Canucks Game Day | Vancouver Canucks at Minnesota Wild – December 16, 2023

🆚 Minnesota Wild
⏰ 11:00 AM. PST
📍 Excel Energy Center
📺 Sportsnet
📻 Sportsnet 650

MATCH-UP INFO

Tonight marks the second of three meetings between the Canucks and Wild this season: Dec. 7 (2-0 W, home), Dec. 16 (road) and Feb. 19 (road).
Vancouver is 48-37-5-11 all-time against Minnesota, including a 22-23-2-4 record on the road.
The Canucks are 4-4-2 in their last 10 games against the Wild (1-3-1 in their last 5).
J.T. Miller leads all active Canucks skaters in scoring against Minnesota with 14 points (7-7-14) in 20 career games.
Brock Boeser has eight points (2-6-8) in 14 career games against the Wild.
Thatcher Demko is 0-3-2 with a 3.40 GAA and a .900 SV% in five career games against the Wild.
In five career games (5-0-0), Casey DeSmith has a 1.78 GAA and a .943 SV% all-time against Minnesota.

QUICK NUMBERS

Quinn Hughes has registered 16 points (4-12-16) in his last 15 games, totaling 39 points overall (9-30-39). He is t-4th in the league for points and ranks t-1st for assists.
J.T. Miller has 43 points overall this season (15-28-43) and has 20 points (6-14-20) in his last 15 games. He ranks 2nd in the league for points.
Brock Boeser has scored 22 goals this season, ranking 2nd in the league. His 36 points (22-14-36) this season places him 5th in the league among primary right wingers. Boeser is currently on an nine-game point streak (9-5-14).
Elias Pettersson has six points (1-5-6) in his last five games.
The Vancouver Canucks are currently 2nd in the Western Conference and 2nd in the league. They also have the highest goal differential (+41) in the league. The Canucks currently have the most wins (17) when leading after two periods and have scored the first goal of the game 20 times, 1st in the NHL. They also have the most wins (16) when scoring first.

MOVING UP THE LIDST

After recording three assists in a 4-1 win on Dec. 12/23 vs TBL, Quinn Hughes (245 assists in 312 GP) became third all- time in assists amongst defencemen in Canucks franchise history, passing Doug Lidster. Hughes completed this feat in 354 less games than Lidster (242 assists in 666 GP).

2023.24 TEAM RANKS

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

Nick Cicek and sixth-round pick (2024) acquired from San Jose in exchange for Jack Studnicka, Dec. 15
Pius Suter activated off IR, Dec. 14
Linus Karlsson reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 9
Matt Irwin reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 2
Nikita Zadorov acquired from Calgary in exchange for a fifth-round pick (2024) and a third-round pick (2026), Nov. 30

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