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says he would like to do. Instead, the NHL has scattered just four games over two weeks to start the Canucks’ regular season. Thursday, they didn’t even practise.

After losing his first two starts last week in Alberta, in which he was the second-best goalie in 3-2 and 2-0 losses to the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, Markstrom was the most under-reported aspect of Wednesday’s 8-2 dismantlement of the Los Angeles Kings in the Canucks’ home opener at Rogers Arena.

The goalie’s most impressive statistic so far is that he has stopped 100 per cent of the shots he has faced while shorthanded – an NHL-best 18 for 18. Canucks penalty-killing is 10-for-10. "I never look back and say I should have done that instead of this," Markstrom told reporters during the pre-season. "Whatever I did, whatever my mindset was, everything I did was leading up to this point. So, I can’t sit back and regret anything.

Just as Markstrom’s play on Wednesday was under-reported, so has been the essentialness of superior goaltending to the Canucks’ playoff objectives in their 50th anniversary year in the NHL.

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