Since their injury crisis reached Code Red two weeks ago, the Vancouver Canucks have played in National Hockey League survival mode, desperately trying to find points. On Monday, they played like a team desperate not to squander them.

In what for 50 minutes was one of their best games of the season, the Canucks lost a two-goal lead late in the third period against the Nashville Predators only to collect both points on Brock Boeser’s overtime buzzer beater that gave Vancouver a 5-4 road win.

With seconds ticking down on the extra three-on-three session controlled and slow-played by the Canucks, who smartly recognize their chances of winning a shootout are excellent with either Thatcher Demko or Kevin Lankinen in their net, Boeser and Elias Pettersson outbattled Predators Ryan O’Reilly and

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