Clay's Canucks Commentary

On the eve of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the CCC Community predicts the entire NHL playoff bracket. As well, I do a quick wrap-up of the Canucks players year-end media availability from the weekend.

Conor Garland scored his first career hat trick to lead the Canucks to a 5-4 overtime victory over the Arizona Coyotes in the season finale for both teams. In this stream, we talk about the highlights and lowlights of this up and down season.

As the Canucks look ahead to the final game of this tumultuous season, they can still finish as high as 22nd overall or as low as 24th overall. Will Kuzmenko or Petey hit the 40 goal mark? What other story lines will you be looking out for in this final match?

Elias Pettersson recorded points 100 and 101 on the season in the Canucks 3-2 win over the Ducks. However, the dropped two spots in the draft lottery with the win.

And we pay our respects to former NHL player Raymond Sawada who passed away on April 10. May he rest in peace.

On this special Easter Monday episode, I review the Bo Horvat drama from the weekend. As well, I talk about Quinn Hughes as the next Canucks captain, and I appreciate Akito Hirose's calm and steady game.

Thatcher Demko made 33 saves to blank the Blackhawks in a game that saw Akito Hirose notch two assists and Vitali Kravtsov score his first goal as a Canuck. As well, Andrei Kuzmenko scored his 38th goal of his season, JT Miller scored his 30th goal of the season, and defenceman Cole McWard made his Canucks debut.

Rick Tocchet switched up his forward lines and d-pairings at practice today after a lacklustre effort last night against the Kraken. And we reminisce about the Sedins' final home game of their careers, played 5 years ago today.

Elias Pettersson scored his 37th goal (and 97th point) of the season in a 5-2 loss to the Seattle Kraken. Again, this looked like a game between a playoff-bound team and a team looking to play out the season.

Now that they are mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, what storylines and stat lines are you most interested in for the final 2 weeks of the season?

The Canucks lost 4-1 to the Los Angeles Kings in a very non-eventful game at Rogers Arena. Akito Hirose made his debut on the blue line, and Elias Pettersson had his point streak snapped.