Patrick Johnston: The road map to the playoffs isn't easy, but the Canucks have lots of opportunities to pick up points over the final 70 games on the season.

The Vancouver Canucks , despite all the injuries, despite the underlying — and resultant of injuries — uneven play, are still in a playoff hunt. Article content

Going into Saturday’s game in Minnesota, the Canucks sat 6-6, a nice even .500 record. Article content Article content

That record, though, won’t get them into the playoffs. It would get them just 82 points, and that will leave them a dozen or so points off the likely playoff bar.

Conventionally, it has usually taken 95 points to get in the playoffs, 83 more points than they currently have.

That means playing .592 hockey the rest of the way. To put it another way,

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