The Vancouver Canucks have had some issues over the last week or so. Vancouver is trying to get back into the race for the Pacific Division title. And they lost both Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson to injury before facing the Seattle Kraken on Saturday.

Schwartz reached 500 career NHL points on the play. Boeser opened the scoring on ... Boeser made it 3-1 at 15:14 of the second as he took a cross-ice pass from Soucy, a former Kraken defenseman, and buried a one-timer from the left faceoff circle.

Optimists will say that’s basically only a three-game win streak away from a playoff spot, but realists will counter that there are also four teams between where Seattle is now in the standings and where they need to be to play post-season hockey.

The Kraken snapped their five-game losing streak with a 5-4 overtime win over the Canucks on Saturday that showed a different level of resolve from a team that was desperate for something to go their way.

Playing at home has been an abnormally dubious proposition for the Vancouver Canucks this season. Only sporting a 7-7-5 tally when contending at Rogers Arena, the Canucks thought they had righted the ship deep into Saturday’s contest (Dec.

Vince Dunn scored his second goal of the game 2:15 into overtime as the Seattle Kraken rallied from a three-goal, third-period deficit to defeat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 on Saturday afternoon.