The more the Vancouver Canucks struggle and slip away from the playoffs, the more the team and the city seem hungry for it. With just seven games left before the 2016 NHL Trade Deadline, all the talk in Vancouver is about the playoffs and how the veterans and the pending unrestricted free agents could find themselves on the way out from Vancouver.
But is the entire season really about the playoffs and the trade deadline frenzy?
Vancouver fans have a knack for being irrational, you know.
Especially for a Vancouver team with the youth movement in full swing, the highlight of the regular season should not be the anticipation of the playoffs, nor the endless drama and exhilaration surrounding the trade deadline.