![]() ![]() “I think it’s frustrating because you take a breath out there,” Canuck defenceman Ethan Bear said, “maybe don’t make a hard play, and in this league it comes back down and a lot of times it ends up in the back your net. And one-time Canuck defenceman Jordie Benn scored the winner at 10:01, flipping the puck past Martin after a shot deflected wide of the net and caromed perfectly back to the Maple Leaf from the end boards. Pierre Engvall tied it at 6:27, scoring into an open net at the end of one of those chaotic, prolonged shifts from which Vancouver so rarely escapes. ![]() When Auston Matthews was left open on the back half of the ice on a Toronto power play and slung a shot past Vancouver goalie Spencer Martin to cut the lead in half just 1:46 into the middle period, it felt like a prelude. But nobody who has watched the Canucks the last month would have felt confident about that lead, and it’s impossible to envision the players felt confident about it. Miller’s power-play laser through traffic gave the Canucks a two-goal lead before the game was 13 minutes old. ![]() They get the momentum and we sort of stopped playing.”īo Horvat’s deflection and J.T. Tonight, the middle 10 minutes, I don’t know. The game before, it was the first 10 minutes in Montreal, the game before that was in Ottawa but we recovered. There’s a 10-minute lull or a 10-minute something. “We stopped playing,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said of the decisive spell.
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