I would like to steal a few words from the sage woman of this forum:
HWWould be nice if our PP came alive.
Would be nice if we could eliminate penalties.
Would be nice if we had our forecheck going.
Would be nice if we could score first again.
All we need is one game where we play our best for 60 minutes. One game where we are the better team.
Now, once again, I'm so impressed by the way this team plays.
After game four, I thought we were done.
But no.
The players have played their hearts out, doing the seemingly impossible.
I expect another all out effort tonight, and I think by now they have gotten into the heads of the Vegas players.
Their knight caps, so to say.
I believe in this team. They have no intention of going home yet.
Tonight they win again.
CANUCKS’ LINEUP
Forwards
J.T. Miller — Elias Pettersson — Brock Boeser
Tanner Pearson — Bo Horvat — Tyler Toffoli
Tyler Motte — Jay Beagle — Jake Virtanen
Antoine Roussel — Adam Gaudette — Brandon Sutter
Defence pairings
Alex Edler — Troy Stecher
Quinn Hughes — Chris Tanev
Oscar Fantenberg — Tyler Myers
Goalies: Thatcher Demko, Jacob Markstrom
GOLDEN KNIGHTS’ LINEUP
Forwards
Max Pacioretty — William Karlsson — Mark Stone
Jonathan Marchessault — Paul Stastny — Reilly Smith
Nick Cousins — Nicolas Roy — Alex Tuch
Will Carrier — Chandler Stephenson — Ryan Reaves
Defence pairings
Brayden McNabb — Nate Schmidt
Alex Martinez — Shea Theodore
Nick Holden — Zach Whitecloud
Goalies: Robin Lehner, Marc-Andre Fleury
SICK BAY
Canucks: Tyler Myers (upper body), Josh Leivo (fractured knee cap), Micheal Ferland (concussion symptoms), Tyler Toffoli (foot).
Golden Knights: Tomas Nosek (undisclosed), Cody Glass (knee).
SPECIAL TEAMS
POWER PLAY
Canucks: 23% (6th)
Golden Knights: 22.2% (7th)
PENALTY KILL
Canucks: 78.9% (15th)
Golden Knights: 85.4% (6th)
Nucks win again. 3-2