Vancouver Canucks

6thin Pacific · 1-0-0, 2 PTS

YES!

Vancouver Canucks beat the Edmonton Oilers

1-0-0, 2 PTS 6 – 5

0-0-1, 1 PTS

Final/OT · Tue, Sep 29

Game Details

Rogers Place (Edmonton) · 18,347 fans · ESPN+

Highlights

Paul Cotter scores in OT as the Canucks beat the Oilers 6-5 in the opener

Paul Cotter scored 1:59 into overtime to cap a two-goal game as the Vancouver Canucks got the season off to a strong start with a 6-5 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

Recap via ESPN

1:19 Vancouver Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers: Game Highlights

0:36 Paul Cotter scores short-handed goal for Vancouver Canucks

0:47 Evan Bouchard tallies goal vs. Oilers

0:35 Marco Rossi scores goal for Canucks

Clips play on ESPN

Rogers Place · Edmonton

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	T
VAN	1	1	3	1	6
EDM	1	1	3	0	5

Game Leaders

Vancouver Canucks

Paul Cotter · 2Goals
Filip Hronek · 2Assists
Paul Cotter · 2Points

Edmonton Oilers

Evan Bouchard · 3Goals
Evan Bouchard · 2Assists
Evan Bouchard · 5Points

2026-27 Pacific Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
Edmonton	2	0	1	5
Anaheim	2	0	0	4
San Jose	2	0	0	4
Seattle	2	1	0	4
Vegas	2	1	0	4
Vancouver	2	2	0	4
Los Angeles	0	1	1	1
Calgary	0	3	0	0

Scoring

OT 1:59

Paul Cotter Goal (2) Backhand, assists: Max Sasson (1)6–5

3rd 19:17

PPG Vasily Podkolzin Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Leon Draisaitl (1), Evan Bouchard (2)5–5

3rd 9:20

Evan Bouchard Goal (3) Wrist Shot, assists: Connor McDavid (2)5–4

3rd 8:56

Vasily Podkolzin Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Evan Bouchard (1), Ryan Shea (1)5–3

3rd 5:15

PPG Elias Pettersson Goal (1) Tip-In, assists: Filip Hronek (2), Brock Boeser (1)5–2

3rd 2:55

Max Sasson Goal (1) Backhand, assists: Drew O'Connor (1), Linus Karlsson (1)4–2

3rd 1:10

Jonathan Lekkerimaki Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Jake DeBrusk (1), Jamieson Oleksiak (1)3–2

2nd 14:34

Evan Bouchard Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Connor McDavid (1), Alex Formenton (1)2–2

2nd 2:07

Marco Rossi Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: Liam Ohgren (1), Filip Hronek (1)2–1

