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MATCH-UP INFO

• Tonight marks the first of three meetings between the Canucks and the Golden Knights this season: Nov. 21 (home), Nov. 26 (away), and Mar. 21 (home).

• The Canucks are 4-8-2 all-time against the Golden Knights including a 2-3-2 record at home.

• Vancouver is 4-5-1 in their last 10 games vs Vegas (3-1-1 in their last 5).

• Among active Canucks skaters, Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads the team in games played vs Vegas with 20 (1-7-8 in those 20

  games).

• Elias Pettersson, Bo Horvat, and Conor Garland each have 12 points against Vegas in their careers (6-6-12 in nine games, 8-

  4-12 in 14 games, and 4-8-12 in 16 games, respectively).

• Brock Boeser has nine points (5-4-9) in nine career games against Vegas.

• Nils Höglander has three points (2-1-3) in his only career game against Vegas.

• Thatcher Demko is 2-1-1 in five career appearances against the Golden Knights, posting a 3.33 GAA and .903 save-

  percentage.

• Spencer Martin has yet to face Vegas in his career.

QUICK NUMBERS

• Bo Horvat ranks second in the NHL in goals (14 in 18 games).

• Quinn Hughes is tied for second in the NHL for assists among defencemen (16 in 14 games).

• Elias Pettersson has 13 points (5-8-13) in his last 9 games.

• J.T. Miller is on a four-game point streak (3-1-4).

• Brock Boeser is on a six-game point streak (2-5-7).

LAST MEETING - APR. 12/22: VAN 5 vs VGK 4 (OT)

Bo Horvat opened the scoring at 1:04 in the first period the power play...Alex Chiasson extended his point streak to five games with an assist, while J.T. Miller also assisted on the play...Vasily Podkolzin added a power play goal at 1:27 in the second period, assisted by Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes...Pettersson collected three points (1-2-3) on the night with a goal of his own and two assists...Brad Richardson notched his fourth of the season at 13:03 in the second period...Quinn Hughes (1-1-2) scored the overtime winner just 51 seconds into the extra frame, with assists from Garland (0-2-2) and Horvat (1-1-2) who each had multi-point efforts...Pettersson led the team in shots (5)...Horvat and Lockwood co-led in hits (4)...Thatcher Demko faced 45 shots.

LAST GAME PLAYED - NOV. 18/22: VAN 4 vs LAK 1

Elias Pettersson opened the scoring with his eighth goal of the season 5:40 into the second period...Andrei Kuzmenko and Ilya Mikheyev picked up the assists...Brock Boeser doubled the lead under five minutes later with his first of the season...J.T. Miller and Quinn Hughes registered the assists on the power play tally...Pettersson scored his second of the evening with 5:10 remaining in the

second...Kuzmenko and Hughes each picked up their second assists of the night...Boeser batted home his second of the night 5:07 into the third...Sheldon Dries picked up his second assist of the season on Boeser's goal...Curtis Lazar led the team with seven hits in his return to the lineup...Boeser led the team with four shots on goal...Thatcher Demko made 37 saves.

LAST 5 vs VEGAS

• Apr. 12/22: VAN 5 vs VGK 4 (OT)

• Apr. 6/22: VAN 5 at VGK 1

• Apr. 3/22: VAN 2 vs VGK 3 (OT)

• Nov. 13/21: VAN 4 at VGK 7

• Dec. 19/19: VAN 5 vs VGK 4

MOVIN' ON UP

With the team's 5-4 victory on November 15 at Buffalo, Bruce Boudreau passed John Tortorella for sole possession of 14th place on the Canucks all-time wins list with his 38th victory.

HUGHES' HELPING HANDS

Picking up a power play assist to extend his personal assist streak to 10 games (0-13-13) on Nov. 13 at BOS, Quinn Hughes passed Jiri Bubla (1983.84) for the second-longest assist streak by a defenceman in Canucks history. He is only one of two Canuck defencemen to ever hit a double-digit streak, being one game short of tying Dennis Kearns for the franchise record (11 games in 1976.77).

•  Hughes' next assist will also mark the 163rd of his career and will break a tie with Sami Salo for 9th-most assists by a defenceman in team history.

HARD HITTING SCHENN

Matching his personal career-high and the Canucks franchise-high (set by himself) with 12 hits on Nov. 12 at TOR, Luke Schenn became the first player in NHL history to record at least three games with 12+ hits in his career. With 2,921 career hits, Schenn is only 30 hits away from tying Brooks Orpik (2,946) for most in League-history by a defencemen. Schenn has collected the most hits in the NHL this season (81 in 18 GP).

*The NHL began tracking hits in 2005.06.

BO'S BLAZING START

Scoring his team-leading 14th goal on Nov. 15 at BUF, Bo Horvat tied Darcy Rota (1983.84) and Greg Adams (1987.88) for fourth- most goals through the first 17 games of a season in Canucks history, trailing only Alexander Mogilny (15, 1995.96), Pavel Bure (17, 1992.93) and Tony Tanti (17, 1983.84).

• Scoring his sixth power play goal of the season, Horvat surpassed Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin for 9th most power play goals in franchise history (62).

• Tallying eight goals in five games (Oct. 28-Nov. 8), Horvat tied Mikael Samuelsson (2009.10) and Alexandre Burrows (2009.10) as the only Canucks to do so in the last 26 years.

• Horvat is also the first player in franchise history to have five multi-goal games in the first 13 games.

• With 28 goals in 36 games since March 9, 2022, Horvat has the highest goals per game (0.78) in the League during that

stretch (minimum 5 GP).

HORVAT HITS 200

Picking up an assist on J.T. Miller's first period goal on Nov. 5 vs NSH, Bo Horvat recorded his 200th career assist, become the 22nd

Canuck in team history to hit that mark.

HATS OFF TO KUZ

Recording a hat-trick with three goals, including the game-winner, on Nov. 3 vs ANA, Andrei Kuzmenko became just the fourth

Russian-born skater in Canucks history to record a hat-trick, joining Pavel Bure (9x), Alexander Mogilny (4x), and Igor Larionov (2x). The winger became the fourth Canucks player in the past 20 years to record three goals in a single frame joining Horvat (Oct. 22/19), Mikael Samuelsson (Mar. 9/10) and Markus Naslund (Oct. 21/02).

FIVE-POINT PETEY

Posting one goal and four assists on Nov. 3 vs ANA, Elias Pettersson recorded his third career five-point game, joining Alexander Mogilny as the only other player in Canucks history to do so. He currently leads the team in assists (10) and points (15) in 11 games so far this season.