I Watched This Game: Canucks succumb to the Avalanche comeback

You can blame the referees for the Vancouver Canucks losing to the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night.

They gave the Avalanche a 5-on-3 on a soft as seafoam hooking penalty but didn’t give the Canucks a 5-on-3 on a blatant high stick. Through the first period and part of the second, that wasn’t the case. The Canucks were hard on pucks, whether it was chasing the Avalanche down on the forecheck, carrying the puck with purpose through the neutral zone, or battling down low on the boards in the defensive zone. The Avalanche struggled to break the puck out cleanly and gain the blue line with possession, as the Canucks were all over them at every turn.

“We just couldn’t get anybody to grab hold of a puck, whether it was on a forecheck or a breakout, just to slow things down,” said head coach Rick Tocchet. “We were a little hot potato.”

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