Rangers Hand Canucks a 5-1 Beatdown in Vancouver

Nobody in Vancouver walked out of this one thinking it was close. The Rangers rolled into Rogers Arena and left with a 5-1 win, and the scoreboard does most of the talking. Four goals of separation is not a fluke, and it's not a moral victory for the home side. It's a result that says one team had the better night and the other spent 60 minutes chasing it.

The Canucks found the back of the net once, which is the kind of number that makes a home crowd go quiet fast. Their one goal kept them from a shutout, and that's about the only silver lining you can draw from it. When a team can't generate a second or third answer to the other side's pressure, the game tends to get away from them, and that's exactly what happened here.

For New York, this is the easy kind of road win to bank. They got the result, they got the margin, and they didn't need to sweat a late comeback. Credit where it's due: a 5-1 final on the road is about as clean as it gets.

Vancouver fans have every right to be frustrated. This loss is the type that starts uncomfortable conversations in the thread, and the Canucks will have to show a lot more life the next time out to make anyone forget this one. Hit the comments and tell us where you think it went wrong.