VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
TV: Sportsnet
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the second of three meetings between the Canucks and Oilers this season: Oct. 12 (5-3 L @ EDM), Dec. 23 (away), Jan. 21 (home)
• The Canucks are 108-121-15-19 all-time against the Oilers, including a 48-69-7-8 record on the road.
• Vancouver is 2-5-3 in their last 10 games vs Edmonton (0-2-3 in their last 5).
• Among active Canucks skaters, Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads the team in career points and games played against Edmonton with 29 points (12-17-29) in 44 games played.
• J.T. Miller has 24 points (6-18-24) in 26 career games against Edmonton.
• Brock Boeser has 20 points (10-10-20) in 25 career games against Edmonton.
• Bo Horvat has 23 points (9-14-23) in 26 career games against Edmonton.
• Conor Garland has nine points (4-5-9) in 12 career games against Edmonton.
• Spencer Martin is 0-0-2 in two career games vs the Oilers, recording a 2.32 GAA and .940 save percentage.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Bo Horvat has seven points (5-2-7) in his last eight games is tied for fourth in the NHL in goals (22) this season.
• Quinn Hughes has seven points (0-7-7) in his last eight games and ranks t-3rd in the NHL in assists among defencemen this season (28 in 28 GP).
• Hughes is also ranked third among NHL defencemen in power play assists with 15.
• Andrei Kuzmenko has eight points (3-5-8) in his last seven games.
• Elias Pettersson has 12 points (4-8-12) in his last six games.
• Luke Schenn holds the NHL all-time record of most hits (2,988) by a defenceman.
LAST MEETING – OCT. 12/22: VAN 3 at EDM 5
Elias Pettersson notched Vancouver’s first goal of the 2022.23 campaign just 1:49 into the opening frame, unassisted…J.T. Miller added to Vancouver’s lead just 51 seconds later, assisted by Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes…Andrei Kuzmenko scored his first career NHL goal on the power play…J.T. Miller posted a two-point game with the primary assist while Bo Horvat drew the second assist…Elias Pettersson led the team in shots (5)…Luke Schenn registered team-highs in hits (6) and blocks (4)…Thatcher Demko faced 24 shots.
2022.23 TEAM RANKS
VAN EDM
Goals For/Game 3.34 (9th) 3.65 (3rd)
Goals Against/Game 3.94 (30th) 3.41 (t-22nd)
Power Play % 26.1 (7th) 33.1 (1st)
Penalty Kill % 67.4 (32nd) 72.7 (26th)
Penalty Min./Game 10:52 (25th) 8:28 (11th)
*Rankings are accurate as of 4:00pm PT on December 23
Vancouver Canucks: Media Notes
LAST GAME PLAYED – DEC. 22/22: VAN 6 vs SEA 5 (SO)
Lane Pederson tied the game at 1-1 with his first goal as a Canuck at 17:17 in the first period, assisted by Elias Pettersson and Andrei Kuzmenko…Elias Pettersson scored Vancouver’s second goal at 8:09 in the second period to cut the deficit to one goal…Luke Schenn and Andrei Kuzmenko assisted on the play…Kuzmenko (1-2-3) followed up with a goal of his own at 5:13 in the third period, assisted by Pederson (first career multi-point game) and Pettersson…Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson each scored in the third period to send the game to overtime, as Pettersson recorded his fourth career five-point game (most in franchise history)…J.T. Miller (one assist) and Elias Pettersson (2-3-5, GDG) each scored in the shootout to give Vancouver the win…Luke Schenn led the team in hits (8) and blocks (4)…Bo Horvat won 18 face-offs…Spencer Martin faced 36 shots.
LAST 5 vs EDMONTON
• Oct. 12/22: VAN 3 @ EDM 5
• Apr. 29/22: VAN 2 @ EDM 3 (SO)
• Jan. 25/22: VAN 2 vs EDM 3 (OT)
• Oct. 30/21: VAN 1 vs EDM 2
• Oct. 13/21: VAN 2 @ EDM 3 (SO)
EXCEPTIONAL ELIAS
Tallying two goals and three assists, in addition to the shootout winner, on Dec. 22 vs SEA, Elias Pettersson registered his second five-point outing of the season and the fourth such occasion in his career, setting a new Canucks franchise record. The previous mark was held by Alexander Mogilny with three five-point games.
• Pettersson now has 39 points (15-24-39) in 30 games played this season, which is t-14th in the NHL. His 39 points are also the most by a Canucks skater through the team’s first 32 games of a season since Daniel Sedin (40 pts) and Henrik Sedin (39 pts) in 2010.11.
• With all 15 of his goals so far this season coming at even-strength, Pettersson ranks t-4th in the NHL in even-strength goals, and is the only player with 11+ tallies to have scored all of his goals at even-strength.
