Just when you thought you were out … the Canucks did what they’ve done all season, hang with a top team. After a dreadful showing at home against one of the NHL’s worst teams, the 4-1 loss to Calgary on Sunday, insider reports leaked and President Jim Rutherford talked about how the team was open to moving established stars to ‘get younger’. All everyone could talk about for the next three days is when they’d trade Quinn Hughes .

Then the Canucks go out and go toe-to-toe with the Pacific Division leaders and beat Anaheim on the road. It’s what this team has done all season. Look bad against Nashville, Calgary, St. Louis, compete and hang in with Tampa, Colorado, Winnipeg. To steal the NFL axiom about ‘any given Sunday’, Canucks fans can be forgiven for wondering ‘what if’ when they see

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