The trade deadline has come and gone. The NHL draft lottery is still a couple of months away. What happens on the ice over the final six weeks of the schedule doesn’t really matter – unless the Canucks somehow go on an absolute heater. We are officially in countdown mode. There are 19 games and…

With the trade deadline behind them, the Vancouver Canucks managed to pull off the rare feat of a victory by defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 6-3. The score is a bit flattering in that two of those goals were of the empty net variety, but a Vancouver win, in this economy? You don’t bother too much…