The Abbotsford Canucks attain home ice for the first time in franchise historical past in the first round of the AHL playoffs.
The membership made an enormous transfer to safe that chance, defeating the Manitoba Moose in Winnipeg in two video games, on Thursday (March 30) and Saturday (April 1).
Abbotsford want two factors from their final 5 video games to end at least fourth and earn the proper to host the first round of the playoffs at the Abbotsford Centre. The Canucks might end in third place if they’ll overcome the Colorado Eagles for that spot.
Jet Wu, how are you? pic.twitter.com/JAgsCVvyAY
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On Saturday, the Canucks performed a superb away recreation, defeating the Moose 2–1. Defenseman Jet Wu continued his sturdy current play, opening the scoring with an influence play objective at 18:46 of the first interval, and Canucks goaltender Spencer Martin saved 23 photographs in the first third alone.
Carroll’s first level as a professional 🥇
Andy Carroll and Kyle Rau assisted on Arsh Bain’s twelfth objective of the season, giving Carroll his first. @TheAHL pic.twitter.com/TwfRD1VJO0
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Abbotsford utilized the stress in the second half and Arshdeep Bains added his twelfth of the season at 1:43 of the second half to make it 2–0. The Canucks had an 18–4 shot benefit in the center frames.
Manitoba received on the board at 2:16 of the third when Daniel Torgerson lastly beat Martin, however that was all he did. Martin made 40 saves to earn the win and defeat Abbotsford 41–38. Canucks ahead Mark Gatcombe led all gamers with six photographs on objective.
Coming home with back-to-back W’s ✈️ pic.twitter.com/KETFr0Php3
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The membership additionally picked up a 4-2 win over the Moose on Thursday.
Abbotsford captain Chase Wouters put the Canucks on the desk at 8:15 of the first half after a skilful pre-check by himself and teammate John Stevens. They pressured the Moose protection and Stevens put Wouters in the slot. Wu then gave Abbotsford a 2–0 lead at 11:05 of the first with a shot from the level.
An excellent look from Stevens leads to Wouters’ objective to put Abbotsford 1-0 up in the first recreation pic.twitter.com/jDhRN2HviE
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Wu is 2-0 from faceoffs, wanting good in the second half of this AHL season. (additionally fan) pic.twitter.com/2eCvh8BnHx
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Manitoba’s Leon Gwanke made it 2–1 solely 19 seconds later and the interval ended with Abbotsford main 2–1. The Canucks additionally had a 6-5 shot benefit.
In the second half, Manitoba utilized the stress and tied the recreation at 10:33 when Jeff Malott beat Canuck goaltender Arturs Siloves. However simply 71 seconds later, Danila Klimovich scored the decisive objective. Klimovich jumped on the rebound and shot previous Moose goaltender Arvid Holm. Vancouver’s second round draft choose now has 13 objectives.
Klimovich jumps in on rebound to give Canucks 3-2 lead, now has 13 on season pic.twitter.com/pRp55Ac3i0
— Ben Lipka (@BenLypka) March 31, 2023
In the third half, Manitoba had an early objective thanks to keeper interference, however Siloves turned his head in the ultimate body and made some large saves. Linus Karlsson added an empty internet objective together with his twenty first to seal the deal. Siloves made 25 saves for the win. Stevens added three assists and Wu and Wouters each had two level nights. Justin Dowling led all Canucks with 5 photographs on objective.
Abbotsford’s regular-season street schedule is now full they usually end the 2022-23 season with 5 straight video games in the AC. The Canucks host the Ontario Reign on Friday (April 7) and Saturday (April 8) after which finish the season with video games in opposition to the Calgary Wranglers on April 12, 14 and 15.
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