CANUCKS BANTER     By Andrew Chernoff    FEBRUARY 5, 2016

CANUCKS LET IMPORTANT POINT SLIP AWAY

The Vancouver Canucks (20-19-12) hosted the Columbus Blue Jackets (20-28-5) last night at Rogers Place, in-game two of a three game home stand.

Columbus visited Vancouver in the second of a three game Western Canada road trip that started Tuesday night against Edmonton, with a 5-1 loss, and finishes tonight against Calgary.

VANCOUVER, BC – FEBRUARY 4: Joonas Korpisalo #70 of the Columbus Blue Jackets makes a save on Alexandre Burrows #14 of the Vancouver Canucks during their NHL game at Rogers Arena February 4, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty Images)

Linden Vey scored his 2nd goal of the season (2-3=5 in last 8 games played);  Bo Horvat had an assist (7-6=13 in last 12 games played); Sven Baertschi picked up a helper (4-3=7 in last 11 games played); and Ryan Miller stopped 27 of 28 shots for a .964 Sv%., but it was not enough as the Canucks ended the game on the short end of the score, losing 2-1 to Columbus in a shoot out; their second straight loss on their current 3-game home stand.

Miller is now 1-3-2 in his last 6 game starts, with a 2.27 GAA, and .934 Sv%. Last 8 game starts at home, he is 4-3-1 with a 2.01 GAA, and .930 Sv%.

The Blue Jackets took the game to the Canucks from the opening face-off, getting the first shots of the game and getting scoring chances on Miller.Columbus outhitting Canucks 6-1, out shooting Vancouver 2-0 after five minutes played.

Canucks were getting shots, but missing the net as the period continued but with 12:18 left, Canucks were out shot 3-1; out hit, 6-1, losing face-offs 3-1;had 2 giveaways; 3 blocked shots.

Vancouver got their first break of the game when the first power play of the game went to the Canucks as Cam Atkinson hooked Ben Hutton at 7:42.

Canucks would score on power play as Linden Vey, his 2nd goal of the season from Sven Baertschi (9) and Bo Horvat (14) at 9:05, put Vancouver up 1-0.

The rest of the period saw the Canucks take their game to the Blue Jackets as they eventually took the lead on shots, and started to be competitive in the face-off circle.

The Canucks would hold the lead after the opening period, 1-0.

After one period:

• Team Shots On Net: 10-9 Canucks; Team Hits: 13-2 Columbus; Team Face-offs: 8-6 Columbus
• Team Blocked Shots: 5-3 Canucks; Team Takeaways: 0-0; Team Giveaways: 4-1 Canucks
• Power Play: 1 for 1 Canucks; Penalty Kill: 0 for 1 Columbus; Individual Shots: Edler, Hutton, Sutter, Vey: 2 shots each
• Individual Hits: Edler,Vrbata: 1 hit each; Individual Face-offs: Horvat, 2 for 4; H.Sedin, 2 for 6.
• Teams Corsi For: EV 5v5—> 18 Columbus; 16 Canucks; Teams Corsi For: All Strengths—> 18 Columbus; 17 Canucks
• Individual Corsi For: EV 5v5—> Sbisa +5; Hutton +4; Sutter & D.Sedin +2 each; Individual Corsi For: All Strengths—> Sbisa +5; Hutton +5; Sutter & D.Sedin +2 each.

In the middle frame, the Canucks received their first penalty of the game on a sloppy change at 1:44 for too many men on the ice. Sven Baertschi would serve the bench minor.

The Canucks killed the penalty but soon after, Columbus got a great scoring opportunity and the Blue Jackets drew a Canuck penalty on the play.

Sven Baertschi went off at 4:16 for holding Boone Jenner. Vancouver would kill off the shorthand situation for a perfect 2 for 2 on the penalty kill.

The Canucks spent the majority of the opening minutes of the second period shorthanded and it allowed Columbus to get the momentum in the game.

Blue Jackets continued to dominate the Canucks on hits and face-off wins, and eventually started to out shoot Vancouver as they neared the halfway point of the middle frame.

