Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Thursday, December 16, 2021 · SAP Center at San Jose
SNP · NBCSCA
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the San Jose Sharks 5–2 on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at SAP Center at San Jose. The Sharks outshot the Canucks 36–30.
Brock Boeser scored twice. Bo Horvat, Timo Meier, Andrew Cogliano, J.T. Miller and Jason Dickinson also scored.
Thatcher Demko made 34 saves on 36 shots for the win; Adin Hill stopped 25 of 29.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brock Boeser (8)Tanner Pearson (7)1–012:41 VAN
Bo Horvat (10)J.T. Miller (21), Quinn Hughes (24)2–016:23 VAN · 
Timo Meier (12)Erik Karlsson (11), Tomas Hertl (8)2–117:22 SJS
2nd period
- Brock Boeser (9)J.T. Miller (22), Tanner Pearson (8)3–117:17 VAN
3rd period
Andrew Cogliano (3)Lane Pederson (1), Brent Burns (15)3–208:29 SJS
J.T. Miller (10)Unassisted4–217:32 VAN
Jason Dickinson (2)Elias Pettersson (10), Kyle Burroughs (2)5–218:57 VAN ·
Team stats
VANSJS
3036
57%43%
1/30/1
26
1730
1415
59
128
Penalties
- 15:01 into the first period
Logan Couture · kneeing2 min - 7:02 into the second periodJayden Halbgewachs · holding2 min
- 10:08 into the second period
Tyler Myers · illegal check to head2 min - 3:19 into the third periodBrent Burns · high sticking2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 9J.T. MillerC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 6Brock BoeserR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 5 | 19:50 |
| 70Tanner PearsonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 17:42 |
| 18Jason DickinsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:58 |
| 40Elias PetterssonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:13 |
| 53Bo HorvatC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:35 |
| 43Quinn HughesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 26:43 |
| 44Kyle BurroughsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:56 |
| 8Conor GarlandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:48 |
| 21Nils HoglanderL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:43 |
| 39Alex ChiassonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:18 |
| 64Tyler MotteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:10 |
| 73Justin DowlingC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:23 |
| 92Vasily PodkolzinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:39 |
| 23Oliver Ekman-LarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:40 |
| 47Noah JuulsenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:40 |
| 55Guillaume BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 04:13 |
| 57Tyler MyersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | 24:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Thatcher DemkoG | W | 36 | 2 | .944 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |
San Jose Sharks
| 11Andrew CoglianoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 11:02 |
| 18Lane PedersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 06:25 |
| 28Timo MeierR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:37 |
| 48Tomas HertlC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19:40 |
| 65Erik KarlssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 25:58 |
| 88Brent BurnsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 22:41 |
| 13Nick BoninoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:46 |
| 26Jasper WeatherbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:08 |
| 39Logan CoutureC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:18 |
| 73Noah GregorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:33 |
| 76Jonathan DahlenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:59 |
| 83Matt NietoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 12:18 |
| 89Jayden HalbgewachsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:44 |
| 94Alexander BarabanovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 21Jake MiddletonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 20:00 |
| 38Mario FerraroD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 22:50 |
| 44Marc-Edouard VlasicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:11 |
| 51Radim SimekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:21 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Adin HillG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 47James ReimerG | 0 | 0 | – |