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The Stanchies: Lekkerimäki has arrived, Elias Pettersson goes full Macbeth, and Meriläinen gets his win
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Oct 28, 2026, 04:04 EDTUpdated: Oct 28, 2026, 04:13 EDT
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Somehow, some way, the Vancouver Canucks managed to crawl back from the brink of defeat to topple the Anaheim Ducks to the tune of a 6-5 overtime win.
For two periods, I was preparing for the post-game article much as I have with the majority of the games this season, sans the Cotter Receipt Era.
I was going to talk about the team having to find a way to battle out of the depression of being mired in a 10-game losing streak.
I was going to talk about how the team had to learn to not give up on life when the other team scored on them.
I was going to talk about how the team needs to find a way to produce offence and show some semblance of competency in the offensive zone. Maybe a pass or two might connect once in a while. I wasn’t asking for much, but I just wanted to know it could theoretically happen.
I was going to talk about how it feels like the Canucks leave a guy open beside their goal on every single goal against. About how it was hard to imagine this team ever winning a game of hockey ever again. That maybe they needed to all show up at 8 Rinks and just beat the snot out of a beer league team at an 11:30 puck drop, just to get their mojo back.
And then I was going to talk about a small glimmer of hope in the form of a Jonathan Lekkerimäki shot at the end of the second period. It was nothing major, but it was a small play in which he made a little dangle and unleashed a bit of a laser of a shot. Not enough to score, but just enough to let the Ducks know, “Hey, don’t you forget about me. Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t.”
It was going to be one of those “ok so they lost horribly, but at least Prime Time continues to have some moments in these games; he continues to look like an NHL player.” Which, when the team struggles to get twenty shots in a night, that feels like the high point of a game. “Maybe one day he’ll have a multi-goal game or something, I don’t know.” was how I was going to sign off on the segment, as I settled in for the usual third period of mediocrity.
But something strange happened on this night. Somewhere between the Anaheim fans chanting for their free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich if the Ducks score five in a game, and after Elias Pettersson looked at his hands in the penalty box in a moment that can only be described as him wondering about how to get the spot out, Jonathan Lekkerimäki showed why Prime Time isn’t just a name; it’s a way of life.
Originally, the name was a bit of a laugh about how he only scored in games featured on Amazon Prime. He’d score a goal, Conor Garland would admonish him about twirling his stick and having sideburns or whatever, and we’d all have a good laugh. Watching his performance against the Ducks on Tuesday night, however, Prime Time felt more suited for being investigated by a blood splatter analyst from the Miami Metro Police Department than anything else.
Down 5-3 with time winding down in the third period, it truly felt like the game had embraced the moral victory lifestyle. A night with three goals? A game with almost thirty whole shots? The Canucks were playing with house money at this point.
Yet with the goalie pulled for the extra attacker, one man laughed at the idea of moral victories. Why not bask in the real stuff, instead?
Yes sir, with time draining off the clock, Prime Time loaded up a shot that, and I say this with careful consideration, resembled a Markus Naslund offering. A true laser beam. The kind of stuff legends are written about. Not Dave Nonis smiling about Patrick White’s release, but a true honest-to-god, weapon of mass destruction shot. The kind of shot where you almost feel sorry for the goaltender, because they truly had no chance on the play. Are you really a goaltender if all you’re doing is hearing the sound barrier breaking behind you? It’s the kind of shot you assume you’re going to uncork in beer league every time you send the puck on net, only to wonder how it only ended up going a brisk four kilometres per hour along the ice.
Now at this point, believe me, I was still firmly in the mindset of “you know what, this isn’t just a moral victory, this is a MORAL victory, full caps, because one of their young kids just unleashed a piss missile and damn it, if you can’t get jacked from that, then what are we even doing here.”
Be honest, if you read about a game in which the Canucks scratched back to make it 5-4 after being down 4-1, complete with Prime Time giving you tickets to the gun show, you’d happily accept that tanking result.
Lekkerimäki, though, maybe he heard those whispers in the off-season. The people crowding around the water cooler, talking about how this was a make-or-break season for him. That he hadn’t shown enough to be in the NHL. That if he didn’t step up this year, he might just have to accept being a B+ player in the AHL.
