NHL Game 2 Highlights | Predators vs. Canucks - April 23, 2024 

Winning 4-1 with only 13 SOG has to be a record surely,that's an EA sports type stat line.

I like how whenever the road team scores, the crowd goes so silent you can hear what the players are saying after

Saros stole this game.

Elias Pettersson missing two open nets with no traffic is crazy 😂

Saros has really had some big-time rough patches this season but my word… We wouldn’t be anything without him. Totally different creature in the playoffs.

Beauvillier took that trade personally

This is the Predators first playoff road win since April 15, 2019!

Saros was solid 💪🏻

From a preds fan, really cool to see the nucks fans give a standing ovation even on a loss. Nucks played great and I'm nervous

If Saros is able to maintain his current form over the course of a season and his team fights in front of him he’s the best goalie in hockey. Nobody reacts to the cross like him. Most goalies just get to the other post. He manages to get there and make a move toward the shooter. Amazing.

The Canucks are doomed without Demko, especially when 40 is a no show.

Man DeSmith is so unlucky, I was so happy to hear the chant for him then immediately a crazy tip the redirects completely, Beauvillier couldnt do that for Canucks. I am not sure if it is intentional or not with how the Canucks leave DeSmith hanging on defense, letting anyone just literally skate up to him or leave a man completely wide open on the other side. He really deserves better his confidence has been trampled on like crazy.

idc what anybody says, When Saros brings his A game, he's the #1 in the league, he's faster than anyone, he makes key saves one after another and looks good making these saves, awesome style game sense and technique.

When Saros puts god mode on. It is over.

Petterson had one of the worst games. The first chance with the goalie down and out he chosed to make a stupid pass that only a few can handle. Then he misses a wide open net on the 2nd chance. Then he turns over the puck on Preds 3rd goal. Then the rest of the game he just mishandles pucks and loses them in the offensive goal. TERRIBLE.

In defense of DeSmith I can tell he was nervous trying to fill in for Demko, and he did okay it wasn't entirely his fault. The main problem for this game was Canucks god awful power play and it's like they lost steam and commitment after they couldn't score having 3+ power plays. Petterson couldn't wake up tonight either, the whole team fell asleep in the 3rd. Good job to Nashville though, their defense is strong as hell, this is going to be a fun series.

Pettersson had such a horrible game man. He needs to start stepping up his game. There's no way he's worth 12 mil right now

34 shots on goal combined is crazy

Alright I’ll say it. 1. Props to Nashville, your D structure is basically flawless. 2. Petterson is actually a liability. He tries to be too cute. Refuses to shoot. Falls down. Gives the puck away. But most importantly just seems to be unable to play fast paced hockey. With time and space he’s a great player. Without it he looks like an ahl player.

I've been a Canucks fan since their inception, over the years us old timers have fallen back on a saying you young'uns should get acquainted with; 'There's always next year'.

some great goaltending these playoffs. Nashville was exceptional once again

saros was so good

Preds showed how opportunistic they can be. Tremendous discipline. But they will have to get more of the play to win 4. 13 shots on goal will not do it every night.

One loss and all the canuck fans are off the bandwagon lol.

Stealing one in a visiting barn is huge in a 7game series, Nashville brings momentum back to an enthusiastic crowd, every series is entertaining and I’d love to see Edm -Van division final, show Tocchet the difference between a regular season series and a playoff series

Last game the Preds were in the lead and let the Canuck’s comeback. This game was different they got the lead and kept at it! Keep going Predators!

What a disastrous game, We smoked the boards and smoked people all game. Our top line is not playing like a top line at all.

Nashville and Vegas are both way better than the regular season standings show. Could potentially be a western final.

Canucks looked so good just couldn't score. They keep playing like this they will win the series.

Something is wrong with Petey, no way would he miss that empty cage in his life. Hope he can find himself fast

It's not like the Canucks played poorly. The Predators spent about 70% of the game hemmed into their own end. Amd the Canucks had at LEAST 3 "Onigod how did you possibly miss that?!?!" scoring opportunities tonight. The shots just weren't going in tonight, that's all. We'll get them on Friday.

Ha ha! I absolutely loved it when that prizefighter from 1906 Forsberg just walked in and absolutely roofed one on Desmith. That was nasty!

We had at least 10 chances and 80 shot attempts just couldn’t execute any of them…hoping it’s a matter of luck and we bag game 3 if not we are done

LET'S GO PREDS!

Without Demko we’re done. Gg Preds. Hopefully Canucks can take one back in nashville

Let go Nash! Wasn’t the greatest game. Not a bad first period. A really good second period. And a whole team effort in the third. We got some work to do. Glad we got the W! Let’s go back home and get some more!💛💙

Mad skills by Saros, stole that win!!!!

