Casey DeSmith has been a backup goaltender for the Pittsburgh Penguins for most of his career, but he took center stage on Friday night. DeSmith made 30 saves for his first career playoff win.
Apologies for missing Wednesday’s game one, folks. Our prospect guru Dave Hall was busy with a prior engagement, and I had a last-minute emergency pop up that kept us away from covering the Abbotsford Canucks’ 4-2 victory against the Colorado Eagles.
Casey DeSmith made 29 saves for his first career playoff win as the visiting Vancouver Canucks beat the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Friday night. Vancouver grabbed a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference first-round playoff series.
It wasn’t always pretty. In fact, it almost never was. But when playing on the road in the Stanley Cup Playoffs against a team that likes to grind it out, that’s exactly what the Vancouver Canucks did on Friday night in Nashville.
Nashville was all over the Canucks early on in this one, and a Dakota Joshua boarding penalty gave the Predators the first power play of the game. The Canucks Joshua-less penalty killers did well to kill off the penalty, but they’d be needed not long after when Tyler Myers was called for high-sticking on Filip Forsberg.
After playing the series opener against Nashville, he was ruled as out day-to-day and then week-to-week soon after, fueling plenty of theories about the nature of the injury.
NASHVILLE – The Vancouver Canucks were the best first period team in the National Hockey League this season. So far through two games against Nashville, however, the opening 20 minutes haven’t been kind to the Canucks.
With the series tied 1-1 and Games 3 and 4 to be played in hostile territory, the Vancouver Canucks may have to rely on a player who wasn’t on the roster at the start of the season.
The Vancouver Canucks are in a series. Not that the 1-1 series score after two games is a huge surprise, with the Nashville Predators being one of the hottest teams in the NHL down the stretch.
There’s encouraging news regarding Thatcher Demko’s injury situation. Canucks insider Rick Dhaliwal reports that the goaltender might make a return late in the second round of the NHL playoffs, provided the Canucks advance past the Nashville Predators.
The Vancouver Canucks started their first round series against the Nashville Predators with a bang when Pius Suter and Dakota Joshua scored goals 12 seconds apart to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead and eventual 4-2 win.
Going 0/6 on the power play at any point through two games is not the best look. But that’s the case for the Vancouver Canucks through two games in the playoffs, unable to strike on what was the 12th-best power play in the regular season.
Hockey expert Nicholas Martin of the Action Netwok shares a prediction for Friday's NHL playoff game between the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators.
Okay, so Elias Pettersson hasn’t been… himself. Yeah. The Swedish star centre inked his eight-year, $92.8 million contract extension on March 3, 2024, in the midst of his third consecutive 30-goal season, following up the 102-point campaign last year with an 89-point performance this time around.
With the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators tied one game each in their Western Conference first-round playoff series, the biggest issue is the absence of Vancouver's No.
The Vancouver Canucks dropped game 2 to the Nashville Predators 4-1 and while a lot of blame has been pointed to Elias Pettersson and Casey DeSmith, the blame runs much deeper for the Canucks.
The Vancouver Canucks need their best players to be at their best if they hope to get out of the first-round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs — and that’s especially true without the services of star goaltender Thatcher Demko.
The Predators beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Tuesday night at the Rogers Centre in Vancouver to tie the Western Conference first-round playoff series at 1-1.
With the Canucks trailing 1-0 and trying to score the equalizer on the power play, Pettersson was set up for a wide-open look with a yawning net sitting in front of him. Then this happened.
Canucks’ starting goaltender Thatcher Demko is set to miss Game 2 against the Predators and could potentially miss the rest of the series.
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