Canucks vs Maple Leafs

Six times in just 15 games, over the course of one month plus a day, the Canucks have snatched defeat from a two- or three-goal lead.

I think we felt good about our first period and then we go out and do that in the second. We have a really good lineup, and I think it's just a matter of time. Conor Garland shot high on a partial breakaway and Maple Leaf Mitch Marner blocked Hughes’ shot in the final minute when Boudreau had Boeser on the ice instead of rookie Andrei Kuzmenko, whose seven goals this season earned him only 9:27 of ice time on Saturday. Sometimes it's not fun and it's not flashy, but it does get the job done. Whenever the reckoning comes — and it doesn’t feel far off — the 10 points the Canucks have squandered in the first month of the season will be a root cause. The game before, it was the first 10 minutes in Montreal, the game before that was in Ottawa but we recovered. They get the momentum and we sort of stopped playing.” Certainly, Toronto was the faster team. Pierre Engvall tied it at 6:27, scoring into an open net at the end of one of those chaotic, prolonged shifts from which Vancouver so rarely escapes. Miller’s power-play laser through traffic gave the Canucks a two-goal lead before the game was 13 minutes old. “We stopped playing,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said of the decisive spell. You’re looking for the hidden camera to record getting punked again by a Canuck team that hasn’t had much problem building leads, but has proved incapable of keeping them.