There’s the Canucks we all know and love!

We need to get EP40 into the game, he is a ghost rn. Lotto line needs to be reunited ASAP

Как будто Задоров один играл!!!

Canucks were the better team all the way through, but Predators just wanted to block every single shot. Canucks also had over 80 shot attempts as well. Pettersson needs to elevate his game and be better, this lost was on him. Missing an open net, turnover the puck that lead to the 3rd goal, game is different if he doesn't do that.

Desmith exceeded my expectations with his 0.800 save percentage. Good job, Casey!

Saros heating up…..does not fair well for the Canucks!

Predators are heroes to block that many shots

nice of the Canucks team finally show up half way through the 3rd. 11.6$ missed 2 wide open nets on the pp.. 1st, saucer passed it to the corner well over every teammate, the 2nd, completely missing the net... and lets not get into the brutal giveaway that lead to the 3rd strangle hold goal. This guy has been a complete liability on the ice since signing his new shiny contact and tonight was by far the worse ive seen form him since donning a Canucks uniform.. Loui Eriksson 2.0 CLEARLY in the making. would rather see brad Hunt suit up instead of this waste... only bright spot on the ice tonight was Zadorov, what a beast.

Love how the crowd tried to support Desmith by chanting lets go Casey too bad he gave up a goal immediately after

It's a sad sad situation... - Saros seems to the hardest word (phenomenal goaltending!)

As a lifelong Canucks fan, I really hate seeing how easily swayed and hot/cold our fans can be. We win one? "Stanley Cup here we come!" Lose one? "Our season is over!!!" It was a hard fought game and the bounces really didn't go our way. Consider the psychological effect of Demko getting injured that morning. We still have a ton of potential and this series is far from over. Y'all need to stop crying after each loss.

Petey is such a baby! This contract is gonna kill us!

“Let’s go Casey” 😂😂😂

How quickly things change!

It's a series for a reason, PLAYOFFS!!! Anyway Desmith gets game 3 and if we lose its all up to Silovs going forward. Petey needs to figure this out. GO canucks!

They should get Silovs some playoff experience before its too late. Desmith can’t hold onto a puck

Can't really blame DeSmith when the defense in front of him was shocking. As for EP40, dropping him for game 3 might be the wake up call he needs.

What a bummer of a game for Vancouver. Glad I had my expectations low, I knew the Preds would come back with a vengeance for this game.

This was painful to watch. So many close calls from the Canucks. The biggest ones were 1:40, 6:39, 8:06, and 8:31. DeSmith deserves better.

Elias Pettersson's subpar performance lately reminds me of an over-paid, under-achieving Swede named Louie Ericksson.

Home ice advantage is not a factor in today's NHL. They should stop mentioning it.

Let’s go Preds!! Bring it home now. We will show you home atmosphere

Anyone else missing Kuzmenko? I sure am.

The Predators on average scored every four shots on goal and the Canucks could only get 18 shots to the net. Nashville blocked 30 shots in a herculean defensive effort that allowed Predators goaltender Saros to earn a .944 SV% highlighted by an incredible pad save.

13 SOG for Nashville!! Goaltending wins championships

ohhhhh so that’s what the islanders wanted to do 😂

Great game Petey! Can't hit an open net, might as well cough it up for a Preds goal. Next game just shoot it past DeSmith. 12mil my ass.

Vancouver fans blaming Desmith is the epic fun.

Hey Canuck fans, be sure to try the hot chicken when you come to Nashville

Regroup boys get it back Friday

-------- Beast Mode - Former Canuck Ryan Kesler ------------ Kesler is widely viewed as instrumental in getting the Canucks past Nashville, their second-round opponent during the 2011 cup run. The two-way forward earned the nickname “Beast Mode” after racking up five goals and 11 points in the six games it took the team to down the Predators. “ We could beat you any way we wanted to. If you wanted to out-hit us we would out-hit you. If you wanted to skate us into the ground, we would skate you back. If you wanted to out-skill us, we are up for that, too ,” Kesler said of his 2011 teammates. ” ----------- “ It was a team that could win any way, and I feel like this team has a lot of similarities. “ -----------

This is a good series

We completely demolished Canucks when they entered our zone. All the shots they were taking were wild and most of them completely missed the target. I just love our defense.

master class 1v5 for quinn hughes as the rest of the team doesn’t know where the net is. however good pressure in the 3rd, most likely from a tocchet talk in the second intermission, hopefully a rally will be made as we regroup when we meet them in nashville

BEHIND EVERY GREAT VICTORY IS A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE Canucks are a good team keep fighting

This game was a crime against hockey... can't believe how little action there was. Surprised the fans there stayed awake.

