Well I think that Gags and McIntyre summed up the weekend with their respective columns pretty well.

Basically the Canucks are going to have dust off their blue-collar game in order to weather injuries to Daniel Sedin, Pavol Demitra, Sami Salo and Mathew Schnieder. The loss of these four giants seem utterly drastic right now.

And their road game needs to improve from it’s current 0-4 graveyard in order to survive the 14 road-trip-from-hell-thanks-to-the-fucking-olympiad-bullshit-bullshit.

Seeing Calgary pummel the Canucks looked like it might be a regular occurance this season, but after destroying Calgary in the first 2 games last year (remember the Ripper had a pair of goals) this start should realign the balance of power for the rest of the season.

It’s a crap-shoot with these clowns. And speaking of shooting for shit the Canucks have the worst shooting-percentage in the league right now despite being 2nd in shots-on-goal, they are 18th in shooting-percentage.

It makes you think that under Coach Vee’s affable grin he must know that all the soul searching in world won’t produce an accuracte shot.

Oh well, just keep shooting the puck on net, hope for the lucky bounces.

(Here is were I don’t talk about the win against Minnesota on Saturday. The Canucks should have won 7-1 but barely eked out a one goal advantage after shooting everything they owned at a spectacular Backstromm. Kesler played his best game of the season but it still left me wanting more, um, goals)

And then that Russian vs. the Computer of a game against Edmonton.

Going 0-for on the power-play against a team with zero stars takes the Canucks from proverbial bad to proverbial worst.

And if you can’t depress the matter even more, it looks like Luongo is starting to pick up his games. But if the Canucks can’t find scoring (notice the talk of Vancouver’s cause celeb the past few years — secondary scoring — has gone silent) then we may harken back to three seasons ago whereby Louie stands on his head for the team, the team manufactures 2-1 wins down the stretch, clinches the division and subsequently qualifies for one more 2nd round exit (for the ages).

This is the depth of our history folks.

If you were depressed for any reason beside the Canucks before this weekend commenced, leave it to the boys in blue to drain all traces of serotonin from the system.

Next Up – Chicago