I've squinted as hard as I could and I still can't quite see the Vancouver Canucks as a playoff team, unfortunately. I think Thatcher Demko makes a serious Vezina Trophy run as one of the NHL's better workhorse-type goalies. I look forward to more offensive wizardry from Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes. But the newly paid J.T. Miller has had an "every other year" thing offensively, so were not going to see another 99 points from him. The right side of Vancouver's defense corps is one of the weakest groups in the NHL. The team feels like it's trying to clean up old messes, contend in the present and set up for the future at the same time, and the result is disorienting.
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I've squinted as hard as I could and I still can't quite see the Vancouver Canucks as a playoff team, unfortunately. I think Thatcher Demko makes a serious Vezina Trophy run as one of the NHL's better workhorse-type goalies. I look forward to more offensive wizardry from Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes. But the newly paid J.T. Miller has had an "every other year" thing offensively, so were not going to see another 99 points from him. The right side of Vancouver's defense corps is one of the weakest groups in the NHL. The team feels like it's trying to clean up old messes, contend in the present and set up for the future at the same time, and the result is disorienting. - Marwood