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Vancouver Canucks vs Dallas Stars

Regular season · Thursday, October 16, 2025 · American Airlines Center

Vancouver CanucksVancouverCanucksAway

5–3

Final

SOG 26–31

Dallas StarsDallasStarsHome

SN1 · Victory+

Game summary

The Vancouver Canucks beat the Dallas Stars 5-3 on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at American Airlines Center. The Stars outshot the Canucks 31-26.

Goals came from Mavrik Bourque, Mikko Rantanen, Filip Chytil, Brock Boeser, Max Sasson, Conor Garland, Wyatt Johnston and Quinn Hughes.

Thatcher Demko made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Casey DeSmith stopped 21 of 26.

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
Vancouver CanucksVAN041526
Dallas StarsDAL201331

Three stars

  1. ★1st starThatcher DemkoVAN · .903 SV%
  2. ★2nd starQuinn HughesVAN · 1G 1A
  3. ★3rd starMikko RantanenDAL · 1G 0A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
2:10

2–2 · 2nd 8:50 · Boeser. Lindell was 2:10 into his shift when it went in.

GoalVAN on iceDAL on ice

0–1 DAL

1st 4:29 · Bourque

O'Connor 0:31

0–2 DAL

1st 19:22 · PP · Rantanen

Myers 0:57

1–2 VAN

2nd 6:40 · Chytil

Long shift: Harley 1:13

2–2 VAN

2nd 8:50 · PP · Boeser

Stuck out there: Lindell 2:10

3–2 VAN

2nd 10:06 · Sasson

Lundkvist 0:16

4–2 VAN

2nd 18:54 · Garland

Long shift: Petrovic 1:13

4–3 DAL

3rd 17:52 · Johnston

Long shift: Pettersson 1:06

5–3 VAN

3rd 19:23 · PP · Hughes

Stuck out there: Hintz 2:03

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2025–26).
3.9%
5.8%
6.5%
7.1%
7.3%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.9×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).

30%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

VANDAL
26Shots on goal31
43%Faceoff %57%
2/3Power play2/4
8Penalty minutes6
26Hits21
15Blocked shots20
12Giveaways11
3Takeaways4

Penalties

  • 1st 18:25Jake DeBrusk · high sticking2 min
  • 2nd 04:25Conor Garland · slashing2 min
  • 2nd 06:57Radek Faksa · hooking2 min
  • 3rd 02:30Aatu Räty · tripping2 min
  • 3rd 07:04Thomas Harley · hooking2 min
  • 3rd 17:25Tyler Myers · interference2 min
  • 3rd 18:58Miro Heiskanen · tripping2 min

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