he Vancouver Canucks passenger list is shorter than coach Rick Tocchet first reported.
The morning after saying the National Hockey League team had five-to-seven “passengers” in its 3-2 playoff loss to the Edmonton Oilers, Tocchet acknowledged Wednesday that he “might be off by a couple.”
So, there may be as few as three freeloaders. Or as many as nine, but that can’t possibly be true or this team that wasn’t expected to even make the Stanley Cup Playoffs wouldn’t have Connor McDavid and the Oilers squirming amid a 2-2 series tie in the second round of the tournament.
Most of Wednesday was occupied on the West Coast by guessing which players were on the passenger list that Tocchet mentioned in his raw and honest post-game press conference in Edmonton, where the resilient Canucks overcame a two-goal, third-period deficit only to blow it with a series of mistakes in the final minute that allowed Oiler Evan Bouchard to score with 38.1 seconds remaining.
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