Locals will know that Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in town for several days. All of his scheduled appearances sold out months ago, attracting people from all walks of life.

Wearing a Canucks jersey, high-school teacher Ashok Parashar left the Dalai’s talk before it was over, saying he’d accomplished exactly what he’d come for — “to get some sort of spiritual power that will ensure the Canucks will win the seventh game against Calgary.”

“I felt it. I felt the shaking. I felt the presence” said Parashar, who teaches English at Centennial secondary school in Coquitlam. Parashar, who is Hindu, said his wife remained behind to listen to the end of the Dalai Lama’s talk.

“She’s serious about Buddhism,” he said. “But I’m serious about the Canucks.”

Seeking divine intervention is never out of line at playoff time…

The mourning after: it was a 3-2 overtime loss. The lesson being: neither “the shaking” nor “the presence” can be relied upon.

My lucky Canucks T-shirt didn’t help things either…