from Jason Botchford of the Vancouver Province,

It should sum up this hauntingly disappointing season.

Not so much the 5-2 loss (Winnipeg). More the coach’s reasoning why.

When it was over, asked to pontificate on what went wrong yet again, the Canucks head coach laid out a jaw dropper of a rationale.

In fact, he suggested he foresaw it happening too, with the way his team approached their morning skate.

First, as a backdrop reminder, the Canucks have one of the worst home records in the NHL. Consider, they have three fewer home wins than the Oilers in the same 35 home games.

Monday they had their chance to win three straight for the first time this season. But the didn’t come close, instead suffering another humiliating loss, in what looked like a men-v-boys matchup against the most disappointing team in the NHL.

“In the morning skate, I could tell we were light in the morning skate, thinking good things were going to start happening,” Willie said. “We were going to be able to come to the rink and just play and good things were going to happen.

“It never works that way, it just doesn’t.”

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Plays like the one below sort of proves Willie Desjardins' point...