With under five minutes left in the period, the Blue Jackets were dominating the Canucks in their end, when the Canucks would break out and spend some time in the Columbus zone trying to go up by two goals in the game. Both teams would exchange time on the offense but shots were few and the period ended without any goals.

Canucks still leading after two period, 1-0.

After two periods:

• Team Shots On Net: 7-7; Team Hits: 22-7 Columbus; Team Face-offs: 14-12 Canucks
• Team Blocked Shots: 9-8 Canucks; Team Takeaways: 3-1 Canucks; Team Giveaways: 8-2 Canucks
• Power Play: 1 for 1 Canucks; Penalty Kill: 2 for 2 Canucks; 0 for 1 Columbus
• Individual Shots: Vey and Edler, 4 shots each; Individual Hits: Edler, 3 hits; Biega, 2 hits
• Individual Face-offs: Sutter, 4 for 4; Horvat, 5 for 7; Vey, 2 for 5; H.Sedin, 2 for 9.
• Teams Corsi For: EV 5v5—>Columbus-31; Canucks-28; Teams Corsi For: All Strengths—>Columbus-34; Canucks-30
• Individual Corsi For: EV 5v5—>Sbisa +8; Hutton +6; Burrows & Etem, +3 each; Individual Corsi For: All Strengths—>Sbisa +7; Hutton +6; Etem & Vey, +3 each

The Canucks came out in the last period playing sloppy including being caught on another sloppy change that resulted in a Columbus scoring opportunity.

Jared McCann would answer that with a great scoring opportunity of his own but was stopped cold by the Blue Jackets goaltender.

Vancouver would get another power play opportunity when Chris Tanev was  high sticked by Rene Bourque at 6:06. Canucks power play had great scoring opportunities and great puck movement, even hitting a goalpost, but were unable to bury the puck with the man advantage.

After killing off a penalty, the Blue Jackets received a power play of their own when Jared McCann would go off for hooking Brandon Dubinsky at 8:35.

Columbus would waste little time taking advantage of their third power play of the game, when Scott Hartnell would score to even up the game at 1-1, 31 some 31-seconds later.

Hartnell, his 18th goal of the season, on a wrist shot, assisted by Cam Atkinson (16) and Ryan Murray (13) at 9:06.

Canucks continued to press for the another goal but kept wasting their opportunities.

Going into the last five minutes of the third period, it was anybody’s game.

Vancouver dominated the final five minutes of the game, with the Blue Jacket goalie coming up with save after save, as the Canucks kept pressing.

The game would end tied at 1-1 in regulation play and go to overtime.

Canucks were 3-9 in the season going into overtime, and needed the extra point to keep pace with Anaheim and Arizona.

Columbus player William Karlsson would get a penalty for interference at 2:26 and the Canucks went on a 4 on 3 power play.

The Canucks power play could not score and Ryan Miller would end up making a great save to send the game to a shoot out to decide the game winner.

Columbus won the game 2-1 in the shoot out.

VANCOUVER, BC – FEBRUARY 4: Joonas Korpisalo #70 of the Columbus Blue Jackets stops Sven Baertschi #47 of the Vancouver Canucks on a shootout attempt during their NHL game at Rogers Arena February 4, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Columbus won 2-1 in a shootout. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty Images)

Vancouver sits in 5th place in the Pacific division, with 52 points and are 3 points behind Anaheim and 2 points behind Arizona, in 3rd and 4rth respectively; and 6 points behind 2nd place San Jose.

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CANUCKS GAME NOTES

• Vancouver ended their consecutive streak at home of not winning the face-off battle against their opponent, at 16 games, as they won 31 of 56 face-offs against Columbus tonight.
• Canucks ended their consecutive games streak without a power play goal at 6 games tonight.
• Vancouver ended their consecutive streak at home of opponents scoring the opening goal at 8 games, with the Linden Vey goal tonight.

