Thatcher Demko made 25 saves for his first shutout of the season as the Vancouver Canucks blanked the Colorado Avalanche 3-0 on Tuesday.
VANCOUVER — Thatcher Demko stopped all 25 shots he faced and the Vancouver Canucks blanked the Colorado Avalanche 3-0 on Tuesday.Jake DeBrusk buried his team-leading 19th goal of the season for the Canucks early in the second period to open the scoring.
He later set up Brock Boeser for a power-play tally midway through the third. Filip Hronek contributed two assists, and Drew O'Connor added an empty-net goal — his first as a Canuck — with 8.7 seconds left in the game. Mackenzie Blackwood made 28 saves for the Avalanche , who allowed a goal for the first time in three games.
The game got chippy in the final frame, with multiple scrums erupting and officials doling out 26 minutes worth of penalties across the period — including a game misconduct to Colorado's Miles Wood for poking his stick into the groin of Vancouver forward Linus Karlsson.Canucks: The team played without captain Quinn Hughes for a second straight game.
Avalanche: DeBrusk's goal at the 4:26 mark of the second period snapped a 146-minute 55-second shutout streak for Blackwood. Colorado came into the game having outscored its opponents 9-5 in the previous three outings.Demko made a series of stunning stops midway through the second period to preserve the Canucks' one-goal advantage.
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