Whatever the reason, he looked so calm on the ice when it was 5-4 that it made me uncomfortable. Like he knew something I didn’t. It felt like Nathan Fielder was filming a bit, but I didn’t quite know what the premise was. I just couldn’t figure out why he didn’t look nervous; doesn’t he know he needs to be panicking at this point?
Now his second goal wasn’t shot with as much force as the first one, but it was fired from downtown. It had the aura of Steph Curry stepping up to hit a three from the logo; So smooth and confident that you can’t quite understand how he does it. He just sort of looked at the net, and in one smooth motion the puck was sailing through the air, beating Lukas Dostal to tie the game up. I have watched this goal over and over again just to marvel at how easy he made it look.
It was a brilliant shot in a game that has the potential to be a bit of a coming-out moment in this young man’s career. Of course, they say there are two wolves in all of us, one of which is a Brabarian, so we know not to get too overly hyped on just one small moment in time. But in a season in which the team has looked downright awful on most nights, Prime Time continues to be a player that makes you think he might actually be part of the long-term solution around here. Which, in a tanking season, during a rebuild that will most likely take 3-5 years to truly take off, is one of the few things you can get a little bit excited about.
It wasn’t all Prime Time, of course. The veterans are always the guys who are going to have to step up and lead the way, and Elias Pettersson, Fil Hronek and Brock Boeser did just that. With seven points between them, and a couple of unassisted goals where Elias Pettersson was the main driver of the play, it could easily have been nine points from their leadership group. With the game slipping away in the third period, they managed to get it done and give Lekkerimäki the chance to shine.
Was it a perfect game? Clearly not. It was, in fact, quite ugly at times.
But for a team that looked like they had no idea how to turn things around and find their way into the victory column, this was about as good as it gets.
Let’s dive into a winning game for once, shall we?
Best all the small things
The first twenty minutes have traditionally been the Canucks best period in every game this year. And by “best” I just mean the period in which I can kind of, if I squint really hard, see a path to, maybe not a victory in what they are doing on the ice, but at least a goal or two.
It usually doesn’t result in scoring; of course, it just sort of ends up being a collection of plays where you find yourself going “fair enough” to whatever choices they made, compared to their usual third period actions, in which the reaction is usually more along the lines of “why are they actively trying to hurt me, do they get off on this, I am just asking questions here.”
And it was much the same Tuesday night in which the Canucks did some things that looked like hockey, and you know what, fair enough.
First up you had Paul Cotter back in the lineup getting the puck by the side of the net and driving it on goal, just firing a shot wide:
Did he score? No.
But he made the right play by dragging the puck towards the Ducks goalie. You also had a couple of good board battle victories from Max Sasson and Arshdeep Bains, something that has been in short supply this season from the entire team.
All in all, it almost resulted in a shot on net, and this is what they call low bar expectations.
Zeev Buium was next up, and he almost created a breakaway off of an ambitious check off of a faceoff, but was thwarted by Alex Killorn refusing to be made into a highlight:
Buium ended up with a lone assist on the night, and while he didn’t have a treasure trove of moments where you felt the need to text your buddy demanding to know if they saw that, I felt like it was a good game from the young defenseman. Certainly a game where it felt like he was trying to play to his strengths? He just had several times where he stepped up into the rush and was trying to be a positive force in the offensive zone, something we haven’t seen nearly enough of from him with Vancouver yet. He’s had a lot of games where I swear I can still feel the ghost of Adam Foote over his shoulder, but against the Ducks I finally saw a bit of that Zeev we all heard about from his college days.
Don’t get me wrong, he struggled in his own zone at times (as did, well, everyone), but at least he had moments that you felt he could build on in this one.
Early on, Leevi Meriläinen also looked calm and collected in net, making several glove saves that should delay any career change into becoming a real estate agent in Arizona anytime soon:
And with the veteran trio of Elias Pettersson, Jake DeBrusk and Brock Boeser playing together, we actually saw signs of a line that can make a zone exit with control and generate a scoring chance out of it:
Despite the fact that the Canucks had to come back from being down 4-1 in this game, it was a pretty even affair for the most part. It just felt like Anaheim knew how to finish on their chances, whereas Vancouver struggled to light the lamp. A common refrain on the year, which is why I think we had all settled into the mindset of “hey you know what, losing 5-3 isn’t SO bad.”
