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BEST QUESTION

Now that Goldy is back-checking, can someone remind him he’s paid for offence?

The only way he’s going to make it is to produce offence.

Green spent all year focused on coaching players so that “he could win” with them.

And now none of them can score.

How about an entire game where Goldy is just focused on getting a goal?

BEST STATS

“Dahlin, because it’s our time.”

BEST LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE

They actually suggested Archibald is one of the best Canucks stories of the year.

“Darren Archibald is quite a story. This is his second NHL season. He’s 28. He spent parts of three years in the ECHL. This is his 17th game with the Canucks. He’s given them a little grit and a little goal scoring.

“He’s a great story in a year where there hasn’t been much to celebrate in Vancouver.”

How sad.

BEST OLD 17 DROP

BEST ANSWERS

There were obvious ones:

Subversive ones

Funny ones

Angry ones:

Ones that made you think

Ones that made you WTF:

And finally my own.

What do I want to see?

I’d like to see Benning do colour for one game before the end of the season.

He can explain the thought process with each guy and how they ended where they are on the team.

I guarantee you big ratings.

Huge ratings.

BEST MYTH BUSTER

The Canucks are neck-deep in Guddy.

How it all started is a fascinating, winding tale, and if you follow the breadcrumbs back correctly it ends up in the craziest of places.

But I will get to that later.

First, this season.

By now, everyone knows Guddy hurt his shoulder Nov. 22 vs. Pittsburgh. He subsequently missed 12 games and returned Dec. 19.

He then played a game where he passed on some chances to hit against the Habs, leaving some to question how effective he could be if he wasn’t playing physical.

Guddy showed up for that game wearing an AC Joint shoulder brace. It’s one he would then wear for the next three months, the one caught on a Feb. 9 TV broadcast of the game.

This screen grab from the broadcast was on social media, which did not please the Vancouver Canucks very much at all:

That screen grab of a brace used to help keep the AC joint in place was spotted 2.5 months after the initial injury.

By then, the Canucks absolutely would have had a full understanding of the injury, the rehab and the likelihood he required surgery.

In other words, they knew.

In some ways, the information supports the decision-making which followed.

The chances anyone would pull the trigger on a player in this state is remote.

Basic logic suggests teams weren’t going to give up prime real estate — in terms of either draft picks or the young players the Canucks wanted — for a player who needs shoulder surgery.

So, the dream the Canucks were going to deal him for a second and a fourth was dead on arrival.

BEST DUNK ON ME

BEST PILLOW TALK