from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,
The house always wins, so a lot of people have lost more than they could afford in Vegas. The Vancouver Canucks wouldn’t have been the first.
But on a night when their losses should have dominated discussion about the National Hockey League team, players instead were talking about everything they gained here Wednesday. And we don’t just mean the two points in a 3-2 shootout win against the Vegas Golden Knights that lifted the Canucks – are we reading the standings upside down? – to the top of the Pacific Division.
Already without their top two forwards in Elias Pettersson (concussion) and Brock Boeser (groin), the Canucks lost No. 1 defenceman Alex Edler early in the first period and No. 2 Chris Tanev halfway through the third. Sven Baertschi, probably the Canucks’ fourth-best forward, was injured in the second period when he took a shoulder to the head from Tomas Hyka.
And, still, the Canucks won.
Game highlights are below...
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