Regardless of where you stand on the divisive issue of Willie Desjardins — we predict he’ll finish the season fired or in the coach-of-the-year conversation — he has the Vancouver Canucks playing hard. Missing a handful of players to injuries and illness, the Canucks were slightly outplayed and badly outmuscled in the opening period. The Canucks aren’t skilled enough, fast enough, tough enough or deep enough, and we haven’t seen their power play since Donald Trump was someone we could laugh at. For the second straight game, the Canucks benefited from a video review that overturned an apparent goal-against. He did that in the second period against the Predators and made a difference.

Source: National Post January 18, 2017 18:00 UTC