There are nights where you are reminded why guys like J.T. Miller just really want to get on with the regular season.
Pre-season is for warming up. For getting some reps in before you really find your groove.
Past great Canucks teams have had terrible pre-seasons. Past bad Canucks teams have had great pre-seasons.
Pre-season doesn’t matter.
What does matter is what bits and pieces you can maybe see if you squint really hard. And even then … w hat do you see.
The Vancouver Canucks lost 3-1 to the Seattle Kraken on Friday night in their third exhibition game of the 2024-25 campaign — and their third game in four nights, no less. That means changing rosters as well.
There’s little through line from the games on Tuesday and Wednesday to this one, just as there won’t be much to tie Saturday’s game in Calgary to the previous three.
Does it matter that Tyler Myers scored a goal on a zone entry, wrapping the puck around the back of the Kraken net and using his reach to tuck the puck past Kraken keeper Joey Daccord?