PREVIEW | Canucks vs. Golden Knights
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MATCH-UP INFO
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LAST MEETING - NOV. 26/22: VAN 5 at VGK 1
Brock Boeser opened the scoring on the power play at 9:22 in the first period to match a career-high nine-game point streak (3-7- 10)...Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland registered the assists...J.T. Miller notched a power play goal at 18:57 in the first period...Quinn Hughes and Andrei Kuzmenko collected the assists...Elias Pettersson cashed in on the power play at 11:33 in the second period, before Kuzmenko and Bo Horvat each added goals of their own...J.T. Miller led the team with three points (1-2-3) while Vancouver Canucks: Media Notes Hughes (0-2-2) and Kuzmenko (1-1-2) also had multi-point games...Elias Pettersson set a new career-high with nine shots on goal...Kyle Burroughs led all Canucks in hits (6)...Spencer Martin made 26 saves.
LAST GAME PLAYED - MAR. 19/23: VAN 2 at ANA 1
J.T. Miller opened the scoring 9:05 into the first period...Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes picked up the assists...Pettersson doubled the Canucks lead just 1:31 into the second with his fourth power play goal of the season...Hughes and Miller were credited with assists...Anthony Beauvillier led the team with five shots on goal...Noah Juulsen registered a game-high five hits...Collin Delia made 17 saves.
LAST 5 vs VEGAS
QUINN HUGHES IS ON FIRE
Registering two assists on Mar. 19 at ANA, Quinn Hughes joined Paul Coffey, Bobby Orr, and Brian Leetch as the only defencemen in NHL history with multiple seasons of 60+ assists before their 24th birthday. He is also the first defenceman since Coffey and Ray Bourque in 19934.94 to post consecutive 60-assist seasons.
CAN'T STOP KUZY
Thanks to his opening tally on Mar. 16 at ARI, Andrei Kuzmenko now own's an NHL-best 27.2% shooting percentage (min. 50 shots) so far this season, and currently possesses the highest shooting percentage in NHL history (min. 100 shots) since the stat started being tracked in 1959.60. He is also just the second player in the League since 1994.95 with a minimum of 100 shots to hold a shooting percentage above 25.0%, joining Mike Ribeiro (25.2% in 2007.08).
RAINING THREE'S FOR BOESER
Recording three assists on Mar. 14 vs DAL, Brock Boeser reached 300 career NHL points, becoming the 10th player from the 2015 NHL Draft class to reach this milestone. Boeser's three assists set a new career high for most assists in a season with 33 (previously 30 in 2018.19) and was his fifth career three-assist game (second this season).
KEEP IT SHORT
Thanks to J.T. Miller's fourth shorthanded marker of the 2022.23 campaign (tied Elias Pettersson and four others atop the League), on Mar. 11 vs OTT, the Canucks have now scored 11 shorthanded goals on the season, which are the most by a Canucks team since 2002.03 and now ranks tied for second-most in the NHL this season.
EIGHTY FOR ELIAS
Registering two assists on Mar. 8 vs ANA, Elias Pettersson registered his 80th and 81st points on the season (30-51-81), becoming the fifth-fastest player (sixth-fastest occasion) in franchise history to collect 80 points (62 games), behind only Alexander Mogilny (54 GP), Pavel Bure (55 GP, 59 GP), Henrik Sedin (60 GP) and Daniel Sedin (61 GP).
HISTORY WAITS FOR NO ONE
Scoring the opening goal on Mar. 6 vs NSH, Elias Pettersson registered his 300th career NHL point becoming the first skater from the 2017 NHL Draft Class to reach this milestone. Pettersson achieved this feat in 306 games played also making him the second fastest Canuck in franchise history to reach 300 points, trailing only Pavel Bure who was able to do it in 264 games played.
DOWN A MAN, UP TWO GOALS
Burying back-to-back shorthanded goals in a span of just 44 seconds on Mar. 4 vs TOR, Elias Pettersson (6:49, 3rd period) and J.T. Miller (7:33, 3rd period) recorded the fourth-fastest pair of shorthanded goals in Canucks history to turn a 1-1 tie into a 3-1 lead. It also marked the sixth time in franchise history (second time this season: also Feb. 18 vs PHI) that the Canucks have scored multiple times on the same two-minute penalty against, and the first occasion not involving an empty net since Apr. 9/98 vs CGY.
HUGHES WRITES HISTORY
Thanks to one assist each on the power play and shorthanded on Mar. 4 vs TOR, Quinn Hughes registered his 200th career NHL assist in just his 263rd regular season game, becoming the fastest defenceman in NHL history to do so (previously Brian Leetch, 264 games). He is also the fastest player of any position in Canucks history to record 200 assists with the club (23 players total, six defencemen), smashing the previous record set by centre Cliff Ronning (333 games).
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
Collecting two assists on Mar. 4 vs TOR, Quinn Hughes registered his 17th multi-point game of the season, surpassing Doug Lidster (1986.87) and Paul Reinhart (1988.89) for the most such occurrences by a defenceman in a single season in franchise history. It also marked Hughes' 14th multi-assist game this season, tying Dennis Kearns (1976.77) for the most in one season by a defenceman in Canucks history.
2022.23 CANUCKS MILESTONES
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
THREE STARS - MARCH
FEBRUARY WINNER - Pettersson (15 pts)
JANUARY WINNER - Pettersson (20 pts)
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*
