'We have to keep evaluating ourselves honestly. And honestly, we played another good hockey game.' The Canucks are staying positive despite suffering a dramatic OT loss in the finale of a disappointing home stand. (imacSportsnet)
Down 2-0 after’s own goal -- yes, there were several peculiar events in the final 10 minutes of the third period -- the Canucks rallied for a point by losing 3-2 in overtime when Troy Terry converted Ryan Getzlaf’s pass on a two-on-one at 3:52.So the Canucks got one point when they could have had none but nearly got two. And this, too, kind of figures in the context of their 2-4-1 homestand and 5-6-2 start to the season.
Amid the getting back in, after Miller whipped a shot through traffic with 6:31 remaining in regulation time to start the comeback and before Pettersson scored the tying goal, referee Brad Meier made an astonishingly bad penalty call that should have sealed an Anaheim victory.
In a game when Anaheim was badly outplayed for stretches and outshot 43-30 overall, the Ducks ended up with four of the six power plays. The Canucks killed the final three, and added the positive asterisk of Pettersson’s shorthanded goal in the last minute. It’s why the Canucks open a challenging three-game, four-night road trip Thursday in Denver with just 12 points from 13 games, instead of 16 or 18 points. It’s why Vancouver is three points out of a playoff spot four weeks into their season.
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