Canucks sink Wild late, sit in second wild-card spot
Kiefer Sherwood’s tiebreaking aim late within the third interval helped give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-1 win over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Friday.
Brock Faber’s power-play equalizer made it a 1-1 sport at 7:12 of the third, however the Canucks answered simply over 9 minutes later. Filip Hronek despatched a pleasant go to a wide-open Sherwood along side the Wild’s internet, and Sherwood transformed the game-winner.
Vancouver is on a two-game successful streak, regardless of lacking factors chief Quinn Hughes for each video games. The star defenseman is day-to-day with an undisclosed harm.
Elias Pettersson and Teddy Blueger scored for the Canucks, whereas Hronek had two assists.
Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen had an impressive sport, stopping 37 of 38 pictures to earn his twenty second win of the season.
Minnesota misplaced regardless of a 38-20 pictures benefit. Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped 17 of 19 pictures.
The Canucks have a six-game level streak on house ice. Regardless of the loss, the Wild nonetheless lead the NHL with 47 street factors with a 22-10-3 away report.
The end result put each groups into Western Convention wild-card positions. The Wild dropped from third place within the Central Division into the highest wild-card spot, whereas the Canucks leapfrogged the Calgary Flames into the second slot.
Pettersson opened the scoring with a power-play tally at 16:14 of the primary interval. Organising past the circle, Pettersson blasted a one-timer into the online, ending his private 15-game aim drought.
Neither membership scored throughout the second interval, as Gustavsson and Lankinen every made a number of large saves. Each groups additionally had loads of probabilities that missed the online or had been deflected away, plus the Wild’s Gustav Nyquist hit the submit within the interval’s closing minute.
The Wild lastly solved Lankinen 7:12 into the third. Tyler Myers broke his stick whereas attempting to clear the puck, resulting in a pleasant Wild passing play that Faber completed with a booming shot from the slot.
After Sherwood’s go-ahead tally, Blueger sealed Vancouver’s win with an empty-net aim within the closing minute.
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