No, seriously. The wildly entertaining Canucks, whose secret to winning in the National Hockey League this season has been to score five or more goals and let goalie Jacob Markstrom do the rest, played a relatively safe and tedious game against the Coyotes.
It was encouraging, too, because the Canucks are going to face this style of game more often as they keep up in the playoff race and April inches closer. “We’ve been talking about it since Christmas, the way the games are going to get tighter,” checking centre Jay Beagle, who saw a lot of Clayton Keller’s line, explained.
“This was exactly the kind of game we expected, and we stuck to our structure and executed it well and won a big game.”
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