It’s one thing to dig yourself out of a hole, but another entirely to have to climb a mountain in the process — but that’s exactly what the Vancouver Canucks did on Tuesday night.
Entering the final minute the Canucks were losing 5-2 to the Dallas Stars, desperately trying to keep their playoff hopes alive and needing a win to have any hopes of finding back door to the wild card. They needed at least two points to stave off elimination, so the only option was pulling their goalie and going empty net with six players, Vancouver not only pulled off hockey’s equivalent of a Hail Mary —
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