Digging into the statistics from team's 3 & 2 road trek
The Vancouver Canucks are heading home with eight of a possible 12 points from their first six games of the season. The last five games were played on the road with the Canucks winning three of them. Here is a breakdown of the road trip by the numbers:
October 14th at Edmonton 4-3 win
October 17th at Philadelphia 2-0 loss
October 19th at Tampa Bay 4-3 loss
October 21st at Florida 5-3 win
October 24th at Nashville 3-2 win
Overall, the Canucks went 3 & 2 on the trip outscoring their opponents 15-14. The power play went 3 for 11 (27.3%) with the team spending 18:36 with the man-advantage. On the other hand, the Canucks spent 29:41 short-handed killing off 15 of 19 penalties (79.0%).
As for individual scoring leaders, Elias Pettersson led the way on the trip.
Twelve different scorers found the back of the net over the past five games with nine forwards and three defensemen hitting the mark.
Quinn Hughes launched a team high 17 shots on the road trip with JT Miller (13), Filip Hronek (11) and Brock Boeser (10) rounding out the top four.
Miller led the Canucks with 18 hits while Dakota Joshua was the only other skater to reach double digits (11). Ian Cole topped all Canucks with 13 blocked shots on the trip followed by Filip Hronek with 10.
In goal, Thatcher Demko went 1-2 on the trip posting a 2.74 GAA and .916 save percentage. Casey DeSmith went 2-0 with a 3.00 GAA and a .934 save percentage.