By Andrew Phillip Chernoff | CanucksBanter
November 28, 2023
The Vancouver Canucks (15-7-0-1), 2nd in the Pacific Division, hosted the Anaheim Ducks (9-13-0-0), 6th in the Pacific Division, at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, B.C. on Tuesday night, and the Canucks escaped with an exciting 3-1 win.
Vancouver is 2nd in Western Conference and 4rth in the NHL.
Vancouver goals came from: Brock Boeser (2), Elias Pettersson
Helpers from: Tyler Myers, Ilya Mikheyev, Filip Hronek, J.T. Miller (2)
Vancouver had multi-point games from: Boeser (2-0=2), Miller (0-2=2)
Canucks starting goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 30 shots and picked up his 11 win of the season. He has a 2.10 GAA and a .928 SV%.
He is 11-5-0 with 2 shutouts in 16 game starts: 3-4-0-0 in road games and 8-1-0-0 with 2 shutouts at home.
GAME REVIEW
Starting goalies for the game Thatcher Demko for Vancouver and John Gibson were looking for a busy game.
Canucks drew the first goal of the game, and a 1-0 lead, with Brock Boeser opening the scoring with his 16 goal of the season at even strength, assisted by Filip Hronek (21) and J.T. Miller (21) at 6:34.
With Vancouver threatening to add to their goal total in front of the Anaheim net, Dakota Joshua drew a penalty sending Alex Killhorn to the SinBin, giving Canucks a man advantage at 11:34, which Anaheim killed off.
The Ducks would get a power play of their own with just under five minutes left in the opening period as Phillip Di Giuseppe went off for interference, and Vancouver was able to stymie the Ducks with the efforts of Elias Pettersson and the other penalty killers.
While Vancouver led on the scoreboard after one period, the Ducks were no slouch, leading in shots on net (12-6), face-offs (7 for 12), and hits (14-11).
Vancouver had a great chance to go up by two goals early in the 2nd period with Ducks Killhorn getting his second penalty of the game 47 seconds in but were unable to capitalize on a J.T. Miller opportunity and unable to extend their lead.
A minute later, Tyler Myers was sent off for holding, and the Ducks had their second man advantage of the game at 3:47.
Ryan Strome would beat Demko up high on his glove side with his 3rd goal of the season to even the game at 1-1. Anaheim assists on their first goal to Adam Henrique and Frank Vatrano at 5:10 on the power play.
Anaheim won the middle period 1-0, with the only goal. They also continued to dominate the Canucks in shots 15-6; the power play (1-1); hits (9-6) and penaltykill (2-2). Vancouver did dominate on face-offs (11/20).
The Canucks were in trouble entering the 3rd period, as Vancouver had to solve the problem of getting shots through the Ducks defense on net and have the players bring the puck in front of the Anaheim net.
The goalies were doing their part, and the Ducks were being a great thorn in the Canucks game plan.
Could Vancouver shake off Anaheim enough to win the 3rd period and their 15th game of the season?
Quickly in the final period the Canucks responded and score the go ahead goal to take a 2-1 lead at 32 seconds. Elias Pettersson (9) assists Tyler Myers (9) and Ilya Mikheyev (5).
The Canucks continued to take their game to the Ducks and get more offensive time in the Anaheim end to increase their lead but the Ducks continued to push back as they had all game and strive to even the game at 2-2, but Vancouver was outshooting Anaheim 10-0.
A third power play for Vancouver for interference to Elias Pettersson by Urho Vaakanainen at 9:09 resulted in only one shot on Ducks’ goalie John Gibson.
Ilya Mikheyev and Tyler Myers would suffer injuries in the last 8 minutes of the game, adding to the drama in the game. Myers returned eventually.
With 4:24 left, Canucks penalized for too many men on the ice, put Anaheim back on the power play, and a great chance to even the game at 2-2.
Anaheim had a great chance as Mason McTavish hit the post for Anaheim and then the Canucks went down the ice and had great scoring opportunities of their own with Conor Garland drawing a penalty putting Vancouver on the power play.
Anaheim pulled their goalie Gibson to put put the play at 5 players each, but Brock Boeser (17) would add his second goal of the game to seal the win. Assists Miller (22) at 19:12.
Anaheim lost their seventh consecutive game 3-1.
Canucks Game Notes
- Face-offs
- VAN: 25/46: 54%; ANA: 21/46: 46%
- Power Play
- VAN: 1-4 ANA: 1-3
- Penalty Kill
- VAN: 2-3 ANA: 3-4
- Shots
- VAN: 27 ANA: 31
- Hits
- VAN: 25 ANA: 33
- Blocked Shots
- VAN: 12 ANA: 13
Canucks Highlights
Game Reports
- Game Summary
- Event Summary
- Faceoff Comparison
- Faceoff Summary
- Time On Ice: ANA
- Time On Ice: VAN
- Roster Report
- Shot Report
Hockey Analytics Reports
Source: nhl.com