SEATTLE CRACKIN’
With a 6-5 shootout victory on Dec. 22 vs SEA, the Canucks improved their record vs the Seattle Kraken to 6-0-0 all-time. This marks only the second time in franchise history that the Canucks have won each of their first six regular season games vs an opponent (also won first nine games vs the Washington Capitals from Dec. 17/74 – Oct. 13/76).
SEEING DOUBLE (DIGITS)
Thanks to Ilya Mikheyev’s 10th goal of the season on Dec. 19 vs STL, the Canucks have five 10+ goal-scorers on their roster (Horvat [22], Kuzmenko [13], Pettersson [13], Miller [11], Mikheyev [10]) through the team’s first 31 games for the first time since 1992.93 (also five). Other occasions with at least five 10+ goal scorers through 31 team games include: 1986.87 (5), 1982.83 (5), 1981.82 (5), 1980.81 (5), 1979.80 (6), 1975.76 (5), 1974.75 (5). • With Mikheyev’s goal, the Canucks also became just the fifth team in the NHL to possess five or more 10+ goal-scorers at that point in the season, joining Buffalo (6), Boston (5), Ottawa (5), and Tampa Bay (5).
ALL ABOUT APPLES
Collecting the lone assist on Ilya Mikheyev’s goal on Dec. 19 vs STL, Quinn Hughes registered his 27th assist of the season in his 27th game of the season and the 31st team game for Vancouver. In doing so, he became the third player (fourth occasion) in franchise history to record 27 or more assists in the team’s first 31 games, and first since Henrik Sedin (27) in 2011.12. Henrik Sedin has the most assists through the team’s first 31 games in a season with 31 (2010.11).
• With two assists on Dec. 3 vs ARI, Quinn Hughes surpassed Doug Lidster for fourth most multi-assist games among defencemen in Canucks history at 35 games.
LET’S GET IT STARTED
Scoring two goals just 34 seconds apart on Dec. 14 at CGY, Bo Horvat and Conor Garland recorded the fifth fastest two goals to start a game in Canucks history at 1:48 in the first.
• Scoring his team-leading 22nd goal on Dec. 17 vs WPG, Bo Horvat is the fourth skater in Canucks history to score at least as many goals in the team’s first 30 games of the season, joining Tony Tanti (22 in ’83-’84), Pavel Bure (25 in ’92-93) and Alexander Mogilny (22 in ’95-96).
• Earlier this season, Horvat became the first player in franchise history to have five multi-goal games in the first 13 games.
MARTY MART AND THE WINNING BUNCH
Collecting his ninth victory of the season on Dec. 14 at CGY, Spencer Martin ranks third in Canucks history for most wins through the
first 15 appearances in a season behind Ryan Miller (12 in 2014.15) and Kirk McLean (10 in 1991.92).
BELIEVING IN BRUCE
With the team’s 7-6 OT victory on Dec. 5 vs MTL, the Canucks overcame a 4-0 deficit for only the third time in franchise history to secure a 4-goal comeback win (Jan. 16/73 vs TOR 6-4 W & Oct. 15/71 vs CAL 9-6 W). Coincidentally, Bruce Boudreau also earned his third career win in a game where his team trailed by four-plus goals (Dec. 23/08 w/ WSH & Mar. 31/14 w/ ANA).
• With the team’s 4-3 (SO) victory on Dec. 14 at CGY, Bruce Boudreau surpassed Hal Laycoe for sole possession of 12th place on the Canucks all-time coaches wins list at 45.
PUTTING THE ‘SUDDEN’ IN SUDDEN DEATH
Elias Pettersson’s game-winning overtime goal on Dec. 5 vs MTL came just 13 seconds into OT, making it the fastest goal to start a regular season overtime period in Canucks history. The previous record was held by Dixon Ward who scored 15 seconds into OT on Nov. 29/93.
SCHENN’S GREATEST HITS
Luke Schenn has collected the most hits among all skaters in the NHL this season (148 in 32 GP).
• Recording six hits on Dec. 3 vs ARI, Luke Schenn claimed the NHL all-time record for most hits by a defenceman (2,948), surpassing Brooks Orpik (2,946), and is now ranked sixth all-time among all skaters.
• On Nov. 12 at TOR, Schenn matched a franchise record with 12 hits in a game and became the first player in NHL history to record at least three games with 12+ hits in his career.
