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The 2016-17 edition of the Vancouver Canucks probably won’t light the world on fire and, before you go there, allow me: their fans probably won’t either. That only happens when the team is quite good, and according to pretty much every pundit, this year’s team is not.

After a dismal season in which the Canucks managed just 186 goals and finished an unimpressive 28th, one might think there was nowhere for the club to go but up. The experts, however, proving their superior knowledge by recalling there are actually 30 teams in the league, have the Canucks falling even further — all the way to the basement, where they’ll no doubt be greeted by every blogger they’ve ever spurned. (As you know, the basement is where we live.)

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TSN has prophesied a disaster of biblical proportions, with their own Frank Seravalli predicting a point total lower than the combined age of the Sedin twins. “Buckle up,” he writes, “the Canucks will fail to break 65 points.”