The week ahead is mission critical for the Vancouver Canucks.

J.T. Miller has already been traded, Brock Boeser and Carson Soucy are on everyone’s trade board (including ours), and once-rising star Elias Pettersson has struggled so mightily this season that some fans want him gone, too.

Oh, and supernova defenceman Quinn Hughes is banged up again.

Taking all of this into account, you would imagine the Canucks as one of the biggest sellers at this year’s trade deadline. And yet — surely maddening some of their own fans — they are still in the Western Conference playoff race, with about a 1-in-3 chance of qualifying. Teams in that position don’t typically don’t cut bait and capitulate, even if there’s good........

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