Certainly a good display of hockey from the opposition.

The Vancouver Canucks had their door blown off their hinges against the Dallas Stars, losing 6-1 at home in pretty miserable fashion. There was little to no redeeming quality to this result. Nothing went right for Vancouver besides being up 1-0 at one point, and that’s a stretch to even call a positive.

Here’s the loss, by the numbers.

As always, you can find our glossary guide of advanced stats here.

The first period was relatively the closest period – but that isn’t saying a lot, especially towards the end. Looking at the scale on the Y-Axis, it’s apparent that it was one-way traffic for Dallas, with Stars hovering around 70.00 CF% for the entire course of the game. That translated into every other aspect of the stat sheet as well, as the visitors also held a 4.29-1.16 xGF lead in 5v5 action, with a 78.73 xGF% share. The Canucks simply didn’t even show up last night, and the results were clear to see.

The heat map shows how lopsided the shots and scoring chances were all night as well. Dallas held a 38-12 edge in overall scoring chances, with a 17-6 edge in high-danger chances as well. The lack of high-danger chances in the low slot area and right in front of the crease shows the disparity in what the Stars were able to do, and what the Canucks simply weren’t able to. That’s the difference between a team that’s actually contending for something in the postseason and the worst team in the NHL.

Corsi Champ: David Kämpf leading the team in Corsi is definitely not a good sign for the overall state of the team. The Czech had a 45.45 CF% playing functional second-line minutes, which is also another indication of how down bad the Canucks are. At the very least, Kämpf kept things very low-event during his ice time, with a 0-1 deficit in high-danger chances and no goals against. While a 37.96 xGF% might not sound great, that still put Kämpf at an 18.29 xGF% rel to team average.

Corsi Chump: Liam Öhgren put up a team-low 16.67 CF%, which definitely radiated into the rest of the numbers that he recorded against the Stars. Playing primarily against Jamie Benn’s line, the Swede faced a 2-10 hole in shots, recording the third-worst xGF% on the team at 9.82, a 2-12 deficit in scoring chances, and a 1-5 high-danger chance margin as well. Again, not great, but considering how this team performed as a whole, it seems much more symptomatic as opposed to Öhgren having a particularly bad stinker.

xGF: It’s Pierre-Olivier Joseph leading the way for the Canucks in xGF% at 61.51, in yet another case of “this player really shouldn’t be pacing the team.” Not that it’s a poor reflection on the defenceman himself, though, who was the only Canuck to finish above 50.00 xGF%. He actually managed to hold a 5-3 lead in scoring chances and a 3-1 edge in high-danger chances, which was half of the Canucks’ total attempts at 5v5. Zeev Buium led the Canucks in raw xGF at 0.78, which was not bad given the absolute tirefire that these two were skating through last night.

GSAx: Nikita Tolopilo was pretty much facing a firing squad out there. There was only so much he could do against the 4.60 xGF Dallas racked up, and with six goals getting past him, the netminder finished with a -1.40 GSAx on the night. That’s mostly due to the distribution of the goals as well, with four of them coming from middle-danger and just one apiece at high-danger and low-danger. Again, it wasn’t like he could do much, though, as Tolopilo was stuck behind a struggling Canucks team playing a very strong Stars team.

A tough night for the shutdown pairing: It feels a little criminal to be throwing Tom Willander to the proverbial wolves night in and night out. Paired up with Marcus Pettersson and thrown out against the Jason Robertson line, the duo gave up two goals and put up 23.08 CF% and a 1.48 xGF%. That’s right, a 1.48 xGF%, due in large part to a 1.45 xGA and 0.02 xGF. The Pettersson-Willander pairing was on ice for a 0-14 hole in scoring chances, though relatively speaking, the four HDCA they gave up wasn’t the worst. Still, hopefully this isn’t causing issues for Willander’s development, given the shelling that he has been getting.

It was an ungood game for the Canucks. There wasn’t a lot to like; there weren’t any redeeming qualities, and it was just a miserable contest when it came to the quality of the contents. Again, it’s helping the Canucks’ draft position, which is good, but it is so hard to watch this team struggle to do anything of note and just get caved in game after game. At least it’s a very good team in the Dallas Stars that’s skating circles around this group, and at least there’s a top-three pick waiting at the end of this season.

Vancouver hosts the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow for their next game.