1st 16:26

Evan Bouchard Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: none1–1

1st 9:51

SHG Paul Cotter Goal (1) Snap Shot, assists: none1–0

Team Stats

Vancouver CanucksEdmonton Oilers

Shots & Puck

23 Shots on Goal 37

21 Blocked Shots 12

13 Hits 38

40.0 Faceoff % 60.0

5 Takeaways 2

15 Giveaways 19

Special Teams

1/2 Power Play 1/4

1 Short-Handed Goals 0

8 Penalty Minutes 4

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
A. Bains	0	0	1	0	10:52	0	0	2	0	0:00	1:57	8:55	17	1	0	1	0.0	1	0
B. Boeser	0	1	-1	1	14:51	0	0	0	0	1:17	0:00	13:34	20	0	0	1	0.0	2	0
P. Cotter	2	0	2	3	11:51	0	2	0	1	0:00	1:53	9:58	18	1	3	5	37.5	0	0
J. DeBrusk	0	1	1	0	15:35	0	0	0	1	1:21	0:00	14:14	23	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
B. Gallagher	0	0	0	1	10:54	0	1	0	0	0:00	0:37	10:17	16	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
L. Karlsson	0	1	-1	2	13:37	2	0	0	0	0:38	0:00	12:59	25	2	1	1	50.0	0	1
J. Lekkerimaki	1	0	1	1	12:36	0	0	0	1	0:00	0:00	12:36	17	0	0	0	0.0	1	0
D. O'Connor	0	1	-1	3	17:40	0	2	2	0	0:37	1:48	15:15	28	0	1	0	100.0	0	0
L. Ohgren	0	1	-1	1	17:29	0	1	1	0	0:00	3:09	14:20	25	0	0	0	0.0	2	0
E. Pettersson	1	0	0	1	19:23	0	0	2	0	1:22	2:19	15:42	29	0	12	12	50.0	3	0
M. Rossi	1	0	-1	1	15:01	0	0	0	0	0:54	0:08	13:59	23	0	3	6	33.3	0	0
M. Sasson	1	1	1	2	16:37	2	0	2	1	0:00	1:58	14:39	30	1	4	10	28.6	1	1

Defense

Player	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
Z. Buium	0	2	1	22:46	0	0	1	0	1:06	0:09	21:31	31	0	2	0
F. Hronek	2	2	2	25:08	0	0	3	0	0:53	4:20	19:55	33	0	0	0
J. Oleksiak	1	-3	0	23:38	0	3	2	1	0:00	4:34	19:04	31	0	2	0
Elias N. Pettersson	0	0	2	16:01	2	3	5	0	0:41	1:47	13:33	23	0	1	1
L. Schenn	0	1	2	14:25	0	1	0	0	0:00	2:23	12:02	22	1	0	0
T. Willander	0	-1	0	20:40	2	0	1	0	1:06	0:42	18:52	31	1	0	1

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
K. Lankinen	32	37	5	.865	61:43	27	5	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
C. Dach	0	0	-1	2	14:49	0	4	0	1	0:24	0:50	13:35	24	2	8	7	53.3	0	0
L. Draisaitl	0	1	-1	5	21:15	0	0	0	0	5:21	0:00	15:54	23	1	12	9	57.1	2	0
A. Formenton	0	1	3	2	15:09	0	5	0	0	0:00	0:58	14:11	22	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
T. Frederic	0	0	0	1	9:21	0	4	0	0	1:27	0:00	7:54	15	0	1	0	100.0	0	0
I. Howard	0	0	0	1	11:06	0	0	0	0	1:44	0:00	9:22	17	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Z. Hyman	0	0	1	3	20:33	0	2	0	0	5:04	0:00	15:29	25	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
M. Jones	0	0	-1	2	12:18	0	5	0	0	0:00	0:00	12:18	20	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
M. Joseph	0	0	-1	0	14:57	2	5	1	0	0:05	1:19	13:33	24	1	0	0	0.0	0	1
K. Kapanen	0	0	-2	3	17:55	2	4	0	0	1:50	0:00	16:05	23	1	0	0	0.0	1	1
C. McDavid	0	2	1	0	22:51	0	1	0	0	5:20	0:39	16:52	27	0	12	4	75.0	3	0
O. Michaels	0	0	0	0	8:22	0	0	1	0	0:00	0:13	8:09	16	1	3	2	60.0	1	0
V. Podkolzin	2	0	-2	7	18:20	0	5	0	0	4:50	0:00	13:30	22	1	0	2	0.0	1	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV
E. Bouchard	3	2	2	6	25:41	1	3	0	5:17	0:00	20:24	28	0	2
M. Ekholm	0	0	2	2	20:56	1	0	0	0:00	1:36	19:20	24	1	4
S. Mukhamadullin	0	0	-2	0	13:03	0	0	0	0:00	0:00	13:03	20	1	2
C. Murphy	0	0	-1	2	18:29	0	4	0	0:02	1:29	16:58	26	1	1
R. Shea	0	1	-1	0	22:41	1	0	0	2:05	0:31	20:05	30	0	0
J. Walman	0	0	0	1	16:25	0	3	1	1:37	0:21	14:27	24	0	2