to save the world.

Then the game began.

And it was when I started wondering if there were in-depth stats on icing calls that a sensation of fear began creeping in.

This fear only heightened when I tried to count up the amount of shots missed by the Canucks in this game.

It was when Sam Gagner dropped the season’s loudest f-bomb on a missed shot on a two-on-one that the fear was replaced with a stone cold certainty: This was one hell of a boring game.

Now, there have been games played this year by the Canucks where the team had worse moments on the ice.

But even those games at least had an element of “this is so bad it’s almost funny” to them.