A haiku for every Canucks player at the All-Star Break

The Vancouver Canucks have a week off for the All-Star Break after a 4-2 loss at the hands of the Nashville Predators. They ended their four-game road trip at .500.  Vancouver sits with a 20-20-6 record at the break and are still seventh in the Pacific Division.

Thatcher Demko is the lone Canucks representative at the All-Star game in Las Vegas.

The All-Star break is basically the halfway point of the NHL season. The Canucks have had quite the campaign. After struggling in October and November, the Canucks cleaned house on December 5. Out were Jim Benning, John Weisbrod, Travis Green and Nolan Baumgartner. In came in Bruce Boudreau and Scott Walker.

The Canucks went on a seven-game winning streak under Boudreau in December before falling back to reality in January.  According to a model from The Athletic’s Dom Luszczyszyn, Vancouver’s playoff odds sit at 9%. So you’re telling me there’s a chance.

The Canucks also sit four points behind the Calgary Flames for the final wild card spot.

Since we are at the halfway point of the season, writers like to give out letter grades for each player. I was leaning on that idea but The Province has already done that (I found out while I was a quarter of way writing that.) so I decided to get creative.

Instead of player grades, I decided to write haikus summing up every Canuck’s season at the halfway point. In case you don’t know what a haiku is, it is a Japanese poem consisting of seventeen syllables. It consists of three lines.  The first line has five syllables, the second has seven and the third one also has five.

Usually haikus are easy to write but it’s a challenge when it comes to describing hockey players.  Haikus aren’t the most elegant pieces of poetry but they are simple and fun.

Let’s get into it.