When play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse wondered Thursday for his Sportsnet audience if he had just felt an earthquake inside Rogers Arena, it seemed plausible that the Earth might simply crack open beneath the Vancouver Canucks and swallow them.

Already last in the National Hockey League, it would be the only way the Canucks could fall any lower. But then they lost 3-2 to the Buffalo Sabres, who are the worst team in the Eastern Conference and looked it on Thursday.

The Canucks are now lower than Death Valley, with one win in eight games and two in 12 and suddenly trailing the other 31 teams by daylight — three points adrift of the Calgary Flames and Nashville Predators.

It was the Sabres’ first road win in regulation time since last April.

This is the new low point for the Canuck

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