Despite missing the playoffs for a fourth consecutive season, the Vancouver Canucks did subtly improve. They surpassed the 80-point plateau for the first time since 2014-15.
Time to raise a banner? Nah, I prefer this one.
As the quote roughly outlines, the Canucks were a decisively better team when it came to putting the puck in the net (Thank you, Elias Pettersson). In December, Vancouver was shockingly a top-ten team in goals scored. While that dropped later in the season, it wasn’t the team’s largest issue.
That rested on the shoulders of the defence.