The Vancouver Canucks begin a back-to-back with travel on Wednesday night when they hit the\u00a0Mile High City to face the league\u2019s top team, the Colorado Avalanche.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Evander Kane played and scored in his 1000th NHL game on Monday against the Vegas Golden Knights. Kane has played the Avs 36 times in his career, putting up 20 goals and adding 12 assists for 32 points. Jake DeBrusk has scored in more than half of his career games against the Avs, potting nine goals in 17 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser and Marco Rossi have three goals and seven assists apiece in their last 10 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Drew O\u2019Connor leads the Canucks with 27 scoring chances over his last 10 outings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aatu R\u00e4ty has won 63.3% of his faceoffs over the past 10 games. He also leads the team with 30 hits over that stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche\u00a0are\u00a049-14-10\u00a0and have the most points in the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They rank first in goals for (274) and first in goals against (179).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Avs\u00a0are 25-7-5 on the road this season and have outscored their opposition 133-90 when away from Ball Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado is 37-2-5 when scoring the first goal of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon is third in the NHL for scoring. He has 49 goals and 71 assists for 120 points in 49 games.\u00a0His 49 goals\u00a0lead\u00a0the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Martin Necas (35) and Brock Nelson (33) are the other two Avs\u00a0players\u00a0with 30+ goals this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their penalty\u00a0kill\u00a0ranks second in the league, killing off 84.2% of their penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the power play, they rank 24th, with\u00a0a\u00a018.1% conversion rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scott Wedgewood has started 39 of the Avs\u2019 73 games this season, while Mackenzie Blackwood has\u00a0started in\u00a031.\u00a0Wedgewood has a 27-5-6 record with a 9.17% save percentage, 2.18 goals-against average, and has two shutouts. Blackwood has a 21-9-1 record with a .905% save percentage, 2.42\u00a0goals-against\u00a0average, and three shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Story: Climbing the Franchise History Books\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser and Elias Pettersson moved up the franchise record books on Monday. Boeser scored his 79th\u00a0power play goal, tying him with Todd Bertuzzi for fifth in Canucks history. Pettersson notched his 107th\u00a0power play assist, tying him with Stan Smyl and Thomas Gradin for ninth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniel Sedin is the franchise leader in power play goals with 138.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Henrik Sedin is the franchise leader in power play assists with 308.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elias Pettersson: 0g-6a-6p\u00a0
Filip Hronek: 1g-3a-4p\u00a0
Brock Boeser: 2g-1a-3p\u00a0
Jake DeBrusk: 2g-1a-3p\u00a0
Evander Kane: 1g-1a-2p\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s game is at 5:30 p.m. PT, and you can watch the game on Sportsnet or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks begin a back-to-back with travel on Wednesday night when they hit the\u00a0Mile High City to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-533893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116326998621776287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533893","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=533893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}