VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the second of three meetings between the Canucks and Golden Knights this season: Nov. 21 (5-4 L), Nov. 26 (away), and Mar. 21 (home).
• The Canucks are now 4-9-2 all-time against the Golden Knights, including a 2-5-0 record on the road.
• Vancouver is 3-6-1 in their last 10 games vs Vegas (2-2-1 in their last 5).
• Among active Canucks skaters, Bo Horvat (9-4-13 in 15 GP) and Elias Pettersson (7-6-13 in 10 GP) lead the team in points against the Golden Knights at 13.
• Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads the Canucks in games played against Vegas with 21 (1-7-8 in those 21 games).
• Thatcher Demko is 2-2-1 in five career starts against the Golden Knights, posting a 3.64 GAA and .897 save-percentage. Demko faced 38 shots in the last meeting between the two teams, one short of tying his season high.
• Spencer Martin has yet to face Vegas in his career.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Brock Boeser has nine points (2-7-9) in his last eight games and is on an eight-game point streak (2-7-9) since returning from injury.
• Bo Horvat has 12 goals (12-4-16) in the last 12 games and is tied with Connor McDavid and Jason Robertson for the league-lead in goals this season (16).
• Quinn Hughes has 18 points (0-18-18) this season and is tied for second in the NHL for assists among defencemen (18 in 16 GP).
• Andrei Kuzmenko has five points (1-4-5) in his last three games.
• J.T. Miller is averaging a point per game (5-5-10) in his last 10 games and is on a six-game point streak (3-3-6).
• Elias Pettersson leads the team with 24 points (10-14-24) this season and has tallied six points (4-2-6) in his last five games.
• Luke Schenn is 20 hits away from tying Brooks Orpik (2,946) for the NHL all-time record of most hits by a defenceman.
LAST MEETING – NOV. 21/22: VAN 4 vs VGK 5
Andrei Kuzmenko opened the scoring at 11:48 in the second period…Brock Boeser extended his point streak to seven games with an assist…Bo Horvat notched his team-leading 15th goal of the campaign at 1:47 in the third period to tie the game…J.T. Miller extended his point streak to five games with an assist while Riley Stillman recorded his first point as a Canuck on the play…Luke Schenn and Elias Pettersson each scored in quick succession in the third period to give Vancouver a two-goal lead…Quinn Hughes (0-2-2) and Andrei Kuzmenko (1-1-2) registered multi-point games…Six Canucks had three hits on the evening…Tyler Myers led in blocked shots (3)…Bo Horvat won 18 of 28 faceoffs…Thatcher Demko faced 38 shots.
2022.23 TEAM RANKS
VAN VGK
Goals For/Game 3.50 (7th) 3.67 (5th)
Goals Against/Game 3.90 (30th) 2.48 (3rd)
Power Play % 27.1 (5th) 21.0 (18th)
Penalty Kill % 65.7 (32nd) 76.0 (22nd)
Penalty Min./Game 12:03 (t-27th) 5:31 (1st)
*Rankings are accurate as of 10:30am PT on November 25
Vancouver Canucks: Media Notes
LAST GAME PLAYED – NOV. 23/22: VAN 4 at COL 3
Ilya Mikheyev opened the scoring 21 seconds into the game for his fifth of the season…Elias Pettersson and Andrei Kuzmenko both recorded assists on the play…Bo Horvat would tie the game at 10:34 in the second, while also tying for league-leading in goals (16)…Ethan Bear and J.T. Miller were credited with the assists…Sheldon Dries scored his second goal of the season just over five minutes into the third…Oliver Ekman-Larsson got his first of two helpers on the night with the first assist while Brock Boeser got the secondary…Bear would score the game-winning goal at 12:00 in the third, with Ekman-Larsson and Dries collecting the assists…Bear, Dries, and Ekman-Larsson all put up a multi-point game (2)…Spencer Martin got his fifth win of the season, turning away 33 shots on the evening.
LAST 5 vs VEGAS
• Nov. 21/22: VAN 4 vs VGK 5
• Apr. 12/22: VAN 5 vs VGK 4 (OT)
• Apr. 6/22: VAN 5 at VGK 1
• Apr. 3/22: VAN 2 vs VGK 3 (OT)
• Nov. 13/21: VAN 4 at VGK 7
A GENTLEMAN’S GAME
Recording only one minor penalty (2:00) in the last meeting against Vegas on Nov. 21, the Canucks all-time average penalty minutes per game vs the Golden Knights dropped to 6:28, their lowest total average against a single opponent. The Golden Knights also have the lowest penalty minutes per game this season, league wide, at 5:31.
MOVIN’ ON UP
With the team’s 4-3 victory on Nov. 23 at COL, Bruce Boudreau tied Tom Renney 13th place on the Canucks all-time wins list with his 39th victory.
EV40
Scoring at 5-on-5 in the third period on Nov. 21 vs VGK, Elias Pettersson tallied his 10th goal of the season, all of which have come at even strength. He is tied for second in the league with five others (A. Svechnikov, M. Rantanen, E. Karlsson, C. Caufield, J. Eichel) for most even strength goals this season (10).
