The Vancouver Canucks have won three straight games. Sounds the trumpets. The Canucks have won three straight games. I’m going to savor this as much as I can. The last time they won three or more games in a row was early October. Hopefully this calms down some of the news around the team. At Least just for now because the team is finally starting to put together some wins. Vancouver finally climbed their way back into a playoff spot. Ironically it was against the team they beat in the playoffs last year.
Nils Hoglander tonight:
— 1 goal
— +2
— 69.27 5v5 xGF% (1st on Canucks)
— 2.60 game score (season high)Vancouver looks… pretty good again? pic.twitter.com/SKVAOCeHqv
— Big Head Hockey (@BigHeadHcky) January 30, 2025
In the first period Vancouver looked great. Nils Hoglander got on the board scoring his fourth goal of the year off of a beautiful passing play from Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson. Hughes came out to play tonight. Tallying his 20th multipoint game of the season making his MVP case stronger each game. I know you aren’t surprised us Canucks fans know how good Hughes is. After Nashville tied the game at one. Hughes setup Linus Karlsson for his first career NHL goal. The Canucks shut it down the rest of the game and Pius Suter added the empty net marker to ice the game for Vancouver. I’m trying to remember but I’m pretty sure Suter scored another goal last year against Nashville too. I wonder if that was an important goal.
Thatcher Demko played great making 31 saves. I don’t want to get too excited because I want to see more out of Demko. But this is definitely a step in the right direction. However, after this game I want to see Demko start against Dallas to see if he can get some consistency in his game. The Canucks have a tough test next game against the Stars Friday but with how this team is playing I’m feeling confident going into that game. I hope I won’t be eating those words.