PREVIEW | Canucks vs. Avalanche
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LAST MEETING - JAN. 5/23: VAN 4 vs COL 2
Andrei Kuzmenko cut the deficit in half with his 16th of the season at 13:15 of the second period...Ilya Mikheyev and Oliver Ekman- Larsson recorded the assists...Kuzmenko tied the game 1:59 later...Elias Pettersson and Ethan Bear picked up the assists...Brock Boeser gave the Canucks their first lead at 15:48 of the second...Mikheyev and Bo Horvat were awarded the assists on Boeser's seventh of the season...J.T. Miller added an empty-netter with 1:36 remaining...Pettersson and Ekman-Larsson each recorded their second assists of the night...Pettersson led the team with seven shots...William Lockwood led the team with eight hits, a career- high...Collin Delia made 30 saves for his third victory of the season.
LAST GAME PLAYED - JAN. 18/23: VAN 2 vs TBL 5
Andrei Kuzmenko got the Canucks on the board with a power play goal at 6:35 in the third period... Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller recorded assists on the play...Hughes collected a multi-point night with his own power play goal almost three minutes later...Miller also registered a multi-point night with the first assist and Bo Horvat extended his point streak to nine games with the second helper...Collin Delia made 14 saves after relieving Spencer Martin...Luke Schenn led the team in hits (6)...Elias Pettersson led the team in shots (6).
LAST 5 vs COLORADO
QUICK QUINN
Registering a multi-point effort with one goal and one assist on Jan. 18 vs TBL, Quinn Hughes reached the 40-point mark this season in just 40 games, becoming the fastest defenceman in Canucks history to reach this mark, besting Paul Reinhart by four games (1988.98). Jan. 18th was also Hughes' 45th career multi-point game and is the fourth active defenceman to reach as many games before the age of 24 (Erik Karlsson [58 GP], Cale Makar [47 GP], and Rasmus Dahlin [46 GP]).
• Thanks to his third period goal and assist on Jan. 12 at TBL, Quinn Hughes reached and surpassed the 200-point mark in his career (22-179-201) in just his 242nd NHL game, becoming the fastest defenceman in franchise history to ever reach this milestone, doing so in 106 fewer games than the next closest Canucks defenceman (Jyrki Lumme - 348 GP). Hughes is also the third-fastest active NHL defenceman to the mark behind only Cale Makar (195 GP) and Adam Fox (241 GP).
EXCEPTIONAL ELIAS
Netting the game-deciding goal in the shootout by successfully executing "The Forsberg" on Jan. 15 at CAR, Elias Pettersson recorded his fifth career game-deciding goal, tying teammate Bo Horvat for most in franchise history.
• Scoring on Jan. 12 at TBL, Elias Pettersson registered his 18th goal of the season, with all 18 having come at even-strength. Pettersson ranks t-9th in the NHL in even-strength goals and is the only player with 15+ tallies to have scored all of his goals at even-strength.
HORVAT STAYS HOT
Assisting on Quinn Hughes' goal on Jan. 18 vs TBL, Bo Horvat extended his point streak to nine games (4-6-10), setting a new personal career-high. Horvat has also tied J.T. Miller (Nov. 12-29) and Brock Boeser (Nov. 8-26) for the longest point streak by a Canucks player this season.
• On Jan. 3 at NYI, Bo Horvat registered his ninth game with 2+ goals this season, to lead all NHL skaters. He also became the first Canuck since Ryan Kesler (9) in 2010.11 to post as many multi-goal performances in a single season. Horvat now has 28 career multi-goal games, passing Petri Skriko and Thomas Gradin for sole possession of eight place in that category in franchise history.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - HORVAT FOR 200
With a power play goal on Jan. 14 at FLA, Bo Horvat registered his 200th career NHL goal in his 614th regular season game, becoming the sixth fastest player to reach this milestone in franchise history (fourth-fastest among players who started their career with the Canucks). The goal was also Horvat's 30th of the season, solidifying consecutive seasons with 30 or more goals (posting 31-21-52 in 70 GP in 2021.22) to become the first Canuck since Daniel Sedin in 2010.11 & 2011.12 to achieve this feat. Horvat is only one of seven active NHLers to break 30 goals this season and ranks t-5th in the NHL for goals.
• Horvat's goal on Jan. 14 at FLA is his 30th goal in 42 games, ranking him fourth in franchise history for most goals in the team's first 42 games of the season (trailing Pavel Bure [38] in 1992.93, Alexander Mogilny [34] in 1995.96, and Markus Naslund [31] in 2002.03).
TYLER FINDS TWINE
Opening the second period scoring on Jan. 14 at FLA, Tyler Myers scored his first goal of the season to snap a 66-game goal-less streak. Myers scored that goal just 39 seconds into the period, becoming only the fourth Canucks defenceman to score a goal within the first 39 seconds of a period joining Kevin McCarthy (0:19 of P2 on March 8, 1983), Rick Lanz (0:32 of P2 on Nov. 11, 1985) and Ed Jovanovski (0:36 of P2 on Dec. 21, 2000).
• Tyler Myers also registered seven shots on goal on Jan. 14 at FLA to match his career high for the second consecutive game (also Jan. 12 at TBL).
ROAD READY HUGHES
Posting a goal and two assists on Jan. 12 at TBL, Quinn Hughes collected his 19th career multi-point game on the road, tying Kevin Bieksa for sixth-most occurrences by a defenceman in franchise history. In those 19 games, Hughes has amassed 45 points (2.33 points per game), the highest points per game average among defenceman with 10 or more multi-point road games in Canucks history.
MR. 300
Recording his first of two assists Jan. 5 vs COL, Oliver Ekman-Larsson recorded his 300th career assist. He became the ninth player and fourth defenceman from the 2009 draft class to record at least 300 career assists.
NO FLUKE FOR LUKE
Canucks defenceman Luke Schenn appeared in his 900th career regular season game on Jan. 3 vs NYI, becoming the sixth player and only the fourth defenceman from the 2008 draft class to reach the milestone joining fellow first-round selections Drew Doughty (D), Josh Bailey (RW), Steven Stamkos (C), John Carlson (D), and Alex Pietrangelo (D), and later joined by Jordan Eberle (RW).
• Recording five hits on Dec. 29 at WPG, Luke Schenn became the first defenceman to reach 3,000 career hits. He currently leads all skaters in the NHL in hits this season (209 in 44 GP). Previously, on Dec. 3 vs ARI, Luke Schenn claimed the NHL all-time record for most hits by a defenceman (2,948), surpassing Brooks Orpik (2,946), and is now ranked sixth all-time among all skaters.
*The NHL began tracking hits in 2005.06.