POWER PLAY PROWESS
Netting 16 power play goals on 47 opportunities in their last 14 games played, the Canucks’ power play ranks second in the NHL since Oct. 24, producing at a rate of 34.0%. Vancouver also has the fifth-ranked power play in the league this season at 27.1% and second-ranked power play on home ice at 38.5%.
HUGHES’ HELPING HANDS
• Collecting two assists on Nov. 21 vs VGK, Quinn Hughes passed Sami Salo for sole possession of 9th place on the Canucks all-time assists list among defencemen (164) in 346 fewer games played.
• Picking up a power play assist to extend his personal assist streak to 10 games (0-13-13) on Nov. 13 at BOS, Hughes passed Jiri Bubla (1983.84) for the second-longest assist streak by a defenceman in Canucks history. He is only one of two Canuck defencemen to ever hit a double-digit streak, being one game short of tying Dennis Kearns for the franchise record (11 games in 1976.77).
BO’S BLAZING START
Scoring his team-leading 16th goal on Nov. 23 at VGK, Bo Horvat became the four player (fifth instance) in Canucks history to notch as many goals in the team’s first 20 games of the season.
• Scoring his sixth power play goal of the season, Horvat surpassed Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin for 9th most power play goals in franchise history (62).
• Tallying eight goals in five games (Oct. 28-Nov. 8), Horvat tied Mikael Samuelsson (2009.10) and Alexandre Burrows (2009.10) as the only Canucks to do so in the last 26 years.
• Horvat is also the first player in franchise history to have five multi-goal games in the first 13 games.
• With 30 goals in 38 games since March 9, 2022, Horvat has the highest goals per game (0.79) in the League during that stretch (minimum 5 GP).
HARD HITTING SCHENN
Matching his personal career-high and the Canucks franchise-high (set by himself) with 12 hits on Nov. 12 at TOR, Luke Schenn became the first player in NHL history to record at least three games with 12+ hits in his career. With 2,926 career hits, Schenn is only 20 hits away from tying Brooks Orpik (2,946) for most in League-history by a defencemen. Schenn has collected the most hits in the NHL this season (86 in 20 GP).
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS NOTES:
GOLDEN KNIGHTS UPCOMING GAMES
Golden Knights 2022-23 Record: 16-5-1, 33 points (7-4-0 at Home, 9-1-1 on Road)
DATE OPPONENT TELEVISION RADIO SPANISH RADIO
Nov. 26 vs. Vancouver Canucks AT&T SportsNet Fox Sports 98.9 FM/1340 AM Deportes 1460 AM
Nov. 28 at Columbus Blue Jackets AT&T SportsNet Fox Sports 98.9 FM/1340 AM None
Dec. 1 at Pittsburgh Penguins AT&T SportsNet Fox Sports 98.9 FM/1340 AM None
Dec. 3 at Detroit Red Wings AT&T SportsNet Fox Sports 98.9 FM/1340 AM None
Dec. 5 at Boston Bruins AT&T SportsNet Fox Sports 98.9 FM/1340 AM None
GOLDEN KNIGHTS LAST GAME RECAP
November 25 – Vegas Golden Knights 2, Seattle Kraken 4
The Vegas Golden Knights (16-5-1) were set back by the Seattle Kraken (12-5-3) in a 4-2 loss on Firday night at T-Mobile Arena. Seattle got the scoring started early as Ryan Donato found the back of the net at 2:38 of the opening period. Adrei Burakovsky added to the lead, but Nicolas Roy and Phil Kessel scored less than two minutes apart to knot the game at 2-2. The Kraken took over the second period as Burakovsky and Jordan Eberle potted a goal apiece to put the visitors up, 4-2. Seattle kept Vegas off the scoresheet in the third period and escaped with the two-goal win.
LAST GAME BY THE NUMBERS
- Roy scores in his first game back in the line-up since Nov. 17
- Shea Theodore had a pair of assists on the night
- Kessel posts his first goal since Nov. 5
- Vegas improves to 16-4-1 overall and 7-3-0 at home
Martinez Block Party
Golden Knights defenseman Alec Martinez leads the NHL with 98 blocked shots in 22 games this season. Martinez has led the team in blocked shots in 16 of 22 games. After snapping his 114-game streak with a blocked shot on Wednesday, Martinez recorded 7 blocked shots in the first period on Friday against Seattle. Martinez also recently recorded a season high of nine blocked shots against the San Jose Sharks on November 15, matching his career high and the franchise record, which he shares with Deryk Engelland.
Aye-Aye Captain!
Captain Mark Stone matched his career-best goal streak with tallies in four straight games (5G-1A) Stone’s nine goals on the year are two off Jack Eichel’s team lead and he is fourth on the team in scoring with 18 points.
Jack of all Trades
Jack Eichel has points in 12 of the last 14 games for Vegas (8G-11A), including consecutive multiple-point efforts in two of the last three games. His 26 point rank tied for 11th in the league and his +16 rating is tops among all NHL forwards (fourth overall).
