The Vancouver Canucks won just seven overtime games last NHL season. Article content

They also tied for fewest triumphs in extra time with 14. If the Canucks prevailed in half of those encounters, they would have squeezed into the final Western Conference playoff position to make something of a season gone sideways. Article content Article content

It didn’t happen.

Continuously losing you way in overtime is like death by 1,000 cuts. When the Canucks blew 3-0 and 4-1 leads to the Calgary Flames in their home opener last year, and needed J.T. Miller to connect with 1:37 remaining just to get to the five-minute showdown, they still lost 6-5.

It wasn’t the end of the world to drop the encounter, but it was a gut punch.

“It wasn’t horrible. It just looked horrible,” former Canuck

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