Game Story: It was a third period blitz for the Canucks Sports & Entertainment (CSE) (hashtag#Canucks) that ended up later taking two points in a shootout over the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (hashtag#Flames) on Wednesday. Until the coverage with the Colorado Avalanche (hashtag#GoAvsGo) on Friday, see the story alongside Alec Nava here.
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Vancouver Canucks (29-23-11, Fifth in Pacific, 6 Points of Top-3 Seed, 1 Out of WC) HC: Rick Tocchet Top Performers: Quinn Hughes (50 GP, 14-46-60 +10), Brock Boeser (56 GP, 18-20-38 –22), Conor Garland (16-22-38 –8), Jake DeBrusk (22-14-36 –12); Elias Petersson (57 GP, 12-24-36 –11), J.T. Miller (Traded, 9-26-35 –4), Pius Suter (16-14-29 +1); Kiefer Sherwood (14-11-25); Filip Hronek (42 GP, 3-19-22 Even, was last +10 six games ago)
VAN Outlook: 3-5-0 since the loss to VGK and last coverage on 2-22-25. Patrik Alvin didn’t get the first-round pick he wanted for Boeser at the deadline, so he stays… team says they working on an extension. Hughes and Demko remain out. +/- has dropped like a rock. Coming off a back-to-back, but a stretch of four of the next five at home. MTL (L), at CGY, CHI, UTAH, WPG. If they win tonight can split the season series at 2-2, tiebreak purposes.
Calgary Flames (30-23-10, Fourth in Pacific, 1 PT in WC2 as of Tuesday, Game in Hand) HC: Ryan Huska Top Performers: Nazem Kadri (22-24-46 –17), Jonathan Huberdeau (22-24-46 –7); MacKenzie Weegar (7-29-36 +12); Matthew Coronato (16-16-32 +4); Blake Coleman (12-18-30 –8), Connor Zary (48 GP, 12-12-24 –6), Mikael Backlund (11-13-24), Yegor Sharangovich (12-11-23 –9), Rasmus Andersson (8-13-21 –22)
CGY Outlook: 4-3-3 in the last 10. Hasn’t played since SAT, in a 1-0 win over MTL. Wolf earns a 26-save shutout. It’s his third of the season. The 23-year-old seems like a Calder Trophy lock. Will be covering the second matchup with COL on Fri 8:30 EST.
Goaltending Matchup: Kevin Lankinen (22-12-7, 2.53 GAA, .905 SV, 4 SO); Arturs Silovs (9 GP, 1-6-1, 3.85 GAA, .858 SV) vs. Dustin Wolf (22-12-4, 2.52 GAA, .915 SV, 3 SO); Dan Vladar (8-11-6, 2.98 GAA, .893 SV, 2 SO)
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