They sure don’t make it easy

How sad is the Vancouver Canucks’ future looking right now. They Canucks failed to pick up any offensive power to back up their terrific goaltender Roberto Luongo at the NHL trade deadline last week, instead making one relatively minor deal for a player who really has yet to fit in anywhere in his new team’s structure. It’s hard to see how the team thinks it can be competitive in the playoffs (if they can even get into the playoffs) with only a star goaltender and no goal-scoring power—this is exactly what did them in during last year’s playoffs. And given the way they’ve been playing lately—falling pathetically to Colorado, Columbus, Chicago, and Colorado again last night, in Peter Forsberg’s return—it’s hard to imagine they’re going anywhere this year. A shame, too, because earlier in the season it looked like it, with Luongo’s straight shutout streak across several games. But now, the team simply looks like it has given up and stopped caring.

The Canucks sure aren’t making it easy to be a Canucks fan these days.