PREVIEW | Canucks vs. Wild

CANUCKS VS WILD PREVIEW

MATCH-UP INFO

• Tonight marks the first of three meetings between the Canucks and Wild this season: Oct. 26 (home), Mar. 24 (road), Apr. 21 (road).
• Vancouver is 5-4-1 in their last 10 games vs Minnesota (1-3-1 in their last 5).
• The Canucks have a 47-33-5-9 all-time record in 94 games against the Wild. Vancouver owns a 25-11-3-7 record at home against Minnesota.
• Among active Canucks skaters J.T. Miller lead the team in career points vs Minnesota with 13 points (6-7-13) in 13 games.
• Jaroslav Halak has faced the Wild 14 times in his career (5-3-4) and has a .925 SV% and a 2.12 GAA.
• Thatcher Demko has yet to face the Wild in his career.

QUICK NUMBERS

• Conor Garland has eight points (3-5-8) in his hast six games with the Canucks and is on a six game point streak.
• J.T. Miller has eight points (1-7-8) in his last six games.
• Bo Horvat has four points (3-1-4) in his last four games.
• Quinn Hughes has four points (0-4-4) in his last five games.

LAST MEETING - FEB. 19/20: VAN 3 vs MIN 4 (SO)

Jay Beagle opened up scoring for the Canucks at 1:31 in the second period...J.T. Miller scored two goals in the third period to push the game into overtime (2-0-2)...Quinn Hughes led the team in assists (2), shots (5) and TOI (27:05)...Tyler Toffoli made his Canucks debut and recorded an assist (0- 1-1), 4 shots, 1 blocked shot and 2 hits...Jacob Markstrom faced 28 shots.

LAST GAME PLAYED - OCT. 23/21: VAN 4 at SEA 2

Canucks defeated Seattle in their inaugural home opener game with a score of 4-2...Bo Horvat collected a season high of two goals (2-0-2) and tied the team's season high in face-off wins (16), which he previously set...Conor Garland collected two points (1-1-2) and scored the game winning goal unassisted...Garland extended his point streak to six games straight...J.T. Miller also recorded a multi-point game (0-2-2)...Justin Dowling scored an empty-netter at the 19:00 minute mark in the third period (1-0-1)...J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser recorded assists on the play...Oliver Ekman-Larsson led the team in shots (5) and TOI (24:26)...Kyle Burroughs led the team in hits (6)...Thatcher Demko made 29 saves.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

• Brock Boeser reactivated from injured reserve, Oct. 19
• Nic Petan designated for assignment to Abbotsford Canucks, Oct. 19
• Travis Hamonic placed on temporary leave of absence, Oct. 18
• Alex Chiasson signed to a one-year contract, Oct. 12

RECORD SETTING STREAKS

• On Oct. 23/21 at the Kraken's inaugural home opener Conor Garland became the first player in Canucks history to record a season-opening, six-game point streak to start his tenure with the franchise.
• Posting 1G-1A in his team's 4-2 win vs SEA, Garland joins Mike Walton (1977-78), Tony Tanti ('83-84), Barry Pederson ('88-89), Trevor Linden ('95- 96), Henrik Sedin (2010-11) &Daniel Sedin ('10-11) as the only Canucks to start a season with a 6+ game points streak

QUINN-TESSENTIAL CANUCK

• Registering an assist on Tanner Pearson's game-winning goal on Oct. 21 at CHI, Quinn Hughes became the fastest defenceman in Canucks history to reach 100 points (12-88-100), accomplishing the feat in just 133 games. No active NHL defenceman has reached the 100 point milestone in fewer games, and Hughes is the fastest NHL defenceman since Vladimir Malakhov (125 GP, 1993.94) to reach the mark.
• Quinn Hughes has gotten to 90 career assists in fewer games (134) than all but 4 defencemen in NHL history. Those 4? Mark Howe (116), Sergei Zubov (118), Stefan Persson (120) and Larry Murphy (129)

BY THE HUNDREDS

Conor Garland (50-54-104 in 170GP) and Quinn Hughes (12-89-101 in 134GP) each reached the 100-point milestone in consecutive games, with Garland doing so on Oct. 19 at BUF and Hughes on Oct. 21 at CHI. Brock Boeser is the next Canuck knocking on one hundred's door, this time in the goals category as Boeser's power play goal on Oct. 21 at CHI was his 99th career goal.

KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER

With Seattle's introduction to the NHL, the Kraken have become to closest team to the Canucks by proximity at just 230 kilometres (driving) between Rogers Arena and Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, WA. The closest geographical team to Vancouver before this season was the Calgary Flames at 973 kilometres (driving) between Rogers Arena and Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, AB.

CLIMBING THE COACHING RANKS

The Oct. 23 game at Seattle marked Travis Green's 295th regular season game behind the Canucks bench, passing Bob McCammon (1988-91) for sole possession of fourth-most games coached in franchise history. Green now trails only Harry Neale (407), Marc Crawford (529), and Alain Vigneault (540) for games coached in Canucks history. His 127 wins also have him just 16 victories shy of passing Pat Quinn (141) and Harry Neale (142) for sole possession of third place for games won by a Canucks coach.

NOSE FOR THE NET

Opening the scoring with his first goal of the season on Oct. 19 at BUF, Bo Horvat notched his 140th career goal, surpassing Dennis Ververgaert and Alexander Mogilny for sole possession of 15th place in goals in franchise history.

J-THREE MILLER

Collecting three points (1-2-3) on Oct. 15 at PHI, J.T. Miller recorded his ninth game with three or more points since joining the Canucks in 2019. Miller now has 128 points (43-83-126) in 128 games with Vancouver, ranking third overall in Canucks history in points per game (0.98) among skaters with a minimum 120 games played.

FINDING THE SCORESHEET

Notching his team's first goal of the evening on Oct. 15 at PHI, Vasily Podkolzin became just the third Russian player in franchise history to score a goal within his first two career games, joining Vladimir Krutov (1989) and Artem Chubarov (1999).

RECENT CANUCKS MILESTONES

• Quinn Hughes recorded his 100th career point (assist), Oct. 21 at Chicago
• Conor Garland recorded his 100th career point (assist), Oct. 19 at Buffalo

THREE STARS - OCTOBER

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