Where there’s a Will there’s a Way
William Carrier followed the first mulyi-goal game of his career on Monday in Vancouver with another goal Wednesday, giving him four in the last five games. The forward, who had a career-best nine goals last season, has seven through 20 games this year.
O from the D
Vegas defensemen have accoubted for an NHL-leading 49 assists and 57 points total, which trails only San Jose. Both Alex Pietrangelo (T-4th, 21 points) and Shea Theodore (T-15th, 16 points) are aong the top 20 defensemen in scoring league-wide.
Back-to-Back
Vegas is playing home games on consecutive days for the sixth time in franchise history, entering tonight’s game with a 6-2-3 mark in the previous games, The Golden Knights last hosted games on back-to-back days May 7-8, 2021, both against the St. Louis Blues (4-3 OT win, 4-1 win).
The Shorty King
Reilly Smith netted his third shorthanded goal of the season against St. Louis on November 12. Smith leads the league with his three shorties and Vegas is tied for first as the team with the most short handed goals this season with four. His 11 shorthanded goals since joining Vegas in 2017-18 are the most in franchise history.
Powered by Pietrangelo
Alex Pietrangelo has four three-point games this season and is tied for fourth among league defensemen with 21 points. The team’s ice time leader at 23:33 per game, Pietrangelo has 15 points in the last 12 games (3G, 12A).
Easy Steph-y
Chandler Stephenson has 19 points in Vegas’ 22 games, to go with three game-winning goals. Stephenson’s 63.1 faceoff win percentage ranks third in the NHL among all qualified skaters. Stephenson has recorded a point in five straight games twice this season including seven assists during his most recent point streak.
Road Trip Warriors
The VGK road record improved to 9-1-1 on Monday night, the best road record in the NHL. 19 of Vegas’ 31 points have come on the road, including the 10 straight points the Golden Knights brought home after going 5-0-0 as the visiting team earlier this month. With their ninth win on enemy ice coming in Vancouver, Vegas is now 15-4-1 in 20 games overall, matching the the 2020-21 season for the best start in franchise history.
Spreading the Wealth
Nine Golden Knights have recorded 10 or more points this season, tied with four other teams for the most of any team in the league. Jack Eichel leads the club with 26 points, followed by Alex Pietrangleo with 21 points and Chandler Stephenson with 19 points.
Golden Knights Point Leaders
- Jack Eichel – 26 (11G, 15A)
- Alex Pietrangelo – 21 (3G, 18A)
- Chandler Stephenson – 19 (6G, 13A)
- Mark Stone – 18 (9G, 9A)
- Jonathan Marchessault – 16 (7G, 9A)
Stingy Knights
The Golden Knights’ goaltender tandem of Logan Thompson and Adin Hill is one of the best in the NHL, as Vegas is third in team defense, allowing just 2.46 goals per game. Thompson and Hill’s combined save percentage of .917 is fourth in the league. Last season, the Golden Knights ranked 15th in the league in team defense (2.98 goals allowed per game). Thompson, who has won three straight starts, is second in the league in wins (11) behind Boston’s Linus Ullmark (13). When Thomspon improved to 10-3-0 on Monday, he tied the franchise record for least amount of games played to reach 10 wins. Marc-Andre Fleury (10-3-0) and Robin Lehner (10-1-2) both reached 10 wins in 13 games during the 2020-21 season. Hill’s record dropped to 5-2-1 on Friday night against Seattle. Hill stopped 24 of 28 shots on the night, posting a .857 save percentage.
Against the Canucks
Vegas’ contest with Vancouver marks the second of three meetings this season. The Golden Knights own an overall record of 11-1-3 against the Canucks. The Golden Knights recently visited Rogers Arena on Monday where they overcame a two-goal deficit in the third period to defeat the Canucks 5-4. Vegas saw scoring from William Carrier (2), Mark Stone, Reilly Smith, and Alex Pietrangelo; Jack Eichel and Alec Martinez also each had a pair of assist. Jonathan Marchessault holds the most points in the least amount of games played against the Canucks posting 18 points (9G, 9A) in 16 contests. Phil Kessel owns 20 points in 24 match-ups and Alex Pietrangelo has 21 points in 35 games played (7G, 14A).
2022-23 Season VAN Series: 1-0-0 (Home: 0-0-0, Road: 1-0-0)
Nov. 21 – at Vancouver (Vegas 5, Vancouver 4)
Nov. 26 – at Vegas
Mar. 21 – at Vancouver
2021-22 Season VAN Series: 2-1-1 (Home: 1-1-0, Road: 1-0-1)
Nov. 13 – at Vegas (Vegas 7, Vancouver 4)
Apr. 3 – at Vancouver (Vegas 3, Vancouver 2)
Apr. 6 – at Vegas (Vegas 1, Vancouver 5)
Apr. 16 – at Vancouver (Vegas 4, Vancouver 5 OT)
