It took a while (129 games), but the Vancouver Canucks’ Jacob Markstrom now owns an NHL shutout.
Markstrom made 30 saves to blank the struggling Carolina Hurricanes, 3-0.
Jacob Markstrom made 39 saves for his first career NHL shutout, 3-0 over Carolina, Tuesday night
“Early in the career I had a couple really close ones and I was 21 years old and you really want a shutout in the NHL, and then it just kind of went away, that urge, and I just wanted to win and kind of accepted that I ain’t getting one,” Markstrom said. “But it’s fun, you want to help your team win, and if I don’t let in any goals it’s going to mean we’re winning the hockey game.”
After the game, the Canucks talked about trying to ensure the shutout for Markstrom.
“You feel awesome for him. It was awesome to see him get that first one,” Derrick Pouliot said. “He played unbelievable. I’m sure there will be many more.”
Thomas Vanek, Pouliot and Nikolay Goldobin scored for the Canucks.
Pouliot scored his first NHL goal and had three points on the night.
With the loss, the Canes dropped to 11-10-5 and are 2-4-1 in their last seven.
“We have a little bit of a letdown,” Carolina’s Justin Faulk said. “I don’t know if it’s a thing of not having confidence right now. We are trying to find a way to continue that play we had in the first period and carry it into the second and not get disappointed that we didn’t score, that we didn’t get a lead. Just continue on with that play and know that if we continue to do that we’re going to have plenty of opportunities and we are going to score.”
The win was the third straight for the Canucks who improved to 14-10-4.
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Scott Darling made 19 saves n taking the loss.
“When we are good on the forecheck I feel like we create a lot of offence. We can turn pucks over in their zone, spend whole shifts in there. We did that in the first [period] and kind of got away from it in the second and the third,” Carolina’s Derek Ryan said after the loss.
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