Here\u2019s the win, by the numbers.<\/p>\n
Game Flow The scoring chances from last night were honestly pretty darn even. At 5v5 play, the Ducks held a slight 31-27 advantage in overall chances, with a 17-14 edge in high-danger chances. That much is shown by their hot spot being thicker and denser than the Canucks\u2019, but not by too much. Vancouver was really only out-chanced heavily in the first, with the teams being neck and neck the rest of the way through. At the very least, it wasn\u2019t as if this group got overwhelmed and in fact, managed to ride out the wave.<\/p>\n Individual Advanced Stats<\/p>\n Corsi Champ:\u00a0Max Sasson led all Canucks with a 70.59 CF%, and it wasn\u2019t as if it wasn\u2019t well deserved. He and the rest of the fourth line were a big reason for the Canucks\u2019 success at 5v5 play even if they didn\u2019t play much, managing to take full advantage of their softer opposition. They were on ice for 3 goals for and 1 goal against, which definitely is a significant contribution.<\/p>\n Corsi Chump:\u00a0Tom Willander posted the team\u2019s worst CF% at 15.63, which doesn\u2019t sound great on paper. The young Swede also faced down the third-worst xGA at 1.28, but managed to balance that out slightly with a 0.66 xGF to finish with a 34.16 xGF%. That was still towards the bottom half of the team, which makes sense when seeing that Willander was on ice for a 4-12 hole in overall scoring chances at 3-7 high-danger chance deficit. However, that should also be put into the context that Willander was paired up with Marcus Pettersson, playing primarily against the red-hot Leo Carlsson and much of the Ducks\u2019 top 6 as a shutdown option. With that in mind, the fact that he posted a multi-point night<\/a> and split a 1-1 goal differential at 5v5 play is quite tidy work.<\/p>\n #Canucks<\/a> Kierszenstat of the Game: xGF:\u00a0Leading the way in xGF% was Sasson as well, who tallied up a massive 89.22 xGF% in his limited minutes. Again, while he wasn\u2019t seeing a ton of ice time, there were plenty of raw numbers generated. Sasson had the team\u2019s third-best raw xGF at 1.25, on ice for a 7-2 scoring chance lead and big 7-1 high-danger chance advantage. It wasn\u2019t as if he was just taking advantage of the margins of being a fourth-liner, with some actual substance behind his share metrics. Filip Hronek once more demonstrated his value to this Canucks team as well, racking up a team-best 1.73 xGF. The Czech has been more than solid all year and continues to provide plenty of punch from the back end.<\/p>\n GSAx:\u00a0Considering the Canucks\u2019 goalie situation<\/a>, one might be forgiven for thinking that Nikita Tolopilo was being thrown to the proverbial wolves as a sacrifice. Instead of folding though, the Belarusian stepped up to the plate in a big way. The Ducks continued their offence-heavy ways, putting 41 shots up against Tolopilo for a 5.22 xGF. Only 3 high-danger chances and 1 middle-danger chance got past the netminder, resulting in a 1.22 GSAx on the night. That\u2019s really tidy work by Tolopilo and was yet another reason why the Canucks were able to get this result against one of the league\u2019s best teams.Statistical MusingsAbbotsford Line buzzing:\u00a0As mentioned previously, the Abbotsford line of Arshdeep Bains \u2013 Max Sasson \u2013 Linus Karlsson were all over the ice making plays last night. Again, they saw limited ice time at 5v5, but their raw numbers were right up there with pretty much any other forward unit. Together, the trio had a 100.00 CF% and 100.00 xGF%, putting up the second-most xGF with 0.58 in just 3:10 TOI. It\u2019s an absolutely bananas contribution in such limited time, and drawing Bains back into the lineup<\/a> seemed to work like a charm against Anaheim last night.<\/p>\n Won’t get an assist on the play but Bains creates the turnover and with patience in the OZ, finds Marcus Pettersson that leads to the Karlsson goal following the Sasson tip<\/p>\n Not a struggle:\u00a0Maybe it was just a matter of time for this line, or maybe it was a particularly good game. The Conor Garland \u2013 David Kampf \u2013 Brock Boeser line looked good, playing heavy minutes with plenty of defensive responsibility but still coming out on top. Their CF% hovered around team average, but it was their team-best xGF of 0.97 that stood out against the Ducks. They played strong at both ends of the ice and were duly rewarded with chances, getting their scoring wingers back into action.<\/p>\n Lol Conor Garland is unstoppable <\/p>\n As a team<\/p>\n CF% \u2013 42.04% HDCF% \u2013 43.18% xGF% \u2013 48.14%<\/p>\n The Canucks are just so inconsistent. They can go toe-to-toe with the league\u2019s best or play down to the worst teams. Last night, while they weren\u2019t dominant by any stretch of the imagination, they played quite well to trade blows and ride out momentum swings against them. That was invaluable in helping secure the win on the road, against a very hot team coming out on the other end of a rebuild. Now, it\u2019s a question of which team will show up in their next contest.<\/p>\n Vancouver heads up to NorCal to take on the San Jose Sharks tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n Stats provided by naturalstattrick.com<\/p>\n Sponsored by bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Statsies: Abbotsford Line comes up big in Canucks\u2019 win against high-flying Ducks Where in the world was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311179","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=311179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The first period was Vancouver<\/a>\u2018s worst at 5v5 action. Posting a 27.03 CF% and 36.10 xGF%, it would make sense to have seen the Ducks storm out to an early lead \u2013 except it was the exact opposite that happened by the end of the opening frame. Carrying a 2-1 lead out of their worst period in the game allowed the Canucks to play their way back into the game. The second was a very back-and-forth tilt, resulting in the teams basically splitting the CF% and xGF% shares as the Ducks had a slight 8-7 lead in high-danger chances. However, the third saw Vancouver take the initiative in very limited 5v5 minutes, tallying up a 67.07 xGF% while splitting the high-danger chances to 4-4. It was a very solid frame to close out the game, and a big reason why the Canucks managed to take home the two points.Heat Map
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\nTom Willander is the first Swedish-born defenceman in franchise history to record a multi-assist game before his 21st birthday<\/p>\n