🚨CANUCKS GOAL🚨
Brock Boeser scores 31 seconds into the game!
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— CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) January 12, 2025
Nick Robertson gets a good shot off but Kevin Lankinen is there to make the save!
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— CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) January 12, 2025
#Canucks' new-look top six was dominant in the opening 20 minutes.
When Miller's line and Pettersson's line were on the ice at 5-on-5, Vancouver out-attempted the Leafs 11-1, outshot them 7-0 and out-scored them 1-0.
— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) January 12, 2025
🚨CANUCKS GOAL🚨
Quinn Hughes' point shot finds its way to the back of the net!
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— CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) January 12, 2025
🚨CANUCKS GOAL🚨
Quinn Hughes makes an incredible play along the blueline. He eventually sets up Kiefer Sherwood who buries it!
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— CanucksArmy (@CanucksArmy) January 12, 2025
-I really don’t like Jonathan Lekkerimäki on the fourth line. That cannot be where he plays in this lineup for any stretch of time.
-Erik Brännström not being able to get into the lineup before Guillaume Brisebois got another chance is just weird.
-Solid night for Elias Pettersson on the defensive end. Added a point too. I like that configuration of the Canucks’ top six. Pettersson is so good defensively, and giving him that responsibility of going up against the opposition’s best seemed to get the best out of him.
-Didn’t like to see Max Sasson taken out of the lineup instead of Phil Di Giuseppe or Danton Heinen.
-Vinny Desharnais out of the lineup surprised me. Forbort, Juulsen, and even Soucy seem like they could use a game off.
-MVP-type performance from Quinn Hughes in the centre of the hockey universe.
-This will be an interesting one to dive into in The Statsies tomorrow.
-Canucks’ first regulation win in eight games.