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Forget everything you know.

The Canucks can score. Travis Green thinks so.

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He said he has a team that could be offensively average, maybe better.

“I think we do have that, but it’s easy to say,” Green said.

If they still stopped the presses, this would have done it. Mostly because he said it and no one laughed.

Things have been that bleak here for some time. The Canucks have gone from a goal-scoring powerhouse to a punchline. It didn’t even take five years.

You think driving in the snow in Vancouver is challenging? You should see the Canucks trying to score. The goal scoring has been so bad for so long it’s made the Whitecaps jealous.

Since 2015, no team has made scoring look harder. For the past three seasons, including this one, the Canucks are averaging 2.24 goals a game. No team has scored less. Let that marinate. And to think people still wonder why there are attendance issues.

If you think goals are entertaining, and many of us still do, the Canucks have been the least entertaining team in hockey, and not for a short period.