Bo Horvat scored a goal and Willie Desjardins won a coach’s challenge. So there was that Monday for the Vancouver Canucks.
But this depleted and changing team, which has such a hard time winning with the National Hockey League’s 26th-ranked offence, has almost no chance to win when it plays as badly defensively as it did in its 3-2 loss against the Arizona Coyotes.
Desjardins’ first successful challenge of the season overturned an apparent Coyotes’ goal at 4:35 of the third period and when Daniel Sedin, still bleeding from a first-period puck to the teeth, scored on the restart, there was suddenly a two-goal swing in Vancouver’s favour.