After falling flat versus the Sabres Tuesday, the Canucks bounced back with a statement win against the Blackhawks, gaining some confidence, along with a sense of relief. (imacSportsnet)
“We're not trying to prove anything to anyone outside of our room, but it’s important for our group to all be on the same page with that stuff,” Demko said. “I think that's where the standards come from. Last year wasn't good enough for our group, and we need to make sure that we're not falling into those patterns again. Tonight was a great job to make sure that we weren't doing that.
A new third line of Jason Dickinson, Nils Hoglander and ex-Blackhawk Matthew Highmore played with speed and directness and generated a pretty first-period goal for Dickinson. “It was a good hockey game. Not a lot of mistakes made by our group. I thought we managed the puck well. We played a smart game, but a hard game, a heavy game when we needed to. There's always certain things you've got to do in the game, there's always a price to pay to win. I thought our team did that tonight.”
He has said a couple of times during the road trip that he needs more from his top players. It helped immensely on Thursday that arguably the top player of them all, defenceman Hughes, was back in the lineup after sitting out Tuesday with a lower-body injury.
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