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I have this friend; let鈥檚 call him Dumb Idiot. Like everyone in 2008, Dumb Idiot and I saw The Dark Knight in theatres. But unlike everyone else, Dumb Idiot decided to get a bunch of snacks and ended up missing .

He walked into the room late and immediately inundated me with questions. 鈥淲hat鈥檇 I miss? Have we seen the Joker yet? How is 麻豆传媒映画down 2-0? I was only gone for 30 seconds!鈥�

That鈥檚 right. I watched the 麻豆传媒映画Canucks lose another game, and I distinctly began to suspect I was the Dumb Idiot after all...

• Okay, so the game got off to a rocky start, what with the Canucks giving up two goals on the first two shots. I want you to imagine, if you will, a spelling bee. There鈥檚 a class of 30 children participating, including your kid. You want him to succeed, you want him to win. Especially because all the other parents are in attendance and they know, statistically, that 27 of those kids are smarter than your kid. This is what it鈥檚 like to cheer for the 麻豆传媒映画Canucks. So the spelling bee begins. And 18 seconds in, your kid steps up to the microphone, immediately falls and lands on his tongue. Then, 12 seconds later, he falls again and lands on both of his ears.
  
  If it seems like I鈥檓 being overly critical, rest assured I'm really only talking about the first ten minutes of the game. After that, the Canucks outshot and largely outplayed the Sharks. But those first ten minutes were a doozy. Here鈥檚 how the goals went down
• The game started with a half dozen teal-clad men skating through a giant fish鈥檚 mouth in 23-degree weather. These teal men had lost eight of their last 10 games and I thought to myself, All right now, Canucks鈥� you can do this.
  
  The game began and Richard Bachman looked solid as he pounced on slow rolling puck and covered it until the whistle blew. He looked less solid, however, when Kevin Labanc took a shot right off the ensuing faceoff and shelved it, glove-side. I turned to my wife and said, 鈥淭he Canucks just got scored on.鈥� She chuckled and said, 鈥淎lready?鈥� I wondered why she chuckled. Is it possible the joke was on me?
  
  I opened up a new tab to confirm the spelling of Labanc鈥檚 name for this article, and before I could even complete that task, Joel Ward had blasted a slapshot from outside the circle: off the post and in. I turned to my wife again, 鈥�2-0, San Jose.鈥� She just laughed. And this time I laughed too, because I finally got it. There鈥檚 no hope for the playoffs鈥� there鈥檚 no hope for the spelling bee鈥� maybe there鈥檚 just no hope.
  
  
• I was glad to be proven wrong, however, and I鈥檇 like to blow past the first 10 minutes of the game (where Sharks outshot the Canucks 10-1) and sail on to calmer seas. 麻豆传媒映画began to find their legs near the end of the first, nabbing the last five shots of the period and beginning to pour on the pressure. Did Griffen Molino get absolutely crushed along the boards by Brenden Dillon? You betcha. And did Henrik Sedin just fall down for no reason, making contact with nobody? But of course. But aside from those snafus, they really found their legs. Trust me.
• Okay, second period. This was some pretty fun hockey to watch. Firstly, Nickolay Goldobin dove headlong into Martin Jones鈥� net like he was . Kudos to the youngster for the A+ effort, but this would end up being the first in a long list of missed connections with his Swedish twin linemates. He would later be served two juicy passes from Daniel Sedin, but ended up sailing both of them over the net. Word on the street is that he was just all hyped up at the chance to play in his alma mater, 鈥�
• The Canucks had plenty of opportunities to score during the second period, with San Jose offering up three power plays. First, Joel Ward took two minutes for hooking Reid Boucher in the 麻豆传媒映画zone. That PP gave Horvat a nice tip on net, but didn鈥檛 result in a goal. Shortly after Ward left the box, David Schlemko got sent away for tripping Molino during a real fast break on the San Jose goaltender. Schlemko took out Molino鈥檚 feet and sent him sprawling into the goaltender who, in turn, knocked the net off its mooring. However, the play was reviewed to see if the puck did, in fact, cross the red line before the net was completely off the ice. They ruled it 鈥榥o goal鈥�; here's a closer look, you tell me:
  
  
• The resulting power play led to another nice scoring opportunity - Bo Horvat to Sven Baertschi, who fought hard for real estate in front of the net and made a nice redirect with a tumbling follow-up. But like an unmotivated layabout, no goals were to be found.
• The dying minutes of the second period were dominated by Vancouver, with shot after shot going wide or getting stuck in traffic. In the final minute of play, Horvat decided to go end-to-end, outskating everybody and drawing a delicious hooking penalty from Patrick Marleau, while desperately trying to find Brandon Sutter in front. The puck never made it to Sutter, but Marleau still got booked for two minutes, which started off the third period with momentum in Vancouver鈥檚 favour.
• The Canucks got their only goal fairly early into the third, and it couldn鈥檛 have come from a better source. Longtime Canuck Chris Tanev finally broke his 15-game scoring drought (and San Jose鈥檚 shutout) with a top-corner wristshot. Assists go to Brock Boeser and Luca Sbisa, with Horvat and (unintentionally) Dillon, .
• The rest of the game seemed to unfold like the . The Canucks kept punishing San Jose with shots in a desperate attempt to equalize, with both teams looking for a quick finish rather than focusing on defence. If it wasn鈥檛 Baertschi setting up Horvat in front, only to get robbed by Jones, then it was Horvat setting Boeser up in front, only to get robbed by Jones.
• In the end, Jones & Co. put the nail in the coffin, with Tierney providing a golden deflection from a Brent Burns wrist shot, and that was all she wrote. (Google tells me that in addition to coffin nailing, Jones & Co. offers , and literally millions of other Australian things. Apparently most of Australia is named Jones.)
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