Best generational goals
In a tipped shot, Alan Walsh is calling the greatest goal of all time: Fil Hronek put the Ducks up 1-0 after he tipped an AJ Greer’s pass right past Leevi Meriläinen:
It’s safe to say Fil Hronek has struggled this year. A lot of Canucks have, we all know that, but Fil was supposed to be the main guy on the backend who kept everything calm and cool. The cool Uncle who won’t buy the kids alcohol but doesn’t mind if you sneak a swig or two out of the whiskey in the pantry.
Instead, we’ve seen a shell of his former self, and maybe that’s on us and our expectations. Last year he was one of the few players who looked like they survived Adam Foote’s system, so I think we just kind of expected him to adapt and continue on the same way this year.
Aside from what Walsh called the best pass the NHL has ever seen against the Wild, we just haven’t seen any of the old Hronek make much of an appearance. And again, everyone is struggling on this team. Tying up the opponent’s stick seems to be a skill that is unlearnable on this squad, so at this point why not just tap the puck in yourself and save everyone the trouble.
But you do wonder if Fil’s overtime goal on this night might help jumpstart that top d-man we know lives inside of him.
Best just the tip
The Canucks held the decided advantage on special teams against the Ducks, going 1/7 compared to the Ducks 1/2. It’s not often the Canucks get many power plays just due to the fact they’re usually chasing the puck. It’s hard to get a call when you’re chasing down the other team and wondering how hard it is to pull a Dylan Larkin.
And while the Canucks ultimately only got the one goal with the extra man, at least their power play looked serviceable? They were moving the puck well, and in something I have rarely seen over the last decade here, their second unit looked just as competent as the first? Dare I say I was hoping the second unit would hop over the boards at times? I cannot remember the last time I thought that. When the Sedins would go off from the power play and give 15 seconds to Andrew Ebbett or whoever, you just sort of wished the team had taken a timeout instead.
Against Anaheim, though, Jake DeBrusk was looking spry and lively. You can smell it in the air; his hot streak is coming if he keeps playing like this:
As I said, quick, competent puck movement; there is no magic here. Just zipping the puck around to get Anaheim chasing, opening up room for Jake DeBrusk to attempt the Conor Garland mini-stick hockey backdoor tap-in.
And with the period coming to a close, Elias Pettersson almost tipped home a Fil Hronek point shot, a point shot many are calling the greatest of all time:
Elias Pettersson still stands out as one of the few Canucks who can skate their way through the neutral zone with puck possession, and he was using it effectively in this one.
With the second period starting while still on the power play, Marco Rossi would get a clean look at Dostal, only to be denied and then having to watch Travis Mitchell uncork a game five Geoff Courtnall attempt:
Leevi was once again calm and steady, something something Mom’s spaghetti.
The Canucks found themselves on yet another power play after that, and this time it was Filip Chytil taking the puck to the net, followed up by Linus Karlsson getting the puck high in the slot, only to fire wide:
You can see the puck movement; you can see the vision. Taking the puck hard to the net will always be met with approval from this fan base, so seeing Chytil take that course of action is always a good thing. And there aren’t many players on Vancouver that get me thinking “uh oh, that other team is in trouble” when they get the puck in that spot, but oddly enough Linus is one of them. I honestly thought he was picking his spot and sniping one home there, but alas.
Best no hugs allowed
Zeev Buium got his assist on Liam Ohgren’s goal after Tristan Luneau paid Fil Hronek back by tipping the puck past his own goalie:
The best part of this goal was Liam looking almost angry that this was how he got his first of the season. You can see Buium celebrating the goal and going for the hug, but Liam just no-sells it and skates past him.
If this was wrestling, the fly-by from Liam on the hug offer from Buium would mean he is 100% going to cash in his Money in the Bank title shot against him down the line. But you have to assume that being mired in a 10-game losing streak in a season in which you have struggled to do much of anything, a goal finally going in off of a funky bounce probably doesn’t feel all that satisfying.
“Of all the things I do, THAT’S what goes in?” sort of vibes; we’ve all been there. When the universe doesn’t make sense, sometimes you have to take a moment to process it.
Aside from the first of several existential crises in this game, you can see Buium jumping up in the play on this goal, which was a major driving factor on it. He not only takes the puck in the neutral zone, but he makes a zone entry with possession before dishing off to Linus Karlsson, then keeps skating to the net to give Liam options on the play.
