Oct 11, 2024; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning proper wing Nikita Kucherov (86) celebrates his purpose towards the Carolina Hurricanes in the course of the third interval at PNC Area. Obligatory Credit score: James Guillory-Imagn Photos The Vancouver Canucks open a four-game highway journey on the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday evening searching for their first win of the season.
The Canucks dropped back-to-back video games on residence ice final week to start out the season. Vancouver squandered a 4-1 lead and fell 6-5 in additional time towards the Calgary Flames on Wednesday, and adopted it up with a 3-2 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.
“We lose two video games in additional time, so we have got to watch out. Can we play higher? Yeah. Might we do higher coverage-wise in sure (areas)? Yeah, however that is due to some new, unfamiliar gamers, and I am not blaming them,” Canucks coach Rick Tocchet mentioned. “Some guys have not performed lots of video games. There’s just a few protection issues that we have got to iron out.”
Ahead Brock Boeser has two objectives by means of two video games, whereas captain Quinn Hughes has a pair of assists.
The 2 Canucks goaltenders have break up the primary two video games this season. First was Arturs Silovs, who gave up all six objectives towards Calgary for a 5.94 goals-against common with a .769 save proportion.
Kevin Lankinen allowed two objectives earlier than the shootout towards Philadelphia and posted a .935 save proportion. Lankinen has 5 profession appearances towards the Lightning and is 0-3-1 with a 4.37 GAA and an .872 save proportion.
Vancouver and Tampa Bay break up the season collection final season, with the Lightning profitable 4-3 on Oct. 19 and the Canucks incomes the break up in a 4-1 win on Dec. 12.
Tampa Bay returns to motion after having its Saturday residence recreation towards the Carolina Hurricanes postponed as a result of Hurricane Milton.
On Friday, the Lightning opened the season with a 4-1 win over the Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C. Ahead Nikita Kucherov, final season’s Artwork Ross Trophy winner because the NHL’s main scorer, had a pure hat trick within the third interval and added an help within the win.
“It was an ideal first step towards Carolina, however you watch the tape once more, and it is like, ‘We have lots of work to do,'” Lightning coach Jon Cooper mentioned. “Our gamesmanship, our battle and our compete was actually excessive. I cherished the best way we closed out the third (however) we have got to place ourselves in a bit higher place to win these video games shifting ahead.
“We’ll take our two factors and maintain pushing ahead right here this week.”
Tampa Bay captain Victor Hedman had three assists, and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves within the win.
Jake Guentzel, who signed a seven-year contract with the Bolts in free company over the summer time, added two assists in his Lightning debut.
“There’s lots of actually good issues that got here out of that recreation that we did nicely — clearly some issues that we nonetheless obtained to tighten up,” ahead Anthony Cirelli mentioned. “Just a little bit too many odd-man rushes that got up there — little issues that I feel we simply should concentrate on somewhat bit extra and be prepared for the following recreation.”
Tuesday is the primary of two conferences between the Canucks and Lightning. The 2 groups conclude the season collection on Dec. 8 in Vancouver.
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