Covering the Canucks for Daily Hive since 2019. Also co-host of the Locked On Canucks Podcast alongside Kyle Bhawan.

It was arguably the Vancouver Canucks&#8217; worst performance of the season.
Sure, they only lost 3-1 to the St. Louis Blues. Heck, they&#8217;ve had more lopsided defeats on this homestand.
But this loss represented a new level of bad.
The Canucks had just two shot attempts at five-on-five after one period. They only generated seven unblocked shot attempts at five-on-five total through two periods.
When the game ended, they had just 13 unblocked shot attempts at five-on-five, their lowest total of the season.
And it wasn&#8217;t like the Canucks were facing a Stanley Cup contender on Saturday night. Although the Blues have played better, they&#8217;re still a bottom-five team in the NHL.
So, <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/emerging-canucks-leader-hopeful-message" target="_blank">leave it to the new guy</a> to explain why the Canucks continue to trend downwards.
&#8220;We were really disconnected first and second period,&#8221; Marco Rossi said.
At least Rossi is trying to do his part. He picked up an assist on the only goal of the game by Filip Hronek. He&#8217;s now on a five-game point streak, picking up 10 points in that stretch.
Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not rubbing off on the rest of the team.
&#8220;We play too cute,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We play too much on the outside. We&#8217;re not going enough into the inside, the dirty areas. That&#8217;s missing in our game.&#8221;
Pretty honest assessment from a guy who&#8217;s played a grand total of 20 games with the Canucks.
But even Adam Foote, who&#8217;s had the best seat in the house to witness one of the most discombobulated seasons in Canucks history, offered further insight into why this team is losing.
&#8220;We have struggled in second periods because we get caught,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not skating.&#8221;
He&#8217;s talking about the fact that the Canucks often get back to the bench too casually, something that they&#8217;ve been burned on a lot with the long second-period change.
&#8220;We get caught in our end easily, and we have a hard time stopping cycles. Once we get [the puck] out, you&#8217;ve got to change, and they&#8217;re right back down.&#8221;
The changes were really weak, like, they weren&#8217;t even proper, we didn&#8217;t dump the puck deep enough and push them back to their own end.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to generate offence when you&#8217;re in your own end, and you&#8217;re having these changes.&#8221;
The Canucks have been bad all year, but especially in second periods. Their goal differential in the second frame is -39. The next worst team (which is a tie between the Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks and the Blues) is -21.
But the fact that Foote is talking about sloppy changes in Game No. 69 might say all you need to know about this Canucks season.
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Although they've suffered worst defeats, the Vancouver Canucks were bad in a whole new day on Saturday night against the St. Louis Blues.