Still several hours until game time: the Canucks free-falling from their 2-game series lead into tonight’s Game 7 in their (final?) playoff round against the Minnesota Wild.

At coffee I spotted several cars inching their way east in slow procession along an under-construction Pender Street. All three sported the de rigueur Vancouver Canucks’ flags flying from the windows, but at that pace it resembled more of a funeral cortège than a victory parade…