nonsense. if you watched them roll over anaheim and arizona recently you'd have to admit there's more to it than "they were all just on a heater, hur de hur". what a sadly weak necro-chirp. what i will say is that the canucks were on a score first heater and got used to playing with the lead and are now really struggling to play disciplined hockey from behind.
the larger explanation is that good teams have adjusted to the canucks system and exposed their defence, plus multiple canucks players have gone very cold and not just come off a heater. secondary scoring especially fell apart after the allstar break with joshua getting hurt and blueger and suter falling off the planet and lindholm coming in and sucking the air out of the building. pettersson has been playing like ass. plus demko has gone down and desmith is letting in deflating goals.
they still dominate ozone possession, generate chances and walk over lesser teams, but good teams have worked out the canucks weaknesses and the canucks have not adjusted and are now trying to learn how to play from behind, which has been painful and eratic with a ton of blown coverage.