Our Clients:

Field Level Media - Professional sports content solutions | FLM

Jan 24, 2023 11:46 pm

Canucks open new era on high note, best Blackhawks

Andrei Kuzmenko scored twice, and the host Vancouver Canucks supplied new coach Rick Tocchet with a win in his first game by beating the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Tuesday.

Dakota Joshua, Sheldon Dries and Bo Horvat also scored for the Canucks, while Elias Pettersson and Luke Schenn both collected two assists. Goaltender Collin Delia made 12 saves for Vancouver, which snapped a three-game losing skid.

Patrick Kane and Sam Lafferty replied with goals for the Blackhawks, who received a 43-save effort from goalie Petr Mrazek.

Tocchet took the coaching reins after Bruce Boudreau was fired on Sunday, and his players responded by breaking open a tie game with a pair of goals 34 seconds apart in the middle of the third period.

With the score tied 2-2, Joshua gave the Canucks their first lead of the night at 11:34 of the third. Seconds after the Blackhawks failed to score on an odd-man rush, a three-on-two break the other way ended when Joshua converted a rebound for his seventh goal of the season.

Dries doubled the lead soon after. He made a nifty play by putting his stick between his own legs on a rebound opportunity to net his sixth marker of the season.

Horvat rounded out the scoring with an empty-net goal, his 31st of the season, to cap a well-deserved Canucks win.

Despite the Canucks dominating the first period, Kane opened the scoring at the 17:49 mark when he whipped a long wrist shot into the top corner of the net for his ninth goal of the season.

The Canucks were finally rewarded when Kuzmenko scored his first goal of the night at 7:02 of the second period. Ilya Mikheyev’s shot was stopped, but Kuzmenko was on the spot for the rebound tally.

The Blackhawks took a second lead when Lafferty scored for the seventh time this season at 12:06 of the second period.

However, Kuzmenko responded again at 15:47 of the period with a textbook redirect of Pettersson’s pass. It was his 21st goal of the campaign.

With his tallies, Kuzmenko has collected four goals and three assists in a five-game point streak.

–Field Level Media

You may also like

kelsey mitchell
Jul 3, 2025 9:24 pm

Kelsey Mitchell, Fever cruise past anemic Aces

Kelsey Mitchell scored 25 points, Natasha Howard had a double-double and the Indiana Fever never trailed in an 81-54 rout of the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday night in Indianapolis….

Yordan Alvarez
Jul 3, 2025 9:01 pm

Astros encouraged by exam on slugger Yordan Alvarez (hand)

The right hand pain that Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez is currently experiencing is not related to the fracture from earlier this season, the team said Thursday. Alvarez visited a…

Marco Reus
Jul 3, 2025 8:52 pm

Galaxy desperate for points entering visit from Whitecaps

The Los Angeles Galaxy are running out of time to make a dash up the Western Conference standings. The defending MLS champion Galaxy have won just 5 percent of their…

More News News

kelsey mitchell
Jul 3, 2025 9:24 pm

Kelsey Mitchell, Fever cruise past anemic Aces

Kelsey Mitchell scored 25 points, Natasha Howard had a double-double and the Indiana Fever never trailed in an 81-54 rout of the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday night in Indianapolis….

Yordan Alvarez
Jul 3, 2025 9:01 pm

Astros encouraged by exam on slugger Yordan Alvarez (hand)

Marco Reus
Jul 3, 2025 8:52 pm

Galaxy desperate for points entering visit from Whitecaps

Ben McLemore
Jul 3, 2025 8:49 pm

Ex-NBA player Ben McLemore convicted of rape charge

Djordje Mihailovic
Jul 3, 2025 8:39 pm

Sporting KC seeks first win at Colorado since 2014

Read all
fb-post
advertisment
title-icon

Upcoming events

See all odds
[gs-fb-comments]