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BEST SKILL

It gets lost often with the Canucks’ ongoing focus on vague, unquantifiable things like “compete,” “working hard” and, uh, I guess now “balls,” but the winner of each game is actually the team with the most goals.

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So if winning legitimately matters to this team, Goldobin has officially now “earned it.”

And by “it,” I mean more games, minutes, offensive opportunities, a longer leash, public love, teammates’ respect, and if this team’s coaching staff is being fair and smart, power play shifts.

The past four or five weeks have been among the bleakest in Canucks recent history.

There hasn’t been a lot of fun, unless you’re into tanking jokes and the odd, great TSN 1040 poll.

Goldy, tonight, was fun. I realize the bar is low.

It goes without saying.

So when a guy shows some promise and indicates with his play he may actually be good, it qualifies as a ton of fun these days.

We’re not used to nice things.