The Vancouver Canucks , despite all the injuries, despite the underlying — and resultant of injuries — uneven play, are still in a playoff hunt. Article content

Going into Saturday’s game in Minnesota, the Canucks sat 6-6, a nice even .500 record. Article content Article content

That record, though, won’t get them into the playoffs. It would get them just 82 points, and that will leave them a dozen or so points off the likely playoff bar.

Conventionally, it has usually taken 95 points to get in the playoffs, 83 more points than they currently have.

That means playing .592 hockey the rest of the way. To put it another way, they need to find the equivalent of 41.5 wins in their remaining 70 games. That’s a tall order. Even healthy, does this look like a squad that can do all that?

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