Great Tanking News! Last Place Team Gets Hit By Lightening! Repeatedly!

Good news... BRÖ line gels again. And again.

Here's what we learned:

After beating the other Gulf of Idiocracy team in the previous game, would be far too gaudy for the worst team in the league to win consecutive games at home. So they didn't. Good mannered hockey restraint.

Nucks played well in the 1st - limited T-Bay to a single goal. However, the cursed 2nd period was triply cursed in the 1st five minutes.

Best Lanky moment was his save of the season on Hagel, who was sure of a sure goal - Lanky said: Go to Hellgel. The other 6 goals he did allow didn't take much shine off that shining moment.

Tanks for the memories!

Ah, well. Briefly enjoyable, then the second period happened. Wait, that's when I started watching. Hm.

-- Thursday

Period 1

Canucks don't score first. Don't score on their PP.

Bolts do score and it's 1-0 for flip-flop hockey after 1.

Nucks get outshot 11-6 and gave up territorial advantage more than gained it.

Meanwhile... as we gird our collective groans in prep for the 2nd we can enjoy the other scoreboards.

#canucks former canucks scoring tonite Reichel for Bruins Garland for CBJ Mikayevev for CHISOX WILD lose in regulation to Chicago 2-1 Quinn Hughes 25 minutes no points -1 with three shots and two giveaways

— bigmac373737.bsky.social (@bigmac373737.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM

Period 2

Where to start?

Obviously, not at the start of the 2nd.

We're just gonna skip over the 3 Bolts goal in 5 minutes, despite one of them being scored by a Raddish. Who knew vegan hockey was a thing? Or that Kooch scores as part of his 3 point night, while only having the puck on his stick for 28 seconds in the entire game. Play fast. Think faster.

Apparently I picked the #Canucks game against the wrong Florida based team to watch...

— Jackson604 (@jackson604.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:14 PM

Not fair! Lanky loses his stick and the Bolts thoughtlessly score #Canucks

— NucksMisconduct (@nucksmisconduct.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Moving on.

We're going to skip right to the part where the goal-shocked Nucks come out their shell and pushback. Just a little.

Mid-2nd... I know... it's a very long period, the 2nd one, when you give up 3 goals too fast, too soon.

Anyhow, Zeev and Rossi breakout of the Nucks zone - nice change of pace to be honest - and Rossi drives the middle, passes to Brock who gets drives toward the dot and passes to Öhgren who whips the puck past a Vasectomy.

Nucks not getting shutout on this night.

AND ON THEIR NINTH SHOT THEY SCORE!

Öh, baby!

-- Thursday

The Brö line rocks. I'm glad we have a cool line again. #Canucks

— 🇨🇦 Trent Leith 🏳️‍🌈 (@trentleith.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:26 PM

With his assist, Brock Boeser has tied Tony Tanti for 9th all time in points for #Canucks history

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM

To be fair... or not... Nucks only put 4 shots on goal in this cursed period. Outshot 11-4. Outscored 3-1. Is that so bad?

Period 3

Trailing only by a few goals, Nucks have been saving their comeback mojo for at least a period.

Having broken the no-goals threshold, they're free to go score 3 to 5 more.

Turns out they settled for just one more. From the Nucks top line. The BRÖ line.

T-Bay makes an uncharacteristic defensive giveaway - more vegan hockey jokes incoming? Yes, it was Raddish who misplayed the puck. Rossi pounces. Puts a shot net, that's stopped. But Karlsson bats the rebound into the net. Wooooo!

Nice sacrifice bunt by Linus Karlsson. #Canucks

— Lachlan Irvine (@lachinthecrease.com) March 19, 2026 at 9:11 PM

Nucks only trail by a couple goals against one of the tippy top teams in the east.

For about 30 seconds. Then there was a Lightening strike.

Bahahahaha, Lighting score! 😂 😆 😄 😊 😐 ☹️ 😢 😭 #Canucks #OfCourse

— CrankyCanucksFan 🇨🇦🏒 (@crankycanucksfan.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM

Canucks behind 5-2 in the ROG.

And 6-2 final after Hagel finally gets the bagel past Lanky late 3rd.

At least the Nucks beat the Nucks beat them on the shot clock, 11-8.

Not an unexpected result. T-Bay are a pretty good team, with skilled, wily players and great coaching.

At least we can take some smug division comfort that the Champs we beat 5-2 previously, dropped the tOil slick 4-0.

Six of the eight Pacific Division teams played today. As a division, the teams combined for six total goals: Kings- 3 #Canucks- 2 Kraken- 1 Oilers, Golden Knights, Sharks- 0

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM

OBSERVATIONS:

Can't win them all. Especially when the worst team is playing one of the best. Nucks had 2 PP chances and reverted to the sub-normal with no success. Nucks PK was pretty good allowing no GA in their 2 chances. Just need to work on that 5-on-5 defense thing.

Players of Interest:

• Petey lost his shooting mojo again. 1 shot this one and a couple nice passes DeSnakebit DeBrusk couldn't convert. Petey shoulda shot like last game.
• Lanky looked good - despite allowing 6 goals. It was the guys in front of him making mistake after mistake and Bolts scoring goal after goal.
• Rossi again making the case Nucks have found their 2nd line center.

Marco Rossi has nine points in his last four games.

Pretty all right.

-- Thursday

#Canucks Kierszenstat of the Night: Vancouver has lost 39 of it's 68 games this season. The last time the Canucks record 39 or more losses through 68 games was the 1987-88 season.

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 10:11 PM

Unrelated play of the game:

There was some concern but Mancini's clear from his own zone hits Vasilevsky which means #Canucks fans get the 20% off Uber Eats promotion

— Adam Kierszenblat (@adamkblat.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 9:36 PM

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Shortie and Ferrari calling the plays. And giving Hogz some pointers...

GAME STATS

COMMENTING OUT LOUD

DeBusk with DePresser.

Karlsson - presser up!

Rossi heating up the presser.

Nucks get outplayed, Footey gets outcoached.

In this game Nucks resumed their stout basement defense. Which is different than their hockey defense.

32nd place Canucks face a possible (last place) interloper on Saturday. This is tricky. Always good for the Nucks to beat the Blues. But a 4 point game is critical this time of year. Even in the freakin' basement!