VANCOUVER — Head coach Adam Foote liked what he saw from his Vancouver Canucks on Thursday — even if the team came out on the wrong end of the score line.

Vancouver’s rough stretch continued with a 4-2 loss to the visiting Dallas Stars, yet Foote praised his group afterward.

“It was probably our best game of the year,” he said. “We frustrated them. The second period, we pretty much dominated that period. You could see it in their game. It was good.”

The Canucks (9-11-2) are now 1-3-2 in their last six outings, and still have five players — including all-star goalie Thatcher Demko — on injured reserve.

Vancouver managed to contain Dallas for long stretches on Thursday, though, and outshot the visitors 36-24.

Despite coming in with the worst penalty kill in the league (67.1 per cent), t

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