🇨🇦's last team in the playoffs is still supposed to be building toward its best days. A Round 2 win would usher in that future sooner than anyone expected — and no one would delight in proving the world wrong more than the Canucks. (RoryBoylen)
The Canucks got through the tight-checking and physical Blues and now draw a higher-tempo team in Vegas that has the league’s best 5-on-5 shot differential in both the regular season and playoffs this season. Vancouver ranked 25th in the regular season and is 20th in these playoffs by that measure. So of course, the same questions that were being asked about them last round are being raised again.
“When you hear rumblings of us being the underdogs obviously you want to prove people wrong,” said captain
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