from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,

Fifty-four years without a Stanley Cup has made Vancouver Canucks fans a little skittish about success and conditioned for disappointment, which they expect in springtime the way they expect rain in January.

Nothing could have prepared them for what happened Sunday.

Outshot, outskated, outplayed and generally outclassed for 57 minutes, the Canucks scored twice in the last three minutes of regulation time with their goalie out — and that goalie was named Arturs Silovs — and won 4-3 in overtime on Elias Lindholm’s goal at 62 seconds as Vancouver stole Game 4 from the Nashville Predators to take a 3-1 series lead in the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs.

Each of Vancouver’s three wins has been with a different goaltender, as first Thatcher Demko and then Casey DeSmith were hurt. One injury is significant, the other not.

The Canucks have managed 71 shots on net. In the series! No team in NHL history has tested an opposing goalie less often through four games. Star defenceman Quinn Hughes is getting blasted by the Predators and star centre Elias Pettersson and his linemates have yet to make a dent.

No one on the Canucks, especially head coach Rick Tocchet, is arguing that Vancouver has been the better team so far, even if all three of their goalies have been better than the Predators ace Juuse Saros.

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