Penguins vs Canucks

2022 - 10 - 28

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Canucks 5, Penguins 1: Vancouver controls from start to finish (The Province)

The Vancouver Canucks lead from the start and bested the Pittsburgh Penguins Friday at Rogers Arena.

We have to do a better job of bringing a little bit more consistency. The visitors come into tonight’s contest having been smushed in back to back games in Alberta. I mean, he hasn’t played much the last couple of years with COVID and all that so he deserves to get a chance to play,” Allvin said Thursday. [said before the game in Seattle he was pleased to add Studnicka. Asked before Thursday’s game in Seattle about his plans in net, Bruce Boudreau said that he was making all his roster decisions on a “daily” basis. Great hustle to keep the puck in the zone by Ilya Mikheyev and Sheldon Dries. And the first was right after a power play expired. The Canucks needed that. On the other hand, Guillaume Brisebois had his best game in the NHL. Spencer Martin was mad he didn’t get his team a win in Columbus last week. Putting Horvat and Miller together, with Conor Garland, is like a genius move. Boudreau leaned hard on his top players, but got a lot out of them, impressive given the grinding game the Canucks played just 24 hours before in Seattle.

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Presented by Air Canada · MATCH-UP INFO · LAST MEETING - DEC. 4/21: VAN 1 vs PIT 4 · LAST GAME PLAYED - OCT. 27/22: VAN 5 at SEA 4 · LAST 5 vs PITTSBURGH · TRADE ...

Following Vancouver's 5-4 win at Seattle on Oct. Making his 137th NHL regular season appearance on Oct. Turning aside 29 shots in an overtime defeat on Oct. Opening the scoring with a shorthanded tally on Oct. - Pettersson - 5 pts - The goal also tied Pettersson with Jake Guentzel (PIT) and Brayden Point (TBL) as the ninth-fastest active player to reach 100 career goals. Netting his third goal of the season on Oct. Pavel Bure holds the club record with 24 shorthanded goals. 27 at SEA, Canucks Head Coach Bruce Boudreau became the 22nd coach in NHL history and just the fifth active head coach to reach 600 regular season wins with a record of 600-322-127. Among coaches with 600 wins to their name, Boudreau's 1,049 games coached are the second-fewest required to reach the mark, while his .633 points percentage ranks second only to Scotty Bowman (.657). Studnicka, 23, has accumulated seven points (1-6-7) and 10 penalty minutes in 38 games played at the NHL level and 96 points (34-62-96) in 117 AHL contests. Miller and Elias Pettersson...Pettersson also added a goal of his own at 1:16 in the third period, with Luke Schenn collecting his second assist of the evening...Conor Garland scored an empty-net goal, which would be the eventual GWG, at 18:35 in the third period, unassisted...Luke Schenn led the team in hits (7)...Bo Horvat won 22 of 30 face-offs (73%)...Thatcher Demko faced 36 shots.

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“Emotions,” Kuzmenko said in English. “Pittsburgh is very good team. Crosby.” ...

But even without the newest players, it’s a different team than it was a few days ago. that was just a good, gutsy effort, especially on the back to back,” Vancouver defenceman Kyle Burroughs said. Bear was expected to arrive in Vancouver on Saturday. It will be a different Canucks team on Tuesday. You look at what our team can do when we play and when we bring everything to the table. But their systems play and defending actually looked tight and quick against the Penguins. The 2-5-2 team does not play again until Tuesday against the New Jersey Devils. But I mean, you could tell it was like the weight of the world was lifted off our shoulders. Until the Seattle game, Vancouver had been outscored 17-2 after the second intermission. But I mean, we've got to dig ourselves out of a hole here. We've got to keep going here.” There have been only the two.

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