Vancouver Canucks (22-48-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (37-34-7, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks are looking to break a four-game slide with a win against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
San Jose has gone 37-34-7 overall with a 10-12-3 record against the Pacific Division. The Sharks have a 34-12-3 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Vancouver has gone 22-48-8 overall with a 5-15-2 record against the Pacific Division. The Canucks have a 7-9-6 record in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
The teams play Saturday for the fourth time this season. The Sharks won 5-2 in the last matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Macklin Celebrini has 42 goals and 66 assists for the Sharks. Alexander Wennberg has five goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek has eight goals and 37 assists for the Canucks. Elias Pettersson has eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 5-4-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.4 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canucks: 1-9-0, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.4 assists, 3.3 penalties and 9.9 penalty minutes while giving up 4.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd).<\/p>\n
Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Kevin Lankinen: day to day (upper-body), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Evander Kane: day to day (upper-body), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks (22-48-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (37-34-7, in the Pacific Division) San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2094,7,9222,114780,20225,97797,114779,41677,41680,404,1489,2993,88,90,89,98,127,114781,31561,20226],"class_list":{"0":"post-260818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-derek-forbort","12":"tag-elias-pettersson","13":"tag-evander-kane","14":"tag-filip-chytil","15":"tag-filip-hronek","16":"tag-kevin-lankinen","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-hockey","19":"tag-ryan-reaves","20":"tag-san-jose","21":"tag-san-jose-headlines","22":"tag-san-jose-news","23":"tag-san-jose-sharks","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-thatcher-demko","26":"tag-vancouver","27":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}