GAME REVIEW

CORSI STATS

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CANUCKS PLAYERS STATS

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WESTERN CONFERENCE WILD CARD STANDINGS

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS

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CANUCKS BANTER     By Andrew Chernoff    FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The Vancouver Canucks (20-19-11) host the Columbus Blue Jackets (19-28-5) tonight at Rogers Place, in game two of a three game home stand.

The Canucks are 6-5-1 in their last 12 home games; and 5-3-2 overall in their last 10 games.

Vancouver will try to avoid having the first goal of the game scored by their opponent tonight, as they have allowed the opening goal to their opposition in 8 consecutive home games.

Columbus visits Vancouver for game two of a three game Western Canada road trip that started Tuesday night against Edmonton, with a 5-1 loss, as Edmonton scored five unanswered goals in the last two periods, after the Blue Jackets opened up the scoring in the opening period.

The Blue Jackets are  4-6-2 in their last 12 games, including suffering four straight losses (0-3-1) in that span between January 5 and January 12.

The Canucks are 8-5-2 in their last 15 games overall; 4-3-1, at home since December 22nd.

Since January 5, Vancouver boasts the 4th-highest penalty kill percentage in the NHL at 91.7 percent.

Optional Canucks skate this morning; 13 skaters and two goalies. February 4, 2016 on Vancouver Canucks Twitter

Since December 13, the Canucks power play has been zeros and ones:

• From December 13 thru January 1, the power play was 0 for 20, over 9 games and their record was 4-4-1.
• Then from January 4 thru January 14, the Canucks power play had a  single power play goal in five consecutive games, 5 for 16; their record, 2-2-1.
• Since January 15, Vancouver has gone 6 games with zero power play goals, 0 for 8, with their record 3-2-1.

Dan Hamhuis will not play after missing 20 games with facial fractures but may be a game away from actually playing. Henrik Sedin expects to play after missing four games because of a shoulder injury, and should be in the line-up.

“We’re healthy, we have a good schedule. We just have to take care of business,” Daniel Sedin told the Canucks website. “We know we can be a really good team when everyone’s going, and we’re going to have to bring it [Thursday].”

Source: canucks.nhl.com

CANUCKS PREVIOUS GAME

In their first home game since the completion of their 6-game road trip, the Canucks fell behind early, and found it difficult to execute their game plan against the Predators, who played well in all facets of their game.

Brandon Sutter scored his first goal in 33 games on his return to the line-up from a sports hernia operation;  Chris Tanev had an assist (1-7=8 in last 15 games played); Daniel Sedin picked up a helper (5-2=7 in last 12 games played); and Ryan Miller stopped 17 of 19 shots for a .895 Sv%., but it was not enough as the Canucks ended the game on the short end of the score, losing 2-1 to Nashville, to begin their 3-game home stand.

CANUCKS IN JANUARY 2016

• Bo Horvat had 12 points in 12 games (7-5=12) to lead Vancouver.
  • Horvat scored 25.9% of the Canucks’ goals.
• Henrik Sedin had 4 points in 8 games (0-4=4)
• Sven Baertschi had 6 points in 10 games (4-2=6)
• Chris Tanev had 6 points in 12 games (1-6=7)
• Linden Vey had 6 points in 12 games (1-5=6)
• Daniel Sedin had 7 points in 12 games (5-2=7)
• Daniel Sedin had 5 goals in 12 games (18.5 percent of Canucks goals)
• Shooting Percentage:
  • Sven Baertschi: 30.8 percent
  • Bo Horvat: 24.1 percent
  • Chris Tanev: 20 percent
  • Jannick Hansen: 20 percent
  • Daniel Sedin: 12.5 percent
  • Alex Burrows: 10.5 percent
  • Jake Virtanen: 7.1 percent
• Canucks record in:
  • 6-4-2=14 PTS in  12 games played (tied for 11th best in the NHL)
  • They have 27 goals for; 30 goals against (tied for 18th best in NHL).
  • They are 5 for 27 on the power play for 18.5 percent (11th best in the NHL)
  • Their penalty killing is 24 for 28, 85.7 percent ( 11th best in the NHL)
  • Face-off winning percentage is 45.6 percent (30th in the NHL)
• Jacob Markstrom started 7 games and was 5-1-1 with a 2.14 GAA and .931 Sv%. His GAA was 11th best and his Sv% was 13th best, minimum 4 games played.
• Ryan Miller started 5 games and was 1-3-1 with a 2.56 GAA and .929 Sv%.
• Canucks had 4 games of 40 or more shots against; 7 games of 30 or more shots against; and 11 games of 28 or more shots against.
• Vancouver had 4 games of 30 to 38 shots for; 8 games of 25 to 38 shots for; 4 games of 20 to 23 shots for.
• Canucks averaged 2.25 goals for per game; 2.50 goals against per game.

