First Period:
- Elias Pettersson (5) Assists: Zeev Buium (5), Brock Boeser (11)
- Gabe Perreault (7) Assists: Alexis Lafreniere (12), J.T. Miller (11)
Second Period:
- Oliver Bjorkstrand (7) (Power Play) Assists: J.T. Miller (12), Adam Fox (21)
- Glenn Gawdin (1) Unassisted
- Alexis Lafreniere (10) Assists: Mika Zibanejad (14), Gabe Perreault (4)
- Glenn Gawdin (2) Assists: Vladislav Gavrikov (6), Jaroslav Chmelar (1)
Third Period:
Stats:
Adam Rotter:
- The way this game started it seemed like it was going to be one of those end of a long road trip losses against a bad team that almost cancels out how well they had played earlier on the trip. Vancouver was just the better team for most of the first period but luckily Gabe Perreault scored to tie it and then in the second period the Rangers just took over and took it to the Canucks.
- A strong game from Dylan Garand as he played
- Maybe Glenn Gawdin can be the new Jonny Brodzinski. Brodzinski had scored a tiny bit more in his limited NHL time before he found his role and had 19, 19 and 16 points the last three seasons. Gawdin has scored consistently in the AHL but he could be a 12/13th forward and as a center his only competition is 37-year old Luke Glendening until Joe Veleno comes back. Or maybe this was just a one nice game for Gawdin goals/points wise but Mike Sullivan is looking for a trio to play consistently on the fourth line and scoring won’t hurt his chances of staying in the lineup.
- Sean Durzi is expected to return after the little break the Rangers have following Monday’s game against Montreal, but it’s going to be hard to take Scott Morrow out of the lineup. Morrow has been pretty good with Matthew Robertson and playing a lot more like the touted prospect he was when he was acquired. Braden Schneider did seem to get banged up late in the third period, so depending on what that injury is, if it’s anything, could mean Morrow stays in the lineup.
- I expected that Dylan Garand would play tonight as he is from BC and Jonas Korpisalo will almost certainly play Monday, but it will be interesting to see if the Rangers continue to alternate goalies game by game after that.
- Overall the Rangers went 3-1 out west and the one game that they lost may have been their best game. They nearly collapsed against Seattle after a strong first two periods, played well but lost to the Oilers, beat the Flames and then took care of business against the Canucks. If the Rangers are going to try and stay in the race for third in the Metro, since both wild card spots are likely coming from the Atlantic, these are the games they need to win.
- It will probably be a bit different of a game on Monday against Montreal. TBD on if Chris Kreider will be able to play since he got hurt last night.