Vancouver (29-11-3) travels to Ohio to take on Columbus (13-21-9) on Monday at 1pmET. The Canucks lead the Pacific Division, while the Blue Jackets are eighth in the Metropolitan.
This will be their first meeting of the season.
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Vancouver has won five straight games including shutting out Buffalo 1-0 in their last game on Saturday. They are now tied for the NHL lead in road points with 32. In their win over the Sabres, the Canucks had just 23 shots and it was the first time this season that they had won a game when score one or fewer goals. Sam Lafferty scored the only goal of the game for the Canucks, who has been staying in Buffalo due to a winter storm hitting the region. The team traveled by bus to get to Toronto on Sunday to catch a flight to Columbus.
Thatcher Demko stopped all 26 Sabres shots to post his fourth shutout of the season. He is 22-9 this season with a 2.47 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage. Center J.T. Miller leads the team with 58 points on 19 goals and 39 assists. Center Elias Pattersson adds 22 goals and 35 assists. The Cancuks rank 4th in the NHL in goals against at 2.5 per g ame and 20th in the penalty kill (78,7%). On offense, they rank first in goals per game with 3.8 and 28th in shots (28.2). They also rank 12th in power play percentage (23.2%).