PREVIEW | Canucks vs. Blue Jackets
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MATCH-UP INFO
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LAST MEETING - OCT. 18/22: VAN 3 at CBJ 4 (OT)
Bo Horvat opened the scoring with a shorthanded marker at 7:51 in the first period, assisted by Elias Pettersson and Oliver Ekman- Larsson...Elias Pettersson quickly doubled Vancouver's lead with his 100th career NHL goal...Vasily Podkolzin and Nils Höglander registered the assists...Bo Horvat restored Vancouver's lead for his first multigoal game of the season at 7:00 in the third period...Tucker Poolman recorded his first point of the season with the primary assist while Quinn Hughes drew the secondary assist...Bo Horvat led all Canucks in shots (5)...Luke Schenn led the team in hits (3) and Curtis Lazar led in blocks (3)...Spencer Martin faced 33 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED - JAN. 25/23: VAN 1 at SEA 6
Conor Garland scored the Canucks' lone goal at 19:52 in the second period extending his point streak to three games...Curtis Lazar registered his second assist of the season with the first helper...Dakota Joshua was credited with the second assist to extend his career-high in points to 11...Spencer Martin faced 35 shots...Tyler Myers led the team in shots (5)...Kyle Burroughs led the team in blocked shots (5)...Bo Horvat won 11 out of 19 faceoffs (57.9%).
LAST 5 vs COLUMBUS
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT
Registering 48 shots in the team's 5-2 victory over Chicago on Jan. 24, the Canucks recorded a shot differential of +34. This has tied the team's highest recorded shot differential in franchise history with two other occasions:
Chicago's 14 shots on goal are also tied for the seventh-fewest shots allowed in a game in franchise history (fewest allowed in a game since Dec. 12/10 at Edmonton [12 SA]).
TOCCH OF THE TOWN
On January 22nd, Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced that Rick Tocchet had been named the 21st Head Coach in franchise history. Tocchet joins the Canucks having most recently served four seasons as head coach of the Arizona Coyotes from 2017.18 to 2020.21. During his tenure in Arizona, Tocchet led the Coyotes to their first trip to the Stanley Cup Playoffs (2020) in eight years, when the team defeated the Nashville Predators in four games to advance from the Qualifying Round. That same season, he was selected to coach the Pacific Division at the NHL All-Star Game in St. Louis. Prior to his appointment in Arizona, Tocchet spent three seasons (2014.15 to 2016.17) as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins, winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2016 and 2017.
QUICK QUINN
Registering two assists on Jan. 21 vs EDM, Quinn Hughes marked his 46th career multi-point game and is the fourth active defenceman to reach as many games before the age of 24 (Erik Karlsson [58 GP], Rasmus Dahlin [48 GP], and Cale Makar [47 GP]).
EXCEPTIONAL ELIAS
Scoring on Jan. 20 vs COL, Elias Pettersson registered his 19th goal of the season, with all 19 having come at even-strength. Pettersson ranks t-10th 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.
BO'S BLAZIN' STREAK
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.
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).
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).
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.
2022.23 CANUCKS MILESTONES
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
THREE STARS - JANUARY
DECEMBER WINNER - Pettersson (20 pts)
NOVEMBER WINNER - Horvat (40 pts)
OCTOBER WINNER - Horvat, Kuzmenko (10 pts)
\5 points are awarded for each Three Stars selection*
