Brock Boeser is tied for many objectives with 23, is on tempo for 61, leads all snipers with 9 power-play tallies
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Vancouver Canucks (21-9-2) at Nashville Predators (18-13-0)
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When/the place: Tuesday, 5 p.m., Bridgestone Enviornment
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TV: SN Pacific. Radio: Sportsnet 650
The excitement: The Canucks proceed to grind out factors, particularly when beginning sluggish earlier than gathering their sport within the second interval. It’s how they stretched their enviable file to 18-0-0 when main after two durations Sunday, by hanging in and holding on for a 4-3 win at Chicago in opposition to the cellar-dwellers.
Brock Boeser snapped a 2-2 wrestle along with his twenty third aim when he sped down the left wing and launched a wrist shot that discovered the far glove aspect. It packed velocity and accuracy and moved the winger again into the NHL lead for objectives with Auston Matthews. Boeser additionally leads all shooters with 9 power-play objectives.
Boeser is on tempo for 61 objectives — the earlier excessive was 29 in his 2017-18 rookie season — and being completely satisfied, wholesome, stronger and keen to get to robust areas has propelled him into rarefied air. An entire participant that Rick Tocchet trusts retains his ft on the bottom and never within the clouds.
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The historical past: The Canucks are 2-0-0 in opposition to the Predators this season. They hung in for a 3-2 win in Music Metropolis on Oct. 24 to cap an encouraging 3-2-0 street journey and had a dominant 5-2 triumph at Rogers Enviornment on Halloween. At Nashville, early second-period objectives by Phil Di Giuseppe and Nils Hoglander offered a 3-1 lead after 40 minutes. Ilya Mikheyev had 4 photographs and 7 makes an attempt. At Vancouver, the Canucks dug a 3-1 first-period gap and rallied on the fifth profession hat trick by Elias Pettersson.
The hope: After back-to-back day video games that resulted in sleepy begins at outset of this four-game sojourn, a return to routine ought to make a distinction. Gamers are creatures of behavior. They need to have their legs early after an off day Monday. The bettering Predators are on a four-game successful streak and have gained seven of their final 10.
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The concern: Penalty kill continues to wrestle. The Canucks surrendered two power-play objectives Sunday to a unit that entered that was at simply 9.8 per cent on dwelling ice. The Predators are 5-0-0 in video games that go previous regulation and Filip Forsberg has three extra time objectives.
The highest weapons: The Fab 4 continues to dominate league scoring. J.T. Miller is third with 45 factors (15-30) and 7 power-play objectives. Quinn Hughes and Pettersson are tied for eighth with 39 factors. Hughes has 30 assists that ranks third and Pettersson has 5 PP objectives. Boeser is twelfth with 37 factors (23-14).
The wounded: Canucks: Carson Soucy (foot, six to eight weeks, LTIR), Guillaume Brisebois (concussion, LTIR). Predators: Kiefer Sherwood (higher physique, day-to-day), Egor Afansasyev (undisclosed, IR).
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The quote: “It simply got here right down to will and energy. We didn’t like our effort within the first interval and we had response. We discovered a method and that’s all that basically issues.” — Boeser on outlasting the Blackhawks.
The projected lineup:
Mikheyev-Pettersson-Suter
Hoglander-Miller-Boeser
Joshua-Blueger-Garland
Kuzmenko-Aman-Lafferty
Hughes-Hronek
Zadorov-Myers
Cole-Juulsen
The prediction: The Canucks reply the bell and play arduous to attract penalties. A complicated energy play that ought to pack extra punch ends a so-so 3-for-19 run in earlier six video games to gasoline a 4-2 victory.
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