Canucks Coffee: Special teams, still a huge problem

For all the good stuff the Vancouver Canucks managed at five on five Friday afternoon in San Jose, it was all undone by a woeful penalty kill and a pop-gun power play. Article content

Special teams, as we noted a few weeks ago, has been a losing race for the Canucks so far this season and in the end it shows no signs of getting better. Article content Article content

The math, just as the Canucks’ playoff math, remains unavoidable: at 21.6 per cent, the power play is scoring just about once every five opportunities, while the penalty kill, dead last in the NHL at 70.5 per cent, is giving up a goal almost every third opportunity.

And given the Canucks are, like most teams, drawing roughly as many penalties as they’re taking, that’s just putting themselves behind the eight ball near