Canucks vs Coyotes

After Thursday's emphatic 5-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes, the Vancouver Canucks have 10 games left on the season. They have 78 points. Even after winning a ...

They’re just 22nd in the league in goals for per game. And at .888, their goalies, Kirk McLean and Corey Hirsch, had the sixth-worst save percentage in the league. Boudreau introduced an internal team award, a pro-wrestling belt for the players to recognize each other after each game for their efforts. “I don’t know how I’m going to react stepping out on that ice to be honest with you,” he said. The visitors’ dressing room is used during training camp as an overflow room, for rookies, prospects and non-roster players. And at a great time, quite frankly, because they had gotten the second goal and had started getting momentum and then we scored to make it 4-1 not long after and that really sort of stemmed the tide. And for a small guy, he’s really strong on the puck and sees the ice really well,” Chiasson said. Chiasson’s third-period goal was a tip of an Oliver Ekman-Larsson point shot. He was 17-for-17, setting a team record for wins. The negative tweets came Feb. 2 but then a slew of supportive tweets came after, which Horvat liked as well. He was able to skate at a local rink after leaving isolation five days later, but he said the layoff knocked him off stride. He’s the 31st player in team history to hit 30 goals.

Vancouver Canucks (33-28-10, fifth in the Pacific) vs. Arizona Coyotes (22-43-5, eighth in the Central)

Arizona is last in the league averaging 4.2 assists per game. J.T. Miller leads the team with 29. The Coyotes are 13-25-3 in conference games. Pettersson has six goals and five assists over the last 10 games for Vancouver. Nick Schmaltz has three goals and four assists over the last 10 games for Arizona. The Canucks are 9-5-6 against opponents from the Pacific. Vancouver has scored 200 goals and ranks 10th in the Western Conference averaging 2.8 goals per game.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- — Bo Horvat and Alex Chiasson each had two goals and an assist and the Vancouver Canucks continued a late playoff push with a 5-1 victory ...

... Vancouver, which has won the first two games in the season series, entered with 203 goals for and 203 goals against. ... Canucks and former Coyotes D Oliver Ekman-Larsson and F Conor Garland made their first appearance in Arizona after being traded to Vancouver in the offseason. But if you look at the actual pace and the chances we had and the possession we had. He scored 38 seconds later on a wrist shot from the left circle after taking a nifty back-pass from Vasily Podkolzin. The teams met in Arizona for the first time since Feb. 28, 2019. The Canucks have 78 points, six behind Dallas for the second wild card in the Western Conference with 10 games to play. Pettersson had two goals in a 5-1 victory at Vegas on Wednesday and has 13 points in his last eight games. The Stars have two games in hand on both. Nick Schmaltz scored his career-high 22nd goal for the Coyotes, who have lost nine of 11. “I don't know the exact key,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We probably weren't as sharp as we were last night, but we got off to a good start. I am playing with confidence and definitely feel good with the puck night-in and night-out, but at the same time getting the wins are more important for sure."

Vancouver is a -170 favourite on the NHL odds. Canucks vs. Coyotes NHL Betting Odds. Thursday is the last time this season that Vancouver will complete a ...

Arizona comes off a 5-1 loss in St. Louis on Monday with Nick Schmaltz scoring the lone goal, his 21st of the year. The 34-year-old is having a rough season with only seven goals. Halak has faced the Coyotes 15 times in his career and is 10-3-2 with a 1.87 GAA and .936 SV. Vancouver is 12-40 in its past 52 in the second of a back-to-back. Elias Pettersson was the No. 1 star Wednesday with two goals and two assists for his 50th career multi-point game. Lawson Crouse scored for the Coyotes and Karel Vejmelka stopped 24 of 29 shots. Thursday is the last time this season that Vancouver will complete a road/road back-to-back.

No one but Conor Garland knows how he really felt about being traded instead of being re-signed by the Coyotes last offseason.

The Coyotes cut the Canucks' lead to 3-2 momentarily, but Nick Ritchie's second-period goal was challenged and overturned for an offside call. It might have served as motivation for the 26-year-old forward who came up through the organization and won the hearts of many fans with his tenacious play and high effort. No one but Conor Garland knows how he really felt about being traded instead of being re-signed by the Coyotes last offseason.