Lucky bounce or not, the process on the goal was solid, and is exactly what the Canucks need to see more of from Zeev.
Best cleaning up your basement
The Ducks would strike back under a minute later, this time when Jackson LaCombe found Jeff Mallot unguarded, unchecked and possibly unloved, at the side of the net. Hronek and EP40 both took on the monumental task of defending Mikael Granlund for reasons (bees?), leading to another easy goal for the opposition:
We saw it a lot under Adam Foote last year, where there would just be some dude completely alone in his thoughts beside a Canucks goaltender, only to turn around and have around thirty seconds to figure out the best way to slide the puck into the empty net. It’s starting to feel like that is happening more and more under Manny Malhotra as well, but I will say a lot of observations and comparisons can’t be fully fleshed out due to the 10-game losing streak.
What is lack of skill? What is coaching? What is depression from losing? We have a long season to go before we figure out what kind of squad and system we have in front of us.
Either way, it was 2-1 Anaheim, and at this point you were just sort of assuming the game was done. Good first period, then the second period of failure, followed by the “pray for a moral victory” goal in the third, a tale as old as time.
Best too much man
One of the few bright spots this year has been the play of Defensive Hobbyist Elias Pettersson. I don’t say this to besmirch him, but last season I found it hard to see why he was in the NHL. His play just fell off a cliff, and I truly never knew what was going on through his head. I chalked it up to the Foote effect, but it was still rough watching him play hockey.
This year, though, he far more resembles the guy we saw under Rick Tocchet, the guy with the potential to be an NHL regular for many years to come. Even better, he is really picking his spots under Manny. He doesn’t chase hits nearly as much; he isn’t losing the play and getting lost on the ice; he has sort of simplified his approach to “are you going near my goalie? If yes, I will attempt to murder you.” and every NHL team has room for those kinds of guys.
Which is why it isn’t surprising he has been the most consistent heavy hitter on the team this year, something he displayed when he absolutely crushed Sam Colangelo in a race for the puck:
Let’s be clear here: that is the cleanest hit you will ever see. Both men look at each other as they skate into the corner; you can see them both signing the mental contract to engage in a contest of physical strength. Both guys set their feet, load up their shoulders, and they come together in a cacophony of momentum and violence.
The only problem here is that D Petey was too much man on this day. There is no shame in losing this battle; it happens all the time in a game. You try and exert your will; sometimes you fail. Live by the sword, die by the sword. DP25 was just the bigger and better man here.
But because hockey can be stupid and a big hit can equal “we must fight, now”, Tyson Hinds goes to have some words with Elias after the play, resulting in DP25 taking him down as well:
Now, did Hinds attack Elias? No, but he was skating with intention. It’s clear DP25 used Florida laws here and stood ground by hitting him with a cross-check pretty quickly. I can see why the referee handed out a penalty to Pettersson because visually he was the guy doing the stick work.
But sometimes the NHL is like the DMZ, and you don’t know if that guy getting on your exfil is going to honour the truce. Sometimes you have to take the guy out before he takes you out, because you can’t risk losing that weapon blueprint, damn it.
Either way, I take that every single day from D Petey. I’d rather watch a season of him being an asshole than watching him meekly trying to draw a penalty for being punched.
Even if it leads to a power play goal against from Beckett Sennecke after Jamie Oleksiak doesn’t tie up his stick:
Cutter Gauthier tosses the puck on net, Jamie can’t control the twig of Beckett, and it was now 3-1 for the bad guys.
Best familiar feeling
You truly felt like the game had officially slipped away when Leo Carlsson made it 4-1 at the end of the second period when he banged home the rebound off of a Malott shot:
This is about as EA Sports as it gets with buddy firing low pad to try and generate the easy rebound in the slot, and it worked quite easily against a Vancouver team stuck on the rookie difficulty setting.
And as promising as some of Buium’s exploits in the offensive zone looked against Anaheim, his defensive game continues to be a big work in progress. Instead of taking the man on this play and trying to box out his crease, he swipes at the puck and ends up misplaying it, leading to the easy tap-in for Carlsson.
