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Leon Draisaitl scored for Edmonton. Oilers goalie Jack Campbell stopped 12 of 16 shots before he was replaced by Stuart Skinner, who finished with 12 saves and yielded four goals.
Garland gave the Canucks a 1-0 lead at 8:06 of the first period when he scored off a centering pass from Pettersson.
Boeser scored on a one-timer from the left circle off a backhand feed from Miller to stretch the lead to 2-0 at 11:27 of the first. It’s likely that Hirose will be in the lineup Wednesday night, as defencemen Carson Soucy and Guillaume Brisebois are both injured. Brisebois took a high hit from Seattle Kraken forward Brandon Tanev near the end of the Canucks’ preseason game in Abbotsford, while Soucy suffered a suspected knee injury in their final preseason game against the Calgary Flames.
Head coach Rick Tocchet didn’t outright rule out Soucy from playing but he was not on the ice with his teammates for the Canucks’ game-day skate. Hirose getting called up may come as a surprise after he played just one preseason game before getting sent down to the AHL but he has one thing going for him that his competitors for a call-up — Matt Irwin and Christian Wolanin — don’t have: he’s exempt from waivers. While Irwin or Wolanin could have been called up on an emergency basis with Soucy and Brisebois injured, Hirose’s waiver-exempt status gives the Canucks some flexibility.
Tocchet gave another reason for calling up Hirose, however.
“Hockey IQ,” said Tocchet. “You’re playing a team in Edmonton that throws a lot of different looks at you. You need hockey IQ. Obviously, you want people who can squash plays, I get it, but there’s certain setups that they do, you need brains out there and [Hirose] has them.”
Brock Boeser scored four goals to lead the Vancouver Canucks to an 8-1 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers in the season opener for both teams on Wednesday night.
Boeser tied the Vancouver record for goals in a game, producing the 12th such contest. The most recent player to join the list had been Daniel Sedin against the Detroit Red Wings on Feb. 24, 2004.
J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson each had a goal and three assists, Quinn Hughes added three assists and Thatcher Demko made 21 saves for Vancouver. Conor Garland and Dakota Joshua also scored as the Canucks matched their highest goal total ever in a season opener, tying the feat produced in 1978 and 1987.
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