On Saturday night in Vancouver, the Canucks were somewhat soundly outplayed in the opening 20 minutes but managed to come out of the first period thanks to some misses at the goal mouth from Tom Wilson, Matt Roy and Lars Eller and thanks to one of the most absurd individual offensive efforts you’ll see all season from a blueliner.

Defenseman Quinn Hughes is doing his best to keep the Vancouver Canucks in the Western Conference playoff chase. He's scored five goals and earned two assists in his past five games leading into Monday night's contest against the host St.