The Vancouver Canucks will play their first road game since the Olympic break on Saturday night, as they head down\u00a0to Seattle to face the Kraken.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s road game is a quick one-hitter away from Rogers Arena before the Canucks return to Vancouver for 10 home games in March, including an eight-game homestand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Kraken currently\u00a0hold\u00a0the final wild card spot in the Pacific Division with a 27-22-9 record.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game will be their third game in four nights. They came back from the break with a 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Wednesday and a 5-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jordan Eberle leads the Kraken with 20 goals and 38 points this season. He has scored 16 of his 20 goals at even strength this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eberle plays on the top line alongside Matty Beniers and Jared McCann. The most consistent duo on the line has been Eberle and Beniers, who have played\u00a0698 minutes\u00a0together at five-on-five this season and have outscored their opposition 30-18\u00a0in\u00a0that time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brandon Montour leads his team in ice time, averaging 22:17 per game. Vince Dunn is just behind him, averaging 22:11 per game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dunn and Eberle are tied for the team lead in shots on net with 122 apiece.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joey Daccord has started 34 of their 58 games this season. He has a 16-13-5 record with a .902% save percentage, 2.84 goals-against average, and two shutouts. Philipp Grubauer has started 20 games this season but has better numbers, with an 11-7-3 record, a .914% save percentage, and a 2.50 goals-against average. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Kraken\u2019s power play ranks 13th in the league with a 22% conversion rate. Their penalty kill sits 31st and is killing off 71.4% of their penalties this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Story: Tight Matchups with Seattle\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks and Kraken\u00a0have had\u00a0tightly contested games this season in their two prior matchups. Each of their games earlier this season went to a shootout, with each team picking up a victory.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks have won nine of the 17 games against the Kraken, and five of those 17 games have been\u00a0decided in\u00a0overtime or a shootout.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin Lankinen saved all three shootout\u00a0attempts\u00a0that he faced in the Canucks\u2019 win on December 29th. Liam \u00d6hgren scored the shootout winner in the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Teddy Blueger: 2g-3a-5p\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Liam \u00d6hgren: 1g-2a-3p\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Conor Garland: 0g-3a-3p\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Drew O\u2019Connor: 2g-0a-2p\u00a0\u00a0
P.O. Joseph: 1g-1a-2p\u00a0\u00a0
Evander Kane: 1g-1a-2p\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game is at 7:00 p.m. PT, and you can watch the game on Hockey Night in Canada or listen to Brendan Batchelor\u2019s radio call on Sportsnet 650 and the Sportsnet Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks will play their first road game since the Olympic break on Saturday night, as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-504284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504284","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=504284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}