Canucks Register First Win Of The 2024-25 Common Season With A 3–2 Time beyond regulation Win In opposition to the Florida Panthers

The Canucks took on the defending Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers on Thursday evening, profitable their first sport of the common season 3–2 in extra time. Teddy Blueger, Quinn Hughes, and J.T. Miller have been the aim scorers for the Canucks, whereas Jesper Boqvist and Anton Lundell registered tallies for Florida. Kevin Lankinen made a powerful 26 saves on 28 pictures in opposition to for his first win together with his new group.

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Coming off a winless begin to the common season, Vancouver shook up their strains by sliding birthday boy Jake DeBrusk to Blueger’s line and setting Elias Pettersson up with spark plugs Nils Höglander and Conor Garland. The one line exempt from being blended up — made up of Miller, Brock Boeser, and Arshdeep Bains — proved why they have been saved collectively by beginning the sport with a spring of their steps. Vincent Desharnais and the newly called-up Erik Brännström took the locations of Derek Forbort (private depart) and Noah Juulsen.

Thursday evening’s sport marked the fourth sport in a row that the Panthers performed with out Matthew Tkachuk and captain Aleksander Barkov. Tkachuk has remained out of the lineup as a consequence of sickness, whereas Barkov sustained an damage in a matchup in opposition to the Ottawa Senators final Thursday. The Panthers dressed 11 forwards for this sport and, half method by means of, misplaced Jonah Gadjovich and Sam Reinhart (although the latter returned).

Vancouver continued its development of scoring first, one thing they’ve accomplished three out of 4 of their video games this season, although their first-period lead was short-lived. After a prolonged assessment, a wraparound shot by Blueger was dominated a superb aim, negating what would have been a penalty on former Canuck Nate Schmidt. Solely 11 seconds later, Florida tied it up with a shot by Jesper Boqvist that bounced off Lankinen and into the web.

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Wraparound possibilities have been a preferred topic on this sport, as a interval after Blueger’s reviewed aim, Evan Rodrigues tried his personal that additionally ended up underneath assessment. Nevertheless, footage confirmed that the puck didn’t utterly cross the aim line, negating any probability of a outcome like Blueger’s. Afterward in the identical interval, Rodrigues tried one other financial institution shot off of Lankinen’s proper leg, however the Canucks goaltender shortly coated the puck earlier than Florida might take the lead.

One other scorching matter was a sport stoppage coaches problem by Panthers head coach Paul Maurice. Florida issued the problem, believing that Nils Åman’s glove made contact with the puck on a faceoff earlier than Hughes tucked the puck previous a screened Sergei Bobrovsky. After one other jiffy of reviewing footage, officers rejected Maurice’s problem, permitting Vancouver to take a 2–1 lead. With this tally, Hughes is now tied for the twelfth most targets by a defenceman in franchise historical past. The Canucks captain completed the sport with a shocking 9 pictures on aim.

Two Canucks, Blueger and his linemate, Kiefer Sherwood, took beatings on this sport. Blueger dropped the gloves with Uvis Balinskis after nudging the pad of Bobrovsky following a stoppage in play. Sherwood, however, had pucks introducing themselves to his face in each the primary and second interval. Regardless of being hit each on the aspect of his face and on the chin, Sherwood stayed within the sport, persevering with his constant bodily play.

Vancouver’s glorious penalty kill hit a skid as Anton Lundell notched a aim close to the final minute of the second interval. An formidable hit dedicated by Carson Soucy left Lundell sufficient area to shoot the puck previous Lankinen, tying the sport up at 2–2. The Canucks adopted this up with one remaining offensive push of the interval however to no avail.

Beforehand paired up with Aatu Räty and now taking part in with Pettersson, Garland, and Höglander confirmed promise with a drive and hustle that resulted in handsome scoring possibilities all through every interval. Within the third, a fortunate bounce discovered its method into Garland’s path, which he handed over to Höglander to generate a shot that rang loudly off the put up.

The result of this sport might have been very completely different if not for the sharp play of Lankinen. With a relaxed manner, Lankinen made save after save briefly bursts all through the sport. Nevertheless, throughout the best way, Bobrovsky matched his glorious play. Peppered with shot after shot from numerous Canucks, the Panthers goaltender little question saved his group within the sport throughout the third interval. The Canucks performed nicely throughout the third interval, however Bobrovsky might have performed even higher.

Fear struck in the beginning of extra time as Hughes was noticed heading to the dressing room after successful, although the captain took to the ice with ease because the puck was dropped to begin the additional body. An fascinating alternative was made by Paul Maurice, who selected to ice solely forwards all through the extra time interval — one thing that finally value him the sport, as Miller took benefit of their positions and shot the puck over Bobrovsky’s blocker. The sport-winner is his tenth extra time aim scored for the Canucks.

Information and Stats:

– Quinn Hughes units a brand new profession excessive with eight pictures on internet

– Kiefer Sherwood turns into the sixth ahead in franchise historical past to file 10+ hits in a sport

– Canucks 41 hits are probably the most by a group within the NHL to this point this season

– Vancouver surpasses the 30-shot mark for the primary time this season

Scoring Abstract:

First Interval:

11:42- VAN: Teddy Blueger (2) from Kiefer Sherwood and Jake DeBrusk
11:53- FLA: Jesper Boqvist (1) from Mackie Samoskevich and Gustav Forsling

Second Interval: 

6:30- VAN: Quinn Hughes (1) from Danton Heinen and Nils Åman
19:00- FLA: Anton Lundell from Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart (PPG)

Third Interval: 

No Scoring

Time beyond regulation: 

2:09- VAN: J.T. Miller from Quinn Hughes and Brock Boeser

Up Subsequent:

With the extra time win, Vancouver is now .500 on the season. They hope to construct off of this win as they tackle the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, October nineteenth. Puck drop is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. PST.