Vancouver, which is 2-16-4 in its past 22 games, never recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it makes it harder for sure,\u201d Kane said. \u201cI think we’re all human. We understand this isn’t very much fun. At the same time, you have to have — again, like I said — some mental toughness and some pushback and some fight. And whether you\u2019ve got to make up something in your head to get angry and get to work, that’s what you\u2019ve got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dallas went up 4-1 at 1:33 of the third period. Heiskanen intercepted a Marcus Pettersson<\/a>\u00a0pass in the Vancouver zone and passed down to Steel, who made a behind-the-back backhand pass that left Duchene with an open net.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn the first there was zero energy in the building and those games can be hard to play,\u201d said Duchene. \u201cI’ve been in those situations for where you’re having a tough year, you come out hard, you play hard, and then things get away from you. You\u2019ve got to do that to those teams. You\u2019ve got to take their will away. \u2026 The second period was huge. We upped our competitiveness \u2026 we talked about closing it out better than we’ve closed some games out and we did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Blackwell scored unassisted at 5:40 to make it 5-1.\u00a0Drew O’Connor<\/a>\u00a0lost a bouncing puck in the slot and Blackwell skated onto it, across the slot and over a sprawling Tolopilo.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe left \u2018Tolo\u2019 out to dry today,\u201d Pettersson said. \u201cToo many great grade As.\u201d<\/p>\n Bichsel scored on a wrist shot over Tolopilo\u2019s blocker from the left dot at 15:41 for the 6-1 final.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old Swiss defenseman, who was selected in the first round (No. 18) of the 2022 NHL Draft, was playing in his third game after missing 31 with a lower-body injury that required surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was trying to come back stronger, and I’m really happy I help the team scoring some goals tonight,\u201d Bichsel said. \u201cThe last three months has been a lot of work. I was trying to rehab fast, but also with patience. It wasn’t easy at all times but I think we all did a great job: the physios, the trainers, and everyone involved, so I’m really happy it’s paying off right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n NOTES: Heiskanen has nine assists in a six-game point streak. \u2026 Canucks defenseman Pierre-Olivier Joseph<\/a> left 2:51 into the third period with an upper-body injury. \u201cI think he was getting some X-rays while we were playing at the end there. We\u2019ll find out what\u2019s going on,\u201d coach Adam Foote said. \u2026 Stars forward Roope Hintz<\/a> missed a third straight game with an illness but skated on Monday and could return at the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. \u2026 Canucks defenseman\u00a0Tyler Myers<\/a>\u00a0took part in pregame warmups but was held out of the lineup for the third straight game for roster management purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver, which is 2-16-4 in its past 22 games, never recovered.\u00a0 \u201cI think it makes it harder for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-511442","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\/511442","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=511442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}