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Elias Pettersson kämpar om pucken mot Chicagos back Isaak Phillips. (Nam Y. Huh / AP)

Ny vinst för Vancouver – kan bryta dyster slutspelstrend

Vancouver Canucks fortsätter att vinna i NHL-hockeyn. I natt besegrade man tabelljumbon Chicago med 4–3 efter ett nytt mål av Elias Pettersson.

Vancouver har missat slutspel tre säsonger i rad – och bara kvalificerat sig en gång under de senaste åtta åren. Men i år ser chanserna goda ut. Efter 32 matcher har laget vunnit 21 och tillhör toppen av Pacific-divisionen.

En starkt bidragande orsak, förutom Pettersson, är amerikanen Brock Boeser. I natt slog han till med sitt 23:e mål för säsongen och han ligger nu delad etta i skytteligan med Torontos målkung Auston Matthews.

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The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Canucks are members of the National Hockey League (NHL) and are members of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference. The Canucks were founded in 1945 as a member of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (PCHL). They won the President's Cup in their first season, and another in 1948. In 1952, the PCHL was renamed the Western Hockey League (WHL), where the Canucks won four more league titles in 1958, 1960, 1969 and 1970. In 1960, the President's Cup was renamed the Lester Patrick Cup to honour the late Lester Patrick.After a failed attempt to gain an expansion team in the NHL's first expansion in 1967, a group from Vancouver tried to move the financial struggling Oakland Seals to town in 1969. However, the NHL prevented the move from happening. Prior to the 1970 NHL expansion a Minneapolis, Minnesota based company, Medicor, purchased the WHL Canucks, and an expansion franchise was granted for the NHL beginning in the 1970–71 season. The Canucks have not enjoyed the same success in the NHL, having thus far been unable to capture the Stanley Cup. The Canucks franchise has captured three conference titles, 1981–82, 1993–94, and 2010–11, and ten division titles in its NHL history.
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