CANUCKS JOTTINGS

• Canucks are averaging 2.36 goals per game. For an 82 game schedule the estimate is Vancouver will finish with 194 goals. The least number of goals ever scored by a Vancouver team in a full season of 82 games are 192 by the 1998-99 Canucks. 
  • Canucks need to average 2.34 goal per game over their last 32 games for 193 goals, to avoid 2015-16 being the season for the least number of goals ever scored by a Vancouver team.
• Canucks penalty kill is  29 for 32, 90.6 percent in their last 12 home games shorthanded for 5th best in the NHL.
• Vancouver’s power play is 6 for 40, 15 percent  in their last 12 home games with the man advantage, tied for 6th worst in the NHL.
• Vancouver has points in 8 of its last 12 (6-4-2=14 pts) & 13 of its last 21 games (10-8-3=23 pts).
• Vancouver had scored a power play goal in five straight games, where they have had at least one man advantage; they were 5 for 16 during that stretch, 31.3 percent, which ended against the Islanders.
• Canucks power play is 4 for 22 in their last 10 games with the man advantage, for 18.2 percent, for 13th best in the NHL.
• Vancouver’s penalty kill is 22 for 24 in their last 10 games shorthanded, for 91.7 percent, 4th best in the NHL.
• Canucks penalty kill in last 15 games is 38 for 44 for 86.4 percent. The previous 15 games, they were 41 for 54 for 75.9 percent.

Vancouver sits in 5th place in the Pacific division, with 51 points and are 2 points behind both Anaheim and Arizona, in 3rd and 4rth respectively; and 5 points behind 2nd place San Jose.

Coach Desjardins said there’s little room for error the rest of the season. “It’ll be tight down the stretch here and we’re ready for that”

Source: Vancouver Canucks Twitter

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS NOTES (from canucks.nhl.com)

• The Jackets are looking to bounce back from a 5-1 loss to Edmonton on Tuesday. Matt Calvert had the lone goal in the loss.
• Since Tortorella took over as head coach, Columbus has averaged 2.64 goals per game which would put them in the top-half of the league.
• Red hot Columbus forwards lately include Brandon Saad (3 goals in last 3 games), Scott Hartnell (3-game point streak), Boone Jenner (4 points in last 3 games), Cam Atkinson (4 goals and 5 points in last 3 games), and Brandon Dubinsky (5 points in last 3 games).
• Only 14 goals have come from defencemen this season for the Blue Jackets. The arrival of Seth Jones via trade from Nashville is supposed to help with that.
• Goalie Joonas Korpisalo has started the last four in a row in place of the injured Sergei Bobrovsky.
• Columbus has allowed a league-high 3.19 goals against per game.

The Blue Jackets are in last place in the Metropolitan division, 15 points out of a playoff spot and 9 points behind 7th place Philadelphia.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS ADVANCED STATISTICS

JANUARY 1, 2016  TO  JANUARY 31, 2016

EVEN STRENGTH 5V5

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ALL TEAM STRENGTHS

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CANUCKS PLAYERS ADVANCED STATS

EVEN STRENGTH 5V5

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WESTERN CONFERENCE WILD CARD STANDINGS

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS

2015-2016 VANCOUVER CANUCKS VS ALL TEAMS

CANUCKS PLAYER STATS

BLUE JACKETS PLAYER STATS

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