{"id":691952,"date":"2026-10-21T05:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691952\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:06:25","slug":"three-players-net-2-apiece-as-hurricanes-dump-vancouver-canucks-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691952\/","title":{"rendered":"Three players net 2 apiece as Hurricanes dump Vancouver Canucks 6-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three players net 2 apiece as Hurricanes dump Vancouver Canucks 6-3<\/p>\n

Published 9:50 pm Tuesday, October 20, 2026<\/p>\n

\n By Philip Wolf\/Parksville Qualicum News\n <\/p>\n

Nicolas Deslauriers, Logan Stankoven and Nikolaj Ehlers each scored twice, leading the visiting Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Tuesday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Jackson Blake added three assists for the defending Stanley Cup champs (8-2-1), while Pyotr Kochetkov made 14 saves to earn the win in goal. Linus Karlsson, Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Max Sasson replied for the Canucks (2-8-1) who are winless in eight games. Jake DeBrusk chipped in with two assists and Leevi Merilainen took the goaltending loss, stopping 36 of 41 shots.<\/p>\n

Stankoven open the scoring 4:44 into the first period, taking a backhand pass in the slot from Blake and beating Merilainen. It was the former Kamloops junior star\u2019s fifth goal of the year.<\/p>\n

The Canucks pulled even midway through the period when Karlsson picked up the puck after some nifty stickhandling from centre Elias Petterson and firing a shot blocker-side past Kochetkov. Karlsson now has three goals on the year.<\/p>\n

Two minutes later, Ehlers restored Carolina\u2019s one-goal lead, slotting a pass from Blake into a wide-open goal for his second marker of the season.<\/p>\n

With time running out in the period, Lekkerimaki beat Kochetkov with a buzzer-beater on the power play to make it 2-2 after 20 minutes. Lekkerimaki has three goals on the year. <\/p>\n

Lekker buzzer beater! https:\/\/t.co\/vEvJFjq0im<\/p>\n

\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) October 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Early in the second period, \u2018Canes enforcer Deslauriers tallied his first of the season, lifting a shot over Merilainen to make it 3-2 Carolina.<\/p>\n

At 13:07, the Canucks pulled even once more, with Sasson finishing off a nice give-and-go with Zeev Buium for his third of the year.<\/p>\n

With 3:05 left in the period, Carolina\u2019s Sebastian Aho was awarded a penalty shot after Pettersson was ruled to have thrown his stick, but he was foiled by Merilainen.<\/p>\n

Shots after 40 minutes favoured the Hurricanes, 28-11.<\/p>\n

Deslauriers added his second of the game 4:07 into the third, going to the net and taking a feed from Bradly Nadeau and slipping a shot past Merilainen to put the \u2018Canes up 4-3.<\/p>\n

Ehlers then added his second of the night midway through the period, breaking in alone and firing a shot behind Merilainen to give Carolina a 5-3 advantage.<\/p>\n

Vancouver pulled Merilainen in favour of an extra attacker with just under three minutes to play and Ehlers found Stankoven who scored into an empty net with 2:03 to play for his sixth of the year \u2013 and fifth against the Canucks in two games. <\/p>\n

Final shots on goal were 41-17 Carolina. <\/p>\n

A tribute to John \u201cCheech\u201d Garrett. https:\/\/t.co\/sV0QKWJs41<\/p>\n

\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) October 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTES: During the game, the Canucks paid tribute to former goalie and beloved broadcaster John Garrett, who died earlier this year\u2026 Stankoven had a sizable number of fans at the contest\u2026 Vancouver was without Marco Rossi (illness) and Thatcher Demko (hip injury)\u2026 Vancouver was 1-for-2 on the power play, while the Hurricanes were 0-for-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three players net 2 apiece as Hurricanes dump Vancouver Canucks 6-3 Published 9:50 pm Tuesday, October 20, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[1020,894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-691952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-british-columbia","tag-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117477165228985192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691952","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=691952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}