Sometimes, a quote gets dropped in Canuckland that you just know is destined to become infamous. There was Todd Bertuzzi’s “It is what it is.” Markus Naslund’s “We choked.” Or when Jim Benning “kind of ran out of time.

Everything has gone wrong this season for the Vancouver Canucks. Elias Pettersson and JT Miller’s locker-room rift forced the latter’s trade back to the New York Rangers. Thatcher Demko is hurt again,

The NHL trade deadline has come and gone, and several bombs were dropped on the hockey world with big moves being made by teams. But for the second year in a row, the Vancouver Canucks were relatively quiet on trade deadline day and did not make any big moves other than trading Carson Soucy.