Thomas Drance

Linus Carlson wins the game in overtime and you could see how much it meant to see William.

Teddy Bluger ties the game and you could see how much that meant to him.

Brock Besser scores a shorthanded breakaway.

Like, sure.

I don't know if that was on Jason Brough's bingo card.

But that was great.

You know, Kudryavtsev looks good in the game.

Like, you get all these just sort of collection of, like, fun moments and...

You have to have fun going to the rink.

Even when this team in this era was good, they didn't seem like they were having a good time.

This group seems like they're able to have a good time.

Now, I don't know that they're able to win games.

I don't know that the core pieces of the next great Canucks team are even on this roster.

There's some young building blocks who have a chance to get there, but that's it.

A chance.

We'll see.

So, yeah, I mean...

Don't buy into this as progress.

Don't buy into this as, you know, good process.

I don't think it means anything, but I'm glad to see a group of players that have endured a pretty miserable campaign find a way to enjoy some time at the rink and put some fun things on tape and have some fun together as a team.