VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
TV: Sportsnet Pacific
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the first of two meetings between the Canucks and Lightning this season: Jan. 12 (away), Jan. 18 (home).
• The Canucks are 20-15-2-2 all-time against Tampa Bay, including a 10-10-0-0 record on the road.
• Vancouver is 3-6-1 in their last 10 games vs Tampa Bay (1-4-0 in their last 5).
• Among active Canucks skaters, Tyler Myers leads the team in games played (28) and points (5-5-10) against the Lightning.
• Brock Boeser has five points (3-2-5) in seven career games against the Lightning.
• Conor Garland has five points (2-3-5) in five career games vs Tampa Bay.
• Spencer Martin has yet to face the Lightning in his career.
• Collin Delia is 0-1-0 with an .865 save percentage in one career game vs Tampa Bay.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Elias Pettersson has 14 points (4-10-14) in his last nine games.
• Bo Horvat has 14 points (7-7-14) in his last eight games.
• Andrei Kuzmenko has nine points (4-5-9) in his last nine games.
• Ilya Mikheyev has nine points (3-6-9) in his last 10 games.
• Brock Boeser has seven points (3-4-7) in his last seven games.
• J.T. Miller has five points (2-3-5) in his last four games.
• Spencer Martin is 6-4-1 with an .894 save percentage on the road this season.
LAST MEETING – MAR. 13/22: VAN 1 vs TBL 2
J.T. Miller extended his point streak to 12 games (8-16-24) with his 24th goal of the season at 5:54 in the third period…Conor Garland and Tanner Pearson registered the assists…J.T. Miller led all skaters in shots (8) and hits (6)…Bo Horvat won 16 of 24 faceoffs…Thatcher Demko was named second star of the game with 30 saves.
2022.23 TEAM RANKS
VAN TBL
Goals For/Game 3.40 (9th) 3.54 (4th)
Goals Against/Game 3.93 (t-30th) 2.92 (t-13th)
Power Play % 23.9 (11th) 28.1 (4th)
Penalty Kill % 67.8 (32nd) 81.3 (11th)
Penalty Min./Game 9:54 (22nd) 10:20 (24th)
*Rankings are accurate as of 4:00pm PT on January 11, 2023
LAST GAME PLAYED – JAN. 10/23: VAN 4 at PIT 5
Conor Garland opened the scoring with his seventh goal of the season, just 4:46 into the first period…Brock Boeser doubled Vancouver’s lead at 6:40 in the first period…Bo Horvat extended his point streak to five games (3-3-6) with an assist while Ilya Mikheyev was also credited with an assist…Quinn Hughes notched his second goal of the season just 25 seconds later to give the Canucks a 3-0 lead…Travis Dermott collected his first goal of the season at 12:52 in the third period to bring the Canucks within one…Luke Schenn (0-2-2), Brock Boeser (1-1-2) and Quinn Hughes (1-1-2) each had two-point nights…Elias Pettersson registered an assist and led in shots (6)…Luke Schenn, J.T. Miller, and Dakota Joshua each collected four hits…Spencer Martin faced 36 shots.
LAST 5 vs TAMPA BAY
• Mar. 13/22: VAN 1 vs TBL 2
• Jan. 13/22: VAN 2 at TBL 4
• Jan. 7/20: VAN 2 at TBL 9
• Dec. 18/18: VAN 2 vs TBL 5
• Oct. 11/18: VAN 4 at TBL 1
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
• William Lockwood recalled from Abbotsford, Dec. 30
• Nils Åman assigned to Abbotsford, Dec. 30
• Travis Dermott activated from LTIR, Dec. 29
• Travis Dermott recalled from Abbotsford (conditioning loan) and kept on LTIR, Dec. 27
TAMPA BAY LIGHTINING NOTES:
LAST GAME
Lightning 6 vs. Columbus 3
The Tampa Bay Lightning collected an eighth-straight win at AMALIE Arena with a 6-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night…The Bolts improved to 25-13-1 on the season with a home record of 16-4-1…Tampa Bay swept the season series vs. CBJ after collecting wins Oct. 14 at CBJ and Dec. 15 at AMALIE Arena…Nikita Kucherov opened the scoring with his 15th goal of the season just 1:40 into the contest when he redirected a pass from Erik Cernak with Brandon Hagel collecting the secondary helper for his 100th career point…Kucherov’s game-opening goal marked the eighth time this season that the Lightning have scored the first goal of the game within the first two minutes of the first period – the most among all NHL teams…The Bolts got out to a 2-0 lead with a power-play goal at the 9:05 mark of the first when Nick Paul redirected a slap pass from Kucherov through the five hole of Elvis Merzlikins with Victor Hedman picking up the secondary assist…Tampa Bay outshot CBJ 21-6 in the opening 20 minutes, the second-most shots the team has recorded in a single period this season…Gavin Bayreuther got CBJ on the board at the 7:04 mark of the second period to make it a 2-1 game…Vladislav Namestnikov answered with his third goal of the season just 3:21 later when he skated in all alone on Merzlikins and made a move to his backhand to put the Lightning up 3-1…Tim Berni made it a 3-2 game 4:35 into the third period…Kucherov scored his second goal of the game to make it 4-2 at the 6:33 mark of the third with a one-timer on the power play as Hedman and Steven Stamkos recorded the helpers…Brayden Point scored his team-leading 23rd goal of the season at the 12:22 mark with a backhand in front off assists from Kucherov and Stamkos on the power play…Ross Colton jumped on a rebound in front just 1:26 later to bury his ninth goal of the year and make it a 6-2 game…Kirill Marchenko added a late goal for CBJ at the 16:34 mark to make it 6-3…Andrei Vasilevskiy got the start in goal and made 21 saves on 24 shots against for his 17th win of the season…Mikhail Sergachev skated in his 395th career game with Tampa Bay, passing Dan Boyle and taking sole possession of the fifth-most games by a defenseman in Lightning franchise history.
