GAME DAY | Canucks at Senators
MATCH-UP INFO
QUICK NUMBERS
LAST MEETING - APR. 28/21: VAN 3 at OTT 6
Tyler Myers got Vancouver on the board with his fifth goal of the season at 5:43 in the second period...Olli Juolevi and Nils Höglander recorded the assists...Jake Virtanen also notched his fifth goal of the season at 7:23 in the second period...Tyler Motte collected the lone assist on the goal...Brandon Sutter tallied his ninth goal of the season and fourth against the Senators at 17:43 in the third period...Tyler Myers recorded his third multipoint game of the season (1-1-2) with an assist on the play, while Quinn Hughes collected the second assist...Quinn Hughes led the Canucks in TOI (23:24)...J.T. Miller recorded a team-high in hits (4)...Travis Hamonic led the club in blocked shots (5)...Thatcher Demko faced 32 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED - NOV. 29/21: VAN 2 at MTL 1
Elias Pettersson opened the scoring on the power play with his fourth goal of the season, at 8:00 in the first period...Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller each recorded assists on the play...Conor Garland scored the eventual game-winning goal at 6:27 in the second period, assisted by Bo Horvat...Conor Garland led the Canucks in shots (5)...Luke Schenn registered a team-high in hits (4)...Tyler Myers set a Canucks season-high for blocked shots (7)...Thatcher Demko made 33 saves.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
PETTERSSON DONATES $50,000 TO CANUCKS FOR KIDS FUND
The Canucks for Kids Fund (CFKF) announced Tuesday that Elias Pettersson has made a generous donation of $50,000 as part of Giving Tuesday. Pettersson's donation is the largest individual cash donation a Canucks player has ever made.
ONE HUNDRED HELPERS
Assisting on Elias Pettersson's power play goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Quinn Hughes recorded his 100th career assist in his 151st career game, tying Brian Leetch for sixth-fewest games required by a defenceman to reach the milestone in NHL history. He also became the second-fastest Canuck of any position to reach 100 assists, behing only Barry Pederson (147 GP).
GAME-WINNING GARLAND
Netting his seventh goal of the season and the eventual game-winning goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Conor Garland recorded his team-leading third GWG of the season, which is also t-6th in the NHL.
TOP TWENTY
Collecting an assist on Conor Garland's game-winning goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Bo Horvat passed Mattias Ohlund for 20th place on the franchise all-time points list with 325 points (145-180-325). Horvat also ranks inside the top 20 in Canucks history for goals (145; 15th), power play goals (44; 16th), shorthanded goals (7; t-9th) and game-winning goals (17; t-19th).
HOMETOWN GLORY
Burying his first career NHL goal in front of the home crowd on Nov. 19 vs WPG, Vancouver-born Kyle Burroughs became the 11th BC-born defenceman in club history to score a regular season goal, and just the fourth Lower Mainland product to do so, joining Troy Stecher, Jason Garrison, and Chris Joseph. He also joined Troy Stecher and Doug Lidster as just the third BC-born defenceman to score his first career NHL goal with the Canucks.
NO NIGHTS OFF
Canucks captain Bo Horvat has now appeared in 266 consecutive regular season games, ranking ninth among active skaters in the NHL for most consecutive games played. Previous Canucks captain Henrik Sedin remains the franchise leader in consecutive games played (679), which still ranks 10th all-time in League history.
AT FACE VALUE
Bo Horvat leads all NHL skaters in face-offs taken (559), face-off wins (324) and even strength face-off wins (243) so far this season. Among centremen with at least 250 face-offs taken, Horvat's face-off percentage (58.0%) ranks t-7th League-wide.
MIGHTY MILLER
Collecting an assist on Nils Höglander's goal on Nov. 14 at ANA, J.T. Miller matched a career-best eight-game point streak (6-4-10), initially set during the 2019.20 season (5-6-11 from Nov. 21-Dec. 7/19).
ON THE COUNT OF THREE
Quinn Hughes collected his first three-point outing of the season (0-3-3) and seventh career three-assist game on Nov. 7 vs DAL, with all assists coming on the power play. At 22 years old, Hughes ranks t-7th all time among NHL defencemen for most games (7) with three or more assists before the age of 23.
RECENT CANUCKS MILESTONES
THREE STARS - DECEMBER
- NOVEMBER WINNER - GARLAND (15)
- OCTOBER WINNER - DEMKO (15)
