GAME DAY | Canucks at Canadiens

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CANUCKS AT CANADIENS PREVIEW

TV: Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Pacific, Sportsnet One
Radio: SN650

MATCH-UP INFO

  • Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Canucks and Canadiens this season: Nov. 29 (road), Mar. 9 (home).
  • Vancouver is 4-5-1 in their last 10 games vs Montreal (2-2-1 in their last 5).
  • The Canucks have a 35-90-13-3 all-time record in 141 games against the Canadiens. Vancouver holds a 14-48-5-2 record on the road against
  • Montreal.
  • Thatcher Demko has faced the Canadiens 6 times (3-3-0), posting a .900 SV% and a 3.62 GAA.
  • Jaroslav Halak has faced the Canadiens 11 times in his career (6-4-0), owning a .909 SV% and a 2.45 GAA.

QUICK NUMBERS

  • Nils Höglander has six points (4-2-6) in his last nine games.
  • J.T. Miller has 11 points (6-5-11) in his last 14 games.
  • Quinn Hughes has eight points (0-8-8) in his last 11 games.
  • Conor Garland has four points ( 3-1-4) in his last eight games.

LAST MEETING – MAR. 20/21: VAN 4 at MTL 5 (SO)

Jake Virtanen tied the game with a goal at 0:22 in the second period, assisted by J.T. Miller…Brock Boeser put Vancouver in front with a power play marker at 8:08 in the second period…Quinn Hughes and Bo Horvat drew the assists, with Horvat’s being the 300th point of his career…Bo Horvat tied the game with his 14th goal of the season at 0:22 in the third period…Tyler Motte scored just 33 seconds later to give Vancouver a one-goal lead…Brock Boeser scored Vancouver’s lone shootout goal in the eventual losing effort…Brock Boeser had a team-high 3 shots…Alex Edler led the Canucks in blocked shots (4)…Braden Holtby faced 40 shots.

LAST GAME PLAYED – NOV. 28/21: VAN 2 at BOS 3

Tanner Pearson opened up scoring with a power play goal at 3:33 in the first period…Brock Boeser and Nils Hoglander recorded assists on the play…Conor Garland scored his sixth goal of the season unassisted to give the Canucks the lead in the second period…Garland led the team in shots (6)…Tyler Myers led the team in TOI (24:52) and blocked shots (3)…Bo Horvat won 19 faceoffs…Jaroslav Halak made a personal season high 39 saves.

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

  • Luke Schenn activated from injured reserve, Nov. 24
  • Travis Hamonic loaned to Abbotsford, Nov. 22
  • Justin Bailey designated for assignment to Abbotsford, Nov. 18
  • Guillaume Brisebois designated for assignment to Abbotsford, Nov. 16

CANUCKS RAISE $1 MILLION FOR BC FLOOD RELIEF

Canucks Sports &Entertainment and the Canucks for Kids Fund announced Tuesday that $1 million has been raised in support of flood relief efforts in Abbotsford, the Fraser Valley, and throughout British Columbia through three special 50/50 raffles during the team’s latest homestand from November 17-21.

TOP TWENTY

Netting his sixth goal of the season on Nov. 24 at PIT, Bo Horvat tied Mattias Ohlund for 20th place on the franchise all-time points list with 325 points (145-180-325). Horvat also ranks inside the top 20 in Canucks history for goals (145; 15th), power play goals (44; 16th), shorthanded goals (7; t-9th) and game-winning goals (17; t-19th).

HOMETOWN GLORY

Burying his first career NHL goal in front of the home crowd on Nov. 19 vs WPG, Vancouver-born Kyle Burroughs became the 11th BC-born defenceman in club history to score a regular season goal, and just the fourth Lower Mainland product to do so, joining Troy Stecher, Jason Garrison, and Chris Joseph. He also joined Troy Stecher and Doug Lidster as just the third BC-born defenceman to score his first career NHL goal with the Canucks.

NO NIGHTS OFF

Canucks captain Bo Horvat has now appeared in 265 consecutive regular season games, ranking 10th among active skaters in the NHL for most consecutive games played. Previous Canucks captain Henrik Sedin remains the franchise leader in consecutive games played (679), which still ranks 10th all-time in League history.

AT FACE VALUE

Bo Horvat leads all NHL skaters in face-offs taken (532), face-off wins (308) and even strength face-off wins (230) so far this season. Among centremen with at least 250 face-offs taken, Horvat’s face-off percentage (57.9%) 8th League-wide.

MIGHTY MILLER

Collecting an assist on Nils Höglander’s goal on Nov. 14 at ANA, J.T. Miller matched a career-best eight-game point streak (6-4-10), initially set during the 2019.20 season (5-6-11 from Nov. 21-Dec. 7/19).
On Nov. 13 at VGK, Miller went 11-for-11 in the face-off circle, becoming the third player in Canucks history to win 100 percent of face-offs in a game with a minimum of 10 face-offs taken, joining Brandon Sutter (10/10, Feb. 4/16) and Byron Ritchie (10/10, Feb. 19/06).

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Quinn Hughes collected his first three-point outing of the season (0-3-3) and seventh career three-assist game on Nov. 7 vs DAL, with all assists coming on the power play. At 22 years old, Hughes ranks t-7th all time among NHL defencemen for most games (7) with three or more assists before the age of 23.

RECENT CANUCKS MILESTONES

  • Kyle Burroughs scored his 1st career NHL goal, Nov. 19 vs WPG
  • Juho Lammikko appeared in his 100th career game, Nov. 14 @ ANA
  • Luke Schenn appeared in his 800th career game, Oct. 30 vs EDM
  • Brock Boeser recorded his 100th career goal, Oct. 30 vs EDM

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