I t was an eventful night for the Swedes of the Vancouver Canucks, as the team managed a 3–1 win against the Nashville Predators. Nils Höglander, Linus Karlsson, and Pius Suter

Quinn Hughes took the NHL lead in defencemen scoring and the Vancouver Canucks got a streak going against the Nashville Predators.

While the Canucks did skate away with a victory, they did fall to the Predators from an analytics perspective. Nashville won the even-strength scoring chances battle 21-16 while a

The Canucks picked up the game’s first power play after some decent pressure on Nashville, as Steven Stamkos was called for holding. Perhaps lost in the shuffle is how good the Canucks’ power play was in their 5-2 win over the St.

Wednesday night featured a special moment as Linus Karlsson scored his first career NHL goal, which also counts as his first point in the NHL. Karlsson's goal came in the second period to put the Vancouver Canucks up 2-1 over the Nashville Predators.