The Vancouver Canucks rebounded from their back-to-back losses towards the Seattle Kraken and Anaheim Geese on the highway and beat the Ducks 3-2 at Rogers Enviornment on Wednesday night time. The Canucks fell behind 1-0 early regardless of a powerful begin, however acquired objectives from Jake DeBrusk, Teddy Blueger, and Carson Soucy within the second interval to tug forward 3-1 and finally win solely their thirteenth recreation on residence ice. The Geese acquired tallies from Sam Colangelo and Brian Dumoulin as they misplaced for under the fourth time of their final 10 video games.
The win pulls the Canucks again right into a tie with the Calgary Flames for the second wild card spot, whereas the Geese fall to 6 again. Right here is your recreation recap.
Sport Recap
The story of the primary interval was John Gibson because the Canucks threw 17 photographs his means and he stopped all of them. The Canucks got here out flying and outshot the Geese 17-5, however couldn’t put one by Gibson. He made a number of highlight-reel saves (and acquired a little bit assist from his good friend, the publish, 10 seconds in), together with one the place he made a behind-the-back glove save to rob Brock Boeser of his nineteenth. The Geese even left the opening interval up 1-0 after Colangelo acquired a fortunate deflection at 13:21 on his group’s third shot of the sport.
The Canucks lastly acquired on the board early within the second on their third energy play of the sport. DeBrusk potted his twenty second of the season and tenth on the ability play after he took a cross from Boeser and wristed it over the blocker of Gibson simply 1:40 in. Then, they took the lead with Teddy Blueger’s sixth, deflecting the puck off Geese’ defenseman Jackson LaCombe at 10:33, earlier than Soucy’s third survived an extended coach’s problem for goaltender interference at 18:51 to take a two-goal lead into the second intermission. The Canucks ended up getting solely two previous Gibson, although, because the Geese starter needed to go away the sport after getting run into by Drew O’Connor, with Lukas Dostal taking up and permitting Soucy’s 3-1 aim late within the interval.
The Geese acquired inside one within the third interval with Dumoulin’s second of the season, however they couldn’t discover the equalizer late and fell 3-2 to the Canucks. Gibson stopped 19 of 21 earlier than handing the reins to Dostal within the second, who completed with the loss after permitting Soucy’s eventual game-winner. He stopped 14 of 15 in reduction. Lankinen, in the meantime, wasn’t very busy however nonetheless allowed two on 16 photographs. He improved to 21-10-7 on the season, whereas Dostal fell to 18-15-5.
What’s Subsequent for the Canucks & Geese?
Each groups are again in motion on Friday because the Canucks proceed their four-game homestand towards the Minnesota Wild, whereas the Geese return to Anaheim and begin their very own three-game homestand towards the St. Louis Blues.
