While the Vancouver Canucks are recovering and resting from a brutal early season schedule, they have watched a few things happen. Their star player Elias Pettersson will be out of the lineup for at least another week. Judging from that game in Toronto, the longer Pettersson is out, the farther this team will spiral downward.
Teams with games in hand are catching up, albeit at a slow pace. Offence is drying up and the team seems more defensively porous than ever. That’s how the Canucks tend to go. It’s a roller coaster ride and even with the light schedule, we will see how the team holds up without their best player.