*The NHL began tracking hits in 2005.06.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
• Collin Delia recalled from Abbotsford under emergency conditions, Dec. 22
• Arturs Silovs reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 22
• Arturs Silovs recalled from Abbotsford under emergency conditions, Dec. 21
• Collin Delia reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 21
• Collin Delia recalled from Abbotsford under emergency conditions, Dec. 20
• Arturs Silovs reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 20
• Nils Höglander reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 19
• Arturs Silovs recalled from Abbotsford under emergency conditions, Dec. 19
• Collin Delia reassigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 19
• Travis Dermott assigned to Abbotsford on LTI conditioning loan, Dec. 19
• Lane Pederson recalled from Abbotsford, Dec. 16
EMONTON OILERS NOTES:
7:00 p.m. MT at Rogers Place
BROADCAST INFO: 630 CHED Radio, Sportsnet
18-14-2 – 38 PTS RECORD 13-15-3 – 29 PTS
Div. – 4th Conference – 8th RANK Div. – 6th Conference – 12th
1st – 33.1% (41/124) POWER PLAY 8th – 25.9% (28/108)
26th – 72.7% (93/128) PENALTY KILL 32nd – 67.0% (63/94)
ALL-TIME RECORDS vs. VANCOUVER GP RECORD HOME (132) AWAY (131) GF GA
OILERS ALL-TIME vs. VANCOUVER 263 136-93-19-15 77-42-7-6 59-51-12-9 946 838
OILERS vs. VANCOUVER – 2022-23 1 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 5 3
QUICK FACTS
• Friday’s game will mark Edmonton’s second of four games against Vancouver this season and the second and final game at home. The next time these teams will meet is January 21st in Vancouver.
• The last time these teams met was on October 12th in Edmonton, with the Oilers winning 5-3.
• Connor McDavid leads the team with 58 career points against Vancouver and also has a team leading 20 goals and 38 assists against the Canucks.
POINT STREAKING
-Connor McDavid is currently on 14-game point streak posting 30 points (13G, 17A), marking the third longest point streak of his career.
-Tyson Barrie is on an 8-game point streak, posting 12 assists
-Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is on a 5-game point streak, notching eight points (4G, 4A)
GOALS BY PERIOD
The Oilers rank 1st in the NHL in goals for in the second period with 47. They also rank tied for 1st in the league in third period goals with 48.
HATS OFF
Zach Hyman scored his first career hat trick on Dec. 13 at NSH, while posting four points (3G, 1A) in the Oilers 6-3 win over the Predators.
MCDAVID AND DRAISAITL – 1, 2 PUNCH
Connor McDavid (13-17—30 in 14 GP) extended the League’s longest active point streak to 14 contests on Dec. 21 at DAL. Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid had five and four points, respectively on Dec. 13 against Nashville and became the fifth pair of teammates in NHL history each with at least 20 goals and 30 assists through 30 games in a season.
McDAVID GOES “ZERO TO SIXTY” IN 31 GAMES
Connor McDavid scored on Dec. 15 en route to becoming the first skater to reach the 60-point mark in 2022-23 – just four games after eclipsing the 50-point plateau on Dec. 7.
BOUCHARD’S LATE GOAL MAGIC
On Nov. 28 vs. Florida, Evan Bouchard scored the game-tying goal in the final five seconds of regulation before Connor McDavid (1G, 2A – 3PTS) capped off his three-point performance with an assist on Leon Draisaitl’s overtime winner.
OVERTIME WINNER
Connor McDavid scored the overtime winning goal on Nov.19 vs. Vegas. The goal marked his 14th career overtime goal and he ranks first in the NHL in overtime goals since 2015-16.
MOST OVERTIME GOALS SINCE 2015-16
Connor McDavid – 14
Jonathan Toews – 13
Brad Marchand – 13
Sidney Crosby – 12
POWER PLAY PUNCH
Leon Draisaitl scored his 100th career power play goal on Nov. 21 against New Jersey and recorded his 101st power play goal which also
stood as the game winning goal on Nov. 26 against the New York Rangers. Draisaitl holds sole possession of 5th spot all-time in Oilers
power play goals and is just 25 goals shy of the all-time lead held by Glenn Anderson and Ryan Smyth.
Draisaitl is one power play goal from tying Jari Kurri (107) for 4th on the Oilers power play goals list.
LAST 10 GAMES VS. VANCOUVER
Record: 8-2-0
GF: 33 GA: 27
2022-23 10/12/22 @ EDM 5-3 W
2021-22 4/29/22 @ EDM 3-2 W (SO)
2021-22 1/25/22 @ VAN 3-2 W (OT)
2021-22 10/30/21 @ VAN 2-1 W
2021-22 10/13/21 @ EDM 3-2 W (SO)
2020-21 5/15/21 @ EDM 4-1 L
2020-21 5/8/21 @ EDM 4-3 W
2020-21 5/6/21 @ EDM 6-3 L
2020-21 5/4/21 @ VAN 4-1 W
2020-21 5/3/21 @ VAN 5-3 W
