{"id":350401,"date":"2025-12-17T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:04:10","slug":"ohgren-scores-his-first-goal-as-canucks-beat-rangers-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350401\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohgren scores his first goal as Canucks beat Rangers 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Instant Reaction, the series here at\u00a0CanucksArmy<\/a>\u00a0where we give you our instant reaction to tonight\u2019s\u00a0Vancouver Canucks<\/a>\u00a0game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below!Starting LineupFirst Period<\/p>\n

Evander Kane \u2014 with some help from the linesman \u2014 got the Canucks on the board early when he caught Jonathan Quick out of position and rifled home his sixth of the season:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8Canucks Goal\ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n

Evander Kane with an early goal and it’s 1-0 Canucks!!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

1-0 Canucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Canucks got their first power play of the game eight minutes into the first, and after going 2-for-3 in New Jersey on Sunday, expectations were SKY HIGH for the Canucks\u2019 PP. They once again looked good, but didn\u2019t score this time. On Twitter\/X, Stanchies writer Wyatt Arndt said that he feels Zeev Buium needs to be a single-digit defenceman, rather than jersey number 24. I can\u2019t put my finger on it, but I can\u2019t get around the feeling that he needs to be either number eight or number four.<\/p>\n

Anyways. It was a pretty uneventful first period, as both Rangers fans and Canucks fans complained about how bad their favourite team looked.<\/p>\n

Some more takeaways from the first:
-Trade whatever veteran you have to in order to get Aatu R\u00e4ty in this lineup. A one game scratch, you can live with that. But a supposedly rebuilding team keeping a 23-year-old centre in the press box while we watch Drew O\u2019Connor lose faceoffs instead? The one game he played higher up in the lineup, he scored two goals. Let\u2019s go.
-Potentially bad news for Team Tank: Thatcher Demko is looking pretty sharp.<\/p>\n

Second Period<\/p>\n

In the second, Liam Ohgren scored his first goal of the season \u2014 yes, the season, not just with the Canucks \u2014 before the period was even five minutes old. Ohgren moved in on the wing and sniped a shot five hole on Quick, who caught a piece of the shot, but not enough, as the puck trickled in past him.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udea8Canucks Goal\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n

The puck sneaks in as Liam Ohgren gets his first as a Canuck and makes it 2-0!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

2-0 Canucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The kids are alright. As I pointed out on X:<\/p>\n

Liam Ohgren in 18 GP with Minnesota this season: 0 points
Liam Ohgren in 2 GP with Vancouver: 1 goal<\/p>\n

Just saying.<\/p>\n

There was quite the sequence in the back half of the second period. First, Jonathan Quick robbed an officially snakebitten Kiefer Sherwood not once but twice, kickstarting the Rangers\u2019 breakout the other way. Led by JT Miller (who missed his first attempt), the Rangers cycled the puck around and cranked up the pressure on the Canucks, who were suddenly stuck defending in their own end. The Canucks eventually gained control and iced the puck, and after a few more sharp saves from Thatcher Demko, Liam Ohgren eventually wheeled the puck out and through the neutral zone. And wildly enough, the sequence nearly ended with a Vancouver goal as the Rangers defenceman lost his balance and fell to the ice, allowing Ohgren to move right to the front of the net on a partial breakaway. Quick turned his backhand five-hole attempt aside, though, and the game remained 2-0.<\/p>\n

From there, the Rangers really started to pour on the pressure, and my oh my, was Thatcher Demko sharp.<\/p>\n

Somehow the puck stayed out of the net!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 Sportsnet | #Canucks<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Canucks got their second power play attempt of the game late in the second, and this time, they elected to start the second unit.<\/p>\n

Some takeaways from the second:
-As I watched Thatcher Demko\u2019s fabulous saves in the second, I couldn\u2019t help but think about how few big saves the Canucks have gotten from their goaltenders this season. They\u2019ve been an awful defensive team, don\u2019t get me wrong, but it feels like with Kevin Lankinen, basically every shot that\u00a0should\u00a0beat him, has. Does that make sense? Maybe not.
-Zeev Buium down on the ice after getting hit into the boards had every Canucks fan worried that the most Canuck-y thing that could happen was about to happen.<\/p>\n

Third Period<\/p>\n

Let the record show I wrote this before the third period began. The Rangers played last night, losing 4-1 to the Anaheim Ducks. They\u2019ve been a bit of a mess this year, and it feels a bit like their late burst in the second period would be the best effort they could muster up. And of course, Thatcher Demko was sensational and stopped them dead in their tracks.<\/p>\n

That theory seemed like a solid one. Now, to their credit, the Canucks did a better job of defending through the neutral zone, but the Rangers seemed like they were completely out of answers for most of the third.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the Rangers took plenty of shots as they battled to get back into this one. As the boos began for a second straight night at MSG, the Rangers got a late power play and pulled their goalie in an attempt to capitalize at 6-on-4. Little did they know, Conor Garland had plans of banking the puck to himself (instead of clearing it out of the zone) and backhanding a shot over every Rangers player and into the open net.<\/p>\n

Garland backhand from DOWNTOWN!<\/p>\n

3-0 Canucks.<\/p>\n

Some takeaways from the third:
-I know everyone is excited enough about Zeev Buium, but some of Buium\u2019s defensive reads have flat-out stunned me at times. He certainly doesn\u2019t look like a 20-year-old so far.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your instant reaction to tonight\u2019s game? Let us know in the comments section below!<\/p>\n

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