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That right there was peak 2016-17 Canucks.

Everything went their way. Power plays? They had five.

Shots? They had 42. Penalty killing? Solid.

Zone time at evens? They had 66 shot attempts, the Habs 33.

Goaltending? Miller was fine, except for one bad rebound.

This could be as dominating performance as you are going to witness this season, as good as the Canucks can play.

They were still utterly helpless. So much so, it hurt to watch.

They could have had 90 shots, they wouldn’t have scored. It was pretty gutting as far as losses in early November go.

You can’t blame injuries, though Tanev isn’t going to be good any time soon.

You can’t blame the coach, though his power plays ineffective at its best, flat out sucks at its worst. You can’t blame the refs, the arena or those damn hot dogs people rave about.

This team is not good enough. Surprise.

It’s not deep enough. It’s not skilled enough. It’s not fast enough. You can talk about trades all you want, bring back Markus Nalsund and Todd Bertuzzi in their prime and they still wouldn’t be scaring anyone.