VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
TV: Sportsnet Pacific, Bally Sports Arizona
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the third and final meeting between the Canucks and Coyotes this season: Dec. 3 (3-2 OTW @ VAN), Mar. 16 (3-2 L @ ARI), and Apr. 13 (away).
• Vancouver is 105-72-20-9 all-time against Arizona, including a 40-44-10-6 record on the road.
• The Canucks are 5-3-2 in their last 10 games against the Coyotes (4-1-0 in their last five).
• J.T. Miller leads all active Canucks skaters with 18 points (4-14-18) in 19 career games against Arizona.
• Elias Pettersson has 12 points (4-8-12) in nine career games against the Coyotes.
• Anthony Beauvillier has 10 points (6-4-10) in 12 career games against Arizona.
• Quinn Hughes has seven points (0-7-7) in five career games against the Coyotes.
• Conor Garland has five points (2-3-5) in five career games against his former team.
• Tyler Myers leads all active Canucks in career games played against Arizona at 22 (2-8-10 in those games).
• Thatcher Demko is 2-3-0 in five career games against the Coyotes with a 2.63 GAA and .912 SV%.
• Collin Delia has yet to face the Arizona Coyotes in his career.
QUICK NUMBERS
• J.T. Miller has 18 points (6-12-18) in his last 14 games.
• Elias Pettersson has 15 points (6-9-15) in his last 13 games.
• Quinn Hughes has 12 points (2-10-12) in his last 14 games.
• Andrei Kuzmenko has 10 points (5-5-10) in his last 11 games.
• Brock Boeser has nine points (5-4-9) in his last 10 games.
• The Canucks are 19-12-4 since Rick Tocchet took over as Head Coach on January 22.
LAST MEETING – MAR. 16/23: VAN 2 at ARI 3
Andrei Kuzmenko opened the scoring for third time in the last six games at 5:14 in the first period…His goal matched Pavel Bure’s
record of 34 goals for most by a Canucks player in their first NHL season…Anthony Beauvillier and Elias Pettersson recorded the
Vancouver Canucks: Media Notes assists for their first of two points each on the night…Pettersson then tallied his 31st goal of the
season at 11:41 in the third period, assisted by Beauvillier and Conor Garland…Pettersson led all Canucks skaters in shots (5)…Brock
Boeser registered a team-high four hits…Guillaume Brisebois led the team in blocked shots (3)…Thatcher Demko faced 27 shots.
LAST GAME PLAYED – APR. 11/23: VAN 3 at ANA 2
Brock Boeser opened the scoring on a tic-tac-toe power play passing play for his 18th goal of the season at 12:14 in the first period…Elias Pettersson recorded his 100th point of the season with the primary assist while J.T. Miller collected the secondary assist…Andrei Kuzmenko notched his team-leading 39th goal of the campaign, also on the power play, at 16:12 in the first period…Akito Hirose and Thatcher Demko assisted on the play…Miller added a goal of his own at 1:26 in the third period for the eventual game-winning goal and his 200th career tally, assisted by Phillip Di Giuseppe and Pettersson…Boeser and Pettersson co-led the team in shots (5)…Miller led all Canucks in hits (3) and Kyle Burroughs led in blocks (3)…Thatcher Demko made 33 saves.
LAST 5 vs ARIZONA
• Mar. 16/23: VAN 2 at ARI 3
• Dec. 3/22: VAN 3 vs ARI 2 (OT)
• Apr. 14/22: VAN 7 vs ARI 1
• Apr. 7/22: VAN 5 at ARI 1
• Feb. 8/22: VAN 5 vs ARI 1
ARIZONA COYOTES NOTES:
3 HARD LAPS
• Tonight is the final game of the 2022-23 season for Arizona. The team has recorded a 12-12-7 record (.500 point percentage) since the All-Star break.
