{"id":482412,"date":"2024-04-26T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482412"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:15:20","slug":"canucks-beat-predators-2-1-to-take-2-1-matchup-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canucks-beat-predators-2-1-to-take-2-1-matchup-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks beat Predators 2-1 to take 2-1 matchup lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casey DeSmith stopped 30 shots for his 1<sup>st<\/sup> playoff win as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN, for a 2-1 lead in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> round matchup in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GAME THREE IS OURS! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLnOW1IC5s\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QLnOW1IC5s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1784045561156379069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was Casey\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive start and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> all-time in the postseason, with Thatcher Demko out since Game 1 with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>J.T. Miller scored from power-play and assisted, and Brock Boeser&#8217;s power-play goal was the match-winner. Quinn Hughes had 2 assists as Canucks secured back the home-advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 is on Sunday again at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Evangelista helped Predators to not being shut out as he scored late in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period. Manager Andrew Brunette then took his timeout with over 2 minutes and pulled goaltender Juuse Saros. Despite that, Nashville failed to score until the end and force an overtime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Casey DeSmith appreciation post. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3juCqSfMBB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3juCqSfMBB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1784054205734420493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> organization to triumph in a postseason match with only 12 shots on goal since the Penguins defeated the Predators in the 2017 Stanley Cup Final opener.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eK6irQp3Y7U?si=k44FYu56zX5wmBh8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey DeSmith stopped 30 shots for his 1st playoff win as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 at Bridgestone Arena in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482413,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17388,17844,16850],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17848,19902,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Goaltender DeSmith made 30 saves to help Vancouver to win.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482414,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482412\/revisions\/482414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482412"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482412"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}