from Ian MacIntyre of the Vancouver Sun,

This may be the end of civilization as we know it for the Vancouver Canucks. The National Hockey League team appears headed toward another stone age.

Goodbye smartphones and Starbucks, hello cave drawings and fire. Goodbye Range Rover, hello roving the range hunting and gathering. Goodbye playoffs, hello draft lotteries.

It’s not just that Tuesday’s 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild was appallingly, humiliatingly, dishearteningly bad, it’s that we’ve seen glimpses of it several times already this season. And given that so many Canuck players seem too old or too young and this team’s long-delayed rebuild will not be quick, it is likely there will be more nights this season like this one.

After existing for most of the last 15 years among the NHL’s wealthy, successful first class, the Canucks are spiralling towards the franchise’s first dark era since the late 1990s.

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