31 Takes: Canucks in a predictable tailspin

A sign of things to come for the Vancouver Canucks? (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)I’ve always felt like losing 7-3 or 7-4 is worse than just getting your ticket punched 7-0.

The latter, you might as well have not even gotten off the bus. You didn’t even show up and you got throttled. It happens. With the former, though, you played like garbage but gave enough of an accounting of yourself to show that you’re at least semi-competent.

Which is to say the Canucks lost to Vegas by a lightly-lesser 6-3 final Sunday night and it kickstarted a lot of existential worry about how maybe this team isn’t as good as most people thought around the start of November. The ugly loss dropped them…