[Textcritic]

I have said this a couple times before...

The 2018–19 Canucks are eerily similar to the 2014–15 Flames: A young team with rookie and a second-year star players, and a good second-line shut-down centre. They get pretty consistently outplayed, but manage opportunistic scoring and win on excellent goaltending and solid coaching.

And get this ... after a blistering start to the season the Flames hit a 0-8-0 stretch in December, not so dissimilar from Vancouver's recent 1-10-2 run of futility.

I don't think they will make the playoffs, but they will get pretty close.