After 19 games, Then and Now  Cam Charron November 17 2011
11:30AM  So, Vancouver lost 5-1 last night to Chicago in a
blowout on home ice in their 19th game. For an interesting yet
useless bit of trivia, last season in their 19th game they
dropped a 7-1 game on home-ice to the Blackhawks. The season
prior, in their 19th game, they lost 6-1 on the road to St.
Louis.  It's really unlucky 19 for the Vancouver Canucks, but
what's good is that they tend to pick it up afterwards (for the
record, the season before, in 2009, the Canucks had a 6-3 win
over the New York Rangers in Game 19, so it isn't some cursed
habit) and finish the year on a stronger note than how they
started, with 2009 being the exception.  There's a lot of talk
in Vancouver about the Canucks being inconsistent, but what's
more the case is that they've been consistently unlucky. Never
has a Canucks team started on such a down-note in the Behind The
Net era (starting in 2008 when everything became tracked on,
allowing us to better understand player