Erik Brannstrom broke a third-period impasse with the go-ahead objective within the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-1 victory over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night time.
Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller and Teddy Blueger additionally scored for the Canucks. Goaltender Arturs Silovs made 28 saves to earn his first victory of the season. The Canucks beat Chicago for the ninth consecutive sport, their longest run in opposition to a single opponent.
Ilya Mikheyev replied for the Blackhawks, who’ve misplaced 4 of 5 video games. Goalie Arvid Soderblom stopped 29 pictures.
With the rating tied 1-1, Brannstrom gave the Canucks the lead together with his second objective of the season at 4:25 of the ultimate body. The puck got here to Brannstrom on the prime of the left circle whereas his staff was buzzing across the offensive zone, and he discovered the mark with a protracted slap shot.
Miller, together with his sixth objective of the season, and Blueger, who notched his third, added empty-net targets within the last two minutes of regulation time for the Canucks, who gained their third sport in 9 house outings (3-3-3).
Mikheyev opened the scoring together with his second objective of the season at 6:50 of the primary interval. Nick Foligno was denied on his probability coming when he drove to the web, however Mikheyev — who spent the final two seasons with the Canucks — was on the spot for the rebound.
The Canucks had all of the momentum within the second interval and have been rewarded when Pettersson’s power-play objective tied the conflict at 4:56 of the body. Pettersson’s try and go the puck throughout the sting of the crease grew to become his fifth objective of the season, and third in 4 video games, when it banked into the web off the skate of Blackhawks defenseman Connor Murphy.
Connor Bedard, Chicago’s 2023 first general draft choose, performed his first NHL sport in his hometown. Final season’s Calder Trophy winner because the NHL’s rookie of the 12 months was held off the scoresheet and managed just one shot on web.
–Subject Degree Media
