The Calgary Flames came to Vancouver with the NHL’s worst record. They were tired, having played the night before, and were the league’s lowest-scoring team.

And yet they walked away from Rogers Arena with two points after a 5-2 thumping over the Vancouver Canucks.

It was the kind of game that could get you booed off the ice.

But in a year in which the Canucks hoped to silence the noise surrounding their team, it appears they’ve gotten their wish.

The reaction from Canucks fans was silence.

People headed for the exits with over five minutes left in the game, with the result not in doubt. If there were boos as the clock struck zero, they were hard to hear from the press box.

Calls into the Sportsnet 650 post-game show had a tone of sadness and apathy, not anger.

“You can either sell wins, or you can sell hope. The reality is, we’re not winning, and there isn’t a lot of hope right now,” said a caller named Zack in Vancouver.

“I’m not really angry. I’m just sad.”

The love for the Canucks in Vancouver runs deep, but the team is testing that right now.

“I need a mental reset,” said Stu in North Vancouver. “I need to make sure that I’m taking care of myself. If something’s so negative that it’s causing me to get pissed off 82 times a year… I gotta take a step back. It’s too much. I’d rather do something more fun. Hope it gets better.”

Calls for the Canucks to tear it down and rebuild have been getting louder among the fan base, but few have hope that ownership will actually be willing to do it.

“I just wonder how things would have been different if the court had awarded Tom Gaglardi the Canucks… I’m just so fed up with the Aquilinis. They’re just so myopic,” said John in Port Coquitlam. “They just don’t see that if you do a rebuild, maybe you’ll make the playoffs in consecutive years and have an extended run… People are tired of just trying to build this like hodgepodge.”

Even Don in Bella Bella, a regular caller who Sportsnet 650 host Satiar Shah noted is usually a positive voice, is down on the team.

“I’m just to the point now where I won’t watch them on TV anymore. But of course I’ll check my phone because I love the god damn Canucks.

“I’m just so disappointed.”

Brutal home-ice record

One of the real oddities of the Canucks the past two seasons has been their home-ice record.

Because they’ve been brutal at Rogers Arena.

Ticket-buying fans must be especially fed up, following consecutive years in which the Canucks jacked up ticket prices.

The Canucks have one of the worst home records in the NHL again. After posting the sixth-worst home record last season (17-16-8), they’re third-last this season, with just three wins in 11 games at Rogers Arena (3-7-1).

The Canucks save their best for when they’re away from Vancouver, as they’ve actually got the seventh-best road record over the past two seasons (27-19-7).

Canucks captain Quinn Hughes struggled to offer up a theory as to why when asked by Daily Hive on Sunday.

“I don’t know. I have no idea. I know everyone’s trying hard.”

What else can he say? Hughes played over 30 minutes for just the 16th time in his career on Sunday and scored a goal off a coast-to-coast rush. He’s one of the best players in the world and clearly giving his all, but it’s hard to get wins given what he’s surrounded with.

And that right there is a problem.

If Canucks players are giving their all and they’re still this bad, why on Earth would Hughes re-sign in Vancouver?

And if he leaves, what’s left?

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