Head Coach Adam Foote liked the way his team started the game and said that everyone stepped up to pull out the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like the first period, our speed kind of surprised them, guys were humming. I thought Pettersson got that first goal \u2013 it was over a great forecheck and reload by our guys. Our D was aggressive, which we want to see more this year, and we\u2019re seeing on the pinch,\u201d Foote said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you saw Petey getting that goal, he played great. Defensively, he had more pace and had his game going. You saw him with two big blocks too. I really liked his game, especially not in a friendly environment, it could have got really physical, and he didn\u2019t seem to mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thatcher Demko got the win, stopping 29 of 32 shots he faced, 13 of those shots came in the third period.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough four days here, it\u2019s pretty much three games in three and a half days, so that on top of obviously losing some key guys. Washington got their game going, we know they\u2019re a good team, and they probably didn\u2019t start how they wanted to, and they kind of found it there in the second half,\u201d Demko said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really proud of the way the guys stepped up and just played kind of an ugly game to get two points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goals<\/p>\n
The Canucks worked hard on the forecheck against the Capitals, with Conor Garland digging the puck loose and passing to Elias Pettersson, who snapped a quick wrist shot to give Vancouver an early lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Adam Foote liked the way his team started the game and said that everyone stepped up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-226255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}