Now, Zeev is a smaller guy, so he won’t be living that D Petey lifestyle of hammering away at dudes and overpowering them physically in the crease, but that just makes it more imperative that he figure out a way to tie up sticks and embrace the joys of leverage and thick thighs in the NHL. It’s a thin line between being a promising small, offensive-oriented d-man and becoming an Erik Brännström, which, relax, Zeev still has a ton of runway left before we go anywhere near that ideology. I am just stating it because we know smaller d-men always have a much higher hill to climb in the NHL, and tend to get far less rope.
Best those were the times, my friend
See, this is the moment I talked about! The game was over! The Canucks were done! The third period was academic at this point! So when Prime Time did a little dingle dangle off of a really good Doc forecheck, I was like, “yeah man, this is the highlight of the game, just embrace it!”
You can see the confidence there, though, right? Dude goes inside out and unleashes a laser that required a glove save hard enough that Dostal had to milk it a little bit. That’s when you know you’ve got their attention.
Best look at the bright side
Jeff wasn’t wrong! They ended up getting 33 shots on net on the night. 33!
Best who wins
The Canucks trotted out in the third period to dutifully play out the game, where Paul Cotter once again got a good look on net, this time on a pass from Marco Rossi:
Good puck movement from the second unit once again, ending with a shot on net? Inject that moral victory into my veins!
Best seeds of an idea
I have watched this game and gone over the clips, and I think it turned when Drew Helleson deked out half of the Canucks. I will wait while you Google Drew Helleson, but basically the bottom-pairing defenseman from Anaheim was out there looking like Paul Coffey in his prime, dangling his way around the offensive zone:
You essentially have Max Sasson and Defensively Enthused Pettersson falling over in an attempt to block a shot, with Paul Cotter getting his leg swept by Leevi trying to make a save, while Tom Willander wisely stays out of it all.
Visually, it’s comically amusing. Hilarious, in fact. Synchronized diving in hockey will never not be funny, so giggle along with me as we watch this clip.
My takeaway from this, however, is that this is a team that still truly cares. A checked-out team doesn’t dive to block shots. A checked-out team doesn’t sacrifice its body to try and keep a 4-1 game from going to 5.
What I see is a team that is just absolutely mired in a losing streak and is gripping the sticks way too tight and overthinking everything.
The effort is there, clearly. They are just battling the demons of a long losing streak.
Best speaking of
This is where I think Elias Pettersson locked the eff in. He had just taken a penalty that made it a four-on-four, and just sort of sat in the penalty box staring at his hands like he had just offed King Duncan and was trying to come to terms with everything. This was the look of a man who knew this was just the beginning of the dark descent, and that more lay ahead of him if victory was to be had. JT Miller would have been so proud.
And with that renewed energy, EP40 led the rush that made it a two-goal game, leading to a puck bouncing in off of Brock Boeser:
As of this moment, the NHL has still listed this goal as unassisted because they claim Alex Killorn had possession of the puck when he *checks notes* whacked at the puck in the air.
I continue to believe the NHL bets on their own games because I truly never know what they will come up with when deciding on outcomes. Intent? Possession? Cruel thoughts? Somehow they all get thrown into the mix when the NHL decides what’s a point and what isn’t.
But on this play, despite Elias Pettersson making the zone entry, making the deke to cut to the middle of the ice, and then throwing the puck into the middle, resulting in a bounce that went Boeser’s way, that somehow was deemed to not be an assist because Alex Killorn flailed at, and made brief contact with, the puck.
Ok, sure.
Best ok now it’s over
If you thought the game was done at 4-1, you 100% thought this one was over when the Ducks made it 5-2 right off of the draw:
Colangelo just throws the puck on net; it’s that easy, apparently. It doesn’t help that Fil Hronek bounces to the side and manages to both not take the stick of AJ Greer nor stop him from screening Leevi, but that’s kind of how this season has gone. Net front defence has been non-existent for the majority of the time.
Which, hey, like I said, 5-2? That’s a moral victory, baby. Managed to scare the hometown crowd a bit, but ultimately continue on your quest for Landon DuPont.
Best Jamie, the sniper?
The Canucks top line of DeBrusk, Boeser and EP40 would take the next shift, however, and score a quick one themselves:
I don’t know if I had Jamie Oleksiak scoring off the rush on my Bingo card, but that’s pleasantly surprising.
