Brock Boeser’s Hat Trick Leads the Way, Canucks Come From Behind Beating Blue Jackets 5-4 in OT

The Vancouver Canucks scored three power play goals in the third period to get back in the game and force overtime against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Boeser scored a hat trick and had an assist in the win, reaching the 30-goal mark for the first time in his career.

“It means a lot. It's obviously something that I've wanted to get to for a while. So, to get there, it's great, but obviously I couldn’t have done it without my teammates and how we're playing and how we've created the standard,” Boeser said.

Neither team scored in the first period, but with Columbus up 4-1 heading into the second break, the Canucks got themselves back in the game finishing chances on the power play, scoring on three of four on the man advantage.

“I think it shows a lot about the guys in the room and how we didn't give up and I think we still had the mindset after the second period that if we can go on the powerplay, we can go from there and come back and take it shift by shift,” Boeser shared. “We kept drawing penalties there and, and made it count so it's definitely a positive, but again, we don’t want to keep putting ourselves in that position.”

Head Coach Rick Tocchet said he liked the way his team played in the first period, but their puck management needed to be better in the second. Vancouver’s penalty kill played a factor down the stretch, killing off a five-minute penalty.

“Adversity hit us and the guys did a great job,” Tocchet shared. “The power play was awesome, PK [too], special teams was awesome tonight, crowd was giving us some juice and a great game for the third period for us.”

Quinn Hughes is the first defenceman this season to reach 60 points, doing so in just 49 games. He’s tallied 50 assists on the season, the third player to hit the 50 mark and he’s notched three assists in eight games this season.

Thatcher Demko stopped 25 of 29 shots he faced, for his 27th win of the season.

Game Recap

In the second period, the Columbus Blue Jackets got on the scoreboard courtesy of Alexandre Texier and Sean Kuraly.

Boeser tipped in his first goal of the night off a pass from Pius Suter to bring Vancouver within one.

Blue Jackets Jake Bean and Kirill Marchenko scored to give Columbus a 4-1 lead going into the second intermission.

The Canucks scored three goals in the first seven minutes of the third period to tie the game 4-4. Pettersson found the back of the net from the right dot, Boeser got the double tip off a shot from Quinn Hughes and he connected again net front off a pass from Pettersson

Petterson scored the game-winning goal in overtime off a pass from Boeser to take the game 5-4.

“I was just doing a loop around the net, and I saw Brock got the puck in a good area and I just tried to build a wall, I don’t know if I missed it with my stick, but it hit my skate five-hole,” Pettersson said.

The Canucks have a break while Tocchet, Boeser, Demko, Hughes, J.T. Miller and Pettersson head to Toronto for All-Star weekend February 1-3. After the break they embark on a five-game road trip starting with the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena February 6th at 4 p.m. PT.