GAME DAY | Canucks at Flames
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LAST MEETING - DEC. 14/22: VAN 4 at CGY 3 (SO)
Bo Horvat scored his 21st goal of the season at 1:14 in the first period...Oliver Ekman-Larsson and J.T. Miller recorded assists on the play...Conor Garland notched the Canucks second goal just 34 seconds later to record the 5th fastest two goals to start a game in franchise history...Nils Höglander collected his first of two assists and Tyler Myers got the second helper...Sheldon Dries scored the tying goal at 5:31 in the second period...Höglander and Andrei Kuzmenko were credited with the assists...Spencer Martin stopped Mikael Backlund on a must-score attempt in the shootout giving Kuzmenko the game-winning goal...Martin faced 38 shots to claim his ninth win of the season...Garland led the team in shots (5).
LAST GAME PLAYED - DEC. 29/22: VAN 2 at WPG 4
Andrei Kuzmenko opened the scoring just 41 seconds into the first period...Elias Pettersson recorded the lone assist...Conor Garland would score at 13:11 in the third...Quinn Hughes got the first assist and Kuzmenko registered the second helper for his 11th multi-point game of the season...Luke Schenn became the first defenceman to break 3,000 career hits (5 total at WPG)...J.T. Miller led the team in shots (5)...Delia faced 38 shots on the night, including a season high of 20 shots in the second period.
LAST 5 vs CALGARY
NEW YEAR'S EVE STORYLINES
HOW ABOUT THAT HORVAT
Registering two goals and two assists for the second consecutive night on Dec. 27 vs SJS, Bo Horvat is the first Canuck to have 4+ points in back-to-back games since 2002.03 (Markus Naslund, Todd Bertuzzi, and Brendan Morrison each did it Feb. 23-25). Horvat is also only one of four Canucks to record at least two goals and two assists in two consecutive games with the likes of Todd Bertuzzi (Feb. 23-25, 2003), Alexander Mogilny (Dec. 31-Jan. 3, 1996), and Petri Skriko (Mar. 13-17, 1987).
SCHENN'S GREATEST HITS
Recording five hits on Dec. 29 at WPG, Luke Schenn became the first defenceman to reach 3,000 career hits (3,004) and leads all skaters in the NHL in hits this season (164 in 35 GP).
*The NHL began tracking hits in 2005.06.
MIKHEYEV'S MOVES
With one goal and three assists on Dec. 27 vs SJS, Ilya Mikheyev set a new career high for most points in a single game (4), with his previous record of three points coming in March of this year (Mar. 3 vs WPG - 1-2-3). Mikheyev also extended his point streak against the Sharks, now recording nine points (4-5-9) in just four career games.
EXCEPTIONAL ELIAS
Tallying two goals and three assists, in addition to the shootout winner, on Dec. 22 vs SEA, Elias Pettersson registered his second five-point outing of the season and the fourth such occasion in his career, setting a new Canucks franchise record. The previous mark was held by Alexander Mogilny with three five-point games.
SEATTLE CRACKIN'
With a 6-5 shootout victory on Dec. 22 vs SEA, the Canucks improved their record vs the Seattle Kraken to 6-0-0 all-time. This marks only the second time in franchise history that the Canucks have won each of their first six regular season games vs an opponent (also won first nine games vs the Washington Capitals from Dec. 17/74 - Oct. 13/76).
SEEING DOUBLE (DIGITS)
Thanks to Ilya Mikheyev's 12th goal of the season on Dec. 27 vs SJS, the Canucks had five 12+ goal-scorers on their roster (Horvat [26], Pettersson [16], Kuzmenko [15], Miller [13], Mikheyev [12]) through the team's first 34 games for the first time since 1992.93 (also five).
• With Mikheyev's goal, the Canucks were just the 2nd team in the NHL to possess five or more 12+ goal-scorers this season, with Tampa Bay (5), and later joined by the Ottawa Senators (5).
ALL ABOUT APPLES
Assisting on Brock Boeser's third period power play goal, Quinn Hughes registered his 28th assist of the season in his 28th game of the season and the 32nd team game for Vancouver. In doing so, he became the second player (third occasion) in franchise history to record 28 or more assists in the team's first 31 games, and first since Henrik Sedin (28) in 2011.12. Henrik Sedin has the most assists through the team's first 32 games in a season with 32 (2010.11).
• With two assists on Dec. 3 vs ARI, Quinn Hughes surpassed Doug Lidster for fourth most multi-assist games among defencemen in Canucks history at 35 games.
LET'S GET IT STARTED
Scoring two goals just 34 seconds apart on Dec. 14 at CGY, Bo Horvat and Conor Garland recorded the fifth fastest two goals to start a game in Canucks history at 1:48 in the first.
MARTY MART AND THE WINNING BUNCH
Collecting his ninth victory of the season on Dec. 14 at CGY, Spencer Martin ranks third in Canucks history for most wins through the first 15 appearances in a season behind Ryan Miller (12 in 2014.15) and Kirk McLean (10 in 1991.92).
