{"id":411567,"date":"2026-01-14T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:49:11","slug":"senators-get-2-quick-goals-in-1st-defeat-canucks-to-end-4-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411567\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators get 2 quick goals in 1st, defeat Canucks to end 4-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/leevi-merilainen-8482447\" title=\"Leevi Merilainen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leevi Merilainen<\/a>, who was making his eighth straight start, made 19 saves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a confidence thing for sure,\u201d Merilainen said. \u201cI try to keep my head level if I lose, if I win. But of course, it means a lot when &#8212; I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever lost four in a row, too many times at least, so it\u2019s good to get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/elias-pettersson-8480012\" title=\"Elias Pettersson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elias Pettersson<\/a> scored, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kevin-lankinen-8480947\" title=\"Kevin Lankinen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a> made 38 saves for the Canucks (16-25-5), who were coming off a 6-3 loss at the Montreal Canadiens on Monday and are 0-6-2 in their past eight games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew they were going to come out flying, and we were on a back-to-back, it took us a little bit,&#8221; Vancouver coach Adam Foote said. &#8220;The first one, we should have had the first goal. The second one was a little but unlucky, but the good thing was the resilience. [Lankinen] made a couple big saves to get us &#8212; when we finally got into the game, we were able to generate way more offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zub gave the Senators a 1\u20130 lead at 15:36 of the first period, scoring short side under Lankinen&#8217;s glove with a wrist shot from the right face-off dot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leevi Merilainen, who was making his eighth straight start, made 19 saves. \u201cIt\u2019s a confidence thing for sure,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-411567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}