{"id":577104,"date":"2026-04-02T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:11","slug":"boeser-has-hat-trick-last-place-canucks-overcome-blowing-four-goal-lead-to-beat-nhl-leading-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577104\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeser has hat trick, last-place Canucks overcome blowing four-goal lead to beat NHL-leading Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Marcus Pettersson scored with 5:39 remaining, Brock Boeser had a hat trick and the last-place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vancouver-canucks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"vancouver-canucks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> blew a four-goal lead before beating the NHL-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"colorado-avalanche\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> 8-6 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks, who entered the game 58 points behind the Avalanche, scored in all sorts of ways, including 29 seconds into the game, short-handed, on the power play and into an empty net to snap a six-game slide.<\/p>\n<p>They led 6-2 in the second only to see Colorado tie it up with 6:02 left. Just 23 seconds later, Pettersson knocked in his first goal since November. Boeser sealed it by lining the puck down the ice and into an empty net.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Blueger scored twice, while Max Sasson and Jake DeBrusk also added goals to spoil a night in which\u00a0Nathan MacKinnon\u00a0became the first player this season to reach 50 goals. Vancouver took advantage of the Avalanche juggling their defensive pairings with\u00a0Cale Makar\u00a0sidelined by an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lankinen made 24 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Malinski scored twice, while Gabriel Landeskog, Parker Kelly and Brent Burns also scored. MacKinnon notched his second 50-goal campaign of his career with his score early in the first.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood was pulled with 4:39 left in the second after allowing six goals on 19 shots. Scott Wedgewood stopped five shots in relief.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche were rolling after a\u00a09-2 win over Calgary\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Before fans had a chance to settle into their seats, the Canucks were up 1-0. Sasson&#8217;s goal 29 seconds into the game was the fastest by the Canucks since Oct. 22, 2024 (21 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>Burns had a goal and an assist as he played in his 999th straight game. The all-time Ironman streak belongs to Phil Kessel, who skated in 1,064 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: At Minnesota on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: At Dallas on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Marcus Pettersson scored with 5:39 remaining, Brock Boeser had a hat trick and the last-place Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-577104","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\/577104","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=577104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}