A month into the season, and things haven’t gone according to plan for the Vancouver Canucks.
The team cannot score, the defence isn’t much more reliable than it was last season and the goaltending situation remains mediocre at best. This isn’t what GM Jim Benning and co. had in mind when they signed winger Loui Eriksson and traded for defenceman Erik Gudbranson. But right now, the Canucks are showing they could be worse than last season’s forgettable campaign.
The Canucks’ refusal to tear it all down and restart has come to hurt them.