Over the years there’s been lots of axioms we hear about the Canucks, they travel too much, long homestands are a distraction and it’s good to get on the road, back-to-backs happen too much, they face too many rested teams when they come back from a road trip who have been here waiting for them. One of the ones with real (tired) legs seems to be the first game back after a road trip is a trap.

That seemed to happen last night at Rogers Arena . The Canucks played well and were the better team for the first two periods but couldn’t capitalize and it was still scoreless going into the third. True dead legs seemed to show up in the third as Vancouver lost 5-2 to the Blackhawks. They now have two days in a row without a game for the first time in nearly a month. They could use the rest.

Pat

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