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Canucks win home opener in first game of post-Sedin era.




October 3rd, 2018 -

It was a good night for Canucks fans as they hosted Calgary for the season opener. Maybe the kids can play or maybe the defending champions are suffering from a Stanley Cup hangover but Vancouver came away with the 5-2 victory. Newly anointed captain Chris Tanev assisted on the first goal of the season when Nico Hischier opened the scoring in the first. Hischier would be named the first star of the game, finishing with a goal and an assist. Andre Burakovsky scored in his Canucks debut with a goal that would ultimately hold up as the game winner. Gustav Forsling also scored in his first regular season game as a Canuck. Thatcher Demko made 32 saves in his NHL debut to come out with the W. The oft-maligned Nikita Filatov opened his season on a positive note, scoring a goal and generating 4 shots. Mikhail Sergachev had a dominant night and was +2.

Scoring Summary

1st Period
VAN Nico Hischier (C. Tanev)
CGY Nikita Tryamkin (Connor, Colborne)
2nd Period
VAN Nikita Filatov (Forsling, Cassels)
VAN Burakovsky (Hischier, Sergachev)
CGY Colborne (Strome, Connor 2)
3rd Period
VAN Gustav Forsling (Bertuzzi, McAvoy)
VAN Rasmus Andersson EN (Noesen, Butcher)

Shots - Calgary 34, Vancouver 31
PP - Calgary 0-2, Vancouver 0-2
Goalies - CGY Devan Dubnyk 26 saves, L; VAN Thatcher Demko 32 saves, W