When the game was over, the Vancouver Canucks had lost. Again.
It’s early still, but after the 5-2 loss Saturday to the Montreal Canadiens, the Canucks have the worst record in hockey so far, based on point percentage, and have allowed the most goals against per game in the NHL.
Their top players are struggling, spending far too much time without the puck, no matter how much they might argue the point on a postgame Zoom. After the Canucks battled back to tie the score at 2-2 on Saturday night, it was a pair of costly giveaways — one from J.T. Miller, one from Quinn Hughes — that restored Montreal’s two-goal lead.
The result Saturday hurts. It’s been only seven games, but proportionally speaking, the Canucks would now be 10 games into a standard 82-game season and would have the equivalent of a 3-7-0 or 2-6-2 record.
If the Canucks’ on-ice form has been off, their postgame comments Saturday were genuinely…
