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Another Win For The Vancouver Canucks

12/11/2021 at 9:13am EST

from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,

The Vancouver Canucks not only won their week, they swept it. Next week, the world!

Well, the world is pretty big and so, too, is the deep, dark hole the Canucks played themselves into while getting general manager Jim Benning and head coach Travis Green fired. But at least the players are finally moving back towards daylight and the vapour trails of the National Hockey League playoff race.

Sensational work by goalie Thatcher Demko and a one-handed shootout winner by Elias Pettersson gave Vancouver a 4-3 victory Friday night against the Winnipeg Jets and the Canucks’ longest winning streak of a season divided between the before and after of the Benning regime, which ended Sunday.

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Highlights of the game are below.

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