• A win tonight would seal a 22-15-4 home record and .585 home point percentage for the Yotes which would mark the best home win mark and point percentage since 2015-16. After finishing last season with a .305 home P%, a win would secure the best year-over-year home P% improvement in Coyotes team history
• Tonight is Clayton Keller’s last chance this year to climb the Coyotes single-season team records for points and assists for 2022-23. He enters tonight one point shy of Keith Tkachuk’s 86 in 1996-97 and five assists shy of Ray Whitney’s 53 in 2011-12
LAST GAME
Kraken 4, Coyotes 1 – April 10, 2023 – Mullett Arena
ARI Goals: McBain (12)
SEA Goals: Bjorkstrand (20), Schultz (7), Beniers (24), McCann (40)
ARI Goalie: Prosvetov (L) – 33 svs on 37 shots
SEA Goalie: Grubauer (W) – 22 svs on 23 shots
PP: 0-4 PK: 2-4
Notes: Jack McBain opened the scoring on Monday night; It represented the first time in his career he scored the first goal of a game…Monday marked the second consecutive game McBain found the scoresheet in, pushing his season point total to 25 (12-13-25) in 81 GP…McBain also finished with six hits, now holding a season total of 299; That’s tied with Matt Martin (2010-11) for the third-highest single-season total by a rookie in NHL history (since hits were first tracked in 2005-06)…Liam O’Brien registered the lone assist on McBain’s goal and enters the final game of the season with a chance to crack double digit points on the campaign, now at 1-8-9 in 55 games…Anchored by a grand total of four fighting majors, the Coyotes rung up 104 PIMs against the Kraken over the three games in the season series. The last time the Coyotes cleared 100 PIMs against an opponent in a single season was when the club logged 124 against Anaheim in 2009-10…Laurent Dauphin exited the game early due to an upper-body injury
MAN GAMES LOST (Name/Roster Status/Injury Type/Games Missed/Last Game Played)
Patrik Nemeth – 1 (3/14) – Lower-Body
Brett Ritchie – 1 (3/22) – Upper-Body | 1 (3/26) – Illness
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
-4/12 – Recalled F Jan Jenik from Tucson (AHL)
-4/1 – Assigned F Nathan Smith to Tucson (AHL)
SEASON FINALE
Mosts in a regular-season finale, Coyotes/Jets history:
Team
- Goals: 8 – 4/3/83 vs DET (8-3 W)
- Shutouts: 1 – 3x, last: 4/16/06 at STL (3-0 W)
- Goal Diff: +5 – 4/3/83 vs DET (8-3 W)
- Shots: 49 – 3/31/91 at EDM (6-3 L)
- PIMs: 80 – 4/1/90 vs EDM (4-2 L)
Individual
- Goals: 3 – 2x, last: Radim Vrbata 4/27/13 at ANA (5-3 W)
- Assists: 2 – 26x, last: Alex Galchenyuk 4/29/22 vs NSH (5-4 W)
- Points: 4 – 2x, last: Radim Vrbata 4/27/13 at ANA (5-3 W)
- Shots: 11 – Teemu Selanne 4/15/93 vs EDM (3-0 W)
- PIMs: 21 – Keith Tkachuk 4/17/99 vs DAL (2-0 W)
- Saves: 44 – Adin Hill 5/8/21 at SJS (5-4 W)
YOTES & NUCKS
- Tonight is the third and final ARI-VAN meeting this season. The Canucks beat the Yotes 3-2 in OT in the first game on 12/3 in BC but Arizona rebounded to take the second one 3-2 at Mullett on 3/16
- Arizona has won six of the last eight games against the Canucks at home
- Travis Boyd scored twice in the 3/16 contest. It’s one of two multi-goal games he’s tallied in his career, and he enters tonight with 7 career pts (2-5-7) against the Canucks, his former team
- Boyd’s 5 career assists vs VAN are tied for the most he’s posted against an NHL club
- Lawson Crouse scored Arizona’s other goal on 3/16 to grab sole possession of the most career goals against the Canucks among current Coyotes (6)
- Crouse has also registered 3 GWG against the Canucks in his career
- Liam O’Brien has earned a point all three of his career games against Vancouver, including an assist in each game this season
- Ivan Prosvetov got the start in the 3/16 matchup and stopped 29-of-31 shots, capturing his second of three consecutive wins from earlier this season
- ARI recorded two power-play goals in the 3/16 game, the eighth time this season the club has scored twice on the man-advantage in a contest
- Coyotes franchise vs Canucks
• All-Time: 81-96-20-9
• Home: 50-38-10-2
• Road: 31-58-10-7
• L10: 5-4-1
• STRK: W1
SCORING NOTABLES AGAINST THE CANUCKS
Lawson Crouse…6-1-7…14 career GP
Nick Schmaltz…5-1-6…13 career GP
Clayton Keller…2-5-7…13 career GP
Travis Boyd…2-5-7…12 career GP
Matias Maccelli…0-2-2…4 career GP
Liam O’Brien…1-2-3…3 career GP
Career Leaders
Goals (Crouse, 6)… Assists (Keller/Boyd/Valimaki, 5)…Points (Keller/Crouse/Boyd/Kassian, 7)
Career Leaders Among Defensemen
Goals (Mackey, 1)… Assists (Valimaki, 5)…Points (Valimaki, 5)
