CANUCKS POST WIN IN TAMPA BAY
TAMPA, Fla. — Elias Petterson and Brock Boeser scored 1:10 apart in the third period and Jake Virtanen and Markus Granlund added empty-net goals in the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Petterson scored his fourth goal in four games in his rookie season. Anders Nilsson made 33 saves in his season debut.
Brayden Point scored his first goal of the season for the Lightning, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves.
Vancouver withstood an early surge to keep the game close, trailing by a goal entering the third period. The persistence was rewarded first when defenceman Derrick Pouliot threw a wrist shot toward the net from the left point that Petterson was able to deflect around Vasilevskiy and inside the post with 8:53 remaining. Boeser then fired a slap shot from the right circle past Vasilevskiy.
NOTES: Lightning C Tyler Johnson returned to the lineup after missing the opener with an upper-body injury . ... Vancouver C Antoine Roussel missed his fourth consecutive game with a concussion. Coach Travis Green said following Thrusday’s morning skate Roussel is getting close to a return . ... Tampa Bay scratched RW Cory Conacher, C Danick Martel and D Slater Koekkoek. The Canucks scratched D Michael Del Zotto, D Alex Biega and LW Brandon Leipsic . ... The Lightning are 0-for-8 on the power play to start the season. UP NEXT Canucks: At Florida on Saturday night.
Lightning: Host Columbus on Saturday night.
Sedins to have numbers retired
VANCOUVER (CP) — Daniel and Henrik Sedin will soon have their jerseys hanging in the rafters of Rogers Arena.
The Vancouver Canucks announced on Thursday that the numbers of the recently retired twin superstars will be retired as part of a week-long celebration next season.
So far, no date has been set for the event.
Centre Henrik Sedin wore 33 for the Canucks. He had 240 goals and 840 assists over 1,070 games and holds the franchise’s points record.
Left-winger Daniel Sedin wore 22 and is Vancouver’s all-time leading goal scorer, with 393 goals and 648 assists in 1,041 games.
The 38-year-old brothers retired at the end of last season after spending their entire 17-year NHL playing careers with the Canucks.
The organization, which came into the NHL in the 1970-71 season, has previously retired four other numbers: right-winger Stan Smyl’s No. 12, left winger Markus Naslund’s No. 19, right winger Pavel Bure’s No. 10, and No. 16, worn by centre and former team president Trevor Linden.