The Vancouver Canucks are back in action on Saturday night when the St. Louis Blues come to town for a 4:00 p.m. matchup on Hockey Night in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game will be the third game of the season between the Blues and Canucks, with each team picking up a\u00a0win in the season series.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aatu R\u00e4ty has picked up a point in each game against the Blues this season. R\u00e4ty\u00a0scored his fourth goal of the season on Tuesday against the Florida Panthers and has won 64.3% of his faceoffs over his last eight games.\u00a0R\u00e4ty is looking to make his mark on the game with his strong work in\u00a0the\u00a0dot, and he has been adding more physicality of late, landing 13 hits over his last three games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blues sit seven points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference with their 27-30-11 record.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a battle for the final Wild Card spot in the west, but the Blues are making a push to get\u00a0into contention.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have gone\u00a06-2-2\u00a0in their last 10 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three Blues players have been a point-per-game or higher over their last 10 games. Jimmy Snuggerud and Robert Thomas have five goals and seven goals apiece, while Dylan Holloway has four goals and six assists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blues have 10 players who have scored double-digit goals this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thomas is the leading scorer on the Blues with 45 points (16g-29a) in 51 games played.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jordan Binnington and Joel Hofer have each made 34 starts this season. Hofer has much better numbers this season; he has a 17-11-5 record with a .908% save percentage, 2.65 goals-against average, and five shutouts. Binnington has a 10-19-6 record, .871% save percentage, 3.47 goals-against average, and one shutout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blues have been outscored 113-88 on the road this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their power play ranks 28th\u00a0in the league,\u00a0converting on\u00a016.6% of their power plays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
St. Louis\u2019 penalty kill matches their power play, sitting 28th\u00a0in the league. They are killing off 75.9% of their penalties this season.<\/p>\n
The Story:\u00a0Rossi\u2019s\u00a0Scoring\u00a0Streak\u00a0and Line Chemistry\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the assembly of the BR\u00d6 line, Marco Rossi has been on a bit of a heater.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The young centreman has nine points in his last four games. That is the most points he has scored in any four-game stretch of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over their last four games, the newly assembled line of Rossi, \u00d6hgren and Boeser has been on the ice for five goals scored and three goals against.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have created 20 scoring chances and allowed 15 against\u00a0in\u00a0that time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marco Rossi: 3g-6a-9p\u00a0
Brock Boeser: 1g-6a-7p\u00a0
Liam \u00d6hgren: 1g-2a-3p\u00a0
Elias Pettersson: 2g-0a-2p\u00a0
Evander Kane, Linus Karlsson, Drew O\u2019Connor, Filip Hronek: 1g-1a-2p\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game is at 4:00 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 are back in action on Saturday night when the St. Louis Blues come to town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-550149","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\/550149","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=550149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}