Coming off of their first regulation loss of the season, the Canucks returned to Rogers Arena Tuesday night to face Erik Karlsson and the Ottawa Senators. It’s always fun to watch a game-changing defenseman and Troy Stecher did very well in his debut. In fact, his neat breakouts and crisp passes were probably the Canucks’ best plays of the game! Aside from Stecher, there aren’t too many positives to take from this game for Vancouver, who came up goalless against the Sens.
THE GOALS
Ryan Dzingel, who has a great name, opened the scoring midway through the first after a sloppy Canucks change led to the first minus of Troy Stecher’s career.
Almost nothing happened after the opening goal until Ryan Dzingel scored again early in the third.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau also added an empty netter, making the final score 3-0 for the visitors.
The Canucks did not generate a lot of chances to break Craig Anderson’s shutout. Henrik Sedin did get this opportunity, but he passed the puck. As he tends to.
THE STATS
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THE STECHER
Only his defensive partner Alex Edler played more minutes than Troy Stecher, who looked extremely comfortable in his debut. Gif-master Ryan Biech singled out some of Stecher’s nicest moments. That puck movement! Swoon!
And there’s nothing quite like the captain of the team you grew up loving singing your praises!
The Canucks don’t play again until Friday when some kid named Connor McDavid comes to town.
