Can the Vancouver Canucks pull it off? Now that is a different question.
There have been discussions around the city on whether Saturday’s 4-1 loss to the Calgary Flames was the game that ended all hopes of the playoffs. Well, there still are 30 games left in the season — that is just a dozen games removed from the midseason mark and 36.6 percent of the schedule still ahead of the Canucks.
Folks, there still is hope. Dan Hamhuis has barely played half an hour’s worth of NHL hockey since he got sidelined for some three months.