Is this an over-reaction to a five-game unbeaten streak against mostly substandard competition? When you take out the wide-angle lens and look at the width and breadth of this season, there are leg…
For most of the last four seasons, the most compelling storylines around the Vancouver Canucks have involved everything but their won-loss record.
So it’s not like the faithful haven’t had intrigues to occupy themselves. But, for the last three seasons and stretches of this one, they’ve seldom invested much thought to the Canucks’ actual on-ice performance, mostly because it’s been too damn depressing. But, given everything this fan base has endured over the last four seasons, the progress of this season should be acknowledged. It’s big things like Pettersson and Horvat. It’s smaller things like Adam Gaudette and Josh Leivo. But, for the first time in four seasons, a reasonable person can look up and down the Canucks’ roster and start to believe there are more answers than questions.Maybe.
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