The Vancouver Canucks have been struggling — badly — to get the puck up the ice when Quinn Hughes isn’t on the ice. The bulk ...

Just an hour or so after losing 2-0 to the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night, the Canucks were scheduled to fly to Toronto. They’re scheduled to play the Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

The wounded: Canucks: Filip Hronek (shoulder, three weeks), Dakota Joshua (leg, week to week). Maple Leafs: Jani Haakanpaa (knee, week-to-week), Jake McCabe (upper body, indefinite).

When either is paired with Hughes, the Canucks are getting about 58 per cent of the shot attempts, which is Hughes’ overall rate no matter who he’s playing with. But when either has been away from ...