The main takeaway from this goal is I think the Canucks kind of have to run with their three vets playing on the same line. As much as we want to believe in a world in which Jake, Brock and Elias can each run a line, they just don’t have the juice for that. Not with this current roster.
This is a team that has struggled to get anything going off of the rush all year long, and the only time you see some level of NHL-caliber North/South hockey is when these three guys play together. Brock and Jake are passenger players, and EP40 is a facilitator; they can all play off of each other very well.
And not to be lost in this comeback was this effort from Defensively Endowed Elias Pettersson hustling on the backcheck to thwart a clean breakaway:
It could very well have been 6-3 here, but that effort level from DP25 ended up being a massive part of the comeback instead.
Best pew pew pew
All of which brings us to Prime Time. I said it at the start of the season: if Jonathan Lekkerimäki takes number 88, he needs to bring some razzle dazzle to earn that number, and it’s safe to say he did it on this night.
With Leevi on the bench, Lekkerimäki gets the puck and unleashes hell on his command:
Things to love about this goal:
  • The shot from Jonathan Lekkerimäki. He had the option of finding a wide-open Jake DeBrusk down low with a pass, or by floating in a shot for the tip. You can’t say for sure, but it looks like initially he is assessing if he can pull off a pass to Jake. He holds onto the puck on his initial look on net and seeing the passing lane being blocked by Ducks D-man Noah Warren, Prime Time essentially says bet, and drags the puck over until he can get a clean shot off.
  • That is an elite, high-level finish from Jonathan Lekkerimäki on that shot. That’s the kind of shot you can set your watch to and/or get pregnant on.
  • Jake DeBrusk, who won’t get an assist on this play, sets up a perfect screen for Jonathan Lekkerimäki to shoot into. I know, I know, that laser beam might not have needed it, but it always helps.
  • Elias Pettersson loses the puck on the initial board play, but doesn’t give up on it. Using that intense Macbeth energy he summoned in the penalty box, he chases down AJ Greer and lifts his stick enough for AJ to fear for his life. With Filip Chytil closing in on him as well, Greer spins and fires the puck into space, turning it over to Lekkerimäki to set the goal in motion. Usually it’s Vancouver being harassed into making an egregious mistake, but the John Cena approach from Elias Pettersson on the play turned the tables for once.
Best we aren’t done
With the game at 5-4, and the goalie pulled once more, it was young Jonathan Lekkerimäki who once again found himself with the puck on his stick:
Things to love about THIS goal:
  • Showing the calm swagger normally reserved for Yusuf Dikeç, Jonathan Lekkerimäki makes this look way too easy. He also doesn’t even seem excited he tied the game up; he is very much acting like he’s been here before.
  • This goal is made even better by the fact that Prime Time almost set up Jake DeBrusk for the Garland mini-stick tap-in just moments before the eventual goal. Jonathan Lekkerimäki is making some very astute plays at the NHL level, and it is promising.
  • Speaking of Jake, he won’t get an assist on this goal either, despite being a vital part of it. He set up two perfect screens for Jonathan Lekkerimäki to shoot into, and had himself a pretty terrific response in his role as a veteran guy who needs to start making some big plays. Won’t get credit for it, but without Jake, this victory doesn’t happen.
  • Speaking of vets, Elias Pettersson and Fil Hronek just make smart passes on this play. They buy time, they remain calm, and they find a way to get looks on net. That’s what you want from your top guys.
Best don’t call it a comeback
The only umbrage I take with overtime was that, at one point, Jonathan Lekkerimäki drew a penalty, and with a timeout called, Manny chose not to put the young man back on the ice for the chance at the hat trick. Jonathan Lekkerimäki was firing on all cylinders at this point, so I would have loved to have seen him get that chance, but alas.
What ended up happening, though, was Elias Pettersson once again using hustle, loyalty and respect as he backchecked hard on Killorn, leading to what I would call a lucky break in that the officials penalized the Ducks player for running over Leevi:
Don’t get me wrong, that’s a fine penalty to call; I just thought there was enough contact from EP40 that the officials might have swallowed their whistle on the play.
But with that two-man advantage, the Canucks went to work, ending with Fil Hronek scoring what many are calling the greatest overtime goal of all time:
Much like their earlier power plays that didn’t connect, the smart puck movement was there. The process was great. But this time they got the result they wanted. A Fil piss missile for Man of the Year.
Game, blouses.
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