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mattias_b, originally uploaded by Jeffery Simpson.

The Canucks official website was always positive about the play of the team, even when Vancouver went from loss to loss like a vampire looking for victims. Now as the other teams of the NHL are already into their post-seasons Canucks.com has released their top ten moments of the season [can].

Not to spoil the list but the number one highlight of the Canucks’ season is, and this is not a joke on my part, the injury of starting netminder Dan Cloutier.

midway through the first period of a 3-2 win over the Ducks in game 21, Rob Niedermayer plowed into Dan Cloutier’s crease and plopped himself on top of Vancouver’s franchise netminder. Cloutier tore a knee ligament as a result and didn’t play another game.

With an NHL resume 28-games long, back-up Alex Auld was tossed into the soup. The 25-year-old Thunder Bay, Ontario native played the next 56 of the final 61 regular-season games.

When the best thing to happen to a team is that its starting goaltender got flattened you know something has gone off the rails.

Edit: Turns out the list isn’t just the good things that happened, but the significant things. Still I have to say that it wasn’t the injury of Cloutier that sent the Canucks crashing out of the playoffs this year, Auld did very well.