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Canucks Game Report | Vancouver Canucks at San Jose Sharks – 11.25.2023

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By Andrew Phillip Chernoff | CanucksBanter

November 25, 2023

The Vancouver Canucks (14-7-0-1), 3rd in the Pacific Division, visited the San Jose Sharks (4-15-0-2), 8th in the Pacific Division, at SAP Center, San Jose, California, on Saturday night, and San Jose held on at the end for an exciting 4-3 win.

The Vancouver Canucks entered the game in 2nd place in the Pacific Division, Western Conference and tied for 3rd in the NHL.

The Canucks also went into the “Shark tank” having the highest goal differential (+33) in the NHL (85 Goals For, 52 Goals Against).

Quinn Hughes arrived in San Jose with 24 points (5-19=24) in his last 13 games, totaling 32 points overall (8-24=32), and in 2nd place in NHL scoring. Not to forget, on a 10-game point streak (4-12=16).

Vancouver goals came from: Brock Boeser (2), Filip Hronek

Helpers from: J.T. Miller (3) Hronek, Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes

Vancouver had multi-point games from: Miller (3), Boeser (2), Hronek (2)

Canucks starting goalie Casey DeSmith stopped 18 shots and picked up his 2nd loss of the season. He has a 3.06 GAA and a .907 SV%.

He is 4-2-1 with 0 shutouts in 6 game starts and 4-2-0-0 in road games.

GAME REVIEW

Controversy would not take long in the game. Similar to Friday night, the validity of a goal would be questioned.

Canucks Sam Lafferty made it 1-0 Vancouver, but the goal was challenged for interference, and the review resulted in the score disallowed.

The disallowed goal seemed to motivate the Sharks as they started getting chances in the Canucks end.

Vancouver was having problems getting sustained offensive play in the Sharks end, trouble setting up and working the puck around for scoring chances, as the first period approached the halfway point.

The Sharks would strike first as Ty Emberson scored his first NHL goal, assists Thomas Hertal (11) and Mike Hoffman (2) at 9:58, and San Jose was ahead 1-0.

The night before Canucks scored first and Seattle next had a disallowed goal. This time, the shoe was on the other foot, so-to-speak for Vancouver.

Canucks received a power play late in the opening period at 14:35 when former Canuck Kyle Burroughs went off for holding against Nils Aman, and Vancouver would take advantage, evening up the score at 1-1.

Filip Hronek (2) assists J.T. Miller (18) and Quinn Hughes (25) at 15:37.

With the assist, Hughes increased his points streak to 11 games in the month of November for a Canucks defenseman, a team record.

The second period was not a shot filled period, 7 minutes in with total shots in favor of the Sharks at 12-10 in the game (2-1 in the period).

Canucks would be looking to take the lead in the game on the power play as Nils Aman would be tripped in the Sharks end by Marc-Edouard  Vlasic under 9 minutes left in the period, but would not garner any shots on net.

Quickly after the Vancouver power play,  the Sharks would take a 2-1 lead on the 5th goal of the season by Fabian Zetterlund at 14:04 assist Hertal (12).

Canucks in the tail end of the 2nd period would get a power play when Hertal went of for the Sharks at 18:58 for high sticking QuinnHughes.

The Canucks scored 42 seconds in with Brock Boeser (14) finally scoring at 19:29 assists to Filip Hronek (20) and J.T. Miller (19).

Vancouver and Sharks knotted at 2-2 after 40 minutes of play.

By no means were the Canucks stemming along in the game, and their game was anything but smooth and sound from end to end, but if they could put a 20 minute all-in effort by every player in the 3rd, they just might pull this game out of the clutches of the Sharks.

As people were making their way to the seats for the final period,  San Jose scored  22 seconds into the final period to take a 3-2 lead.

Mikael Granlund (1) assists Calen Addison (8) and Mario Ferraro (3) at 0:22.

San Jose also would get a power play opportunity to add to their delight at the 1:00 mark.

Mike Hoffman (6) would score 48 seconds into their man advantage at 1:48, with assists to Granland (5) and Addison (9), and the Sharks were up two goals at 4-2.

At 5:20, a scuffle would break out and lead to multiple penalties for both teams and a power play for Vancouver.

The Canucks were unsuccessful for the second straight man advantage and were 2 for 4 as they were unable to get quality shots on net to pull within a goal of the Sharks.

Vancouver spent the rest of the period trying to claw their way back to leading in the game and continually found the Sharks inhospitable hosts that were intent on protecting their two goal lead.

Canucks pulled starting goalie DeSmith out for the 6th attacker with 3:45 left in the game.

Brock Boeser (15) would score with the extra man at 16:49, assists to Miller (20) and Elias Pettersson (21).

Vancouver continued with the extra man to get the equalizer and force the game to overtime.

San Jose would not relinquish the lead, and Vancouver would fall short by a goal at 4-3.

Brock Boeser Speaks:

Canucks Game Notes

  • Face-offs
    • VAN: 34/63: 54%; SJS: 29/63: 46%
  • Power Play
    • VAN: 2-4 SJS: 1-1
  • Penalty Kill
    • VAN: 0-1 SJS: 2-4
  • Shots
    • VAN: 34 SJS: 22
  • Hits
    • VAN: 19 SJS: 13
  • Blocked Shots
    • VAN: 15 SJS: 23

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Canucks Game Report | Vancouver Canucks at Seattle Kraken – 11.24.2023

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By Andrew Phillip Chernoff | CanucksBanter

November 24, 2023

The Vancouver Canucks (14-6-0-1), 2nd in the Pacific Division, visited the Seattle Kraken (8-9-0-5), 4rth in the Pacific Division, at Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, Washington, on Friday night.

