PREVIEW | Canucks vs. Islanders

CANUCKS VS ISLANDERS PREVIEW

MATCH-UP INFO
QUICK NUMBERS
LAST MEETING - MAR. 10/20: VAN 5 vs NYI 4 (SO)
Adam Gaudette opened up scoring for the Canucks with a goal at 1:57 in the first period...Alex Edler and Troy Stecher recorded assists on the play...Tyler Toffoli, Zack MacEwen and Bo Horvat also scored in regulation...Alex Edler (0-2-2) and Tyler Toffoli (1-1-2) had multi-point games...JT Miller scored the GDG in the shootout...Alex Edler led the team in blocked shots (4) and TOI (25:07)...JT Miller won 12 face-offs (71%)...Thatcher Demko made 45 saves.
LAST GAME PLAYED - FEB. 8/22: VAN 5 vs ARI 1
Conor Garland opened up scoring against his former team at 3:48 in the second period...Noah Juulsen and Oliver Ekman-Larsson recorded assists on the play...Bo Horvat collected the GWG on the power play at 4:44 in the second period...Elias Pettersson scored less than a minute and a half later with a goal at the 6:10 mark...J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser each collected a goal in the third period...J.T. Miller (1-1-2), Oliver Ekman-Larsson (0-3-3), Elias Pettersson (1-1-2), Noah Juulsen (0-2-2) and Bo Horvat ( 1-1-2) all had multi-point games...Juulsen recorded his first points as a Canuck and a career high in assists (2)...J.T. Miller and Oliver Ekman-Larrson both reached the 400 career points milestone...Kyle Burroughs led the trsm in hits (7) and blocked shots (5)...Tyler Myers led in TOI (25:58)...Thatcher Demko made 35 saves.
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
• Kyle Burroughs activated from IR, Feb. 8
• Tucker Poolman placed on injured IR, Feb. 8
• Noah Juulsen and Ashton Sautner recalled from Abbotsford, Feb. 7
CLUB 400
With his first point of the night on Feb. 8 vs ARI J.T. Miller (1-1-2) recorded his 400th career point. Oliver Ekman-Larsson collected 3 assists (0-3-3) to join Miller in the 400 point club.
HOME ICE ADVANTAGE
Thatcher Demko has posted a .964 SV% and a 1.16 GAA average in his last five starts at home (5-0-0).
BOY OH, BO!
Bo Horvat (1-1-2) recorded his 71st career multi-point game on Feb. 8 vs ARI. Since his NHL debut in 2014-15, Horvat leads the Canucks in multi-point outings, with the next closest player being Daniel Sedin (52 GP).
BANG, BANG, BANG
On Feb. 8 vs ARI, Conor Garland, Bo Horvat and Elias Pettersson each scored in a span of 142 seconds. The last time the Canucks tallied a trio of goals in a lesser span was on Jan. 13, 2019 (126 seconds from Brock Boeser, Jay Beagle & Markus Granlund).
STINGY DEFENCE
Since Bruce Boudreau officially took over as Head Coach on Dec. 6 vs LAK, the Canucks have led the NHL in fewest goals against per game (2.05), jumping the ranks from 23rd in the NHL in GA/GP (3.16) before Boudreau to seventh place on the season overall (2.64).
HIT MACHINE
Luke Schenn tied a Canucks franchise record in hits (12) on Jan. 31 at CHI, previously set by himself on Mar. 24/19 vs CBJ. His 12 hits were the highest single-game total by any skater in the NHL so far this season.
MINUTE MUNCHER
Logging 31:07 in time on ice on Jan. 29 at CGY, Quinn Hughes set both a Canucks season-high and a personal career-high in the category. Hughes has led the Canucks in TOI in 28 of 46 games so far this season, with the next closest player (Myers) leading in 10 games.
HATS OFF TO MILLER
J.T. Miller recorded his second career hat trick on Jan. 27 vs WPG, matching career-highs in goals (3) and points (4). He became just the third American player in team history to register a hat trick, joining Ryan Kesler (3x) and teammate Brock Boeser (3x).
QUICK STRIKES
Going 2-for-2 in just 0:17 of cumulative power play time on Jan. 27 at WPG, Vancouver set an NHL record for least power play time (tracked since 2009.10) required in a game to register two power play goals and became the only team to score twice in under 20 total seconds on the man-advantage.
A GRAND ACCOMPLISHMENT
Head Coach Bruce Boudreau coached his 1,000th NHL game (577-306-117) on Jan. 23 vs STL, becoming the 29th coach in NHL history and sixth active Head Coach (Trotz, Ruff, D. Sutter, Laviolette, Tippett) to reach the milestone. Only one head coach in NHL history (Scotty Bowman, 598 wins) had more wins than Boudreau's 577 at the 1,000 game mark.
RECENT CANUCKS MILESTONES
CURRENT INJURIES
NHL COVID-19 PROTOCOL
Total man games lost (due to injuries or illness): 244 games