Canucks -- Have they beat a team this year?

The Vancouver Canucks are

6 wins
3 losses
4 ties

After 13 games this 2019/20 season following another tie in Anaheim against the Ducks Friday (Nov. 1, 2019) at the Duck Pond.

They played a bigger team with a good goalie and managed a tie (they lost in the circus OT - which we don't count).

Still, a point is a point, and given how badly they were outplayed for most of the game you can count the point as a good point.

But of the 6 wins the Canucks have this year (in 60 minutes -- the only real gauge of a NHL team is 60 minutes - win, loss, tie) - the Canucks have 4 wins against Detroit and Los Angeles.

And all we have determined so far this year is that Jonathon Quick in Los Angeles with an .840 save percentage is no longer an NHL goalie.

Quick was horrific against the Canucks on the Wednesday preceding the Friday game against Anaheim.

The Canucks scored at will, seemingly by just looking at the puck in a 5-3 victory over a hapless Los Angeles King that gave up 50 shots and 70+ shot attempts. The Kings are an absolute mess as are the Detroit Red Wings.

So you take the 2 wins over Detroit and the 2 over the Kings and you are left with 2 outright wins in 9 games.

And then you look further -- the other victory was against the New York Rangers who had lost 5 in a row and who were horrific in the first period (then cleaned the Canucks' clock in the final 40 minutes) and a win over the Florida Panthers -- which can't be explained.

The goaltending for the Panthers was horrific. There's no other explanation - they gave 7 goals before the team seemingly arrived.

The only possible explanation is that the Panthers had played the previous night in Calgary and just didn't make the turn to Vancouver. Schedule losses happen.

So that, in a nutshell, is the Canucks.

They haven't beat a team that made the playoffs last year in 60 minutes.

And with injuries beginning to mount it makes you wonder if they will beat a team that made the playoffs last year in 60 minutes.

What would Vancouver Millionaires Stanley Cup winner Barney Stanley think off this garbage?

Not a lot probably.

If you can't beat a team with a goalie that has played in the playoffs last year you're probably not a good team, and I think it's beginning to show.

With the Canucks losing their oft-injured version of Stanley, Michael Ferland, to concussion in a pathetic fight, and losing their diminutive D man who was playing too much, Quinton Hughes, the Canucks are now in danger of being shutout on a nightly basis.

And since the coach refuses to play Jake Virtanen on the top PP unit or Pk unit or 20 minutes per night - they're going to go through a lot of games where they just don't score goals.

Teams are tightening up defensively.

Today, Saturday, Nov. 2, the Oilers are being outshot in Pittsburgh 50-15 - but they're tied 1-1.

Defensive hockey is BACK BABY !!

Clog up the neutral zone, clamp it down, showtime is over, as is the month of October.