For the 13\u002D13\u002D3 Vancouver Canucks, defending a team\u002Dwide problem. Here are four things they need to improve on in their own end of the rink.
“You just keep repeating it as a coach that that’s the way we want to play and you keep repeating practices,” he said after practice at the University of B.C.’s Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.
Among the 70 NHL goalies who have played at least 200 minutes at five on five, Thatcher Demko has made the sixth-most high-danger saves. The club’s No. 1 goaltender, who has been sidelined with a knee injury since Dec. 1, has made 8.33 saves on high-danger chances per 60 minutes of five on five ice time.
This is all to say the Canucks are giving up far too many chances against and it’s actually worse than ever.
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