The Vancouver Canucks return to Rogers Arena\u00a0this weekend, beginning\u00a0a two-game homestand\u00a0with the Utah Mammoth visiting for a 4:00 p.m. game\u00a0on Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It will be the third and final matchup of the season between the Canucks and Mammoth, and Utah has taken the two\u00a0previous\u00a0games\u00a0this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser has had a strong past\u00a0month and\u00a0is now up to 21 goals\u00a0on\u00a0the season. He has nine goals and eight assists for 17 points in his last 15 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marco Rossi is also a point-per-game player over his last 15 games, scooping up four goals and 11 assists for 15 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mammoth are holding onto the first Wild Card spot in the Western Conference with their 39-30-6 record. They are five points up on the San Jose Sharks, Nashville Predators, and Los Angeles Kings, as the playoff picture is becoming clearer by the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have a 20-16-3 road record this season, and Saturday evening\u2019s game will be the final stop of a three-game road trip, during which they have posted a pair of 6-2 wins over the Kings and the Seattle Kraken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller leads the Mammoth with 74 points (22g-52a) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dylan Guenther is the leading\u00a0goalscorer\u00a0with 37 tucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mikhail Sergachev leads the team in ice time and is averaging 24:18 per game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jack McBain sits fourth in the league in hits, with 271 on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Between the pipes, Karel Vejmelka\u00a0has handled\u00a0a heavy workload. He has made league-leading\u00a057 starts this season and has a 34-19-3 record.\u00a0He has an .899% save percentage, 2.68 goals-against average, and has two shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Story:\u00a0Power Play on the Up\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk picked up his 15th\u00a0power play goal of the season on\u00a0Thursday night, giving him a new career-high for goals on the man-advantage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeBrusk has been scoring a lot on the power play of late, but the Canucks\u00a0as a whole have\u00a0been good when up a man over the past month. The team ranks fourth in the league since March 3rd,\u00a0scoring on\u00a030.8% of their power plays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have 12 power play goals in their last 15 games, four coming from DeBrusk and Brock Boeser, while Elias Pettersson has a\u00a0pair,\u00a0and\u00a0Marco Rossi and Filip Hronek have a goal apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These five players come together on the first power play unit and are starting to develop some chemistry at\u00a0the tail\u00a0end of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Top Performers over the Last Five Games\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser:\u00a04g-2a-6p\u00a0\u00a0
Elias Pettersson: 0g-5a-5p\u00a0
Jake DeBrusk: 3g-1a-4p\u00a0
Teddy Blueger: 2g-1a-3p\u00a0
Max Sasson: 1g-2a-3p\u00a0
Marcus Pettersson: 1g-2a-3p\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
When and Where to Watch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday\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 return to Rogers Arena\u00a0this weekend, beginning\u00a0a two-game homestand\u00a0with the Utah Mammoth visiting for a 4:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-580771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580771","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=580771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}