Nashville Predators (29-27-8, in the Central Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (19-37-8, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Vancouver, British Columbia; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks take on the Nashville Predators looking to end their five-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n
Vancouver has a 19-37-8 record overall and a 6-20-5 record on its home ice. The Canucks have a 6-13-3 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 29-27-8 overall and 12-14-5 on the road. The Predators have conceded 218 goals while scoring 188 for a -30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Thursday for the third time this season. The Canucks won 5-4 in overtime in the previous matchup. Evander Kane led the Canucks with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jake DeBrusk has 14 goals and 18 assists for the Canucks. Brock Boeser has five goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan O\u2019Reilly has 22 goals and 39 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has scored six goals and added six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Canucks: 1-6-3, averaging 2.2 goals, four assists, 2.8 penalties and 7.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 4-4-2, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Canucks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators (29-27-8, in the Central Division) vs. Vancouver Canucks (19-37-8, in the Pacific Division) Vancouver, British Columbia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[305,894,37676,690,5,7747,2409,231,4,292,3671,43,1489,2415,4894,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-497961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-brock-boeser","tag-canucks","tag-data-skrive","tag-evander-kane","tag-hockey","tag-jake-debrusk","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-sports","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-tennessee","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116210058194497211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}