from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

The problem with being an underdog in the National Hockey League playoffs? The further you go, the harder it gets.

Welcome, Vancouver Canucks, to Round 2.

What? You just beat the Stanley Cup champs, a big, rugged experienced St. Louis Blues club?

Great. Now you get the Vegas Golden Knights, who are just as big, likely faster and surely deeper, with better goaltending and a visit to the Stanley Cup Final as recent two springs ago. There, they lost to Washington. So they’re also hungrier than St. Louis was.

“They’re a fast team, they’re a good team,” Canucks head coach Travis Green submitted after Game 1. “We just need to play better.”

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