Repeat after me. There are only three pre-season games remaining. There are only three pre-season games remaining.
There. Feel better?
The exhibition season can’t end soon enough, of course. It’s like that every year, but games like Monday night’s snoozer at Rogers Arena really reinforce the point.
The Vancouver Canucks and Arizona Coyotes played scoreless hockey for two periods before rookie Jared McCann scored on a power play midway through the third to give the Canucks a 1-0 win they really didn’t deserve on the run of play.
The Canucks, who dressed many of their top forwards, were outshot 24-10 through two periods and 31-24 overall.