Game Notes: Canucks @ Jets
...Canucks return to the ice in an exhibition game against the Jets
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#NHLSTATS: VANCOUVER CANUCKS
* Vancouver is one of 10 non-Original Six franchises to make at least three appearances in the Stanley Cup Final, doing so in 1982 (4-0 L vs. NYI), 1994 (4-3 L vs. NYR) and 2011 (4-3 L vs. BOS). Philadelphia paces the grouping with eight trips to the Final, winning twice.
* Vancouver has the fifth-fewest combined games of postseason experience on its roster among resuming teams (482 GP) - ahead of Edmonton (480 GP), Montreal (400 GP), Columbus (383 GP) and Calgary (343 GP). Minnesota (599 GP) has 117 more games of playoff experience than Vancouver.
* Three Canucks on the team's Phase 3 roster dressed in the club's last postseason appearance in 2015 (min. 1 GP in NHL in 2019-20): Alexander Edler, Bo Horvat and Chris Tanev.
* Edler (8-23-31 in 65 GP) is one of two defensemen in Canucks history with at least 30 points in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (Jyrki Lumme: 9-31-40 in 72 GP). Edler sits two postseason goals shy of matching Kevin Bieksa (10 G in 71 GP) for the franchise mark by a blueliner.
* In-season acquisition Tyler Toffoli, with 10 points in his first 10 regular-season games with the Canucks (6-4-10), is one of three players on the team with a Stanley Cup on his resume - he and Tanner Pearson won with Los Angeles in 2014. Jay Beagle (2018 WSH) is Vancouver's other Cup winner.
* Quinn Hughes had 8-45-53 in 2019-20 to join Bobby Orr (1966-67) and Brian Leetch (1988-89) as the third defenseman in the NHL's modern era (since 1943-44) to lead all rookies in scoring in a single season (outright or tied). Only five rookie defensemen have recorded a playoff point for the Canucks, with only two recording more than one: Neil Belland in 1982 and Jiri Slegr in 1993.
* Hughes will celebrate his 21st birthday on Oct. 14, 2020. Should he find the back of the net in the playoffs, he would become the 10th player in Canucks history to score a playoff goal before age 21; Garth Butcher is the only defenseman currently on that list.
* J.T. Miller had a career-high 72 points in his first season with the Canucks (69 GP), including 20 multi-point games. Only three players had more points in their first season with the club: Alexander Mogilny (107 in 1995-96), Greg Adams (76 in 1987-88) and Barry Pederson (76 in 1986-87).
* Miller also shared the team leads in goals (27) and assists (45) in 2019-20, tying Elias Pettersson (27 G) and Hughes (45 A), respectively. In doing so, Miller joined Pettersson (28-38-66 in 2018-19) and Mogilny (55-52-107 in 79 GP) as the third player in Canucks history to at least share the team lead in goals, assists and points in his first season with the club. Pettersson was a rookie when he did so.
* Miller has appeared in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the past six years, four times with the Rangers (2014-2017) and twice with the Lightning (2018 & 2019). The most points by a Canucks player in his first postseason with the club is 15, set by Jeff Brown (6-9-15 in 1994) and matched by Mikael Samuelsson (8-7-15 in 2010).
* Pettersson followed up his 2018-19 rookie campaign (28-38-66 in 71 GP) with a 27-39-66 (68 GP) showing in 2019-20 to boost his career totals to 55-77-132 (139 GP). Among players to debut with the Canucks franchise, Pettersson required the third-fewest games to score 50 goals (124 GP), behind only Bure (82 GP) and Brock Boeser (110 GP).
* The Canucks ranked eighth in the NHL in 2019-20 with 228 goals (including shootout-deciding goals), the 16th time that they have placed among the top 10 and first since 2014-15. Despite playing only 69 games due to the pause, it also marked their highest goal total in five seasons (242 in 2014-15).
* Five of the Canucks' seven neutral-site contests have been one-goal affairs, including the franchise's last win in a neutral-site game on Oct. 3, 1997 against Anaheim in Tokyo. Franchise icon Pavel Bure scored the winning goal that day to give Vancouver a victory in the NHL's first regular-season game contested outside North America.
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#NHLSTATS: WINNIPEG JETS
* The Jets' deepest playoff run came in 2018 when they advanced to the Conference Finals, before falling to the Golden Knights in five games. That postseason included the only two playoff series wins in franchise history (4-1 W vs. MIN in R1 and 4-3 W vs. NSH in R2).
\* The Jets are the most recent Canadian team to reach at least the Conference Finals, accounting for one of five such instances since 2010 (MTL in 2010 and 2014; VAN in 2011; OTT in 2017 and WPG in 2018).
\* Blake Wheeler (Plymouth, Minn.), who leads Jets skaters with 48 career playoff games, aims to become the first player born outside Canada to captain a Canadian team to a Stanley Cup.
\* Wheeler is Winnipeg's all-time leader in Stanley Cup Playoffs Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season and Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season, while Mark Scheifele owns the most postseason Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season in franchise history.
\* Scheifele has scored 12 of his 16 career playoff goals as a visitor, Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season - tied for second in road goals behind Alex Ovechkin over that span.
\* Scheifele scored seven goals at Nashville in the 2018 Second Round to establish a Stanley Cup Playoffs record for most road goals in a single series, eclipsing the previous mark of six achieved 10 times - most recently by Marian Gaborik with the Kings in the 2014 Second Round at Anaheim.
\* Overall, Scheifele's seven goals against Nashville were the Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season since 2010 and remain one of eight such performances since the 2000 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
* Patrik Laine has 8-8-16 in 23 career playoff games, including goals in Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season. Among Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season, Laine's career goals-per-game of 0.35 in the playoffs trails only Scheifele (0.59).
\* Kyle Connor led the Jets with 38 goals during the 2019-20 campaign. He sits two playoff goals shy of becoming the third player in Jets team history (since 2011-12) to score Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season. The others: Laine (49 in 2017-18) and Scheifele (40 in 2018-19).
\* Connor Hellebuyck, the only goaltender in Jets/Thrashers franchise history to record a playoff win (11-12), sits three victories shy of moving past Robert Esche (13th; 13-11) and Chris Terreri (12th; 12-12) on the Video: Recap of the Canucks Memorable 50th Season among U.S.-born goaltenders.
\* Paul Maurice, who reached the Stanley Cup Final with Carolina in 2002, has served the most regular-season games as a head coach without winning a championship (Maurice: 1,600; Lindy Ruff: 1,493; Ron Wilson: 1,401; Pat Quinn: 1,400; Jacques Martin: 1,294).
