NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 2022) – The National Hockey League condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urges a peaceful resolution as quickly as possible. Effective immediately, we are suspending our relationships with our business partners in Russia and we are pausing our Russian language social and digital media sites. In addition, we are discontinuing any consideration of Russia as a location for any future competitions involving the NHL.
We also remain concerned about the well-being of the players from Russia, who play in the NHL on behalf of their NHL Clubs, and not on behalf of Russia. We understand they and their families are being placed in an extremely difficult position.
Tanner Pearson has eight points (4-4-8) in his last 11 games.
Conor Garland has six points (4-2-6) in his last eight games.
Bo Horvat has six points (4-2-6) in his last eight games.
LAST MEETING – NOV. 10/19: VAN 1 vs NJD 2
Brock Boeser cut Vancouver’s deficit to one goal at 12:40 in the third period on the power play…Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller registered assists on the play…Tanner Pearson led the team in shots (5)…Alex Edler led all Canucks in blocked shots (4)…Jacob Markstrom faced 27 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED – FEB. 27/22: VAN 5 at NYR 2
Tanner Pearson opened up scoring at 3:12 in the first period assisted by J.T. Miller…Tyler Myers followed up with a goal at 19:21 in the first…J.T. Miller and Matthew Highmore recorded assists on the play…Juho Lammikko scored the GWG at 6:06 in the second period assisted by Luke Schenn…Matthew Highmore scored a power play goal…Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Tyler Myers collected the assists…Elias Pettersson scored an empty netter at 17:51 in the third assisted by Thatcher Demko…J.T. Miller (0-2-2), Matthew Highmore (1-1-2), and Tyler Myers (1-1-2) each tallied multi-point games…Luke Schenn led the team in hits (3)…Quinn Hughes led the game in TOI (24:23)…Thatcher Demko made 31 saves.
The Canucks scored at least five goals for the third straight game, accomplishing the feat for just the fifth time in the past 25 years. The other instances occurred from Oct. 22-30, 2019 (4 GP), Dec. 1-6, 2011 (3 GP) Oct. 14-18, 2005 (3 GP) and Feb. 6-25, 1998 (3 GP).
J.T. Miller recorded his third straight multi-assist game on Feb. 27 at NYR. Only two players have recorded a longer such run this season: Jonathan Huberdeau (4 GP) and Nazem Kadri (4 GP). Only one skater has recorded a longer multi-assist streak in Canucks history: Henrik Sedin (6 GP in 2009-10).
Recording three points (2-1-3) on Feb. 24 vs CGY, Elias Pettersson registered his fourth consecutive multipoint game for the first time in his career. In four games from Feb. 17-24, Pettersson collected 10 points (3-7-10).
DIFFERENT FASHIONS
Trouncing the Flames 7-1 on home ice on Feb. 24, Vancouver scored four different types of goals for the first time in franchise history: Power play (Pettersson, Miller, Horvat), shorthanded (Pettersson), penalty shot (Miller), even strength (Horvat, Garland).
THREE CAN PLAY THAT GAME
J.T. Miller, Elias Pettersson, and Bo Horvat each notched two goals on Feb. 24 vs CGY, marking the first time the Canucks had multiple goals from three or more players in a game since Oct. 29/11 vs WSH (Higgins, Lappiere, Edler).
STREAK SNAPPERS
Defeating Calgary by a score of 7-1 on Feb. 24, Vancouver became the first team in NHL history to beat an opponent on a 10+ game winning streak by six or more goals.
MOTTE SO FAST
Tyler Motte (0:11) scored the fastest goal from the start of a game by any player this season on Feb. 21 vs SEA. It also equaled the fourth-fastest to begin a game in franchise history: Alex Burrows (Mar 16/13) :06, Trevor Linden (Jan 16/94) :09, Henrik Sedin (Oct 24/14) :10.
NEED FOR SPEED
The Canucks scored in the opening 35 seconds of multiple periods in the same game for the seventh time in franchise history (Feb. 21 vs SEA) and second time in as many seasons. The last such instance was Mar. 20/21 vs MTL when they tallied 22 seconds into the second and third periods.
THE HITS KEEP COMING
Luke Schenn leads all Canucks skaters in hits (181), having led or co-led the team in hits on 23 occasions so far this season, despite appearing in only 37 games. His 15.24 hits per 60 minutes currently rank third among defencemen League-wide (min. 5 GP).
O.T. MILLER
Securing the win in overtime on Feb. 17 at SJS, J.T. Miller tied Alex DeBrincat for most overtime goals (6) since the start of the 2019.20 season. It was also Miller’s 10th career overtime goal, tying him with Johnny Gaudreau for 4th-most OT goals all time by a US-born player, trailing Max Pacioretty (16), Brett Hull (12), and Phil Kessel (11).
BRICK WALL
Thatcher Demko made a career-high 51 saves in the 3-2 win over Toronto on Feb. 12, tying the franchise record for most saves in a win (51), matching Richard Brodeur on Feb. 10/85 vs WPG.
