Thomas Drance
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I thought you could feel that that feeling was palpable.
It jumped through your television screen.
Okay, go ahead.
Because I do need to do the quick negative.
Not winning either of those games in regulation.
So the Canucks have 15 regulation wins on the season, which is less than the NHL by a mile.
They have two games remaining on the schedule.
If they don't win both games in regulation to end the year, they will finish with the lowest total of regulation wins of any season in franchise history, which is one for the is this the worst season in Canucks history ever file.
By the way, number two on that list, the team they're chasing, is the 2021 Canucks, who played 56 games in a pandemic-shortened season and still finished dead last in the all-Canadian division.
And the 1994-95 Canucks, who due to a lockout only played 48 games.
The lowest total that the Canucks have ever had in an 82-game season, you have to go back to the year at which they selected Quinn Hughes...
And in that season, they won 19, which as a result of these two fun shootout wins or overtime wins, they no longer have a chance to get right.
So this will be the worst.
This will be the worst season is measured by how frequently the Canucks won in regulation in the history of the franchise.
And Buffalo's been, like, number one on this list for years and years and years.
So there is at least some level of...
I mean, like, it's... So...
Before we unpack this, I want to get into some reporting from Kenneth Chan in Daily Hive, who noted that at city council meetings, the parks board has been proportioned, you know, or 300 million for the Britannia.