The Vancouver Canucks open a four-game highway journey on the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday evening seeking their first win of the season.
The Canucks dropped back-to-back video games on dwelling ice final week to start out the season. Vancouver squandered a 4-1 lead and fell 6-5 in time beyond regulation towards the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, and adopted it up with a 3-2 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.
“We lose two video games in time beyond regulation, so we have to watch out. Can we play higher? Yeah. May we do higher coverage-wise in sure (areas)? Yeah, however that is due to some new, unfamiliar gamers, and I am not blaming them,” Canucks coach Rick Tocchet mentioned. “Some guys have not performed a variety of video games. There’s just a few protection issues that we have to iron out.”
Ahead Brock Boeser has two targets via two video games, whereas captain Quinn Hughes has a pair of assists.
The 2 Canucks goaltenders have cut up the primary two video games this season. First was Arturs Silovs, who gave up all six targets towards Calgary for a 5.94 goals-against common with a .769 save share.
Kevin Lankinen allowed two targets earlier than the shootout towards Philadelphia and posted a .935 save share. Lankinen has 5 profession appearances towards the Lightning and is 0-3-1 with a 4.37 GAA and an .872 save share.
Vancouver and Tampa Bay cut up the season sequence final season, with the Lightning successful 4-3 on Oct. 19 and the Canucks incomes the cut up in a 4-1 win on Dec. 12.
Tampa Bay returns to motion after having its Saturday dwelling recreation towards the Carolina Hurricanes postponed because of Hurricane Milton.
On Friday, the Lightning opened the season with a 4-1 win over the Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C. Ahead Nikita Kucherov, final season’s Artwork Ross Trophy winner because the NHL’s main scorer, had a pure hat trick within the third interval and added an help within the win.
“It was an awesome first step towards Carolina, however you watch the tape once more, and it is like, ‘We have got a variety of work to do,'” Lightning coach Jon Cooper mentioned. “Our gamesmanship, our battle and our compete was actually excessive. I liked the way in which we closed out the third (however) we have to place ourselves in a bit higher place to win these video games transferring ahead.
“We’ll take our two factors and preserve pushing ahead right here this week.”
Tampa Bay captain Victor Hedman had three assists, and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves within the win.
Jake Guentzel, who signed a seven-year contract with the Bolts in free company over the summer season, added two assists in his Lightning debut.
“There’s a variety of actually good issues that got here out of that recreation that we did nicely — clearly some issues that we nonetheless bought to tighten up,” ahead Anthony Cirelli mentioned. “Just a little bit too many odd-man rushes that got up there — little issues that I believe we simply need to give attention to slightly bit extra and be prepared for the following recreation.”
Tuesday is the primary of two conferences between the Canucks and Lightning. The 2 groups conclude the season sequence on Dec. 8 in Vancouver.
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