In case you haven’t seen or heard, the Vancouver Canucks have started their season pretty poorly, so poorly that they have already been placed into the NHL history books only 4-games in.

So what was the stat that had the Canucks already placed in the history books? Being the first team to lose their first 4 games of the season while having multi-goal leads; in other words, blowing a lead of 2 or more goals.

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Now I’ve been watching the Canucks for a long time now. I would say I’ve been watching the Canucks for around 15 years now, and it seems like a very “Canucks thing” to blow leads. I honestly have not seen a team blow more leads than the Canucks. I’m not trying to bash the Canucks here, I’m just merely stating what I’ve witnessed in my time of being a Canucks fan.

So this begs the question: Is it time for Canucks fans to panic? I think Canucks fans have a right to panic. In hindsight, the Canucks should have a record of 4-0 if they didn’t blow their leads. Additionally, it seems even the team is making panic moves by making winger Conor Garland a healthy scratch on Tuesday’s game versus Columbus, as well as making some changes in the lineup with players coming back from injury and calling players up from the minors.

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This seems like déjà vu from last season, where the Canucks started the season poorly at the start of the season, only to turn it up after December.  I personally think if the Canucks have 10 losses in their first 15 games, it’s time to throw in the towel and tank for highly-touted prospect Connor Bedard. He is the projected first-overall pick in this upcoming draft in Nashville, and he’s a local boy from North Vancouver. Wouldn’t that be a perfect story?

Overall, I think the Vancouver Canucks can’t have a repeat of last season where they start poorly, then end strongly. They just have to either push now to be good or throw in the towel after the first 20 games. In retrospect, we should have kept the ninth-overall pick from 2021 to draft Dylan Guenther instead of trading for healthy scratch Conor Garland and soon-to-be declining Oliver Ekman-Larsson.