Goaltending wins series and goaltending loses series. That's what this game shows.

Lets go Preds!!!!!

What’s with all the power plays it’s crazy how many there calling this year

Go Preds!❤

Not too disheartened by the shoreline. Canucks had PLENTY of shots but looked one dimensional. Think we take one of the games in Nashville

You don't go from missing the play-off's to winning the cup the next year, its rather delusional to think that way. Vancouver had a stellar year for sure, I was waiting for the tires to fall off the bus but it never came. Thank the coach for sure with that one, keeping his team focused. This series isn't over yet. get it done Canucks... I want to see Oilers vs Canucks in round two.

Get Demko in there!

Косатки вам не повезло. Надо собраться и не раскисать, болею за вас и надеюсь на победу!!! Ванкувер вперед и больше голов в ворота противников!!!!! Играть надо очень по взрослому!!!

Damn neither team reached 20 Shots on goal

Go Preds go, surely every neutrals favourite?

Both teams looked kinda slow .... Nuks looked sloppy as well. The ice at Rogers is def not the best.

Can we rent Bobrovsky for the rest of the playoffs?

And three Canadian team are series tied 1-1 hopefully oilers can go up 2-0 tmw 😁 LGO

Фортуна улыбалась Нэшвиллу.

Petey wasn’t even targeted by the Preds, like Hughes was by the LTIR Cheaters during the 2020 playoffs, and he still wasn’t even able to make himself noticeable on the ice.

Let's Go Preds!

Glad I listened to this one on the radio instead of staying up to watch it. It's piss poor to blame De Smith entirely for the loss. Nashville played a better game and the Canucks were missing a lot of key opportunities.

Canucks fans NEED to pick a new team to cheer for. The ownership has ruined this franchaise for good. The problem with this franchise starts with the owner, then moves onto management and coaching. You've got an owner who behaves like a child and cares more about his tweets than the actual team. The problem with the Canucks the past decade was that they never commited to building a cup contending team. So what does francesco aquilini do? Brings in Jim Rutherford. A person who wants to build a cup or bust team. He even said in a phone interview that he doesn't want to commit to a rebuild and wants to speedrun it. So great. Canucks didn't commit to rebuild the past decade, now you put out the same issue again? So then the problem moves onto coaching. You've got Rich Tocchet who hasn't done much other than have a good regular season. He puts on a tough guy persona, and criticizes his players even when they score hattricks. He benches players for not performing. Yet, he is inconsistent with his benching. Myers creates turnovers all the time, yet he never gets benched. Casey DeSmith is an awful goalie. Yet he still choses to start him over Silovs in a crucial game. This tough guy persona isn't gonna work well once the team goes back to losing next season. Before you know it, he will lose the room and there goes another coach. How you gonna build a team when half of your team is going to become free agents this summer? Any sort of chemistry built this year will be gone. A cup winning team is built through years of tough playoff losses before they can win a cup. It's not built in one season. Now that Demko is injury prone, Canucks don't even have a franchaise goalie to rely on. They should have spent time developing Silovs for the future. All the flaws will be exposed next season when all the excitment dies off. Only will Canucks fans then will realize how badly the ownership has trashed this franchaise.

Hats off to Nashville from a Canucks fan. Even though we really should have tied it with some guilt-edged chances, in the end, I'm not complaining with the result. Nashville looked the more composed and more up front. Wanted it more. And I think tonight, we just witnessed the biggest fall form grace for a Vancouver Canuck. Elias Pettersson has sadly exposed himself as a one hit wonder. He cannot handle the pressure that is put on him, especially in these playoff games. If he doesn't step up his game, he will be in serious danger of becoming the worst in history.

Night of unfortunate bounces. Canucks got Preds exactly where they want them, thinking they got a chance. Lol!

hell of a road playoff performance

4:50 did Pettersson put in his own net ?!?!?

LETS GO PREDATORS!

Hahahaha, go predators.

Weird game, 32 shots total combined. Preds with 16 total.. Knuks on goal 2 and 3 had4 players defending from the circle in and on the one goal pinched to the middle allowing Pred to walk out from the boards and score. This series isnt even close on paper and the Knuks are far from playing the game like they have in regular season. Welcome to the playoffs, Preds sure looking like underdoggies going in are rising to the moment. A five game series now panic button is far from being pushed and a lot of hockey left.

Every game Casey de smith plays there’s a 90 percent chance that there going to lose so I would rather watch a movie

Man, I wanted the Canucks to win