‘Slap in the face’: Canucks outworked, overmatched in latest road-trip loss

Oct 12, 2026, 10:33 AM ET|Comments (0)

from Sportsnet, by Iain MacIntyre,

Three games into a daunting six-game road trip, the Canucks have been outscored 17-5 and looked massively overmatched.

The 7-2 loss Tuesday against the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes just seemed cruel. The Canucks’ pitiful penalty killing in Saturday’s 4-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils was unsurvivable. But on Sunday, after playing about as well as they could for much of the first 40 minutes, the Canucks were simply outworked, outskated and outscored in the third period in a 6-2 loss to the New York Rangers.

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