Some recollections stick like gum to your shoe.

Always annoying. Hard to remove.

The Vancouver Canucks know what could have occurred last season, even amid an injury-filled, drama-infused, and sour campaign that crushed their soul and post-season pursuit. Despite all the distractions, they finished seven points shy of the final Western Conference wild-card berth because they couldn’t get it done in overtime.

The Canucks tied for the most setbacks in extra time with 14, and had they prevailed in half of those encounters, they would have made something of a season that most want to forget. That inept overtime odyssey led to a summer summit to right the wrongs. After all, the Canucks had enough talent with a puck-possession whiz in the elusive Quinn Hughes and others with wheels and fi

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