{"id":544157,"date":"2026-03-18T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:50:08","slug":"pettersson-scores-twice-to-reach-200-nhl-goals-canucks-defeat-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544157\/","title":{"rendered":"Pettersson scores twice to reach 200 NHL goals, Canucks defeat Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco Rossi<\/a>\u00a0had a goal and two assists, and Brock Boeser<\/a>\u00a0had three assists for the Canucks (21-38-8), who won for the third time in the past six games (3-2-1) after winning just three of the previous 26 (3-19-4).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kevin Lankinen<\/a>\u00a0made 21 saves for his first win in 10 starts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just happy to keep the puck out,\u201d said Lankinen, who hadn\u2019t won since Jan. 21. \u201cOur team as a whole played a great game. \u2018Petey,\u2019 Brock, Marco, they stepped up in a big way and led the way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> had two assists and Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a>, playing his 800th NHL game, made 17 saves for the Panthers (33-31-3), who have lost the first two of a four-game road trip after winning their previous three games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coming off a 6-2 loss at the Seattle Kraken, Florida gave up a power-play goal early and was down 3-1 after the first period against the last-place Canucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn’t matter who you are playing, a team at home gets up, the crowd gets behind them, and then they really tighten it up defensively \u2026 it’s hard to generate anything,\u201d said defenseman Seth Jones<\/a>, who returned to play 20:16 after missing 26 games with a collarbone injury. \u201cWe had some decent shifts in the third period, [Tkachuk\u2019s] line, some action around the net but it’s just too little, too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pettersson put the Canucks ahead 1-0 on a power play at 3:49 of the first period, one-timing a cross-ice pass from Rossi under the arm of a sliding Bobrovsky from the right dot for his first goal since Jan. 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m just trying to find a seam, and he made a perfect pass in the wheelhouse,\u201d Pettersson said.<\/p>\n

Tkachuk tied it at 11:41 with a quick shot between Lankinen\u2019s pads after a pass by defenseman Elias Pettersson<\/a> bounced off Verhaeghe and right to Tkachuk unchecked in front of the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Rossi\u00a0had a goal and two assists, and Brock Boeser\u00a0had three assists for the Canucks (21-38-8), who won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-544157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544157","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=544157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}