Happy Friday, it’s sunny, it’s the weekend as we enter December and Christmas parties have started, there’s a Whitecaps MLS semifinal and the Canucks give us a U.S. Thanksgiving lunchtime treat with a 1 p.m. game against the Sharks and a Saturday night live in L.A. against the Kings. Loads to look forward to.

You wouldn’t expect anything less, but in the wake of the hubbub this week about the Canucks shipping out veterans and uncertainty around the rapidly running out contract for Quinn Hughes , he said all the right things to Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet about his status. It’s far from scientific but earlier this week we ran a poll that surprisingly had 73 per cent of you voting to trade Hughes now and start the rebuild.

We should all count our blessings that by this time next week

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