The Vancouver Canucks’ Daniel Sedin scored two minutes into the third period to tie their game with the Colorado Avalanche Tuesday at 3-3.
That was enough to get the game to extra time where Sven Baertschi struck for the game-winner at 1:07 for a 3-2 win over the Avs.
“We talked about needing more from every single guy, and it showed tonight,” Baertschi said. “Great start, tough second, and we fought back in the third. There’s no quit in this room.”
Bo Horvat and Michael Del Zotto also scored for the Canucks.”It’s a big confidence-booster for us, but we can’t be satisfied winning one game,” Horvat said. “We need to string some wins together.”
Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves in the win as the Canucks improved to 20-24-6.
Gabriel Landeskog struck for two goals for the Avs and J.T. Compher added a single marker in the loss.
“We played hard,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said. “It’s a good road point, and now we’ve got to move on.”
The Avs trailed 2-0 before rallying for a 3-2 lead in the second period.
“Second period wasn’t the period we wanted, a couple lucky goals, I thought, but that happens. I like how our group stuck with it. They showed some resiliency,” Canucks head coach Travis Green said after his team picked up the win.
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Jonathan Bernier made 22 saves in the loss.
“The second period was really good. We got up on our toes, we were the aggressors, and the third we played hard. The penalties put us on our heels,” Bednar said after the loss.
Nathan MacKinnon sustained an upper-body injury in the second period and left the game.
“I really don’t know a timeline,” Bednar said. “I don’t know if it’s day to day or not. We’ll have to talk to the trainers and we’ll probably know more on it tomorrow.”
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