The Vancouver Canucks have a storied history. Sure, it’s often been a horror story, but that still counts.

Just once in that storied history has the Canucks’ leading goal scorer in a season failed to reach 20 goals.

As of this weekend, the Canucks are one of just three teams in the NHL that still don’t have a 20-goal scorer on the roster, the other two being the St. Louis Blues and Calgary Flames.

Put it this way: Nathan MacKinnon leads the NHL with 44 goals; the Canucks’ top-three goalscorers — Brock Boeser, Drew O’Connor, and Jake DeBrusk — have combined for 45 goals this season, just one more than MacKinnon all on his own.

The only season where the Canucks didn’t have a 20-goal scorer was the 2012-13 season, when Alexandre Burrows led the Canucks with just 13 goals. But that season was shortened by a lockout and lasted just 48 games, so it doesn’t really count.

The lowest goal total for a Canucks leading scorer in a full season came in 2016-17, when Bo Horvat led the team with 20 goals.

That was a bleak season, as the Canucks set a new franchise low in goals, managing 178 goals in 82 games, an average of just 2.17 goals per game. It was a season that began with a dreadful win-now offseason trade — Jared McCann, a second, and a fourth for Erik Gudbranson and a fifth — and ended with the team finally admitting they needed to rebuild.

In that, at least, the 2016-17 Canucks have something in common with the present-day Canucks, who have also admitted they’re rebuilding. But will anyone on the current Canucks match Horvat and reach 20 goals?

This season’s Canucks aren’t quite as lacking in goalscoring as the 2016-17 Canucks, though their 2.52 goals per game is second-last in the NHL, ahead of only the Flames. It’s also the fifth-worst mark in franchise history.

Part of it, of course, is the Canucks have traded away some goals. To really highlight the Canucks’ goalscoring woes, Kiefer Sherwood, who was traded two months ago, would still lead the Canucks in goalscoring with his 17 goals in a Canucks jersey this season.

Sherwood has since reached 20 goals with the San Jose Sharks. Will any of his former teammates join him?

With just 16 games left in the season, there are four Canucks with a realistic shot at 20 goals, barring a player going on an unreal tear.

Brock Boeser leads the Canucks with 16 goals, thanks to four goals in his last six games. That puts him on pace for 20 goals this season, giving him the best odds of reaching the 20-goal mark for the seventh time in nine seasons.

Boeser seems like a good bet to get to 20 goals, as it seems pretty reasonable for him to score four goals in 16 games, especially given his burgeoning chemistry with Marco Rossi and Liam Öhgren.

On the other hand, Boeser had a 21-game goal drought this season, so it would also be entirely unsurprising to see him fail to reach the 20-goal mark.

Next up is Drew O’Connor, who is second on the Canucks with 15 goals, on pace for 19 on the season. He’s gotten a promotion to the top line in recent games, though that might not actually help his cause, as that means he’s playing with Elias Pettersson and Evander Kane, who seem to have whatever the opposite of chemistry is.

O’Connor needs just one more goal to match his career high of 16 goals, which he scored two years ago with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Jake DeBrusk is third on the Canucks in goals with 14 in 65 games, on pace for 17 goals. He seems like a long shot to reach 20 goals, given that he has just one goal in his last 14 games, but DeBrusk is a streaky player who tends to score goals in bunches. If he can hit a hot streak down the stretch, six goals in 16 games is pretty reasonable.

Finally, there’s Elias Pettersson, who is somehow still fourth on the Canucks in goalscoring despite the fact that he hasn’t scored a goal since January 13. He’s now gone 20 games without a goal.

With 13 goals in 58 games, Pettersson is technically on pace for 17 goals this season, but are you willing to bet he even scores four more goals in the final 16 games, let alone seven goals to reach 20?

So, will the Canucks have a 20-goal scorer this season?

If they don’t, it will be more than just a little embarrassing. You have to go all the way back to the 2008-09 New York Islanders to find the last time a last-place team didn’t have at least one 20-goal scorer. Kyle Okposo led that team with 18 goals.

On the plus side, that Islanders team did get the first-overall pick and selected a legitimate star in John Tavares, who immediately led the team in scoring the following season. The Canucks can only hope for similar good fortune.