by Canucks Communications @Canucks / Vancouver Canucks

CANUCKS VS PENGUINS PREVIEW

TV: Sportsnet, CBC, City

Radio: SN650

MATCH-UP INFO

• Tonight marks the last of two meetings between the Canucks and Penguins this season: Nov. 24 (4-1 L), Dec. 4 (home).
• Vancouver is 4-6-0 in their last 10 games vs Pittsburgh (2-3-0 in their last 5).
• The Canucks have a 42-64-11-4 all-time record in 121 games against the Penguins. Vancouver holds a 27-26-4-3 record at home against Pittsburgh. • Among active Canucks skaters, J.T. Miller leads the team in scoring vs Pittsburgh with 16 points (8-8-16) in 22 games.
• Brock Boeser leads all Canucks in career points per game (1.28) vs Pittsburgh with nine points (7-2-9) in seven games.
• Thatcher Demko has faced the Penguins twice in his career (0-2-0) and has a .867 SV%.
• Jaroslav Halak has faced the Penguins 25 times in his career (13-10-2), owning a .914 SV% and a 2.65 GAA.

QUICK NUMBERS

• Nils Höglander has six points (4-2-6) in his last 11 games.
• J.T. Miller has 11 points (5-6-11) in his last 13 games.
• Quinn Hughes has 13 points (0-13-0) in his last 13 games.
• Conor Garland has seven points (4-3-7) in his last 10 games.
• Thatcher Demko has posted a .931 SV% and 2.03 GAA in his last six games (3-3-0).

LAST MEETING – NOV. 24/21: VAN 1 at PIT 4

Bo Horvat denied Pittsburgh’s shutout bid with his sixth goal of the season at 14:52 in the third period…Luke Schenn registered the lone assist on the play…Four Canucks tied with four shots (Garland, Horvat, Ekman-Larsson, Pearson)…Tyler Myers logged a team-high in TOI (25:56)…Juho Lammikko led the team in hits (4)…J.T. Miller won 15 of 21 face-offs (71%)…Thatcher Demko made 33 saves.

LAST GAME PLAYED – DEC. 1/21: VAN 6 at OTT 2

Tanner Pearson opened the scoring at 1:38 in the first period, assisted by Conor Garland and Luke Schenn…Tyler Motte notched his second goal of the season to restore Vancouver’s lead at 2:38 in the second period…Conor Garland registered a two-point game (0-2-2) with an assist, while Kyle Burroughs recorded his first assist of the season on the play…Luke Schenn tallied the eventual game-winner and a multi-point game (1-1-2) with his first goal as a Canuck at 19:31 in the second period…Bo Horvat, Alex Chiasson (PP), and J.T. Miller (PP) all added third period goals…Quinn Hughes set a career-high with four points (0-4-4), while J.T. Miller recorded three points (1-2-3)…Conor Garland and J.T. Miller each had five shots…Tyler Motte led the team in hits (4)…Thatcher Demko made 19 saves and recorded an assist.

LAST 5 vs PITTSBURGH

•Nov. 24, 2021: VAN 1 at PIT 4

•Dec. 21, 2019: VAN 4 vs PIT 1

•Nov. 27, 2019: VAN 6 at PIT 8

•Oct. 27, 2018: VAN 0 vs PIT 5
• Oct. 16, 2018: VAN 3 at PIT 2 (OT)

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

• Travis Hamonic loaned to Abbotsford, Dec. 3

• Travis Hamonic recalled from Abbotsford, Dec. 3
 

PETTERSSON DONATES $50,000 TO CANUCKS FOR KIDS FUND

The Canucks for Kids Fund (CFKF) announced Tuesday that Elias Pettersson has made a generous donation of $50,000 as part of Giving Tuesday. Pettersson’s donation is the largest individual cash donation a Canucks player has ever made.

MULTI-POINT MILLER

Recording three points (1-2-3) during a 6-2 win on Dec. 1 at OTT, J.T. Miller registered his team-leading 10th three-point effort since 2019.20, in which the Canucks are 8-1-1. It was also Miller’s fifth multi-point game this season, in which Vancouver has a perfect 5-0-0 record.

QUINN’S CAREER NIGHT

Quinn Hughes collected a career-high in points (4) and assists (4) on Dec. 1 at OTT, becoming just the fifth defenceman in franchise history to record four assists in a game, and the first since Jeff Brown (0-5-5) on Feb. 20/95. Hughes now ranks t-6th all time among NHL defencemen for most games (8) with three or more assists before the age of 23.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

The Canucks play their first of 10 home games in December on Saturday when they face the Penguins, matching a franchise record for most home games played in the month of December (2017, 2019).

ONE HUNDRED HELPERS

Assisting on Elias Pettersson’s power play goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Quinn Hughes recorded his 100th career assist in his 151st career game, tying Brian Leetch for sixth-fewest games required by a defenceman to reach the milestone in NHL history. He also became the second-fastest Canuck of any position to reach 100 assists, behind only Barry Pederson (147 GP).

GAME-WINNING GARLAND

Netting his seventh goal of the season and the eventual game-winning goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Conor Garland recorded his team-leading third GWG of the season, which is also t-6th in the NHL.

TOP TWENTY

Collecting an assist on Conor Garland’s game-winning goal on Nov. 29 at MTL, Bo Horvat passed 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 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.

AT FACE VALUE

Bo Horvat leads all NHL skaters in face-offs taken (587), face-off wins (339) and even strength face-off wins (255) so far this season. Among centremen with at least 250 face-offs taken, Horvat’s face-off percentage (57.8%) ranks eighth League-wide.