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It’s possible to count to 12 with just one hand, using a counting method that is still used in some parts of the world. Take your thumb and count each of the finger bones on your other phalanges, 1 through 12.

This is handy for a base-12 number system, also known as duodecimal, which has been used in many different cultures. We still see remnants of it today: there are 12 months in a year, coinciding with the approximately 12 cycles of the moon. There are two sets of 12 hours in the day, many items are sold by the dozen, and various measurements are still based on 12, such as 12 inches in a foot.

We even use special words for 11 and 12 in English — eleven and twelve, instead of firsteen and seconteen — that may have a connection to a duodecimal system.

You can even easily count to 60 on two hands using the finger-bone counting method, using one finger on your other hand for five iterations of 12. This could have been useful for one of the earliest written number systems, the base-60 system, or sexagesimal, used by the ancient Mesopotamians, which has many benefits for mathematics because of the many ways that 60 can be divided.

In modern times, however, we use a base-10, or decimal, system. It’s handy for many different reasons, one of them being how easy it is to use your hands. To count to ten, you don’t need to worry about finger bones, just fingers. 

Counting to five is even easier. Just look at the fingers on your hand. There are five of them, One, two, three, four, five. Easy. 

So why can’t the 麻豆传媒映画Canucks count to five?

The Canucks’ inability to count to five — both the number of fingers on their hands and the number of skaters allowed on the ice — basically cost them the game on Wednesday. They were mostly playing well — controlling play, even — but then they took two terrible too many players on the ice penalties.

Side note: it’s nice that the officials are announcing that penalty as too many players on the ice rather than too many men on the ice, even if it’s not yet reflected on the stats sheets. It’s nice to get some uniformity in penalty calls across men’s and women’s hockey.

It’s not nice, however, for a team of highly-paid professionals to screw up counting to five not just once, but twice, and have the entire game turn on those blunders.

I had plenty of opportunities to count to five on my hand when I multiple times as I watched this game.

• You’ll never guess which team leads the NHL in too many players on the ice penalties with six this season. Okay, you probably will guess because you came here to read about the Canucks. It’s the Canucks.
   
• Leading up to the Canucks' counting conundrum, they were playing quite well. The Canucks largely controlled the game at even strength and Thatcher Demko made some great saves when the Winnipeg Jets managed to create chances. The Canucks had 20 shots on goal in the second period alone, but couldn’t solve Connor Hellebuyck; meanwhile, the Jets scored three goals.
   
• “I thought five-on-five we did a lot of good things,” said head coach Travis Green. “The chances created, [the second] was probably our best period that we’ve had against Winnipeg.”
   
• The problem was two bad penalties or, rather, the same bad penalty twice. The first one was particularly ludicrous. The Canucks obviously had six skaters on the ice because all six of them stayed on for a solid 20 seconds. Tyler Myers seemed to step on the ice too early for Travis Hamonic, then Hamonic decided to just skate back into the play — there was already a delayed penalty, so why not actually take advantage of having six skaters until the whistle blew?

• The Jets opened the scoring on the power play when Andrew “” Copp got a tip on the Copp hotline, bouncing a Neal Pionk point shot off the ice and past Demko.
   
• “The first one, we've got a couple D that are trying to get off the ice and I think we've just got to get that puck in, especially with the long change,” said Green. “And the second one was just a bad change — we've got a young guy jumping on the ice a little early, and probably a time where a guy didn't really need to come to the bench. Unfortunately, they scored on both.”
   
• The second too many players penalty really hurt because it came on the tail end of a fantastic shift in the offensive zone for the Canucks. At the end of a 58-second shift, it’s understandable that Jake Virtanen might look for a line change with the Canucks controlling the puck in the offensive zone, but he did it while the puck was at the point near the Canucks bench, which was ill-advised. Quinn Hughes, not realizing Virtanen was changing, passed him the puck after Zack MacEwen had already stepped on the ice.
   
• Copp got his hands dirty on the subsequent power play, scoring his second goal of the game by banging in a rebound on a tipped point shot. Copp was seemingly undercover in front of the net, with no one picking him up in time to prevent the goal. 
   
• “I thought we played some pretty good hockey tonight,” said Bo Horvat. “We take those two penalties that shouldn't ever happen on our part and they capitalize on it. For the majority of the game, I thought we carried the play and did some really good things tonight, so it's frustrating to lose that one.”
   
• Tyler Myers had two epically-long shifts in this game, called out by the Sportsnet broadcast with an on-screen ticker. The one in the third period was incredible, starting with 10:42 remaining in the game and ending over three minutes later with 7:37 remaining. The shift was extended by a brutal defensive zone turnover by Antoine Roussel and Zack MacEwen subsequently icing the puck twice.

• You could almost feel Canucks fans willing the ticker to reach three minutes, just to see if the Canucks could accomplish something in this game.
   
• Myers’ first marathon shift didn’t end so positively, but you can put all the blame on Travis Hamonic. Already on the ice for over two minutes, Myers was gassed and just wanted to get off. Fortunately the Jets were changing too, so all Hamonic had to do was hold the puck behind the net and wait for reinforcements so Myers could either book it to the bench immediately or wait until the Canucks could tip the puck in deep. Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy.

• Oh no, Hamonic, what are you doing? Instead of slowing things down, Hamonic decided it was time to wheel, then passed it to the person who least wanted the puck: the exhausted Myers. To make matters worse, Hamonic lost position on his man, Mark Scheifele, off the turnover. Who scored on the Blake Wheeler rebound? Scheifele.
   
• Again, the Canucks played well in this game. Legitimately well. At the offensive end, they couldn’t buy a goal, hitting two posts and a crossbar, similar to their lousy luck last game against the Jets. J.T. Miller had the best chance, staring down a wide open net, but the improbably-named Tucker Poolman got his stick on the shot, deflecting it up and into the crossbar.

• Theory: the Canucks have been hitting so many goalposts this season because their general manager keeps moving them.
   
• He may have had zero career hattricks heading into this game, but Copp took care of that donut in the third period when the Canucks pulled Thatcher Demko with nearly six minutes remaining in the game. The Canucks were able to control the puck in the offensive zone, but couldn’t get it to the net. Eventually, Miller turned the puck over to Copp and he hit the empty net from the defensive zone.
   
• To make matters worse, Copp added a fourth goal shortly after, finishing off a rebound when Myers didn’t pick him up heading to the net. It’s no wonder Myers didn’t see him — Copp was .
   
• The Canucks had one minor moral victory: they didn’t get shut out. With just over a minute left,  Brock Boeser tipped a shot on net, Bo Horvat swatted the rebound to Nils Höglander, and the rookie sent a deflected shot past Hellebuyck. The goal horn blasted at full volume, while the Canucks celebrated the goal like they were in a library. The Canucks need a half-volume goal horn to sound in these situations.