Schedule Advantage #1: Home Cookin’
After the Canucks wrap up their current six-game road trip, they will have no more Eastern road trips. The longest remaining trip they will have will be a short three-game trip through the Central. That will be three of just 13 more road games that the Canucks will have to play after the Eastern trip is over.
Although the Canucks have not capitalized on home-ice advantage — Vancouver is 9-8-4 at home this year — simply being home to be able to practice and rest should give them a boost. Just look at the latest homestand in which they finished 4-2-1, for nine of possible 14 points.
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