The Leafs remain atop the all-Canadian North Division and hold a 4-2 edge in the season series with three games to go.
The Canucks suffered the NHL’s worst COVID-19 outbreak when the P. 1 variant of the virus swept through the team late last month.
Twenty-one players and four coaches tested positive for the virus, one other player was deemed a close contact, and another received a false positive result. Family members including one player’s pregnant wife also fell ill.
No Canucks players remained on the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list Sunday. Nineteen were on the list at the height of the outbreak.
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There have been plenty of notable upsets in the NHL this season.
None of them have been on the level of what the Vancouver Canucks pulled off on Sunday night.
Playing shorthanded in their first game since March 24 after COVID-19 took a serious toll on their roster for the past three weeks, the Canucks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime.
Vancouver was +330 on the money line. It was the largest upset in the NHL this season.
Here is the Morning Coffee for Monday April 19, 2021.
Canucks stun Maple Leafs
Even after this game was pushed back to Sunday, Vancouver was still without several regulars.