After struggling to find their offensive game from their top two lines and an ineffective power play, the bottom six forwards came to the aid of Thatcher Demko, who made outstanding saves, to lead the team to a 5-1 road win over Seattle.

The Canucks losers of 3 of their last 4-games were taking on a Kraken team 3-0-0-2 in their last five games, including a 4-3 road win against Vancouver on November 18, 2023.

Canucks Andrei Kuzmenko did not play, suspected of being in Head Coach Rick Tocchet’s dog house.

Elias Pettersson, prior to tonight, had 1 goal and 3 assists in the last 7 games, and his strong 200-foot game had all but disappeared.

This game was the first of back to back games for Vancouver as San Jose Sharks welcome the Canucks on Saturday night.

  • Vancouver goals came from: Teddy Blueger,  Dakota Joshua, Sam Lafferty,  Nils Höglander, and Ilya Mikheyev.
  • Helpers from: Nils Aman (2), Conor Garland (2), Filip Hronek, Quinn Hughes, and Tyler Myers.
  • Canucks starting goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 23 shots and picked up his 10th win of the season. He has a 2.18 GAA and a .925 SV%.
  • Demko: 10-5-0 with 2 shutouts in 15 game starts.
  • Quinn Hughes has registered 24 points (5-19-24) in his last 13 games, totaling 32 points overall (8-24-32). He is 2nd place in NHL scoring. Hughes is also on a 10-game point streak (4-12-16).
  • J.T. Miller had his 9-game point streak (7-7-14) end tonight. He is tied for 3rd spot in NHL scoring (13-17-30).

GAME REVIEW

The Canucks started out with doing a good job of pressuring the Kraken  in their own end trying to get the opening goal.

Canucks Nils Hoglander unfortunately received a penalty for holding Tye Kartye.

During the Kraken  power play, Vancouver’s Dakota Joshua had a breakaway on Seattle goalie Joey Daccord but was denied.

Shortly after Joshua failed to score shorthanded, Teddy Blueger scored his first goal as Canuck shorthanded at 5:05, unassisted and Vancouver had a 1-0 lead.

Seattle would score with J.T. Miller in the penalty box for tripping, but a successful challenge by Vancouver verified an offside on the goal, disallowing it.

The game continued at 1-0 Canucks, and Seattle was an early 0 for 2 on their power play.

Didn’t take long for the Kraken to get another man advantage as Canucks Tyler Myers received a 4 minute penalty for high-sticking at 11:33. Previous power plays Seattle registered one shot on net.

The first half of the double-minor was unsuccessful, with the Kraken getting 4 shots on the net, and they registered no shots on the last half of the double-minor.

The penalties were cramping the Canucks offensive momentum with the only goal being shorthanded and little even strength opportunities registered, and the period nearing an end.

Canucks up a goal after one period and they had a bucket of 4-leaf clovers on the bench I think.

Four leaf clovers aside, the Canucks needed a better showing in the second period, and their better players giving starting goalie Thatcher Demko some even strength goal support and staying out of the penalty box.

The second period did not start well offensively as they hadn’t registered a shot on the Kraken goalie in the first 6:48, outshot 9-0, with Demko making outstanding saves.

Their forechecking on Seattle was virtually non-existent.

The last half of the middle frame started out well for Vancouver as the Canucks started getting their offense set up and passing it around with movement from the players.

Finally, Dakota Joshua (3), after missing out on a breakaway opportunity in the opening period,  finally scores at even strength to put Vancouver up by two goals at 2-0. Assists Conor Garland (4) and Nils Aman (1) at 12:07, for a 2-0 game.

As the period was coming to an end , the Canucks had tied Seattle in shots at 9-9.

But….yes, but….the Kraken were down but not out as the Canucks continued to give up the puck and Seattle capitalized to come within a goal of Vancouver at 2-1.

Kartye (3) assists Vince Dunn (16) at even strength 17:29.

Vancouver was in for a hell of a 3rd period against Seattle as a one goal lead probably was not going to do it for the Canucks against the Kraken team that was riding at 5 game undefeated streak in regulation play.

Seattle carried the play early in the 3rd period with the Canucks, as they just couldn’t get the time they needed to get that two goal lead.

To the Canucks credit the players were doing everything they could defensively to help Demko by back checking hard and blocking shots in their end.

Finally, all the hard work by Vancouver to stave off Seattle was rewarded as Sam Lafferty (5) scores, assists Filip Hronek (19) and Quinn Hughes (24) at 9:43, and it’s 3-1 Canucks.

Nils Höglander (7) scores at even strength, less than 3 minutes later, to put Vancouver up by three goals at 4-1 assist to Nils Aman (2) at 12:38.

The bottom six of the lineup was continuing to bring it and reward Demko with their goal support.

At the time of Höglanders’ goal, Kraken was outshot 9-0 in the final period.

After a power play opportunity for Vancouver was fruitless, Ilya Mikheyev (7)  scored the Canucks 5th goal at 17:30 assists Conor Garland (5) and Tyler Myers (8), for a 4-goal, 5-1 advantage and Canucks 14th season win.

Canucks Head Coach Rick Tocchet Speaks:

Canucks Teddy Blueger Speaks:

Canucks Game Notes

  • Face-offs
    • VAN: 29/57:51%; SEA: 28/57:49 %
  • Power Play
    • VAN: 0-2; SEA: 0-4
  • Penalty Kill
    • VAN: 4-4; SEA: 2-2
  • Shots
    • VAN: 27; SEA: 24
  • Hits
    • VAN: 14; SEA: 16
  • Blocked Shots
    • VAN: 21; SEA: 13

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