PP: TBL – 3-4 CBJ – 0-1
SOG: TBL – 46 CBJ – 24
Attendance: 19,092
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
The Lightning and the Canucks are playing the first of two matchups this season and the only meeting at AMALIE Arena…The Bolts posted a 2-0-0 record vs. VAN last season…Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (0-2—2), Ross Colton (1-1—2), Victor Hedman (1-1—2) and Nikita Kucherov (0-2—2) were tied for the team lead in scoring with two points apiece vs. VAN last season…Andrei Vasilevskiy started both games vs. VAN last season, making a combined 59 saves on 62 shots against for a .952 save percentage with a 1.50 goals against average…Tampa Bay has won four straight games vs. VAN and are 11-4-0 in the last 15 matchups…The Lightning are 6-3-1 in their last 10 home games vs. VAN…The Bolts have held VAN to two or less goals in six of the last seven matchups…Tampa Bay’s penalty kill has gone 35-for-38 over the last 10 home games vs. VAN (92.1%)…Steven Stamkos has posted points in seven of his nine career home games vs. VAN (6-7—13)…Kucherov has recorded a multi-point game in six of his last nine games vs. VAN (4-8—12)…Brayden Point has seven points over his last five games vs. VAN (3-4—7)…Hedman has points in four straight games vs. VAN (1-3—4) and seven of the last eight meetings (4-5—9)…Vasilevskiy has won six of his last seven starts vs. VAN, including wins in four straight…Tampa Bay is 17-17-3 with two ties all-time vs. VAN, including a home record of 10-8-2…Stamkos (12-10—22) holds the Lightning franchise records for career goals and points vs. VAN.
TBL ALL-TIME POINT LEADERS VS. VAN
- Steven Stamkos – 22 pts. (12-10—22, 16 GP)
- Martin St. Louis – 16 pts. (4-12—16, 11 GP)
- Nikita Kucherov – 14 pts. (5-9—14, 13 GP)
- Victor Hedman – 13 pts. (4-9—13, 17 GP)
T5. Brad Richards – 9 pts. (4-5—9, 6 GP)
T5. Alex Killorn – 9 pts. (6-3—9, 15 GP)
TONIGHT’S STORYLINES
Tampa Bay is playing the second and final game of a brief, two-game homestand tonight…The Bolts will play just five of their 13 games in January on home ice…The Lightning are 4-2-0 against Pacific Division opponents this season…Tampa Bay is 16-4-1 at home this season…The Bolts and Canucks will meet again in less than a week with a Jan. 18 matchup at VAN.
INJURIES
2022-23 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 85
Current Injuries:
Rudolfs Balcers (Upper-body injury; Day-to-day) 19 Games
TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 2 – Signed D Nick Perbix to a two-year contract extension
HOME COOKING
The Lightning collected an eighth-straight home win Jan. 10 vs. CBJ…The eight-game winning streak on home ice is tied for the fifth-longest streak in Tampa Bay franchise history (longest: 11 games, 2019-20)…The Bolts have posted a 16-4-1 record at home this season, with the 33 points and .786 points percentage ranking second among all teams in the NHL (best: Boston, 41 pts., .932 P%)…The Lightning have scored a league-best 85 goals on home ice and lead the NHL with an average of 4.05 goals per game at home…Tampa Bay’s power play has converted at a rate of 31% on home ice, trailing only Edmonton’s 31.8%.
NHL HOME POWER PLAY PERCENTAGE LEADERS, 21ST CENTURY
T1. Boston Bruins – 31.8% (2018-19)
T1. Edmonton Oilers – 31.8% (2022-23)
- Edmonton Oilers – 31.7% (2019-20)
- Winnipeg Jets – 31.4% (2018-19)
- Tampa Bay Lightning – 31% (2022-23)
