St. Louis Blues vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Thursday, December 20, 2018 · Rogers Arena
ESPN+ · SNP · FS-MW
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 5–1 on Thursday, December 20, 2018 at Rogers Arena. The Blues outshot the Canucks 30–29.
Goals came from Bo Horvat, Adam Gaudette, Josh Leivo, Vladimir Tarasenko, Jake Virtanen and Loui Eriksson.
Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Jake Allen stopped 24 of 28.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Bo Horvat (17)Elias Pettersson (19), Alexander Edler (10)0–105:51 VAN · 
Adam Gaudette (2)Unassisted0–206:19 VAN
3rd period
Josh Leivo (8)Markus Granlund (8)0–302:08 VAN
Vladimir Tarasenko (11)Brayden Schenn (15)1–306:33 STL
Jake Virtanen (11)Alexander Edler (11), Bo Horvat (17)1–411:24 VAN
Loui Eriksson (7)Jake Virtanen (7), Chris Tanev (5)1–515:24 VAN ·
Team stats
STLVAN
3029
52%48%
0/31/2
46
3021
920
73
74
Penalties
- 4:50 into the first period
Derrick Pouliot · slashing2 min - 16:43 into the first periodBo Horvat · holding2 min
- 2:02 into the second period
Vince Dunn · holding2 min - 5:34 into the second periodDavid Perron · interference2 min
- 7:03 into the second periodChris Tanev · tripping2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 10Brayden SchennC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:32 |
| 91Vladimir TarasenkoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 17:23 |
| 7Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:11 |
| 17Jaden SchwartzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:31 |
| 18Robert ThomasC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 11:59 |
| 20Alexander SteenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:18 |
| 21Tyler BozakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 15:31 |
| 49Ivan BarbashevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:31 |
| 57David PerronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:55 |
| 70Oskar SundqvistC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:06 |
| 71Jordan NolanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:27 |
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:32 |
| 6Joel EdmundsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:44 |
| 19Jay BouwmeesterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:17 |
| 25Chris ButlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:39 |
| 29Vince DunnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:14 |
| 41Robert BortuzzoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:33 |
| 55Colton ParaykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Jake AllenG | L | 28 | 4 | .857 |
| 50Jordan BinningtonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Vancouver Canucks
| 18Jake VirtanenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 12:22 |
| 53Bo HorvatC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:53 |
| 23Alexander EdlerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 18:07 |
| 17Josh LeivoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 12:56 |
| 21Loui ErikssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 17:18 |
| 40Elias PetterssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:16 |
| 60Markus GranlundC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:44 |
| 88Adam GaudetteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 10:19 |
| 8Chris TanevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:18 |
| 6Brock BoeserR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:13 |
| 26Antoine RousselL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:46 |
| 64Tyler MotteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:06 |
| 77Nikolay GoldobinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:33 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:19 |
| 5Derrick PouliotD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:48 |
| 27Ben HuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:03 |
| 44Erik GudbransonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:55 |
| 55Alex BiegaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25Jacob MarkstromG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |
| 31Anders NilssonG | 0 | 0 | – |