The Vancouver Canucks will wrap up their six-game road trip on Saturday afternoon when they face the Tampa Bay Lightning at 1:00 p.m. PT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liam \u00d6hgren and Elias Pettersson (D) scored for the Canucks on Thursday against the Florida Panthers. \u00d6hgren potted his second goal of the season and is up to five points in nine games, while Pettersson scored his third of the year, putting him in a four-way tie with Miro Heiskanen, Cale Makar, and Luke Hughes for the second-most goals from a defenceman in the league.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Head Coach Manny Malhotra spoke about his team\u2019s game against the strong Florida Panthers team on Thursday night. He said he likes that the team keeps growing and improving, and that his group played a much more complete game aside from the final 10 minutes. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Malhotra said his group weathered the storm the Panthers threw at them with their aggressive forecheck, and he credited them with supporting each other better and executing under pressure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also discussed defenceman Elias Pettersson\u2019s game and what he has liked so far in the preliminary stages of the season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of his major assets is understanding what he does well, and he sticks to that. The offensive piece is always a cherry on top, but he\u2019s not overly looking for that. What we value in his game is his ability to close out plays. He plays a physical style, [and is] just advancing pucks for us,\u201d said Malhotra.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have to do anything extravagant. Just making sure we have some clean breakout touches. He\u2019s done a good job of playing to his strengths.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quick Hits on the Competition\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lightning come into Saturday\u2019s game with a 5-2-0 record and have won five of their last six games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
They average three goals a game and give up 2.71 against per outing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel has started the season strong. He has six goals and 10 points through seven games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hagel is playing alongside Anthony Cirelli and Nikita Kucherov on the Lightning\u2019s top line.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
John Carlson is a new addition to the Lightning\u2019s defence corps. He leads Lightning defencemen with an average ice time of 20:10 through seven games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrei Vasilevskiy has started six of the Lightning\u2019s seven games this season, but backup Dennis Hildeby was strong in his one start. The Lightning beat the Seattle Kraken Thursday night and don\u2019t play again until Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Story: Filip Chytil\u2019s Return\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Filip Chytil played in his first game of the season on Thursday night. The 27-year-old played 18:30 and picked up an assist on Pettersson\u2019s goal at four-on-four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks will wrap up their six-game road trip on Saturday afternoon when they face the Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-430798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}