The 2025-06 Vancouver Canucks are so bad, they may finish dead-last in the league and set another dubious record in the process: worst home-ice record since the expansion era (1967-68.)

Going into today's game against the Edmonton Oilers (which to be honest, has all the makings of pushing the current losing streak to 10), Vancouver had a record of 4-12-3, or a staggeringly gawdawful winning percentage of 0.134.

Comparing the disasters of the last 58 years is a bit problematic. There were three shortened seasons – one to strike, two to that little bug that happened in 2020. One year, the regular season was 84 games, and some seasons featured 80. Relax. Some crusty retired journalists can actually math, and the following chronicle of winning percentage is all pro-rated nicely to an 82-game season so we can all get right to the trauma with a handy-dandy worst-ten table.

Yep. You read that right: the current Vancouver Canucks are on track to under-perform a woeful Pittsburgh team who had one player with a positive plus-minus (excepting some shmucks who were traded to Pittsburgh mid-season, or lucky ones traded elsewhere mid-season.) But that Pens team at least had a player who could put the puck in the net: Mike Bullard, potted 92 points that season. By comparison, the Canucks leading scorer is (checks notes) some guy named Elias Petterson, who is on track to score 57.

What do the Vancouver Canucks have to do to avoid being the team with the worst home-ice record in the expansion era?

Collect eight points in the next 20 home games. A mere four wins. Or three wins and two loser points. Or two wins and …

You guys can do the math.

Eight points. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Right?

Fun facts:

The 1983-84 Pens dressed 44 skaters and four netminders through the season. The 2024-25 Canucks have dressed 33 skaters and four netminders so far.

In 1983-84, the league minimum salary in 1983 was $25,000. Elias Petterson (the forward) earns $25,000 every 10:52 of game time.