{"id":60149,"date":"2018-03-06T07:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60149"},"modified":"2018-03-06T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:16:30","slug":"leipsic-stars-in-ot-canucks-beat-islanders-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/leipsic-stars-in-ot-canucks-beat-islanders-4-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Leipsic stars in OT, Canucks beat Islanders 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Leipsic stars in OT, Canucks beat Islanders 4-3<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Brendan Leipsic scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks over the New York Islanders 4-3 on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Darren Archibald scored on a penalty shot, and Jake Virtanen also had a goal as Vancouver snapped a three-game skid. Jacob Markstrom stopped 31 shots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Josh Bailey, John Tavares and Jordan Eberle scored for New York, which lost a season-worst seventh straight game. The Islanders remain five points behind Columbus for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Jaroslav Halak made 19 saves for the Islanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The game featured standout rookie Matthew Barzal from Coquitlam, British Columbia, making his first appearance in Vancouver. It also marked a meeting between Barzal and fellow Calder Trophy contender Brock Boeser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Boeser was injured in the final seconds of regulation and helped to the locker room. He fell into the boards in front of the Canucks bench and lay on the ice for several minutes before getting up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">With a 9-2 shot advantage midway through the first, the Islanders scored first. Markstrom stopped Nick Leddy&#8217;s tipped blue-line slap shot, but the rebound went right to Bailey who slipped it under the goalie&#8217;s pad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tavares&#8217; goal three minutes into the second came on a beauty touch pass from Thomas Hickey through his legs after getting the puck from Barzal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Canucks tied it with two goals 1:49 apart late in the second. After two trips to the penalty box, Leipsic made amends with his first goal as a Canuck. Bo Horvat, controlling the puck behind the net, dished to Virtanen who found Leipsic to make it 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Archibald tied the game and sent the crowd into a frenzy when he converted a penalty shot by wristing it over Halak&#8217;s stick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Vancouver pulled ahead with nine minutes to go. An Islanders turnover in the Vancouver zone sprung Leipsic with Virtanen trailing him on a 2-on-1. Virtanen went five-hole on Halak for his eighth of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">NOTES: Barzal, who had two assists Monday, leads the rookie scoring race with 69 points, while Boeser trails with 29 goals and 55 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">UP NEXT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Islanders: Play at Edmonton on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Canucks: Host Arizona on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2018\/03\/06\/leipsic-stars-in-ot-canucks-beat-islanders-4-3\/111133418\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/leipsic-stars-in-ot-canucks-beat-islanders-4-3.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leipsic stars in OT, Canucks beat Islanders 4-3 Brendan Leipsic scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks over the New York Islanders 4-3 on Monday night. Darren Archibald scored on a penalty shot, and Jake Virtanen also had a goal as Vancouver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123396,123397,123395,13235,14592,14842],"class_list":["post-60149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jacob-markstrom","tag-josh-bailey","tag-leipsic-stars-in-ot-canucks-beat-islanders-4-3","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nick-leddy","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}