No one expected the Vancouver Canucks to play a 7-6 or 8-7 game, like some teams have done recently.
But at least one goal through 40 minutes would have been nice.
Alas, the Nashville Predators had the only first period goal waved off. Vancouver missed several chances late in the second. It wasn’t until midway through the third that Henrik Sedin broke the tie.
Until then, without any pucks going in, fans had to turn to other sources of entertainment.
They found one in Nikita Tryamkin, who is the Canucks Player of the Game:
The scoresheet claims that Tryamkin had only 5 hits, but the real number is probably twice that.