A year ago, pre-season prognosticators were doing their best Vancouver meteorologist impressions, offering up forecasts of a dark and dismal winter to come. The general consensus held that the departures of players like Ed Jovanovski, Anson Carter, and Todd Bertuzzi, along with coach Marc Crawford, would result in a .500 team that might squeak into the playoffs only if Roberto Luongo carried the squad on his back. And for the first half of the season, those predictions seemed to bear out.
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