Like Kevin Lankinen, Canucks detonated a wild game for the Russian mountains: 3 takeaway vs. blue jackets

Vancouver canucks are an absolute Russian mountain.

A moment, their possibilities of playoffs seem death; The next moment, they put together courageous shows to stay alive. Lately, the nature back and forth of their games was sufficient to give fans whip. No advantage is ever safe with the Canucks. But no deficit, no matter how little time remains on the clock in the third period, it is too big to overcome this team.

The huge match on Friday against the Blue Jackets continued that volatile theme. The Canucks raced at a start 3-0 commander in the first period. They seemed to have a firm grip on the game, especially because they are generally a narrow defensive team. But before the Canucks could even hit the point in the middle of the match, the Blue Jackets had already agreed to tie the game to three goals each.

Somehow, that sequence was not even the wildest part of the game.

Hell was unleashed after Aatu Räty gave Canucks a critical insurance goal and an advantage of two goals less than 14 minutes left in the third period. Denton Mateychuk marked only one timer less than 30 seconds after Räty’s goal of getting Columbus within one. Boone Jenner scored his second goal of the match less than five minutes after Linus Karlsson took a penalty stumbled on Adam Fantilli. He searched the Canucks when Mathieu Olivier made his way on the net to give the Blue Jackets a Go-Ahead 6-5 with just over two and a half minutes left.

Things went back to the starting point when Räty frantically scored a few moments later to tie the game again and conquer 1 point. Unfortunately, the Canucks left the extra point on the table while 7-6 fell in a loss of shooting. Here are three takeaways:

Vancouver’s power-play rebounds

For years, Vancouver’s power game has generally clung to the penalty killings that have aggressively pressing the upper part. The high pressure limits the time and space of Quinn Hughes to the quarterback games and, above all, to the players next to it often missed balance and decisiveness to solve the problems around the pressure.

At the beginning of this month, after a loss of 3-1 in which the Canucks were unable to convert on a four-minute power-play in the third period against the aggressive PK of Utah, Rick Tocchet expressed frustration for the inability of the game of power to adapt. He seemed exasperated that his power game did not react to the pressure at the top working quickly the disc at the bottom, where there was more space to operate.

Faced with a PK Columbus that was in the same way intended for the elimination of the space at the top, the Canucks power game fought during the first minute of their first game opportunity. Brock Boeser shot a couple of records, with the club unable to create the rapid passage and the dynamic movement required to beat the killing of rigor.

But then the second unit intensified with the improbable spark.

Conor Garland accepted a passage on the left side and wrapped in the center. Kiefer Sherwood is faded by the net front and hunted to open the ice at the bottom, on the left side. Garland passed the disc at the bottom as if the technical staff insisted, and Sherwood made a passage to a touch to Karlsson for the tap-in backdoor.

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Kiefer Sherwood makes an incredible passage to find Linus Karlsson and bury it!

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The Canucks power game was not done after the first goal.

Vancouver returned to work for the benefit of the man later in the first period. In this opportunity, the Blue Jackets were happier to sit defensively. Boeser received a passage from Pio Setter near the right reference circle and had a lot of time and space to slip towards the center. Dante Fabbro knelt to try to block the shooting lane, but Boeser clung to the disc for an extra fraction of a second to manipulate the lane and shot a low shot against Elvis Merzlikins. Merzlikins stopped the initial shot, but Jake Debrusk launched himself on the rebound to give the Canucks their second goal of Power-Play of the night.

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Jake Debrusk scores his 24th goal of the season! It is 3-0 Vancouver!

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You couldn’t have asked for a better time for Canucks power game to return to the track.

Kevin Lankinen’s rough trip

Nine minutes are wanted for the Canucks to squander the 3-0 advantage they built in the first period. Vancouver was not very well serious defensively in the second period, but was helpless against the furious thrust of Columbus.

Jenner started the party for about 30 seconds in the central frame. He was unwittingly unleashed from Teddy Blueger’s allowance at the front of the net and redirected a point in front of Lankinen.

Less than five minutes later, the blue jackets eliminated the Canucks for an extensive sequence. Sean Monahan took the album and launched himself from behind the net on the front, looking for a lane passing through the slot. Vancouver had two attackers positioned well to cover the slot, but the effort of the long round perhaps became a factor as Conor Garland could not intercept the passage to Kirill Marchenko and Debrusk could not block the shot.

Defensively, there was not much that the Canucks could have done differently on the binding lens of the Blue Jackets. Fabbro launched a long -range point, seeing a pointed point that found twine.

Jenner’s redirect goal was difficult, but Lankinen needed to save the second or third goals scored by Columbus.

The explosion of one-off without medium-range Mateychuk screen in the third period, less than 30 seconds after Räty gave Canucks an advantage of 5-3, was what Lankinen would probably have wanted.

Lankinen has been solid for the Canucks overall this year, but its shape has immersed itself in the stretch under a heavy workload. The 29 -year -old Finnish goalkeeper had a percentage of savings .873 in the last 10 games before his start against Columbus.

The winner of Kent Johnson’s heartbreaking shooting

The shootings can often seem like a coin launch. This, in particular, looked like a complete Jolly since both goalkeepers were loss in this game. The blue jackets probably had the leg on the paper for the shooting due to how many forward highly qualified with the elite hands must compare with the group forward Malano di Canucks.

That advantage has translated.

Johnson was the first shooter. He performed a fascinating series of flagship/reversal moves and made a hard cut on his main side that made Lankinen believe he was going to block. Johnson cut a penny on his reverse and raised the album on the Lankinen glove.

Beauty in the shooting by Kent Johnson#CBJ pic.twitter.com/ajqaxkqehd

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There is not much that Lankinen could have done differently on that. Sometimes you just have to give the hat to a young star who makes the elite things turn. It does not make the pain of the point lost, however, no longer easier to study for the Canucks.

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