ST. PAUL, Minn. — In a game that rekindled dispiriting memories of the team’s last dark age in the late 1990s, the Vancouver Canucks were completed overmatched Tuesday and barely competed in a 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild.
It should be an embarrassment to a Canuck team that for more than a decade has been mostly in the top quarter of the National Hockey League but is now only five points ahead of last-place overall and appears to be spiralling towards another bleak era in team history.
With superior speed, skill, depth and effort, the Wild toyed with the Canucks in the second period, scoring four times to boost their lead to 6-1 in the game’s first 36 minutes.