I honestly thought that 2016-17 death march was going to be the lowest point for the Canucks franchise in some time.
It turns out, I was dead wrong.
Let’s be real, there’s been a lot of bad hockey in Vancouver over the last eight years dating back to Mike Gillis’s last season. However, I don’t think any year in the 21st century was worse than ‘16-17.
Until this season, that is.
In ‘16-17, expectations were low, but the Canucks still fell beneath them. They won two of their final 17 games and finished as the second-worst team in the league.