There it is: Captain Quinn Hughes opens Canucks' scoring
The Canucks are in Edmonton tonight to hit it off against the Oilers. The game was scoreless even after multiple powerplay occasions on both sides, but Captain Quinn Hughes remedied to this situation on the team's fourth power play opportunity.
Captain Quinn opens the scoring
The author of 7 goals in 2022-2023, the newly named captain is leading the charge on the power play. The Nucks' 43 wired a wrist shot from the blue line that had the best of Stuart Skinner. Here's the sequence that led to the Canucks' first goal:
Hughes collects his first goal of the pre-season; Elias Pettersson and Andrei Kuzmenko are credited with the assists. Canucks are officially back, leeetttss goooo!!!!!!!
POLL |
Will Hughes score more then 7 goals this year? |
Yes | 295 | 94.6 % |
No | 17 | 5.4 % |
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