The Vancouver Canucks are now 54 games into an 82-game season. Still 28 games to go and the playoffs still a possibility. Through those 54 games, they’ve spent a collective three and a half periods injury-free. A whole 70 minutes. Less if you consider Henrik Sedin still looks like he’s playing hurt, but that’s an argument for another day.
Only one game after the team got healthy again, Brandon Sutter suffers a fractured jaw from a deflected puck and Alexander Edler suffers a fractured foot from blocking a slapshot. Not again. This team just isn’t having any luck this year.