The Vancouver Canucks cleaned out their lockers this Monday and here I am, waiting for the next shoe to fall. NCAA free agency, world championships, the AHL playoffs — whatever it may come to be, I am already feeling that even a losing injury-riddled team is never a team too bad to cheer for, to love, and to watch.
The last shoe, though, dropped with the conclusion of the NCAA Frozen Four championship. Brock Boeser’s North Dakota Fighting Hawks pulled it back together after a troubling performance in the semi-finals against the Denver Pioneers, piecing together a 4-1 win over the top-ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats.