For the first time since March 31, the Sharks will play the Vancouver Canucks tonight. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. in Vancouver for the first of a whopping five meetings between the two clubs over the last three months of the season. While it seems hard to believe, the clubs met as frequently over an even shorter span a season ago.
This season the teams meet five times between Feb. 2 and April 4, while last year they met the same number of times between Feb. 28 and March 31. If you forgot how tired you were of the Canucks by the end of the season, it’s only because the playoffs went on for so long; not that I’m complaining.