Let’s just start here...
What a difference a game makes. From early on in the first I kept looking at the jerseys. Yup. They were Canucks jerseys. Seemed like they were the same numbers as we saw in the last preseason game. Not the same team. Not the same goaltending. Not the same lack of urgency.
No, this was the Canucks team that even in our wildest drunken summer delusions could play this well against the (on paper) revitalised Flames. Yes, we were happy the debut season roster was younger than feared.