Canucks Player Grades: Tired legs in 2

In fairness to the Vancouver Canucks , five games in eight nights is pretty tough. Article content

Also in fairness to the Vancouver Canucks , it’s pretty tough to make your way in the National Hockey League when you’ve got just one legitimate offensively-able centre in the lineup. Article content Article content

All that said, Thursday’s 2-1 loss to the very-middle-of-the-road Nashville Predators was dismal. The Canucks struggled to maintain much pressure and even when they did, shots were few and far between.

The fact that they can’t score is down both to the loss of Filip Chytil, who had been a very consistent offensive contributor, some diminishment in the otherwise outstanding play of captain Quinn Hughes and simple probability: you may recall that we noted in this space