{"id":515605,"date":"2026-03-05T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515605\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:38:10","slug":"ehlers-scores-hat-trick-hurricanes-hold-off-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515605\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehlers scores hat trick, Hurricanes hold off Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That ended Lankinen\u2019s night, but Ehlers scored on the first shot on Tolopilo less than a minute later, firing a slap shot off the rush from the left dot past the blocker to make it 5-2 at 12:51.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would think it&#8217;s pretty tough coming in during the game when you&#8217;ve just been sitting and not thinking you&#8217;re going to play, so every team thinks just shoot a lot,\u201d Ehlers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brock-boeser-8478444\" title=\"Brock Boeser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Boeser<\/a>\u00a0converted a backdoor pass from\u00a0Rossi on a 5-on-3 to make it 5-3 at 19:17. Vancouver finished 2-for-4 on the power play after going 0-for-13 over the previous eight games and 1-for-27 in the past 14 games. It\u2019s just the seventh time all season the Canucks have scored more than one power play goal in a game, and first time in 20 games back to Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were moving the puck pretty good today,\u201d Hronek said.\u2028<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nils-hoglander-8481535\" title=\"Nils Hoglander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Hoglander<\/a>\u00a0scored his first goal in 22 games this season at 6:45 of the third period to make it 5-4, one-timing a cross-ice Pettersson pass past Bussi\u2019s blocker from the left hash mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think the game should have been over and we just kind of took the foot off the gas,\u201d coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite taking a penalty with 2:13 left, Vancouver had chances to tie it late, including a nice left shoulder save by Bussi on a high Pettersson shot from the slot, and Ehlers completed his hat trick into an empty net to secure the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s always special when you score three goals but at the same time, I&#8217;m not too happy about my performance,\u201d Ehlers said. \u201cIt&#8217;s one of those where they just seem to go in and that&#8217;s great, we won, but I got a bit better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: The Hurricanes were 2-for-3 on the power play. \u2026 Carolina center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jesperi-kotkaniemi-8480829\" title=\"Jesperi Kotkaniemi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a> was plus-1 in 10:27 of ice time in his first game back after being scratched the first three games after the Olympics. \u2026 Canucks forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/evander-kane-8475169\" title=\"Evander Kane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evander Kane<\/a>\u00a0missed the game because of illness. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/max-sasson-8484136\" title=\"Max Sasson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Sasson<\/a>\u00a0was minus-1 in 11:46 of ice time in his place after being scratched for three straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That ended Lankinen\u2019s night, but Ehlers scored on the first shot on Tolopilo less than a minute later,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-515605","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\/515605","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=515605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}