In 52 games this season, the Canucks rank 22nd in the NHL with 2.44 goals-per-game, a number skewed only slightly lower by scoring just 30 times in the last 17 games. In 30 of these 52 games, the Canucks have scored two or fewer goals. "It's the same core group that has been here for a long time, and we did not have trouble scoring goals two, three, four years ago, so we don't know what it is that has crept in," Vancouver forward Zak Kassian said, "but somehow it's getting harder to get those goals. We can't blame post-and-out (bad luck) when it's years in the making. It's not a freak couple of weeks; it has been a while now and it's something we have to work on." Assistant general manager Laurence Gilman said: "We are not scoring at a level we're happy with and that clearly has to change. Whether those changes occur because our power play starts to produce or we get greater production from players whose production is down or because we go out and acquire more scoring has yet to play out. But we need to improve our offensive level."