'It’s going to be an important week to kind of dial my game in and hit peak form for next week.' Jacob Markstrom was the Canucks’ MVP in 2019-20, but he'll have to play better vs. the mnwild than he did Wednesday vs. the NHLJets. (imacSportsnet)
Canucks coach Travis Green dressed 13 forwards Wednesday, and none of them were 18-goal scorer Jake Virtanen, who lost his third-line place during the opening week of training camp and hasn’t impressed his boss enough to get back a regular spot.
In a first-intermission interview with Sportsnet, Vancouver general manager Jim Benning cautioned against reading too much into Virtanen’s lineup omission, but his warning would be largely ignored. This was the teams’ only playoff rehearsal, vital preparation for the nearest thing the Canucks will have to playoff hockey since 2015.One thing that won’t be changing is Markstrom’s status. He was the Canucks’ MVP this season and remains the biggest potential advantage Vancouver has over Minnesota.
The Jets were up only 1-0 late in the second – on scoring chances, the Canucks could have been ahead by two or three goals at that point – when Nikolaj Ehlers and Dimitri Kulikov capitalized on Vancouver mistakes by scoring goals 85 seconds apart.
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