With so much of the micro-view ugly for the Vancouver Canucks on Monday, the struggling National Hockey League team can encourage itself with the bigger picture.

As their injury wave crests again, the depleted Canucks managed to collect three points from a daunting three-game Atlantic road trip in which going 0-for was a real possibility and would have seriously damaged their playoff chances even this early in the season.

So, the Canucks survived to fight another week.

That’s the good part.

The bad part on Monday was that with a chance to use the tour of Stanley Cup contenders as a turning point in their season, and up two goals early and somehow still tied early in the third period, the Canucks’ disaster on defence was too much to outscore and they lost 8-5 to the two-time champion Fl

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