Everyone agrees: this road trip will make or break the Vancouver Canucks playoff hopes.
With that kind of pressure, it was important to get to a good start against the Nashville Predators. Instead, the were outshot 5-0 in the first few minutes.
Luckily for them, their first shot of the game turned out to be a goal. The goal-scorer, Markus Granlund, is the Canucks Player of the Game:
Granlund managed to get his team on the board first with a goal off a scrambled faceoff:
That’s the Finnish forward’s 13th goal, which ties him for third on the team in that category.