“The weather is nice. But we’re not here on vacation.” Antoine Roussel and the Canucks are actively working to keep their chins up after Tuesday's embarrassing loss in Tampa. (imacSportsnet)
And since his NHL team ended its longest winning streak in six years on Tuesday by embarrassing itself with a 9-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, which scored an unanswered touchdown in the final 25 minutes, we figured Wednesday was a good day for some philosophy.“It doesn’t take anything off what we’ve done before,” the 29-year-old from Roubaix, France, by way of Chicoutimi, told Sportsnet. “It’s only one game. You can’t judge a team by one page. You’ve got to read the whole book.
“We’ve had a couple of one-offs this year but that game, I don’t really know how to describe it,” defencemansaid. “You could hear a pin drop on the plane coming here. We came here and emotions are down a little bit, but right away a couple of the older guys kind of said: ‘Let’s be sharp today. Let’s be positive and have a good practice and try to get better for tomorrow.’ It was a good vibe out there on the ice.
After Tuesday’s humiliation, everyone on the Canucks felt they should practise on Wednesday, even if nobodyWednesday had tentatively been scheduled as a day off. The team is staying at a five-star hotel on the beach here . Players could have gone charter fishing or kite boarding or golfing or merely hung out on the beach. It was 23 C and sunny. And have you seen the weather in Vancouver the last month? Noah can’t keep up with the boat orders.
Instead, the team bussed 40 minutes west to the edge of the Everglades to practise out of the mid-day sun inside the BB&T Center, which might actually sell out for hockey if they allowed the alligators in, for Thursday’s game against the Florida Panthers.
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