That ended Lankinen\u2019s night, but Ehlers scored on the first shot on Tolopilo less than a minute later, firing a slap shot off the rush from the left dot past the blocker to make it 5-2 at 12:51.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would think it’s pretty tough coming in during the game when you’ve just been sitting and not thinking you’re going to play, so every team thinks just shoot a lot,\u201d Ehlers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser<\/a>\u00a0converted a backdoor pass from\u00a0Rossi on a 5-on-3 to make it 5-3 at 19:17. Vancouver finished 2-for-4 on the power play after going 0-for-13 over the previous eight games and 1-for-27 in the past 14 games. It\u2019s just the seventh time all season the Canucks have scored more than one power play goal in a game, and first time in 20 games back to Jan. 2.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were moving the puck pretty good today,\u201d Hronek said.\u2028<\/p>\n Nils Hoglander<\/a>\u00a0scored his first goal in 22 games this season at 6:45 of the third period to make it 5-4, one-timing a cross-ice Pettersson pass past Bussi\u2019s blocker from the left hash mark.<\/p>\n \u201cI just think the game should have been over and we just kind of took the foot off the gas,\u201d coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said.<\/p>\n Despite taking a penalty with 2:13 left, Vancouver had chances to tie it late, including a nice left shoulder save by Bussi on a high Pettersson shot from the slot, and Ehlers completed his hat trick into an empty net to secure the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s always special when you score three goals but at the same time, I’m not too happy about my performance,\u201d Ehlers said. \u201cIt’s one of those where they just seem to go in and that’s great, we won, but I got a bit better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: The Hurricanes were 2-for-3 on the power play. \u2026 Carolina center Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a> was plus-1 in 10:27 of ice time in his first game back after being scratched the first three games after the Olympics. \u2026 Canucks forward Evander Kane<\/a>\u00a0missed the game because of illness. \u2026 Max Sasson<\/a>\u00a0was minus-1 in 11:46 of ice time in his place after being scratched for three straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That ended Lankinen\u2019s night, but Ehlers scored on the first shot on Tolopilo less than a minute later,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-520260","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\/520260","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=520260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}