Bo Horvat has played four complete seasons with the Vancouver Canucks. The team made the playoffs his first year. Over the next three they finished 28th, 29th and 26th, which made them the worst te…
Bo Horvat has played four complete seasons with the Vancouver Canucks. The team made the playoffs his first year. Over the next three they finished 28th, 29th and 26th, which made them the worst team in the NHL over that span.This brings us around to the 2018-19 which, by the standards of any other team, would register as another lost campaign, another colossal failure. In the Canucks’ world, however, this season qualifies as something of a success.
“I think we’ve surprised a lot of people, a lot of teams this year,” Horvat said before the game. “We wanted to build a culture and have an identity to our team. I think we’ve established that.” In the end, the Flames had too much Mark Giordano, too much depth — highlighted by a fourth line that produced all three goals — and too much quality for the pretenders.As for the Canucks, they had some try. But it wasn’t nearly enough.
The Canucks might have got away with those mistakes against the bottom-feeders on which they built their five-game unbeaten streak. Against the Flames, not a chance.
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